A Question About a Mysterious 'Alchemical' Ingredient Mentioned

I realize that this film is not really very well-revered compared to others in “the Ray Harryhausen Canon”; however, in my opinion, it stands along with “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” and “Jason and the Argonauts” among the Special Effects Master’s finest work, and is a favourite of mine. Obviously, the pace is bound to be FAR slower in the first half of the film; after all, Gulliver is (at least after he is freed from his constraints on the Lilliputian beach) totally invulnerable, whereas, as soon as he gets to Brobdingnag, he and Elizabeth are totally at the mercy of the gigantic inhabitants. This is when, I think, the movie really gets rolling, and compensates for the rather sluggish pace of the first half. There is humour (the ever-hungry Queen); sexual innuendo – I refer to the scene where the King says to the Queen that he had better marry Gulliver and Elizabeth at once (when they are hidden under the giant parchment); and, best of all, a GREAT villain in the person of Makovan, who is played to perfection by the little-known British character actor, Charles Lloyd Pack. Although I love Torin Thatcher’s performances as the villainous sorcerers in both “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” and “Jack the Giant Killer,” I feel that Makovan’s threat is greater, simply because he has no supernatural powers, but instead has great influence with the King and embodies the very real ignorance that led in reality to the witch hunts in Europe, which resulted in the horrible executions of thousands of people. I love the way in which he delivers the line: “Little witch, you’ll make a short but colorful flame!”

Also, before posing my question, I think the scarcity of stop-motion animation in this film gives the appearance of the giant squirrel and crocodile all the more impact. I especially like Gulliver’s duel with the crocodile: the process work involving rear screen projection is nearly flawless. As opposed to the popular blue screen process used in "Sinbad," in this film Harryhausen used the sodium screen process favoured by Disney, which, I believe, relied upon the filtering out of the yellows of the spectrum; and consequently the live action footage of Kerwin Mathews is less grainy.

Now, on to my question: When Gulliver is in Makovan’s laboratory, where the alchemist is seeking to prove that he is a witch, Gulliver, after being told that Makovan’s vessel contains the four elements of alchemy (air, fire, water, and earth), mentions salt, sulphur, and “salaramac.” I have watched this movie a dozen times at least (I own the DVD, needless to say), and have often puzzled about what that last ingredient was/is. Yesterday, I thought of turning on the English subtitles, to see how exactly it is spelled; and, at least in the subtitles, it is spelled as I have typed it above: SALARAMAC. Does ANYONE know what this is??? I have not been able to find it after checking the internet.