Shilajit, or Shilajitu as it's sometimes called, is said to be extraordinarily useful for the treatment of almost any disease or ailment known to modern man, and, the organic substance has been used as such for literally thousands of years with millions of years in the making.

Besides being referred to as "the conqueror of mountains and destroyer of weakness," Shilajit is also called names such as Shilajita Mumiyo, Shilajeet, mineral pitch or mineral wax, Ozokerite in the English language, and either Asphaltum punjabianum or Black Asphaltum in Latin