Magical Drafts and Potions
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Magical Drafts and Potions
by Arsenius Jigger
Aging Potion
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Causes the person drinking it to grow older. The more Aging Potion one drinks, the more one ages.
Babbling Beverage
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Causes a person to talk nonsense.
Beautifying Potions / Beautification Potion
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Potions to make the drinker more lovely in appearance.
Blood-Replenishing Potion
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Potion to make up for lost blood.
Boil cure potion
ingredients: dried nettles, crushed snake fangs, stewed horned slugs, porcupine quills (added after taking the cauldron off the fire)
Effect: Simple potion to cure boils.
Burn-healing paste
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Medical magic this is an orange paste is used to heal burns.
Cleaning solutions, magical
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Cleaning and polishing is usually accomplished with magical means, including various potions.
Confusing Concoction
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Effect is to cause confusion.
Confusing & Befuddlement Draught
ingredients: sneezewort, scurvy-grass and lovage.
Effect: similar to that of Confusing Concoction.
Deflating Draught
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Antidote to Swelling Solution
Doxycide
ingredients: unknown
Effect:Black liquid, usually delivered by spray bottle, used to knock out Doxies so they can be safely disposed of. The effects last quite a long time.
Draught of Peace
ingredients: includes powdered moonstone and syrup of hellebore
Effect: calms anxiety and soothe agitation
Elixir of Life
ingredients: unknown, but it is derived from the Philosopher’s Stone
Effect: The Elixir of Life grants immortality for as long as it’s imbibed. When a person stops drinking it, he or she will die.
Exploding Fluid
ingredients: include Erumpent fluid
Effect: unknown (well, it explodes of course, but besides that)
Forgetfulness Potion
ingredients: unknown
Effect: uncertain, probably makes a person forget things
Garrotting Gas
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Invisible gas which apparently knocks people unconscious.
Gregory’s Unctuous Unction
ingredients: unknown
Effect: persuades the drinker that the giver is his/her very best friend
Hair-Raising Potion
ingredients: include rat tails
Effect: unknown
Invigoration Draught
ingredients: unknown
Effect: unknown
Mandrake Restorative Draft
ingredients: include Mandrake, of course
Effect: This powerful antidote will revive people who have been Petrified.
Memory Potions
ingredients: include Jobberknoll feathers
Effect: unknown
Mrs. Scower’s Magical Mess Remover
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Magical cleaning product.
Murtlap Essence
ingredients: unknown
Effect: A solution of strained and pickled Murtlap tentacles, yellow in color. Soothes and heals cuts and other wounds.
Pepperup Potion
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Cures the common cold.
Photograph potions
ingredients: unknown
Effect: If normal Muggle photographs are developed in certain potions, the resulting images will move.
Quodpot solution
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Used in the pots serving as goals in the game of Quodpot to keep the Quod from exploding
Scintillation Solution
ingredients: unknown
Effect: unknown
Shrinking Solution
ingredients: chopped daisy roots, skinned shrivelfig, sliced caterpillar, one rat spleen, dash of leech juice
Effect: Makes things shrink in size
”Skele-Gro”
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Medical magic Potion which regrows bones. The effect takes about eight hours and can be quite painful.
Sleekeasy’s Hair Potion
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Used to style hair.
Sleeping Draft/Draught/Potion
ingredients: unknown
Effect: causes the drinker to fall into a deep sleep
Swelling Solution
ingredients: puffer-fish eyes
Effect: Causes something to get bigger.
Truth Potion/Serum
ingredients: can include Jobberknoll feathers
Effect: Forces a person to tell the truth.
Wartcap Powder
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Substance which causes the skin of a person who touches it to form a thick hard crust
Wit-Sharpening Potion
ingredients: ground scarab beetle, cut up ginger root, armadillo bile
Effect: is presumably to make a person think more clearly.
Wolfsbane Potion
ingredients: unknown
Effects: While this potion doesn’t cure lycanthropy, it does prevent the extremely dangerous dementia which would otherwise accompany the transformation from human into werewolf.
Wound-cleaning potion
ingredients: unknown
Effects: Medical potion used on cuts and other open wounds.