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Potions - Year 1

Introduction

These are the same Potions classes that students at Hogwarts take, adapted so that no teacher is needed. Please make sure you have the following:
Cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)
1 set of glass or crystal phials
1 set of brass scales
Having a copy of Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger nearby would be helpful.

Bruise Healing Paste

More of a solid than a liquid, the Bruise Healing Paste is a must for all wizarding first-aid kits. A dull yellow, this paste will heal minor bruises.

Instructions:

1. Light a fire under cauldron at low heat
2. In large vial, mix a half-measure of wartcap powder with a five-eighths goblet of juice from nine squill bulbs
3. Pour a full goblet of cowbane essence into the cauldron and let simmer for 4 minutes
4. Add the wartcap-squill mixture to the cauldron. Potion should turn a bright orange
5. Add fourteen mistletoe berries and stir mixture continuesly for just under seven minutes
6. Drop fifty-six chopped daisy petals into the cauldron and mix every nine minutes for thirty-six minutes until potion is dull yellow




Boils Cure

This potion is a simple cure for boils on any part of the body.

Instructions:

1. Place cauldron over fire
2. Put six pickled snake fangs (with juice) inside the cauldron
3. Chop one Pungeous Onion and put it in the cauldron
4. Add one measure dried nettles
5. Add a dash of Horklump juice and stir counterclockwise until steam rises
6. Sprinkle with Ginger Root and let sit for 17 minutes
7. Add fourteen pickled Shrake spines, and stir gently
8. Pour pomegratate juice at intervals into the cauldron until the potion is bloodred
9. Take cauldron off fire and add twelve porcupine quills sliced in half along the spine.
10. Wave wand to finish




Coughing Solution

This simple potion is used to treat coughing.

Instructions

1. Place cauldron over fire
2. Place three parts ground Wiggentree bark inside cauldron
3. Raise heat until bark becomes gloopy liquid
4. Add nine dried snake scales and one daisy stem
5. Bring down temperature and mix until potion becomes black in color
6. Add a dash of leech juice mixed with the juice of a handful of blades of scurvy-grass
7. Stir clockwise for two minutes every six minutes until amount of potion in cauldron doubles