Truth Serum

The **Truth Serum** is a potion that forces the drinker tell the truth.

## History

In "*Let This Mother Out*", it was to be used to determine whether or not Harry Greenwood was a trustworthy Whitelighter. It was instead accidentally given to Niko Hamada, when Macy Vaughn took the wrong container by mistake. Once consumed, Niko felt compelled to blatantly tell the truth. She was found by Mel Vera and subsequently revealed that she had slept with her ex-fiancé Greta. The magic of the potion was only temporary and the effect wore off half a day later, with Niko remembering nothing from the time she ingested the serum.

In "*Past is Present*", Maggie Vera initially decided to use the serum on Parker Caine to find out the truth about the massacre of the dryads of Sacred Grove. Instead, Parker felt that Maggie still didn't trust him after he explained the whole story to her and decided to drink it on his own, but he was ultimately stopped by Maggie. She told him that "trust is earned, not forced." Later, both of them used it on Abigael Jameson-Caine to find out the truth on the massacre, though she was able to trick them by eating one of the stolen fruits from Sacred Grove. While pretending to be under the effects of the serum, Abigael made it out that she was the one who massacre them so that she can obtain the sacred fruit to fight against Parker and reclaim her position as the Demon Overlord.

In "*Chaos Theory*", Maggie slipped the serum into Abigael's drink to help her admit the good deeds that she had done when Mo and Aladria put her on trial for being chaotic enough to be placed within the Tomb of Chaos and she refused to let the Charmed Ones help paint her in a good light.

When trying to figure out who was possessed by the Whispering Evil in "*What to Expect When You're Expecting the Apocalypse*", Maggie brewed two batches of truth serum, giving one to Macy, telling her to trust no one. Macy proceeded to put the serum in Jordan Chase's coffee mug, as he was the only other person around at the time of the attack at SafeSpace, Seattle, only for him to state he's not the Whispering Evil. However, Jordan had been possessed by the creature, who was able to circumvent the serum's effects by both his immunity to modern magic and the fact that the human concept of truth and lies does not apply to him. Maggie, meanwhile, placed the serum in a latte she gave to Antonio Garcia, who she suspected due to Jordan's earlier remarks on him. However, when Antonio began talking about how much he was into her and how he was sure Jordan was just jealous of him, Maggie placed more truth serum in another latte, which had the effect of causing Antonio to begin spouting the truth without restraint, ranging from how his ex-girlfriend felt about him to catching his parents having sex in his bed when he was nine. Luckily, Maggie, with Harry's help, gave him Siberian lotus root, a magical detox, to remove the truth serum's effects and erase his memory of the previous night.

## Book of Shadows Entry

Once ingested the recipient will reveal truth without burden.

Notes: One must know what they are looking for when using a truth serum on an individual. With no clear objective a recipient may become so disoriented they may reveal anything. To be effective you must know ABSOLUTELY one truth you seek. Otherwise you'd be fishing in a mine of information. Defining the truth can be a tricky task.

Once ingested the serum will begin after thirty minutes and will last an average of thirty-ninety minutes depending on the position of Mercury, Saturn and other planets...

### Ingredients

* St. John's Wort
* Stinging Nettle
* Dried mint
* Dog rose
* Elderberry
* Beetle moth
* Passionflower
* Anticholinergic Parasympathetic

Recipe

1. Individually grind all of the dry ingredients in equal parts as a rough powder.
2. Bring a bowl of water to a boil.
3. Place steaming bowl of water where no reflections ma touch it's surface even yours.
4. Add each dry ingredient in the order listed above into the hot steaming water.
5. Stir the liquid 19 times counterclockwise until smooth.
6. Add three generous drops of the Anticholinergic Parasympathetic if using a dissociative hallucinogen add 7 drops.
7. Finally, add the powdered moth beetle in...(Incomplete passage)

## Trivia

* It was the first page in the Book of Shadows to magically reveal itself when the girls asked a question.
* The Truth Serum serves the same purpose the Truth Spell did in the original show, both in its ability to compel a person to speak the truth and erasing memory after the effects wear off. The Charmed Ones also started using a Truth Potion in the final season.
* As shown in "*What to Expect When You're Expecting the Apocalypse*", giving someone too much truth serum can lead to them stating the truth constantly.

## Gallery

Abigael's food is dosed with Truth SerumEntry