Advanced Potion-Making

**Advanced Potion-Making**

* Fire-Protection Potion
* Dragon Dung Fertiliser
* Doxycide
* Angel's Trumpet Draught
* Draught of Living Death
* Elixir to Induce Euphoria
* Hiccoughing Solution
* Everlasting Elixir

**Draught of the Living Death**

Draught of the Living Death is an extremely powerful Sleeping Draught, it causes the drinker to enter a death-like slumber, reminiscent to suspended animation. It is an advanced potion that is a pale lilac in colour turning clear once successfully completed. Key ingredients are Powdered root of Asphodel, Infusion of Wormwood, Sophophourous Bean, and Valerian root.

Ingredients:

* Water
* Powdered root of asphodel
* Infusion of Wormwood
* Valerian root
* A Sophophorous Bean

Instructions for brewing:

1. Cut up the Sopophorous bean
2. Pour in 250 fl.oz. of water and add 5 oz. of African sea salt to the beaker. Set the beaker aside after all the water has been added. Be very careful not to shake or move the beaker now.
3. Leave the water and salt to rest for five minutes.
4. Slowly pour all the water into the cauldron.
5. With your left hand use the graduated cylinder to obtain 40 fl.oz. of essence of wormwood.
6. With your right hand hold the cauldron at a slight angle and pour ten drops (20 fl.oz.) of essence of wormwood.
7. Now with your left hand hold the cauldron at a slightly different angle and pour another ten drops of wormwood essence.
8. Chop three Valerian roots into small squared pieces. After cutting place it in a beaker with water.
9. Leave it to settle for five minutes. Your potion should now be resembling a smooth blackcurrant-coloured liquid.
10. Carefully pour the Sopophorous bean's juice into the cauldron
11. Add seven drops of the reduced liquid from the beaker; make sure there are no traces or fragments of Valerian root.
12. Stir the potion ten times clockwise; your potion should now be turning a light shade of lilac.
13. With your right hand stir the potion counterclockwise until the potion turns as clear as water; every stir should take approximately two and a half seconds.
14. Slowly put in seven square pieces of Valerian root.
15. Stir the potion ten times counterclockwise.
16. Add one hundred and fifty fl.oz. of powdered root of asphodel.
17. Hold the cauldron with your right hand; with your left hand gently stir the potion ten times counterclockwise and eight times clockwise.
18. Leave the potion to settle for two and a half minutes.
19. Add one small piece of Valerian root.
20. Your potion should turn to a pale pink colour; the preparation is now complete.

* **Severus Snape's notes:**
	+ The Sopophorous bean should be crushed, not cut, to get more juice from it.
	+ Stir counterclockwise seven times and clockwise once instead.

**Elixir to Induce Euphoria**

The Elixir to Induce Euphoria is an advanced potion, sunshine yellow in colour, sweet and aromatic. It is used to to induce a sense of inexplicable, irational happiness upon the drinker. The side effects of consumption are excessive singing, and nose-tweaking. The Key ingredients are Peppermint Sprigs, Wormwood, Shrivelfig, Porcupine Quills and Castor Beans.

Ingredients:

* Peppermint Sprigs
* Wormwood
* Shrivelfig
* Porcupine Quills
* Castor Beans

Instructions for brewing:

1. Add peppermint until the potion turns red.
2. Add shrivelfig until the potion turns turquoise.
3. Stir until it turns blue.
4. Allow the potion to simmer till it turns yellow.
5. Add porcupine quills till the potion turns blue.
6. Allow the potion to simmer till it turns purple.
7. Add seven castor beans.
8. Allow the potion to simmer till it turns brown.
9. Add shrivelfig till the potion turns pink.
10. Allow the potion to simmer till it turns orange.
11. Add wormwood till the potion turns yellow.

**Hiccoughing Solution**

Hiccoughing Solution is a potion that causes hiccups through dehydration and constriction of the muscles. It is an intermediate potion, the key ingredients are Hawthorn, Stinging Nettle, Dandelion, Chinese Chomping Cabbage, and Water.

Ingredients:

* Water
* Hawthorn
* Stinging Nettle
* Dandelion
* Chinese Chomping Cabbage

Instructions for brewing:

**Everlasting Elixir**

An Everlasting Elixir is a potion that works forever and never runs out.

**Poison Antidotes**

* Antidote to Veritaserum: Disables the effects of Veritaserum.
* Ashwinder eggs: Cures Malaria.
* Bezoar: The stone from the stomach of a goat which cures most poisons.

* Blood-Replenishing Potion: Replenishes blood loss after injury.
* Bruise removal paste: Heals bruising.
* Bubotuber pus: Cures persistent acne.
* Burn-healing paste: Heals burns.
* Cure for Boils: Heals boils and skin eruptions. Also counteracts the Furnunculus Curse. \*Deflating Draught: Reverses swelling caused by spells, stings or other magical causes for inflation such as the effects of the Swelling Solution.
* Dittany: Heals wounds and regrows skin.
* Draught of Peace: Gives the drinker a feeling of peace and well-being, but if overdone it can put the drinker into a deep or even irreversible sleep.
* Dreamless Sleep Potion: Temporarily calms emotional trauma.
* Dr. Ubbly's Oblivious Unction: While the specific effects are unknown, this tincture seems to lessen mental or emotional scarring.
* Elixir to Induce Euphoria: Temporarily lessens the effects of depression.
* Glumbumble treacle: Counteracts the hysteria caused by eating Alihotsy leaves.
* Hiccupping Solution: Cures hiccups.
* Love Potion Antidote: Counteracts a Love Potion.
* Mandrake Restorative Draught: Cures petrification.
* Memory Potion: Restores memory or the ability to remember.
* Mimbulus Mimbletonia: Cures shyness.
* Murtlap Essence: A home remedy for cuts and abrasions.
* Pepperup Potion: Cures the common cold or flu.
* Phoenix tears: Like the bezoar, these tears can heal most fatal ailments.
* Skele-Gro: Heals and mends broken bones, as well as regrows missing bones.
* Sleeping Draught: Cures insomnia.
* Ten-Second Pimple Vanisher: Removes facial blemishes.
* Wiggenweld Potion: Reverses the effect of the Draught of Living Death.
* Wolfsbane Potion: Temporarily lessens the effect of lycanthropy.
* Wound-Healing Potion: Closes and heals open wounds.