The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

With the newly purchased storage bag, the large package of medicinal materials bought can be easily brought back. This time I bought a lot, and the boss even gave some discounts based on the wholesale price.

However, Professor Snape is not on campus now, and Sissy decides to go to the library to find the answer by herself.

After all, sharpening a knife is not the same as chopping firewood by mistake, and it is impossible to improve the quality of her medicine if she does it blindly.

The library is neatly divided into categories, and there are thousands of bookshelves that are almost two people tall. Just looking at it can make people regain their awe of knowledge.

Students who don't like reading will definitely feel chest tightness and oppression under such invisible coercion, but from the moment Sissy stepped into the library, the blood in her body began to be involuntarily excited.

Even though the potion area is illuminated by lights, it still looks darker and more mysterious than other areas, and the dark purple light is faintly revealed, which seems to be breathtaking.

There are thousands of basic medicinal herbs that need to be learned in the first grade, not to mention some rare medicinal materials that are not used conventionally.It is not difficult to imagine how many kinds of potions and potions can be born from these thousand transformation combinations alone.

Sissy gasped, it was definitely not something that could be achieved with ordinary efforts to chew down these books.

She finally chose a book with a purple cover, and sat cross-legged on the spot to read it carefully.

"The Unknown Combination Principle of Potion", Sissy's current knowledge reserve is far from enough, this book is a bit difficult to understand.But she knew that in order to figure out the direction of formula modification, the key is to understand the principle of medicinal properties.

"Antidotes can basically be included in two categories, one has a strong purification ability, and the other relies on its own toxicity."

"The first antidote can inhibit the body's excessive response to poisons, such as inflammation and fever. At the same time, they can produce powerful accelerators, stimulate cell regeneration, and quickly generate new healthy cells to resist the harm of poisons."

It sounds good, but unfortunately this kind of antidote is not universal. An unusual toxin like basilisk venom needs a rare antidote like phoenix tears.

The bezoar in traditional Chinese medicine is roughly the same reason. It can not only kill bacteria and reduce inflammation, but also calm down and lower blood pressure.The effect is somewhat different, but in the wizarding world, bezoar also has the same miraculous effect.

In the original book, because Harry didn't understand Gobalot's third law, he couldn't give an analysis of the antidote, so he had to dig out a bezoar and hand it to Professor Slughorn as his answer.

With this "wild" antidote alone, Harry won the appreciation of Slughorn, and when Ron drank the poisoned wine, he also relied on the bezoar to save his life.

It’s really a good thing. When I earn money, I’ll buy a few more and keep it with me. It might save my life someday. Sissy has already made a small plan in her heart, and it’s as if another item has been added to the shopping list.

"The second type of antidote itself has strong toxicity. It must be reconciled with a variety of medicinal materials with different toxicity in an appropriate proportion, and it can only be used for the treatment of specific one or several symptoms of poisoning."

Isn't it just fighting poison with poison!

The biggest advantage of this type of antidote is that it takes effect quickly, and the detoxification is very thorough under an appropriate dose.

As for the shortcomings - Sissy can tell from the potion used to treat boils that the potion is made incorrectly and it will cause boils.If the antidote is broken, the consequences will be disastrous.

According to the law, when making an antidote mixed with multiple poisons, it is necessary to add more ingredients on the basis of these single antidote so that their medicinal effects do not conflict with each other, so as to ensure the prepared antidote. Not a bottle of horrible mixed poison.

Sissy feels that she doesn't need this knowledge yet, but the principle is very similar to making a single antidote that requires mixing multiple poisons.

If any one of the poisons takes too much advantage, it will highlight its own toxicity and turn the antidote into a poison.No matter how many ingredients are selected, the key is to reconcile the medicinal relationship between them-to avoid a situation where one family is "poisonous".

Qianqian closed the book with a "snap", learning is more important than practice, so let's cook a few more pots and try.

The horned slug is basically only used as a solvent, and the porcupine spines can hurt people because the barbs on the spines penetrate into the meat, and they are not toxic. The medicinal value lies in sterilization and anti-inflammation.

The other two drugs are weaker in toxicity. Excessive dried nettles will cause vomiting and diarrhea, and a small amount of toxicity remains after snake teeth are removed from the poisonous glands.It seems that the key to the efficacy of the medicine lies in these two.

Hagrid had already taken care of all the snake teeth and porcupine quills when she went to the library. Having such a caring and good helper saved a lot of time at once.

Cici did not choose to steam the horned slugs first this time, but roughly mixed 20g of fangs and 77g of dried nettles in the original recipe, and she planned to try the toxicity of the two first.

Sissy hasn't learned the Scarpin Appearance Curse yet. The spell she learned in sixth grade is too difficult for her as a freshman, and her magic power is still limited now.

But it doesn't matter, it's just a simple discrimination, and it can be done without chanting mantras.

Sissy attached the magical power that got out from under the barrier to the wand, relying on the elf taught her to use imagination to control the magic power, turned the magic power at the tip of the wand into a spider-like filament, and one end of the silk was connected to the magic wand , and the other end is evenly attached to the mixed medicinal materials.

It only requires a very small amount of mana to do so, and the key to manipulation is not the amount of mana but the fineness.

Sissy closed her eyes so that she could concentrate fully. Through each filament, she had to carefully receive the feeling from the other end like a thread for diagnosis of pulse.

After Hagrid vigorously grinds the snake teeth, the medicinal properties are already very uniform, but the dried nettles are directly cut into small pieces, and the medicinal effects of each cut can be felt slightly different, which makes it difficult for her to accurately calculate the medicinal properties.

After some careful investigation, she roughly judged that the dose of Venom Fang should be reduced by 18%, and changed to [-]g, which is more coordinated.

But the powder is not convenient to take out from it. Based on the current 20g, the nettle needs 85.56g, just add a little more.

Sissy can understand now, why are there always "moderate amount" and "a little" on the menu?Why is it that the formula in her potion book is accurate to the gram, but still can't make a "perfect" potion according to the gourd painting?

There is a little more venom in this batch of fangs, so it should be adjusted slightly when using it.

The medicinal materials are all naturally grown things, unlike the reagents in the laboratory in the past, they are all "analytical pure", and the concentration or purity is clearly marked, which can be taken into account in the calculation.

The control of the dosage must be made by the wizard to probe with magic power and then make a decision.The gram weight written in the book is just an average and applicable amount.

If you are completely a nerd and follow the steps, you will never even try to make any "perfect" potion in this life, let alone perfect, the advanced potions in the back are more and more complicated, and the success may depend on "metaphysics".