#Wolfsbane antidote full

Pity sugar makes it useless.' Harry Potter: ' Why - ?' Remus Lupin: ' I’ve been feeling a bit off-colour. I have never been much of a potion-brewer and this one is particularly complex. Remus Lupin: ' Professor Snape has very kindly concocted a potion for me. However, it could have disastrous side-effects if the recipe was tampered with, as Lupin told Harry in 1996. They usually stayed somewhere hidden and slept through the transformation. The potion did not cure lycanthropy, but rather eased the condition's psychological symptoms, allowing one to hold on to their mental faculties after transformation (which would otherwise not be possible) and thus retain their human consciousness whilst in animalistic physical form, rendering the otherwise dangerous beast into an ordinary, sleepy wolf.

#Wolfsbane antidote full

The drinker had to take a gobletful of the potion once a day for a week prior to the upcoming full moon, and missing even one dosage would render it ineffective. According to Remus Lupin and Chiara Lobosca, it had a 'disgusting' taste that was very difficult to get used to, and adding sugar to remedy this was impossible as that substance would render it ineffective. The completed potion exuded a blue smoke.

The ingredients were also very expensive, which made it difficult for some werewolves to brew it themselves, as they usually lived in poverty due to their difficulty in finding stable careers. This potion was extremely difficult to make, as Slughorn believed that even Damocles Belby couldn't have invented it without immense effort on his part. The way one must imbibe it was very unique among potions, in that a goblet full of wolfsbane potion must have been taken each day for a week preceding the full moon missing one dose alone, during such a night, was enough to invalidate all those that preceded it. The main ingredient was wolfsbane (also referred to as aconite or monkshood). The Wolfsbane Potion was an innovative and complex potion that relieved, but did not cure, the symptoms of lycanthropy, or werewolfry. ' There is no known cure, although recent developments in potion-making have to a great extent alleviated the worst symptoms.' - Newton Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them