Poisons & Medicinal Artifacts
32 entries in the The Apothecary Diaries compendium.
AconiteA potent herb where the boundary between cure and death is perilously thin.ArsenicA whisper of garlic in the broth, and the court's brightest smile turns to ash.BelladonnaA berry that opens the eyes of the living and the hands of the dead.FoxgloveA handful of purple bells that can stop a heart mid-beat—or keep it beating when all else DaturaA handful of seeds, a fever of false fairies, and a silence that smells of dry flowers.LeadThe poison that whispers for months before it screams.OpiumThe same drop that quiets a fever can silence a heart—Maomao reads the difference in a breMercuryThe silvery liquid that alchemists worship and apothecaries fear.StrychnineA bitter seed that makes the body its own executioner, and Maomao's sharpest test of refleRicinA garden's quiet seed, ground to dust, and a life unravels cell by cell.AtropineA drop that opens the eye and closes the mind, leaving the body dry as parchment.HemlockThe flower that looks like dinner but tastes like the last breath.AconitineThe root that cures a fever at one pinch and stops a heart at another.MonkshoodOne purple hood conceals a heart that can stop a life in minutes.WolfsbaneA bitter root that tastes of cold steel and takes the breath from the lungs before the minDigitalisA pretty little bell flower that whispers 'rest now' to the heart until it simply stops.Castor BeanA pretty little red-and-black seed that can silence a room full of courtiers with a singleHenbaneA dry, hot, dreaming death that looks like sleep until the breathing simply stops.MandragoraA root that calms the mind at one dose and stills the heart at the next.TansyOne bitter leaf is medicine; a handful is a slow, hallucinatory death.WormwoodA bitter leaf that makes the world dissolve before the body ever stops.SaffronThree crimson threads per flower, a fortune per gram, and one wrong substitution away fromCinnamonA warm bark that heals the cold in blood—or quietly poisons it, depending on the hand thatLicoriceThe sweet root that holds a hundred formulas together—and can quietly unravel a body if puGinsengA root that mends the weary, yet can unsettle the careless hand that doses it wrong.CyanideA bitter almond's whisper can end a courtier's song before the next verse is sung.RealgarA crystal of vermillion that calms the fevered or stops the heart—depending on the hand thCinnabarA beautiful red that whispers 'calm' while it quietly eats the nerves.CrotonA few seeds of Croton, and the harem's prettiest smile becomes a scream.EphedraThe same root that opens a child's lungs can close an emperor's heart—if the dose is a whiAristolochiaA slow poison that whispers to the kidneys while the body still smiles.GelsemiumA vine that whispers 'rest' to the body until the lungs simply forget how to breathe.
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