Resurrection Medicine
Suirei's drug that fakes death for hours, at the cost of memory.
The resurrection medicine is a legendary drug in The Apothecary Diaries that stops the drinker's heart enough to give a temporary appearance of death, then lets them return to life hours later. Its side effects include amnesia and partial paralysis.
Quick Facts
- Maker
- Suirei
- Ingredients (per maomao)
- Pufferfish, thornapple
- Side effects
- Amnesia, partial paralysis
- Used on
- Suirei
- Chou-u
- four Shi children
Facts from the source article.
Background
Maomao believed it required pufferfish and thornapple. Its maker is the court lady Suirei, who first mentions it in the first season and fakes her own death with it to escape the palace. In the second season she offers Maomao the formula as a lure, and Maomao learns that the drug was a by-product of research into the immortality potion Lady Shenmei demanded. Tested unsuccessfully on rats, it worked on Suirei herself, on the boy Kyou-u, later called Chou-u, whose long death-like state cost him his memory, and on four other Shi children, sparing them punishment after the clan's fall. Suirei also reveals that her own teacher faked his death with it.
Source
Text adapted from Resurrection Medicine on The Apothecary Diaries Wiki (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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