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"These plants are most efficacious in the inflaming of the brain, and are therefore much used in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts, where the wizard is desirous of producing hot-headedness and recklessness…"
— A passage about the uses of scurvy-grass, lovage and sneezewort[src]

Scurvy-grass was a mundane plant with magical properties.[2]

History[]

ScurvyGrass

A jar of scurvy-grass

It was used as an ingredient in the Befuddlement Draught.[2][4] It was kept with other potion ingredients in the Potions Classroom at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[3][4] It was also an ingredient in the Invigoration Draught.[1]

During the 1990–1991 school year, a Muggle ate a salad prepared from magical plants from a witch's garden, which contained lovage, scurvy-grass and sneezewort, causing them to became befuddled. Jacob's sibling, as part of their student programme at the British Ministry of Magic, investigated the matter on Alastor Moody's instruction, and brewed a remedy in the Alchemy Room at St Mungo's for the Muggle. Professor Pomona Sprout also reviewed the types of plants found in a magical garden for seventh-year Herbology students that year.[5]

Behind the scenes[]

  • Scurvy-grass (Cochlearia officinalis) is a biennial herb that grows in salt marshes or along the seashore in northern and western Europe and Great Britain. Its high vitamin C content meant is was used in the past to help cure or prevent scurvy, or Vitamin C deficiency.[6] Scurvy-grass also has antiseptic, diuretic, and mild laxative properties.[7]

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 18 (Dumbledore's Army)
  3. 3.0 3.1 The Road to Hogwarts Sweepstakes
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 14 (Mischief Managed) - Potions Lesson "Befuddlement Draught"
  5. 5.0 5.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 26 (No Laughing Matter) - Assignment "A Witch's Garden"
  6. Cochlearia officinalis Scurvy Grass, Spoonwort PFAF Plant Database
  7. Scurvy Grass - Elma skin care.com
Herbology
Pottedmandrake
Herbologists
Astrid Cole · Clifford Cromwell · Marmaduke Dale · Blossom Degrasse · Miranda Goshawk · Alfred Lawley · Olgae Marinus · Beaumont Marjoribanks · Nepali wizard · Gethsemane Prickle · Sanjay Shanker · Selina Sapworthy · Phyllida Spore · Yubert Thorne · Tilden Toots · Hadrian Whittle · Winogrand
Herbology at Hogwarts
Herbology Award · Herbology Lesson Cup · Herbology Race Cup · Herbology Store · Hidden Herbology Corridor
Greenhouses One · Two · Three · Four · Five · Six · Seven · Professor's office
Professors Mirabel Garlick's predecessor · Mirabel Garlick · Herbert Beery · Pomona Sprout · Neville Longbottom
Textbooks Flesh-Eating Trees of the World · Ingredient Encyclopedia · One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi · Winogrand's Wondrous Water Plants
Plants studied and grown at Hogwarts
Aconite · Alihotsy · Asphodel · Belladonna · Bouncing Bulb · Bubotuber · Bubotuber pus · Chinese Chomping Cabbage · Cowbane · Dandelion · Devil's Snare · Dirigible Plum · Dittany · Fanged Geranium · Fat cactus-like plant · Fire seed bush · Flitterbloom · Floo · Flutterby bush · Fluxweed · Gillyweed · Ginger · Greenhouse Tree · Hemlock · Honking daffodil · Ivy · Knotgrass · Lady's Mantle · Lavender · Leaping Toadstool · Lovage · Mandrake · Mimbulus mimbletonia · Mistletoe · Moly · Nettle · Peppermint · Puffapod · Raspberry · Rose · Sage · Screechsnap · Scurvy grass · Self-fertilising shrub · Shrivelfig · Snargaluff · Sneezewort · Sopophorous plant · Sopophorous Bean · Spiky Bush · Spiky Prickly Plant · Stinksap · Sugar Shrub · Toad-eating plant · Tormentil · Umbrella Flower · Valerian · Vampiric vegetation · Venomous Tentacula · Walking plant · Wax vegetables · Whomping Willow · Wiggentree · Wild rice · Wormwood
Spells taught in Herbology at Hogwarts
Fire-Making Spell (Incendio) · Herbivicus Charm (Herbivicus) · Incendio Duo Spell (Incendio Duo) · Lumos Solem Spell (Lumos Solem) · Severing Charm (Diffindo)
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