'' The application of dry or wet salt compresses reduces the excess liquid present in the tissues. And well because it tastes better!'' she sat. She couldn't wait for the potion!!!!!

Emma quickly wrote down what the Professor said.
Emma thought for a few minutes why salt could be useful. Huh? She was trying to remember what salt did. Aha! Now she remembered. "Salt helps in regulating the body and removing all the toxins. It makes a body fit, healthy, and increases the memory and the functioning of the brain." she said. She hoped she had said something correct.. Oh well..

Why salt. So many reasons. And she wanted one. And typically Amy had drawn a blank. Of course she had. So random, stupid answer coming up professor, Your body needs salt to function professor Amy said, she'd sorta zoned out about the actual potion. Ah well salavie

Kurumi raised her hand timidly to answer the dragon lady's next question. "Salt contains sodium.Our body needs sodium order to perform a variety of essential functions and sodium is something that the body cannot produce on its own. I believe I have read somewhere that an average adult requires an intake of 4.2g salt per day...."

Please sweet Merlin, let some of that be right. She didn't want to be waved off again like what had happened with the milk.

"Sorry, I meant Professor Lafay" Rex apologized to her. "Well, unforunately I can not think what Bran cereal could be used for potion " Rex said to the professor.

ooc: wait, are we mixing ingredients already? or just discussing them?
 

Easy? the lad stared blankly. Salt was like-- the enemy of everything healthy right? Too much chips, broken hips and all that? Although the boy didnt want to heed that either, he loved his chips and salsa too much. "Uhm, salt brings out the taste of the cottage cheese Professor?" the lad offered, because they're gonna have to have Fletcher eat this right?

Sapphinelle got all of her notes down in her neat handwriting, and thought about salt. Salt, salt, salt. How did salt affect the body in positive ways that had to do with bones?
Oh, got it! She remembered this when she visited the hospital carved into a salt mountain, and how the saline environment positively affected bones.

"Rock salts are rich in minerals needed for bone strength. Himalayan crystal salt is known to strengthen bones and help ease arthritis." she answered, hoping that she was right. She hated being shot down.

"Yes... but why?" She asked.

"I'm sure it helps with taste but that is not why it is used." She said.

"Right, it helps with water retention." She said, but she didn't seem fully satisfied with her answer...

"Correct..." she said "but there is more to it."

"No, though I'm sure that helps a bit... and strawberry can have some bad side-effects... so no." She said. There was something about this kid's smug look that bothered her... hmmm...

"I'm sure that helps." She said nodding. "There is more to it though." She told him.

She looked over at Fletcher... The champion seemed... upset. She smirked. "Right... Master Fletcher," she said tempted to call him Glitterpuff... She had to be nice to him... she didn't know why, but she enjoyed torturing the boy. "It certainly does... however we aren't using water in this potion. Good try though."

"Right..." she said "I need more though."

"It does make things taste better." She said with a smile, "but that's not the reason."

"Memory and brain function don't have a lot to do with bone regeneration, though, but your statement is correct." she said.

"Right... but why is it being used for bone regeneration?" She asked.

"We've moved on to salt. Keep up Master Trigwell." She said to the boy.

She laughed. "That could be true... but not the reason."

ooc: Just discussing. We put the cottage cheese in the cauldron, but didn't light it yet...

"Right!" She said nodding. "But what exactly is needed from the salt that bones need to be strong?"

"Exactly. Bones are made up of calcium, phosphorus, sodium," She stopped herself. She didn't want to give the whole lesson away, "and other stuff, so yes, sodium is needed to make bones hard." She raised a finger. "Let it be known this is something to balance, the body needs sodium, but too much salt is bad for you."

She put the salt down and raised the asphodel leaf. "Why are we using the asphodel leaf?" She asked.

Legend was paying attention, he really was. Who wouldn't want to know how to make a potion that grew bones back? He just had no clue what the answers were for the questions that Lafay was giving them.

Oh- WAIT he knew this one. "Because the milk, salt, and bran will already taste bad together so why not add a leaf?" Snicker. Alright time to be serious. "Or, maybe because it has like healing...powers. And if you put the leaf in then it would contribute to re-building the tissue around the bone?" Or something like that. He had no clue. Maybe his first answer was better.

She was right? Kurumi could have jumped out of her seat for making the Dragon Lady smile. She looked into her cauldron of goopy cottage cheese. She hoped it wouldn't spoil before they got down to making the potion. Then again, it was freezing in the potions classroom.

Kurumi returned to her notes before thinking about the professor's most recent question and added the details about salt.




Truth be told...she had no idea. "Professor, the leaves are sometimes used to to wrap around cheese..." Yeah...that was exactly what the dragon lady wanted to hear. "Also, it is said that the plant has a connection with the underworld. In Greek legend the asphodel is the one of the most famous of the plants connected with the dead and the underworld...and remedy for poisonous snake-bites...so maybe it helps protect our bones from damage or...dying?"

Alice realized that she needed to put the cottage cheese into the bottom of her cauldron so she did so, making a note of it in her notebook.

Asphodel leaf? Alice had no idea what that was so she was just going to sit and listen on this one.

Ugh!

Destiny did not like these questions. She never knew the right answer and she didn't know why the Professor even bothered asking her. Well, it wasn't like she only asked her, she did ask the whole class. But, the Slytherin was SURE, as the woman glanced around the room, her eyes lingered on her for a little longer.

Meaning, the question was directed right at her!

Raising her hand ever so slowly, she looked at the leaf in question. "The asphodel leaf is narrow..and bones are narrow..so it makes sense to use them."

Sense. Destiny was full of it.

Dianna felt like she was in a cooking class rather than potions. But never mind that. Asphodel Leaf? Let's see what she know about this.
"Erm..Because before people used this as a healing remedy..So I guess this can help in rebuilding the bone..?" Dianna said as she lowered her hand.

Amy put up her hand, because it's a medicinal product, it.....can help speed up growth or numb any pain?, or...it sounded familiar, um, does it like keep the cheese fresher for longer? she was sure she'd read that somewhere. Or she could just be being an idiot

"Asphodel leaves makes bones brittle. The bones would probably need to be soft or birttle to start a growing process." she said but that would mean that there had to be bones to make them brittle oh well she had already anwsered

Sidney looks through her Potion textbook. She finds the Asphodel roots mentioned, but nothing on the leaves. Apparently the root is an ingredient in the Draught of Living Death. There is a mention of the ancient Greeks also using the root's pulp was used in the treatment of joint and nerve diseases. The roots also contain a certain amount of alkaloids:

The plant also has an association with the dead. In Hades the Asphodel Meadows were the places where the dead who possessed both evil and good characteristics lived. Asphodel is also the food the dead eat. I never knew the dead needed to eat. I wonder if that is why we add the leaves to this potion. Let's face it when the body decomposes, all that's left is the bones. I think the alkaliods are more like muggle drugs. Doubt they would have anything to do with growing bones. All this imformation and I still can't come up with a logical reason why we put the leaves in this potion.

Sidney raises her hand. Professor Lafay hasn't had an opportunity to yell at her in a while. I'm sure yelling at me will make her day. "Professor in ancient Greek Mythology, Hades has a meadow called Asphodel Meadow. The dead also ate this plant. Muggles also associate the Asphodel plant with death. They often plant this plant in cemetaries. When we die and the body decomposes, all that is left is our bones. Could that be the reason why these leaves are included in the potion?" I know it's the craziest answer ever given, but I can't come up with anything else that makes sense.

:blink:

"Yeeeeees," She said turning away from the boy... "It's because it's an ingredient." She then added, "No, nothing to do with everlasting life, but thanks for trying..." She said sarcastically.

"Yes, Asphodel has healing qualities..." She said nodding and ignoring the previous comment about the bad taste.


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"I think you two mean that it helps with the healing..." She said.

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What was WRONG with these kids! After looking at Destiny silently, she didn't bother answering.

... She looked at the girls and said, "Uhmmm no."

She sighed. "It aids in the healing process, and has some of the minerals required for bone growth." She said and raised the marrow. "This bone marrow is an important ingredient in a bone regrowth potion. It's a magical creature's and not a human's though. The reason for that, is that a human bone's marrow won't magically adapt itself to the DNA of the patient, while this creature can. Which creature's bone marrow do you think this is?"

Adelyn cringed. Bone marrow! Triple gazzilion eww! What animals was it supposed to be! Ha! How was she supposed to know? Taste it? She just took out a wild guess, not caring about being right or wrong. "A fwooper's bone marrow." she replied.

"Maybe it's the bone marrow of a phoenix, since the phoenix is 'immortal' and magical. " Tory said with her eyebrows raised. Just a guess, she thought, if the answer was wrong it wouldn't hurt.

Anna opened her mouth wide. Who was that mean to kill an animal? "What! I'm sorry, I don't like to handel animal guts" she said closing her eyes tightly.

What in the world? Phoenix?

Surely that wasn't an ingredient in this. Those things were rare enough. However, Evelyn couldn't help but wonder if that were really true. And if so, then the professor must have been trying to prove a point about phoenixes or something.

But, back to the question and answers. "Perhaps the bone marrow of a boomslang?" Eh, well the skin of those were used in polyjuice potion and, for some reason, growing bones and turning into someone else, connected in her mind.

Lara was listening closely, she wanted to start making the potion , but it seemed that the Professor had some questions left.She wasn't an expert of creature but she knew some, so she raised her hand and said "Maybe it's a bone of a unicorn?"