Black, that you remain incapable of retaining even the smallest bit of information for more than five minutes shall never cease to amaze me.
'Cardamom' are two distinct genera of plant, Elettaria and Amomum. They are both used in cooking, but only one can be used in this preparation. Miss Tonks, it may be called 'black cardamom', 'red cardamom', or 'Siamese cardamom'. The myrrh must be pure resin, unadulterated and untreated; the descriptor used to be 'ingestable' but in the past several years has started to become 'brewable'; if the price is less than three times the 'unguent' preparation it is not suitable.
The calamus must be Acorus calamus and not Acorus americanus; the easiest way to ensure this is, as Black already noted, to source it from the Himalayas, Mongolia, or central Siberia.
Those are the only three ingredients that must be sourced so exactingly, but the remaining ingredients on the list do of course need to be natural and not transfigured or adulterated.
If you are questioned about the potion it will be used in, you may say you are assisting a friend who is uncertain about the paternity of her child or that a customer believes he or she has been reunited with a long-lost parent and is attempting to brew a potion to confirm: all these ingredients are also used in ancestry potions.
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'Cardamom' are two distinct genera of plant, Elettaria and Amomum. They are both used in cooking, but only one can be used in this preparation. Miss Tonks, it may be called 'black cardamom', 'red cardamom', or 'Siamese cardamom'. The myrrh must be pure resin, unadulterated and untreated; the descriptor used to be 'ingestable' but in the past several years has started to become 'brewable'; if the price is less than three times the 'unguent' preparation it is not suitable.
The calamus must be Acorus calamus and not Acorus americanus; the easiest way to ensure this is, as Black already noted, to source it from the Himalayas, Mongolia, or central Siberia.
Those are the only three ingredients that must be sourced so exactingly, but the remaining ingredients on the list do of course need to be natural and not transfigured or adulterated.
If you are questioned about the potion it will be used in, you may say you are assisting a friend who is uncertain about the paternity of her child or that a customer believes he or she has been reunited with a long-lost parent and is attempting to brew a potion to confirm: all these ingredients are also used in ancestry potions.