•Roots: Brown,
humanoid
•Leaves: Green/brownish
•Distinction(s)
•Screams can be fatal if heard with
the naked ear
•Though a
plant, it appears almost as if a human baby with a leafing head
•Usage
•When matured, can be cut up to
serve as a prime ingredient for the Mandrake Restorative Draught, which is to
cure those who have been petrified.
Video:
Mandrake
•a
plant which has a root that looks like a human
•historically
derived from
•plants
of
the genus Mandragora found
in the Mediterranean region
•Or
other species, such as Bryonia
alba, the English mandrake, which have similar properties
History
•The
most important magical plant of the Middle Ages
•It
was
thought to increase fertility and was valued as an aphrodisiac.
•"In
the
story of Rachael, Leah and Jacob, the originators of the twelve tribes of Israel,
Rachael
trusted in the power of the Mandrake to rouse Jacob's interest in her, hoping
that the herb would make her fertile so she could bear him a child."
•"In
the
Song of Songs, it is
mentioned as an allusion to passionate love-making"
•Mandrake
was also known to have narcotic properties. It was often used as
an anaesthetic
for surgical procedures.
•Hailed
as
a miracle talisman, capable of curing just about anything
due
to its shape
Natural magiC
•Mandrake
root emanated mysterious power to fascinate and entrance people - most likely
due to
its shape, which with a little stretch of the imagination could be seen to
resemble a human body
•Eating
things that looks like a human body à
fertile
•You
are what
you eat à
the mandrake root that resemble a human body can cure anything
•Contain
highly biologically active alkaloids, tropane alkaloids in
particular
•It
has anticholinergic, hallucinogenic, and hypnotic effects
à
These
effects may cause aphrodisiac
effect and
then increase the fertility
•The root
is hallucinogenic and narcotic. In sufficient
quantities, it induces a state of unconsciousness à relieve pains
•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrake#Magic_and_witchcraft
•http://www.guokr.com/article/437553/?page=2
•http://www.sacredearth.com/ethnobotany/plantprofiles/mandrake.php
•https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539425/
•http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Mandrake
•http://www.guokr.com/article/437553/?page=2
•http://www.sacredearth.com/ethnobotany/plantprofiles/mandrake.php
•https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539425/
•http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Mandrake
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