~Magical Ingredients

-Ingredients already imbued with magical ingredients on first sight
-Muggles often intolerant to them
-Mandrake is of the Kingdom Plantae, not a beast, useful especially in poison antidotes
-Faster in effect than mundane pills/creams because they tend to speed up metabolic reactions within body
-Metabolism: processes that the body utilizes to release energy that is used to sustain life and grow, often from consumed food, as well as eliminate remaining waste products from the body
-Catalyst: Something which speeds the rate of a chemical reaction
-More intense effects, including potions with more magical ingredients
-Magical ingredients cause the "jolt" of medication all at once
-Very young, very old, pregnant, and those with weakened immune systems shouldn't take potions without consulting a Healer
-Adding the wrong one to a potion could have fatal effects
-Never add an unlisted magical ingredient to a potion without consulting a talented potioneer first

~Mundane Ingredients

-Gentler than the harsher effects of magical ingredients
-Ex: A stomach ache. Magical ingredients would fix it faster but over time your digestive system can come to rely on potions to do its job
-Ginger: relieves digestive inflammation and ease motion sickness, mild enough to drink in tea every day, mild effects but would not heal drastic stomach pain, rare to have allergy
-Ginger candies delicious on their own
-May be added to potions even when not on the ingredients list, to improve flavor(like lavender or mint)
-Can be added to reduce negative side effects of potions
-If a potion adds stomach discomfort as a side effect, potioneers may add ginger or rose to reduce it
-There are exceptions, but mundane ingredients often do not throw off the temperament of a potion

~Transitional Ingredients

-Ex: Dragonfly thoraxes, which have 0 magic properties on their own but can display magical properties when combined with other magical ingredients
-Creating a mixture with only mundane ingredients and dragonfly thoraxes will not give it magical properties
- when brewed in potions with other magical ingredients, the magic involved in the rest of the process is able to trigger some hidden magical quality in dragonfly anatomy.
-Ex: thoraxes used in potions for energy and endurance, for example the Girding Potion.
-wings are often used for concoctions assisting with speed of thought and action.
-Unknown what causes this magical quality in certain plants/species
-Likely something in genetic composition
-Some think this hibernating form of magic is another expression of magical gift or talent
-Another thought is that these creatures were very powerful elementals a very long time ago
-Eventually magic became a vestigial organ, or an organ once useful but now in idle use
-Ex: Our wisdom teeth and appendix

~Assignments

-Mandatory quiz