How does Wolfsbane work?


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Liberty's Edge

It's listed as a poison in the Corebook.
While in the Belladonna-entry you can find the rule, that it allows a save vs. Lycanthropy, there's no clarification in the Wolfsbane-entry.
I always thought of it as being able to keep wolfs at bay (at least to a certain extend).
Can anybody help me here?!


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Depends on the wolfsbane... if its the rare yellow flowering low to the ground vaguely dandilion like, its a mild skin healing plant...

If its the yellow or purple monkshood... the root can be used to be crushed and rubbed on arrow tips to kill bears. Dont leave roots around where your cattle and other livestock can eat them or you wont have your livestock! Sometimes the roots are mistaken for horseradish roots. When you put the roots to your lips it causes numbness and tingling... ;) and this is real world herbology :)

Its used by healers and early doctors and in oriental medicine. Its an anisthetic, treatment for appendicitis, widely valued as an anodyne, diuretic, and diaphoretic, Great caution was required, as abraded skin could absorb a dangerous dose of the drug, and merely tasting some of the concentrated preparations available could be fatal. The local anaesthesia of peripheral nerves can be attributed to at least eleven alkaloids with varying potency and stability.

Internal uses were also pursued, to slow the pulse, as a sedative in pericarditis and heart palpitations, and well diluted as a mild diaphoretic, or to reduce feverishness in treatment of colds, pneumonia, quinsy, laryngitis, croup, and asthma due to exposure.

Taken internally, aconite acts very notably on the circulation, the respiration, and the nervous system. The pulse is slowed, the number of beats per minute being actually reduced, under considerable doses, to forty, or even thirty, per minute. The blood-pressure synchronously falls, and the heart is arrested in diastole.

In small doses, tends to relieve pain, if this is present.

Wolfsbane has been ascribed with supernatural powers in the mythology relating to werewolves and other lycanthropes, either to repel them, relating to aconite's use in poisoning wolves and other animals, or in some way induce their lycanthropic condition, as aconite was often an important ingredient in witches' magic ointments. In folklore, aconite was also said to make a person into a werewolf if it is worn, smelled, or eaten. They are also said to kill werewolves if they wear, smell, or eat aconite. Other accounts claim Wolfsbane is used as a brew to prolong the lycanthropic condition in the event a werewolf became under the full moon's influence.

Liberty's Edge

Hey man, you made my day!
Thank you so much for these infos. That's exactly what I needed. Realworld uses and mythology infos.
Those helped a ton - thank you!

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