Question: Enhance Water Remove Poison?


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I was wondering this since. If you touch someone blood will it remove the poison from there body?


Suuuuure, if you reach your hand into a gaping wound, but they'd immediately die. Nobody can handle 100% blood alcohol content. o_0


Cuuniyevo wrote:
Suuuuure, if you reach your hand into a gaping wound, but they'd immediately die. Nobody can handle 100% blood alcohol content. o_0

Maybe Dwarfs could...


Enhance Water only works on water. Blood is not water.


Blood is mostly water. The spell only calls out that it doesn't work on unholy water, potions and other magical liquids. I'd rule it as a melee touch attack that requires access to at least a pint of the liquid still in the body (hence the gaping wound — blood that had already spilled out could be purifies separately but wouldn't affect the blood still in the body). Furthermore, the recipient would receive the Fort save and Spell Resistance, as the spell indicates. Since the person casting the spell wouldn't know how far the poison had spread, they'd have to transmute most, if not all, of the blood in their body, almost definitely killing them immediately, even if they were a Dwarf. :P


Cuuniyevo wrote:
Blood is mostly water. The spell only calls out that it doesn't work on unholy water, potions and other magical liquids. I'd rule it as a melee touch attack that requires access to at least a pint of the liquid still in the body (hence the gaping wound — blood that had already spilled out could be purifies separately but wouldn't affect the blood still in the body). Furthermore, the recipient would receive the Fort save and Spell Resistance, as the spell indicates. Since the person casting the spell wouldn't know how far the poison had spread, they'd have to transmute most, if not all, of the blood in their body, almost definitely killing them immediately, even if they were a Dwarf. :P

The target line of the spell says "1 pint of water", not "1 pint of water-containing liquid".

Doesn't matter how you would rule - this is the rules forum. Only rules-correct answers. Blood is not water. The human body is also mostly water - it also isn't an appropriate target.


Yes, but it specifically calls out unholy water, potions, and "other liquids with magical power" as not working. By your logic, that specificity is unnecessary as anything that wasn't pure water would be disallowed. They mention minerals and contaminants in the spell, and say that it changes the color and "body" of the end result, so I'm taking them at their word and assuming that Enhance Water would work on fresh water, salt water, brackish water, muddy water, vitamin water, fruit juice, milk and yes, blood. It's the GM's call just how much solid matter the spell can affect, as the spell doesn't specify. It just says that magical liquids are unaffected, and the more stuff in there that isn't water, the darker the resulting drink is. Obviously, any GM would be free to rule that it didn't apply to blood, but I do not agree with you that it is forbidden by RAW.

As for the part about the human body being mostly water, even if you did want to make that stretch (which I don't), it wouldn't work because the water is on the inside, and the spell says you have to touch the water, not the container. Strictly speaking, I read it as having to be a contiguous source of water, which the human body isn't. Your main arteries and heart are contiguous though, even if they aren't shaped like a bowl. Here are some numbers for context: The human body is roughly 60% water; Cow milk is nearly 88%; Goat milk is nearly 89%; Blood is over 92%; Most seawater is over 96%. I would rule a human body has nowhere near enough water to count for the spell, but blood seems close enough and Milk isn't far behind, especially if you had reduced fat or non-fat.

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