A poison garden. A witch's flower. Something for wolves.
Root, not leaf. It holds sodium channels open so the change cannot finish. Useless on the other one.
Wolfsbane
Ecology · Sodium channelCopperplate · CUSTOS · Plate VII · The pharmacopoeia
They knew what worked. They did not know why. Application by rote is the first thing that fails when circumstances change.
Aconitum napellus, monkshood, common European wolfsbane. Related species lycoctonum, variegatum, carmichaelii. The active is aconitine, a diterpenoid alkaloid that binds voltage-gated sodium channels and holds them open. In the Lycian the relevant tier is the catecholamine cascade: vascular smooth muscle, cardiac tissue, CNS. The shift cannot finish. Abortion, or collapse to Type II. Dried root, not green leaf, not flower: the traditions that insist on the root are recording alkaloid concentration.
Engagement, not threshold. Kinetics are slow relative to shift onset: pre-load a confined space, or put it into circulation on a weapon. A scratch does nothing. Depth is the doctrine. Theophrastus, Pliny, Dioscorides: lycoctonum, wolf-killer, two millennia of the same name. Useless against the . Wrong architecture. Alpine, Carpathian, Caucasian country — -trigger altitude.
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