What is Medical Magic?

The ability to improve one’s physical condition or mental state of any living being by using various potions, ingredients, charms or spells is medical magic. Medical magic does not necessarily focus only on the physical and mental health of the patient, but also their appearance.

Occupations in Medical Magic

There are many different roles that contribute and/or use medical magic.

Healers
Stationed at hospitals such as London’s St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries are healers. They are the equivalent to muggle doctors and nurses who help the health of many patients, whether it be physical or mental. Healers specifically use healing magic when tending to their patients. To identify a Healer, they often wear bright, lime green robes with the St. Mungo’s hospital logo (wand and bone).

To qualify to become a Healer, one must have pass their Potions, Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms and Herbology N.E.W.T.s exams with a high mark such as “Outstanding” or “Exceeding Expectations.”

• The Fat Friar:
This talented Healer was able to cure the sick with just a touch of his wand. His kind and joyful personality was what cost him his life as he was executed by churchmen who believed that he was just poking people with a stick when trying to cure them of the pox.
• Gunhilda de Gorsemoor:
Both a Potioneer and Healer, Gunhilda de Gorsemoor, discovered the cure for Dragon Pox, a disease that killed many wizards. She, a one-eyed and hump-backed witch, would Heal those who were infected by the deadly disease.
• Hannah Abbott:
Abbott trained as a Healer later in life after marrying Neville Longbottom and becoming landlady of the Leaky Cauldron. Unlike most Healers, Abbott does not work for the hospital, but rather applied to work as Matron at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
• Miriam Strout:
Working in the Janus Thickey Ward, the ward that deals with treating permanent spell damage at St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, Strout handles long-term patients who either have memory loss or mental health issues that result from spell damage.
• Poppy Pomfrey:
Pomfrey was a Matron at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Her expertise was that she was able to handle and cure different types of ailments with ease. Her role during the Battle of Hogwarts was to care for the wounded and attend those who died. In 2014, Pomfrey either retired or thought about retiring.
• Urquhart Rackharrow:
A well-known Healer in St. Mungo’s Hospital, created not necessarily a spell or charm, but rather a curse called Entrail-Expelling Curse in the 1600s. However, this curse works well with medic magic in which it pulls out inner organs. This can seem daunting, however, it was made with the perspective of a Healer in which organs can be taken out of the body without too much surgical operations. Overall this curse can be used in a surgical fashion or for research in the medical field. For the creation of this curse, he was honored with a portrait on the walls of St. Mungo’s Hospital.

Mediwizards
While Healers are found primarily within hospital grounds, Mediwizards often take on the role of field doctors at various events. Events can include Quidditch games, tournaments and other Wizarding or magical-based events taking place in the Wizarding World. Mediwizards are the equivalent to muggle medics of EMTs. Mediwizards often use medical magic to help injured patients.

Potioneers
Potioneers take on a large contributing role in the medical field. While there are a collective many who brew new concoctions for fame, there are some who take the time to combine magical ingredients together solely with the intent to help human-kind mitigate the effects of various illnesses and more.

Spell Inventors
Another contributor to the medical field are those who create spells and charms. While there are a collective few who design spells and charms for fame, there are some who take the time to go through its dangerous (and unknown) process with the intent to help human-kind mitigate the effects of various illnesses and more.

Medicinal Magic

Medicinal magic comes in the form of various magical ingredients combined or brewed together to form a potion or treatment to improve the physical or mental ailments of a living being. Medicinal magic are often used by Healers and Mediwizards and are crafted by Potioneers.


Examples of Medicinal Magic Ingredients

• Aloe Vera:
A thick and fleshy succulent that is often placed on the skin for its soothing properties. It is useful to treat burns, minor skin infections, diabetes and even to elevate blood lipids in human beings. It is one of the main ingredients in a popular magical fragrance-free deodorant called Lowdour.
• Ashwinder Eggs:
These eggs that from an Ashwinder, a magical serpent, can be used to cure Ague, an illness that causes alternating fits of a fever, chills and the sweats, when consumed whole.
• Balm:
A lemony smelling herb with heart-shaped leaves that is often used to treat mad dog bites when the herb is dried. This herb can be found in the potion, The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
• Beak Balm:
Special ointment that can treat injured beaks of some magical creatures such as Augureys, Fwoopers and more. It cannot, however, be used on Griffin or Hippogriff beaks as there is a high chance for negative side effects.
• Betony:
An herb with elongated triangular leaves that when dry, is often used to treat mad dog bites. This herb can be found in the potion, The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
• Bezoar:
Taken from the stomach of a goat, this ingredient is often used as an antidote to poisons when swallowed whole. It is the primary ingredient for the Antidote to Common Poisons.
• Black Pepper:
Aside from being able to enhance the taste of food, black pepper is also used to treat dragons of Squabbs Syndrome, the inability to produce fire. The black pepper helps keep the dragon warm and is often served alongside chilli and a crate of rum.
• Boom Berry:
The juice of this fruit has restorative properties and is often used in potion-making. This ingredient is required when making the Wiggenweld Potion, a healing potion to cure injuries as well as the antidote to the Sleeping Draught and the Draught of Living Death.
• Bruisewort:
This blue-colored plant, when brewed, is used to diminish bruises and other abrasions when applied onto skin.
• Bitterroot:
Made from the bitterroot plant when brewed, this blue-colored balm soothes burns and other injuries.
• Butterfly Weed:
This plant, when brewed, is used to soothe pains and other sores when applied onto skin.
• Camphorated Spirit:
A distilled liquid which acts as a disinfectant that is used to clean the wounds from mad dog bites. This herb can be found in the potion, The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
• Castor Oil:
Extracted from a castor bean, this magical potion ingredient, yellow in color and with an unpleasant taste, is used in the Love Potion Antidote.
• Centaury:
A medicinal herb that has small, pink flowers is used, when dried, to treat mad dog bites. This herb can be found in the potion, The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
• Chilli:
This spicy ingredient is used to treat dragons of Squabbs Syndrome, the inability to produce fire. The Chilli helps keep the dragon warm and is often served alongside black pepper and a crate of rum. Chilli can also be used to treat scale rot, a disease that affects the skin of dragons and salamanders.
• Cod Liver Oil:
This nutritional supplement that comes from the livers of cod fish is a main ingredient in muggle-brand cough medication called Nadruco Syrup of Tar.
• Concentration Capsules:
These drugs enhance the taker’s concentration skills.
• Cough Drop:
A small tablet used to temporarily soothe the throat during a cough.
• Dittany:
A dark green healing herb with a restorative property. This plant can make fresh skin grow over a shallow or moderate wound to which the freshly made wound would look days old. Dittany can be used to heal doxy bites, and when mixed with silver powder, it can heal werewolf bites.
• Dragon Meat:
This expensive, bloody and green-tinged ingredient can be used to help ease the pain of cuts, bruises and other injuries.
• Fluxweed:
This green plant has natural healing properties. Fluxweed is a one of the main ingredients for the Polyjuice Potion where it can be used when pulled at the full moon.
• Ginger:
While this root gives lots of flavor in many cuisines, it also shares some healing properties as well. Ginger can be found as a main ingredient in the Wit-Sharpening Potion and the Beautification Potion.
• Goosegrass:
This yellow plant is often used to heal skin ailments and scurvy.
• Horklump Juice:
Extracted from Horklumps, a mushroom-looking magical beast, this juice is a common ingredient found in the Wiggenweld Potion and the Herbicide Potion.
• Iodine:
This ingredient acts as a disinfectant when used on scabs.
• Lovage:
This green herbal plant helps lessen inflammation of the brain. It can be found in potions such as the Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts as well as the Invigoration Draught.
• Motherwort:
This pinkish-lilac colored plant is a healing remedy that can be used to treat mad dog bites. The Motherwort can be found in the potion, The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
• Murtlap Tentacle:
Obtained from the back of a Murtlap, a magical rat-like marine beast, the Murtlap Tentacle can heighten the resistance to dark charms as well as have its own healing properties. This ingredient is primary in the Murtlap Essence, a potion that soothes and helps heal painful cuts and abrasions. If the drinker overdoses on this ingredient, it can cause them to have purple ear hair.
• Plantain:
A small green plant that is common to the roadsides of England and is one of the oldest medicinal plants used. Plantains have a healing property that when dried, can be used to treat mad dog bites. This plant can be found in the potion, The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
• Polypody:
This thin and small fern has a healing property that when dried, can be used to treat mad dog bites. The Polypody can be found in the potion, The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
• Powder of Vipers-Flesh:
This ingredient, taken from the flesh of a viper, can be used to treat mad dog bites once dried and crushed into powder. The Powder of Vipers-Flesh can be found in the potion, The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
• Rue:
This small, yellow and feathery-looking shrub is an ingredient often found in medicinal remedies such as The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog and Felix Felicis. The Rue can also be used to recover after poisoning.
• Salamander Blood:
This ingredient, obtained from the Fire Dwelling Salamander, has both healing and rejuvenating properties that can be found in the Strengthening Solution, Wiggenweld Potion and the Fire Protection Potion.
• Scurvy Grass:
Scurvy grass is a green bodied and white flowered herb that is used to prevent or help cure scurvy and Vitamin C deficiency. This herb can be used in the Confused and Befuddlement Draught.
• Spirit of Myrrh:
This distilled oil of myrrh can be used to disinfect the wounds to treat mad dog bites. The Spirit of Myrrh can be found in the potion, The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
• St John’s-wort:
With its oblong stem and bright yellow flowers, this herb treats both physical and mental ailments. It’s healing properties can treat depression and it can also be used to treat mad dog bites. St John’s-wort can be found in the potion, The Famous Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
• Star Grass:
This medicinal herb can be used to treat colic, severe gassy inflammation and pain of the stomach area. It is used as an ingredient for the potion, Star Grass Salve, a greenish healing ointment to relieve wounds and sores.
• Stinksap:
Smelling of rancid manure, this magical green liquid heals animals and creatures.
• Valerian:
This plant, containing sedative properties, became a treatment for epilepsy. Valerian also has multiple uses in many different potions depending on its parts. For example, its sprigs are used in Treacle Fudge, Forgetfulness Potion, Sleeping Draught, and Fire-Breathing Potion. The root of Valerian can be used for Draught of Peace, Draught of Living Death and it can be extracted to be placed in medicine.
• Vervain:
This green plant with small, pink, and spiky flowers has healing properties that are often used in medicine. Vervain can be found in the potion, The Famous Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
• Vervain Infusion:
Prepared from Vervain, this plant is a potion ingredient for the Invigoration Draught, a potion that improves the energy of the drinker.

Examples of Medicinal Magic Potions and Other Treatments

• Antidotes to Common Poison:
This antidote counteracts a large amount of common poisonous injuries inflicted by poisonous creatures. Such injuries include bites and stings from different types of poisonous creatures.
• Awakening Potion:
This potion has multiple uses as it can either prevent the drinker from falling asleep, or it can be used to awaken the drinker from a deep sleep. Most medical professionals use this potion to help patients wake up from sleep caused by substances or from a concussion. This potion is the antidote to Draught of Living Death. This potion is also known as the Wideye Potion.
• Blood-Replenishing Potion:
This potion replenishes blood from a patient who has had blood loss from an injury. For each intake of this potion, it will provide 12 fluid ounces of blood for the drinker.
• Bruisewort Balm:
A blue-colored healing potion that fades bruises as well as is able to heal cuts and abrasions.
• Burning Bitterroot Balm:
Made from the bitterroot plant, this blue-colored potion soothes burns and other injuries when applied onto skin.
• Butterfly Weed Balm:
This plant, when brewed, is used to soothe pains and other sores when applied onto skin.
• Bubotuber Pus:
This medication is not a potion, but rather a magical ingredient that can be used on patients to cure acne. Coming from a Bubotuber plant, the pus is a thick, yellowish-green substance that has a smell of petrol when squeezed. If the pus is not diluted, however, it can be extremely painful and create boils on contacted skin. MediWizards and Healers recommend that Bubotuber Pus is used to cure intense cases of acne rather than spells as there are hardly any risk factors.
• Burn-Healing Paste:
This medication is a thick potion in the form of paste. This paste can heal most first- and second-degree burns. Some examples of when to use the Burn-Healing Paste include burns by hot liquids and fire.
• Calming Draught:
This potion is given to patients who are in need to calm their mind and bodies either after a shock, trauma or emotional breakdown. Mediwizards and Healers often use the Calming Draught in the beginning of their interaction with their patients so that they are able to help give the utmost care to their patients without emotional or physical outbursts.
• Cough Potion:
A healing potion that reduces coughing and soothes the throat.
• Crup Sleeping Draught:
This elixir was used to help make Crups, a wizard-bred dog, sleepy. While the brewing procedure and ingredients are unknown, it is said that the recommended dose is half a spoonful in their food.
• Cure for Ague:
A healing potion that is able to cure ague, an illness that causes alternating fits of a fever, chills and the sweats. While the most common healing ingredients for ague are Ashwinder eggs, there are some who would rather brew such a potion. However, if brewed incorrectly, it can be poisonous and become lethal to the drinker.
• Cure for Boils:
This powerful potion can cure hives, boils pustules and other intense conditions that are found on the skin of the patient. The Cure for Boils is carefully prepared by Mediwizards and Healers because if it was incorrectly brewed, it can increase the intensity of boils rather than cure them. This potion acts as an antidote to careless use of Bubotuber Pus.
• Cure for Spattergroit:
A medieval remedy in which one would need to take the liver of a toad and bind it to the victims throat who is naked by the full moon in a barrel of eels’ eyes. Although unknown if this treatment actually works, it is said to treat Spattergroit which is a highly-contagious magical disease caused by infectious fungus.
• Dragon Tonic:
A healing potion that is used to cure sick dragons. To brew this potion, one would need a feather from an Eagle Owl, three feathers from a Peacock and three Giant Purple Toad warts.
• Dr. Ubbly’s Oblivious Unction:
Dr. Ubbly’s Oblivious Unction is used for healing injuries that are caused by brains’ tentacles and thoughts. Such brains are found in the Department of Mysteries. Even when treated immediately, traces of injury can still be left in the patient.
• Dreamless Sleep Potion:
This purple medication is used to bring about drowsiness. If the potion has been properly prepped, it can have the drinker go into a very deep, dreamless sleep. This potion helps patients regenerate by forcing them to re-energize themselves. Most patients who drink this potion are unaware of taking this potion.
• Draught of Peace:
Using powdered moonstone, porcupine quills and unicorn horn with syrup of hellebore, this potion relieves anxiety and agitation. This turquoise blue potion focuses on the mental health of the drinker.
• The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog:
this home-remedy heals a mad dog bite.
• Fergus Fungal Budge:
Soaked on feet, this fungicidal medical dressing, that comes in three sizes, treats ringworm infections. It is not recommended for elves to use this product as there are potential negative side effects.
• Fur Friendly Flea Powder:
This remedy treats dogs, cats, rabbits, rats and mice of fleas. It is not harmful to the animal's fur and keeps pets clean, happy and healthy.
• Grand Pepperup Potion:
This potion is a stronger dose of the Pepperup Potion in which it not only treats the common cold, but also the deathly 2020 strand of the flu called COVID-19, or Coronavirus.
• Healing Potion:
This red-colored potion replenishes the drinker’s lost health and stamina.
• Laxative Potion:
This potion helps living beings relieve themselves of constipation as well as by clearing out their bowels.
• Magi-Me-More:
These magical pills rejuvenate the magical powers and concentration in elderly magical folk. However, side effects of these pills include vomiting, dizziness and tusks.
• Mixture of powdered silver and dittany:
The mixture of two ingredients, powdered silver and dittany, are often used by Mediwizards and Healers to treat werewolf bites. This primarily stops the bitten patient from losing too much blood which may lead to death. There are some controversies on whether to always administer this medication onto wizards who have been bitten or to allow wizards to die by bleeding so that they do not become a werewolf.
• Morphine:
A pain medication used also in muggle society. This medication derives from the poppy.
• Mouth Itching Antidote:
A pale-green healing potion that cures mouth itching, which can be caused by Acid Pops.
• Murtlap Essence:
Strained and pickled from the tentacles of Murtlaps, this medicine soothes painful cuts and abrasions. It helps even the deepest of wounds to heal.
• Nadruco Syrup of Tar:
This muggle-branded cough medicine is used to relieve throat irritation and coughs.
• Oculus Potion:
This orange-colored potion restores the drinkers eyesight. It can also counteract the effects of the Conjunctivitis Curse.
• Panacea:
This remedy is said to cure all diseases and is able to make immortality. In the 1550’s, it was said that to construct this perfect remedy one must have vinegar, salt, urine, sal ammoniac and sulphur vive. The Elixir of Life is a close achievement of Panacea.
• Pepperup Potion:
This magical medicine is the treatment for the common cold. It was discovered during the 12th-century by potioneer Linfred of Stinchcombe. Perfected by Glover Hipworth in the mid-18th to early 19th-century, it became the main staple of medicine used by Mediwizards and Healers on their patients. Healers have come up with a stronger dose of this potion called the Grand Pepperup Potion which is to help treat individuals with COVID-19, or the Coronavirus.
• Pomfrey’s Pick-Me-Up:
This emerald-colored healing potion, invented by Poppy Pomfrey, is a restorative tonic that heals minor damages that can be caused from a fall.
• Rat Tonic:
This green-colored potion was used to heal aging rats. This is a common medicine that can be bought in the Magical Menagerie as a small, red bottle. If the rat consumes too much of the Rat Tonic, it can grow abnormally.
• Sleeping Draught:
Once the drinker takes the Sleeping Draught, they almost fall asleep right away. The sleep is deep and temporary where the one who drinks the potion can wake up at any time. Unlike the Dreamless Sleep Potion, patients are aware of when they’ve taken this potion. It is unknown if patients do dream when taking the Sleeping Draught.
• Skele-Gro:
Skele-Gro is a magical medicine that helps restore bones. It can mend bones and even regrow them if they have vanished or have gone missing. The potion has been referred to as dreadful in taste by patients who have consumed it. When the drinker takes the potion, it burns the throat and the process is both slow and painful. It can take more than a full day for bones to restore. It takes a longer period of time when bones need to be re-created rather than mended.
• Star Grass Salve:
This greenish medicinal balm is a healing ointment to relieve wounds and sores. It is made with its primary ingredient, Star Grass.
• Thick Golden Potion:
This potion heals the effects of curses. In order for this potion to work, one must also state an incantation which is unknown.
• Tolipan Blemish Blitzer:
First made in 1907, this white, thick-paste special formula treats acne.
• Treatment for Scale Rot:
Using salt water, tar and white spirit, this treatment cures scale rot, which is dull and flakey skin on dragons and salamanders.
• Wiggenweld Potion:
This healing potion is an all-cure to injuries. Mediwizards and Healers often revert to the Wiggenweld Potion as their main magical medicine when tending to their injured patients. This potion is also the antidote to both the Draught of Living Death and the Sleeping Draught.
• Wolfsbane Potion:
The Wolfsbane Potion does not cure symptoms of lycanthropy (those who become werewolves), but rather relieve the symptoms and allows them to retain their human intelligence while they are transformed. This potion, which emanates a faint blue smoke, is considered complex and can be extremely dangerous when incorrectly brewed as one of the ingredients used in Wolfsbane called Aconite is very poisonous. In order for this potion to work, the drinker must drink a full goblet of it each day for a week that leads up to the full moon.
• Wound-Cleaning Potion:
The Wound-Cleaning Potion sterilizes wounds when in contact with such injuries. This healing potion smokes and is known to sting when poured onto wounds. Mediwizards and Healers commonly uses this potion to keep wounds healthy as it has a powerful antiseptic.

List of Potioneers Who Have Made Medicinal Potions:

• Damocles Belby
Damocles Belby invented the Wolfsbane Potion in the mid-1970s. This potion does not cure symptoms of lycanthropy (those who become werewolves), but rather relieve the symptoms and allows them to retain their human intelligence while they are transformed. Belby received an Order of Merlin award for transforming the lives of those living with lycanthropy to be integrated into the wizarding society.
• Fleamont Potter:
A Potioneer who used their skill for profit was Fleamont Potter, Harry Potter’s grandfather. Fleamont invented the Sleekeazy’s Hair Potion, a magical substance that treated any type of scalp from being unruly or untamed to a sleek style. The popularity of his potion caused Fleamont to open up a potion-making company, in which he sold his potion to many in the Wizarding World. The potion, however, made of gomas barbadensis, Asian dragon hair and petroleum jelly, worked on all hair styles except for redheads. This is an example of a potion that improves the physical qualities of another which falls into medical magic.
• Grover Hipworth:
In the 18th-century, Grover Hipworth had taken the 12-century Pepperup Potion discovered by Linfred of Stinchcombe and perfected it. He received the credit for the ideal and popular potion used in hospitals to cure the common cold.
• Gilderoy Lockhart:
Lockhart, a false and egocentric wizard, used his potioneer skills to create a potion called Occamy egg yolk shampoo in which it guaranteed “locks of lustrous luminosity.” While this potion may not be used often in magical hospitals to help patients, it is a potion that improves the physical qualities of another which falls into medical magic.
• Gunhilda de Gorsemoor:
Both a Potioneer and Healer, Gunhilda de Gorsemoor, discovered the cure for Dragon Pox, a disease that killed many wizards. She, a one-eyed and hump-backed witch, would Heal those who were infected by the deadly disease.
• Linfred of Stinchcombe:
A popular 12-century Potioneer who created two magical medicines, Skele-Gro and Pepperup Potion, is Linfred of Stinchcombe, patriarch of the Potter dynasty. He was a Potioneer who enjoyed potting plants and combining them together in a cauldron, in which he had created two very well-used potions.
• Nicolas Flamel:
Nicolas Flamel, not only an Alchemist, but also a Potioneer, had invented the all-desired potion, the Elixir of Life. This potion, using the properties of the Philosopher’s Stone, made anyone who drank it immortal. While this was not a potion that could be replicated and it is considered “one-of-a-kind,” this can be considered a magical medicine if able to be created by other Healers and Potioneers. Unfortunately, the Philosopher’s Stone, destroyed, makes for this potion to be extinct or extremely rare.
• Sacharissa Tugwood:
A Cosmetologist, Sacharissa Tugwood used her potion-making skills into beautifying the world through many self-invented Beautification Potions. She was also skilled in Herbology and discovered the medical use of the Bubotuber plant in which she created the well-known ingredient in curing pimples, the Bubotuber Pus. An ingredient that is used by many Mediwizards and Healers to help improve the physical qualities of another.

Healing Magic

Healing magic comes in the form of conducting spells and charms to help treat and improve the physical or mental ailments of a living being. Healing magic is often used by Healers and Mediwizards and are crafted by Spell Inventors.

Examples of Healing Magic Spells and Charms

• Anapneo:
If the victim is choking, this spell clears the throat of whatever was stopping its passage. The castor must say the spell and point directly at the target. This spell is also classified as a vanishing spell.
• Brackium Emendol/Ossio Dispersimus:
While this spell is used to heal brachial bones, it can also remove brachial bones as well. To conduct this spell, the castor must point their wand directly at the target and a blue light will emit from the tip of the wand. When bones disappear, that area will have a rubbery feel. These two spells are also classified as vanishing spells.
• Episkey:
This charm is able to treat mild to moderate injuries such as broken noses, small cuts, split lips and more. When cast, it can cause certain areas to change in temperature as it is being healed. The hand movement for this charm is to wave the wand in one diagonal line from left to right.
• Entrail-Expelling Curse:
Although a curse, this was invented by Healer, Urquhart Rackharrow, to help extract and remove body parts from the inside out, causing the body to defecate. Such body parts include intestines, stomach or heart. This curse can be used in a surgical fashion or for research in the medical field.
• Bandaging Charm:
If there are any fractures in the bone, this charm is able to create bandages and splints to help keep such fractures in place. For this charm to work, the wand must tap its target. This charm is also classified as a conjuration, where one can create something from nothing.
• Reparifors:
This charm is able to heal minor ailments that are caused by magic such as paralysis, poisoning and petrification. When cast, it emits a purple light at the end of the wand.
• Shock Spell:
Very similar to a defibrillator that muggle doctors use, the Shock Spell helps revive the heart when it stops beating by creating an electrical current through the body. This spell can also help the brain and other parts of the body when stopped. In addition, this spell can be used to help those with mental illnesses and in need of shock therapy.
• Spell to Cure Wartcap Powder Infection:
This cure is able to counteract the effects of the Wartcap Powder which is skin that becomes a thick, hard crust when in contact with the powder. To heal, one would need a wand and use it to lightly tap the infected area(s).
• Tergeo:
This is a popular spell that clears up any dry blood that is around or on a wound.
• Vulnera Sanentur:
This spell heals large, gashing wounds. No matter how deep the gash, this spell must be repeated three times, each time it heals something on the body. For example, the first time it slows the blood flow, the second time it clears debris and begins the healing process, and the third time fully heals the wound by knitting it together. There are two hand movements the castor can make when chanting this spell: trace their wand over the wounds, or poke their wand onto the wound. The Vulnera Sanentur is also classified as a counter-curse to the spell, Sectumsempra.

History of Medical Magic

Both muggle and magical societies have struggled through many pandemic and epidemics throughout the ages. The wizarding world, often in secret from muggles, strives to find solutions to all illnesses in the world through an exploration of spells, charms, potions and various ingredients made possible by Healers, Potioneers and Spell Inventors. Periodically, the magical society will help muggles with their pandemics or epidemics if they are discreet enough to share them.

Examples of Historical Pandemics and Epidemics in the Wizarding Society

• Dragon Pox:
This lethal disease began in the early 12th-century affected only the wizarding society of witches and wizards. Dragon Pox, similar to muggle’s chicken pox, warped the victim’s skin into a green-tinge with pockmarks. In some cases, victims would have green and purple rashes between their toes and sparks flying from their noses when sneezing. Originating from South America, this deadly pandemic came from Peruvian Vipertooth dragons. Many witches and wizards perished in this pandemic, Abraxas Malfoy, Fleamont and Euphemia Potter, and Eldritch Diggory, to name a few. Nearly 500 years later, Gunhilda of Gorsemoor, a Healer, worked exceptionally hard to find a cure for the Dragon Pox. Her potion, Dragon Pox Cure, was a success and earned her fame for saving the wizarding world. Although Dragon Pox has a cure, it still reappears throughout the centuries, attacking primarily elderly folks who are much more susceptible to the disease.
• Rat Plague:
Beginning in 1992, the Rat Plague began in the dark alleyways of Knockturn Alley in London. Rats of dark or sickly green-tinted fur, are a species of rat, originating from Scotland, that roamed the area and began the viral spread of disease. Using spells to cast away the rats, it was learned that they were resistant to the Fire-Making Spell, the Freezing Spell and the Severing Charm. Only the Red Sparks charm was what weakened them.

Examples of Historical Pandemics and Epidemics in the Muggle Society

• The Black Death:
Originating from fleas that lived on black infested rats from Asia, this mass breakout began in the early 14th-century throughout European countries. Its spread peaked by the time it was in the mid-14th century in which many muggles perished. It is recorded that approximately 30 to 60 percent of the European population of muggles died by The Black Death. Muggles struggle to find a cure for this beastly plague, however, it took nearly a couple centuries to regain their original population. The wizarding society kept to themselves during this pandemic.
• COVID-19 (Coronavirus):
This infectious disease lifted off in December of 2019, beginning in Wuhan, China. COVID-19, a virus that originates from mammals or birds, came from local Chinese bats in China’s Hubei province. Due to advanced technology and transportation, COVID-19 is spreading throughout the whole world, affecting the entire muggle population. Muggles are working hard in stopping this viral attack by quarantining themselves into their homes, frequently washing their hands and social distancing from one another. Unlike The Black Plague, the wizarding society have taken it upon themselves to become involved in solving the issue of this pandemic as it has an effect on their communities. Potioneers, working diligently, have found a cure for the Coronavirus Pandemic in which they strengthened the strain of Pepperup Potion, the common cold cure. This newly brewed potion is called the Grand Pepperup Potion. It is said to relieve the common symptoms of COVID-19 such as fever, dry cough, shortness of breath and fatigue. Only time will tell if their involvement in the muggle society will work.

Ministry of Magic: Medical Branch

As years progress, the Ministry of Magic expands their departments to be more inclusive of all professionals under one roof. One expansion was their Department of Medicine where many Healers come together, or a Board of Healers, to regulate medicinal use that are to be used in hospitals and what students are to learn through curriculum in their later years of schooling.

Board of Healers
The Board of Healers are made up donors and Healers. The board regulates student curriculum, what is appropriate medicinal use in hospitals, as well as oversees all magical hospital branches in its area. In order for potions and spells to be approved by the Board of Healers, it must go through a series of tests. While highly unpopular, there are many researchers who test new potions and spells on creatures. However, there are also willing witches and wizards who would go through tests for compensation.

There are multiple Board of Healers throughout the world, and they come together once a year to weigh in on matters relating to medical magic. As of 2020, Board of Healers from the UK, North and South America, Africa, and Asia have come together to discuss the medicinal use of the "Grand Pepperup Potion" due to COVID-19. While it is law that the muggle and magical societies are to remain separate, even in catastrophes, this was one that also affected the Wizarding World. In turn, the International Board of Healers gave the approval to secretly share their advanced common cold potion with the muggle society to lessen the plague.

Can Medical Magic be used in Muggle Society?

While it is highly recommended to keep the magical community unknown to the muggle communities, there are some forms of communication and outreach when illnesses can affect both worlds. Whenever there is an epidemic, pandemic or other types of outbreaks within the world, there may be some teamwork between societies. However, if it does not affect the wizarding society, then it is more than likely that the cure to such pandemics would be left for the muggles to figure out. There are times, however, that occuptions such as Mediwizards, Healers and Potioneers work together to come up with a cure using magical ingredients and, depending on the strain of illness, will not only ensure that the wizarding world has access to it, but a very limited access for the muggle world as well.