Saradomin brew

Saradomin brew is made by mixing toadflax and a crushed bird's nest in a vial of water, giving 180 Herblore experience. It requires level 81 Herblore. It is slightly lighter in colour than a normal strength potion.

Effect
Saradomin brew temporarily raises your life points by 15% and your Defence by 25% while temporarily draining your Strength, Attack, Magic and Ranged by 10%. The defence boost is better than a super defence potion if your Defence level is higher than 50, and this potion is one of very few ways to raise your Life points above the normal maximum. The LP boosting effect will stack with Rocktail. A 4-dose Saradomin brew can heal 640 LP (160 LP per dose) in total. If a player wears a complete set of Torva armour, Pernix armour, or Virtus armour a Saradomin brew can heal over 840 LP (210 LP per dose) in total, depending on the players levels.

Use
It is universally advised to only use this potion in combination with regular restore, super restore, or overload potions in order to counteract the draining of the players Attack, Strength, Magic and Range stats. Without using restore potions the Saradomin brew will reduce a players levels to under level 10 within 5-8 doses, depending on the players stats. As this effectively defeats the point of using it by quickly rendering players nearly incapable of doing damage, it is generally avoided.

The brew is widely known to be the item that heals the highest non-stackable life points per inventory spot. The only better methods are the Unicorn Stallion's healing aura scroll and purple sweets which can be stacked for, at maximum, approximately 42 billion life points. (Players can hold roughly 2 billion of any stackable item, if they can obtain that many.) Brews are commonly used in places such as in the TzHaar Fight Cave while attempting to obtain a Fire cape, in high-levelled Player killing, during Barrows runs (to decrease the number of bank trips required), and are even used in Nomad's Requiem as a popular strategy to defeat Nomad.

Note: The Saradomin brew may not be consumed in clan wars or when dueling if food has been is disabled.

Production costs
The table is based on buying the ingredients (vial of water, toadflax, and crushed birds nest) from the Grand Exchange and selling the resulting 3 dose potion there.

Saradomin brew (1)

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Trivia

 * There is no Barbarian version of this potion.
 * When it is ingested the chatbox message says, "You drink some of the foul liquid", unlike other potions message - "You drink some of your (potion's name) . You have (1-3) doses left/You have finished your potion."
 * If you drink a saradomin brew and enter the Wilderness, you will see in the chatbox "Your extreme potion bonus has been reduced.", and your defence bonus from the saradomin brew will be reduced to the bonus of a super defence potion.
 * A recent update to the Ring of Wealth has added a VERY SMALL drop statistic of generating between 250 to 2500 noted Saradomin Brews from, apparently, any monster with access to the rare drop table.

Saradomin brew