Usually you will purchase or find a potion that cures poison, but you can also use certain alchemy ingredients to cure poison all on their own or simply interact with any of the available shrines in the game to cure all of your diseases.
How to Cure Poison in Skyrim
Potion of Cure Poison
The most obvious solution to curing poison is to consume the potion of Cure Poison.
If you’re playing the vanilla version of Skyrim, then you will not be able to craft potions on your own, and the only ways to obtain them are the following:
1 ~ 11 potions are always available at apothecary merchants, if you have the Merchant perk unlocked Sometimes potions of Cure Poison can be carried by the following NPCs: Elgrim at the City of Riften Nura Snow-Shod at the City of Riften Mjoll the Lioness at the Bee and Barb Inn Members of the Silver Hand at the Gallow’s Rock Fort Members of the Vigilants of Stendarr at the Stendarr’s Beacon
If you’re playing the special edition of Skyrim, then you can craft potions of Cure Poison with the help of the Rare Curios, which can be purchased at the Creation Club. In that case you will be able to use alchemy to cure poison with the help of the following ingredients:
Ambrosia Bittergreen Petals Hunger Tongue Imp Gall Redwort Flower Roobrush Scrib Jelly
Alchemy Ingredients
Some alchemy ingredients cure all diseases outright, including poison. They are listed below with all of their possible locations.
Charred Skeever Hide
Embershard Mine, Riverwood Sanuarach Mine, Karthwasten Giant Encampments and Campfires Irkngthand (“Blindsighted” quest) Silver Hand members Fort Dunstad
Felsaad Tern Feathers
Dropped by Felsaad Tern birds Crescius Caerellius’s house at Solstheim Glover Mallory’s house at Raven Rock Milore Ienth’s alchemy room at Raven Rock Lleril Morvayn, Raven Rock Ash Hopper Jelly, Severin Manor
Hawk Feathers
Dropped by Hawk birds Dropped by Falmers and Mages Silver Hand members Bedrooms and Alchemy Laboratory, Homestead Apothecary’s Satchels Torture Room at Alftand
Mudcrab Chitin
Dropped by Mudcrabs near water
Vampire Dust
Dropped by Vampires Dropped by Bandits and Mages Autumnwatch Tower, The Rift Hall of Attainment, College of Winterhold Drelas’ Cottage, Whiterun Dustman’s Cairn, Whiterun Silver Hand members
Garlic Bread
Cooked in the oven using: 1x garlic 1x butter 1x bread
Shrine Blessings
Lastly, you could find one of the 14 types of shrines in Skyrim, receive its blessing, and cure poison or any other disease.
Shrine of Akatosh
Temple of the Divines, Solitude Rorikstead Hill, Rorikstead Twilight Valley, Twilight Sepulcher Steamcrag Hillock, Steamcrag Camp Fort Sungard Shrine, The Reach
Shrine of Arkay
Hall of the Dead, Windhelm Solitude Catacombs, Solitude Temple of the Divines, Solitude Falkreath Cemetery, Falkreath Winterhold Stormcloak Camp, Winterhold Wayward Pass, Winterhold Bthardamz Upper District, The Reach Windhelm Hills, Windhelm
Shrine of Dibella
Temple of Dibella, Markarth Temple of the Divines, Solitude Haelga’s Bunkhouse, Riften Lucky Lorenz’s Shack, Eastmarch Morvunskar, Eastmarch Broken Tower Redoubt, The Reach Watching Dawnstar, Winterhold Old Hroldan Inn, The Reach
Shrine of Julianos
Temple of the Divines, Solitude Julianos’ Fallen, Tumble Arch Pass Fellglow Keep, Whiterun Harmugstahl, The Reach Fort Amol, Eastmarch
Shrine of Kynareth
Temple of the Divines, Solitude Temple of Kynareth, Whiterun Crystaldrift Cave, The Rift Wreck of the Brinehammer, The Pale Fort Sungard, The Reach Robber’s Gorge Bluffs, Hjaalmarch Raven Rock Hillside
Shrine of Mara
Temple of the Divines, Solitude Temple of Mara, Riften Nightcaller Temple, The Pale Dead Lovers Camp, The Reach Pale Border, The Pale
Shrine of Stendarr
Temple of the Divines, Solitude The Two Pillars, Whiterun Stendarr’s Beacon, The Rift Fort Greenwall, The Rift
Shrine of Talos
Temple of the Divines, Solitude Temple of Talos, Windhelm Riften, The Rift Whiterun City, Whiterun Cradlecrush Pond, Eastmarch Watcher of Windhelm, Eastmarch Weynon Stones, The Pale White River Valley, Whiterun Ilinalta Foothills, Falkreath Markrath, The Reach Froki’s Peak, The Rift Sea of Ghosts, Winterhold Ilas-Tei’s Last Stand, Winterhold Winterhold Glaciers, Winterhold Bloated Man’s Grotto, Falkreath
Shrine of Zenithar
Temple of the Divines, Solitude Four Skull Lookout, The Reach Ring of Boulders, Whiterun Crumbling Bastion, Whiterun Riften, The Rift
Shrine of Azura
Raven Rock Temple, Solstheim
Shrine of Boethiah
Raven Rock Temple, Solstheim
Shrine of Mephala
Raven Rock Temple, Solstheim
Shrine of Nocturnal
The Ragged Flago, The Rift
Shrine of Auriel
Darkfall Cave, The Reach Inner Sanctum, Haafingar
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