If this is true we need to report this as bug.
Potions are there to drink them.
Imagine the following dialogue:
patient: Doctor, Doctor I am still feeling very cold all the time.
doctor: Did you drink the medicine I gave you?
patient: No, I threw it on some mud on the ground and then I was standing in it for hours during a snow storm.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Mad S. Tist

World leading expert of artificial stupidity.
Because there are too many people who work on artificial intelligence already