Health and Disease

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Treatment

The One Power

Main article: Healing

Other forms

For those that cannot use the One Power to Heal, there are still a wide range of herbs and other treatments. In most villages, this is the role of one woman, such as the Wisdom

Herbs

Medicinal Herbs

Acem - Used as a tea for head pain (TSR, Ch. 52
Andilay root - Used for fatigue ({tdr|48}})
Boneknit - Used to aid mending bones ({tdr|48}})
Blue goatflower - Used to aid mending bones along with boneknit ({tdr|48}})
Bluespine tea - an unpleasant tasting tea, used mostly as a punishment (TFoH, Ch. 5)
Bluewort tea - Used as a tea for an upset stomach ({tdr|48}})
Chainleaf tea - Used as a tea for an upset stomach ({tdr|48}})
Corenroot - Helps make blood
Dogweed tea
Dogwort - For knitting flesh
Feverbane - Used for fever (TDR, Ch. 10)
Five-finger
Flatwort tea - Used for fatigue ({tdr|48}})
Gheandin blossom - Used powdered to treat otherwise fatal heart pains (TDR, Ch. 48)
Healall
Hearleaf
Ivy
Marisin
Marshwhite - Used as a tea for an upset stomach ({tdr|48}})
Rannel
Red Daisy tea
Sheepstongue root
Silverleaf
Sleepwell
Sunburst root
Timsin root
Whitefennel - Used to ease birthing pains in a hard birth ({tdr|48}})
Willowbark - used as a tea for headpain (TSR, Ch. 52) and general fever (TGH, Ch. 14)
Worrynot root - Used for fever (TDR, Ch. 10)

Poisonous Herbs

Crimsonthorn root
Tarchrot Leaf

Illness

Black Fever
A disease that killed Artur Hawkwing's parents
Blackbile Fever
Breakbone Fever
Spotted Fever
Yelloweye Fever