Health and Disease
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Contents
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