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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