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, Ch. 48)

Boneknit

Used to aid mending bones (TDR, Ch. 48)

Blue Goatflower

Used to aid mending bones along with boneknit (TDR, Ch. 48)

Bluespine

An unpleasant tasting tea, used mostly as a punishment (TFoH, Ch. 5)

Bluewort

Used as a tea for an upset stomach (TDR, Ch. 48)

Chainleaf

Used as a tea for an upset stomach (TDR, Ch. 48)

Corenroot

Helps make blood

Dogweed
Dogwort

For knitting flesh

Feverbane

Used for fever (TDR, Ch. 10)

Five-finger
Flatwort tea

Used for fatigue (TDR, Ch. 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, Ch. 48)

Rannel
Red Daisy tea
Sheepstongue root
Silverleaf
Sleepwell
Sunburst root
Timsin root
Whitefennel

Used to ease birthing pains in a hard birth (TDR, Ch. 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