Herbs and medicine

***Spoiler warning:** Plot and/or ending details follow.*
A doctor's main job is to heal their fellow citizens of their wounds and sicknesses. They have many ways of doing so, mostly through herbs and berries as well as precriptions and high-tech medicine kept in the Hospital.

## Key

    = Treatment of wounds

    = Treatment of diseases

    = Poison

    = Other

### Alder

 **Effect:** | Eases toothaches.

* Lizzie mentions to Milena that Daisy had to be given some alder bark to ease her tooth pain.
* When some of the trees start dying, Lizzie starts to worried that all of them will die.
	+ Some of the scientists try and figure out why the trees are dying, they find out there is a disease in the ground, they treat it and the trees stop dying.

### Beech

 **Effect:** | Nuts are good for attracting prey. Leaves are good for producing a edilble oil.

* Hunters take a bag full of beech nuts to attract prey
* The cooks use the leaves as a salad dressing.

### Bindweed

 **Effect:** | When combined with sticks, can help mend a broken leg and keep it in-place.

* The first settlers used Bindweed when they were getting things built for humans as it was easier to move in space than fiberglass or plaster.
* The doctors prefer to use Bindweed instead of man-made things, but if the break is really bad they will use a cast.

### Birch sap

 **Effect:** | Birch sap is good for many illnesses as well as for the hair and skin.

* Scientists make Shampoo and soap out of Birch sap.
* Doctors use it to cure lung diseases, gout, sickness, poor health, infertility. They also use it to prevent eye diseases, skin diseases, stomach and lung diseases, kidney stones, jaundice, scabs,scurvy, cholera, skin diseases, tonic, rheumatism, first nourishment for new-born children
* They also use it for vitamins and to help children during teething

### Blackberry

 **Effect:** | Mixed into a poultice to ease the pain of bee stings.

### The Blazing Star

 **Effect:** | The Blazing Star is a rare healing herb that is used to cure the early settlers of an unknown disease.

### Borage

 **Effect:** | It produces more and better milk for mothers. It also brings down fevers. Helps sooth bad bellies and relieves tight chests.

### Bright-eye

 **Effect:** | Mix with lovage to help cure coughs.

* The doctors use bright eyes cure to coughs with lovage.

### Broom

 **Effect:** | Used in poultices that can help broken legs and wounds.

### Burdock root

 **Effect:** | Soothes and heals rat bites especially if they are infected. Can give cats a bellyache if they eat too much of it. Numbs rat bite to the point a cat cannot feel the pain. Also good for infected paws and other sores.

### Burnet

 **Effect:** | Used to give strength. Good for expecting mothers.

### Catchweed

 **Effect:** | Stops poultices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.

### Celandine

 **Effect:** | Soothes weakened or damaged eyes.

### Chamomile

 **Effect:** | Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind. Also given to traveling cats for strength.

### Chervil

 **Effect:** | For infected wounds and bellyache, respectively. Can also be used during giving birth.

### Chickweed

 **Effect:** | Treats coughs, though Birch sap is often preferred.

### Coltsfoot

 **Effect:** | Eases breathing or children-cough, as well as cracked or sore feet.

### Comfrey root

 **Effect:** | Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds. Also used for wrenched claws. Can be used for itching or for inflammation on stiff joints. Also eases stiffness on wrenched shoulders when lined in a nest. Can be used for burns.

### Daisy leaf

 **Effect:** | Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a traveling herb.

### Dandelion

 **Effect:** | Thought to soothe and heal bee stings. Its leaves can also be chewed to act like a painkiller.

### Dock/Dock leaf

 **Effect:** | Soothes scratches, though can sting when being applied. Soothes sore pads. If placed in nests, it can ease the pain of wounds. Can be used to help practice healing on Clanmates.

### Feverfew

 **Effect:** | Reduces body temperature for people with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, especially good for headaches.

### Heather nectar

 **Effect:** | Makes swallowing easier and sweetens mixtures.

* Doctors use this to sweeten the herbs and other medicines

### Honey

 **Effect:** | Soothes infections, is a great remedy for smoke-damaged or sore throats, helps people swallow other concoctions, helps soothe coughing, and gives energy.

### Horsetail

 **Effect:** | Treats infections and stops bleeding.

### Juniper berries

 **Effect:** | Soothes bellyaches, gives strength, and helps troubled breathing. It is also used to help calm people.

### Lavender

 **Effect:** | Cures fever and chills. Also used to hide the scent of death.

### Marigold

 **Effect:** | Stops infection. Stops bleeding. Used for inflammation of stiff joints.

### Oak leaf

 **Effect:** | Stops infection from setting in.

### Ragwort leaves

 **Effect:** | Treats aching joints and keeps a person's strength up.

### Ragwort

 **Effect:** | Like lamb's ear, ragwort gives a person extra strength and energy.

### Raspberry leaves

 **Effect:** | Could possibly ease pain or stop bleeding.

### Sorrel

 **Effect:** | Traveling herb, can also build up appetite

### Stinging nettle

 **Effect:** | Induces vomiting, or brings down swelling, respectively. Can be mixed with comfrey to help heal broken bones. Helps with wounds. crushed the stems helps fight against infection.

### Tansy

 **Effect:** | Cures coughs. Can be used to cure wounds and poisons. Soothes throats. Can be extremely dangerous to pregnant person.

### Tormentil

 **Effect:** | Its root is good for treating all wounds and extracting poison.

### Thyme

 **Effect:** | Calms nervousness, anxiety, and people who are in shock.

### Traveling herbs

 **Effect:** | When mixed together, they suppress hunger pains and give a person strength.

### Watermint

 **Effect:** | Eases the suffering that originates from a bellyache.

### Wild garlic

 **Effect:** | Draws out poison in bug bites. Prevents infection. Good for cooking.

### Yarrow

 **Effect:** | Extracts poison from wounds. Will make a cat vomit up toxins. The ointment will soften and help heal cracked feet.

## Medicines and Herbs brought from Muil

### Blue Suckle

 **Effect:** | It reduces the effects of the eclipse. Extracts poison from wounds.

### Poisons

#### Numbing Seed

*Main Article: Deathberries*

 **Effect:** | Kills a person within minutes when consumed.

## Man-made medicine

### Antiseptics

 **Effect:** | Effect

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## See also

* Doctors
* Diseases and injuries

1. ↑ Revealed in *Sunrise*, page 245