Herbs and Healers

*note)) this is a duplicate page in the Amber Flame wiki, Kitt owns both wikis and therefore has a right to use her writing in her other wikis she administrates.*

**Healers** are said to be very valuable and respected members of a pack/mob. They're close to the Brightfields, the home of most weasel-like animals after they die. Healers are trained to heal both physical and mental pains. Log from Dusk-pack and Quail from Leaf-pack started the tradition of counseling in *Rise of the Flood*. There can be three healers at one time, one mentored at a time. The senior, junior, and minor healers.

**Senior Healers** are the oldest living healer in a pack. If there's only one healer, that mongoose is a senior healer. Single healers must have a trainee by four years old. (Mongooses can live to be up to 10 years old in the wild.)

**Junior healers** are the healers previously mentored by a living Senior healer, complete with their training. Once the Senior healer dies, they become a senior healer in the old one's place.

**Minor healers** aren't very common, but they're like the grandchild of three generations. They were mentored by the junior and/or senior healer, and have gotten their training complete.

**Healer Trainees** are still learning everything there is to know about healing. Originally, they had a set time to learn everything there is to know- 16 moons. But with the new training, that's a bit short, and healers only move on when the other healer(s) believe they're ready.

### **Herbs**

Herbs are plants used for healing mongooses. Most of the herbs are very rare, and were given to the Paradise Place by the Brightfields (meaning some of these are made up plants, as well as their uses. A made-up plant will be marked with +) Healers always try to find out what's wrong with the patient before finding the treatment.

**Bright Sky daises (AKA Blue Flowers) +**

Appearance: Blue Sky daises look like- daises, since they're a variant of such. The difference is that they have rounder, shinier blue petals. Their leaves are a bright green, and are a bit spiky. They have a shorter stem than a daisy.

Use: Blue Flower petals are said to have a strong, bad taste, tasting of strong pine needles, grass and bark. But the petals are eaten for bellyaches. Only one or two are needed, depending on the severity of the ache and why. Too many petals can cause headaches and muscle aches, but one petal is safe. The leaves are chewed for mild stress and shock relief. The stem is useless and usually gets tossed.

**Magenta Starbrights (AKA Pink Flowers) +**

Appearance: Magenta Starbrights are obviously unique. They have a dark, purple-pink hue with a black center. The stems and leaves are a very dark green, and the leaves are spiky, dull, and fuzzy.

Use: The leaves are used as an emergency poison extractor, and makes the patient vomit. Only one leaf is needed- too much can cause violent vomiting and nose-bleeding. The stem can be used for the same purpose. The petals are said to be useless by healers when asked- but they do have a nice, strong fragment that's just for the fun of it.

**Yellow Lavender (AKA Yellow Flowers) +**

Appearance: Yellow lavender is a hybrid of Lavenders, Poppies, and Pop-eyed Susans. They're usually cross-bred by the most experienced healers.

Use: They can help calm down a patient by the smell, since they smell a bit stronger than lavender. The seeds are also a calmant- but are only for extreme shock or panic attacks, and are dangerous in large dosages. The seeds are not for mothers expecting pups- they can drain the milk supply or even kill unborn pups. The mothers are perfectly safe sniffing the flower, though. The leaves and stems are waste, and are thrown.

**Pond's gatherflower +**

Appearance: These little stringy plants were found during a Great Willow gathering, when Pond, the Water-pack leader at the time, discovered them. They are fragile, stringy stems with little white flowers. They only grow in or around water, and usually have to be fetched by going into the water and pulling them from the roots. Pulling them from their roots doesn't seem to affect the healing usage.

Use: gatherflowers have a strange effect- they put the consumer into a temporary deep sleep. They are only used for severe pain to put the patient to sleep, and are NOT to be misused. They also slow heartbeat and bloodflow.

**Yew Berries (poison)**

These berries are very poisonous, and can kill the consumer in less than a minute. These are used in very severe conditions to lay a patient away, and are almost never used. They are a last resort after gather flowers, or if the patient is already dying in pain. This is a very sensitive subject for healers.

**Poppy Seeds**

These are used to help a mongoose sleep, or ease anxiety or stress. Not for nursing or expecting mothers.

**Tree-grown blue blossoms (AKA blue blossoms)**

These herbs were discovered by Log, Dusk-pack's healer, to cure a strange sickness that was going around in Dusk-pack. He looked at a tree, asking the Brightfields what to do, and a small blue flower blossomed off of a vine. The sickness hasn't been seen since the outbreak.

There are many more healing herbs I can put here later.

*Note: When there's more than one healer, it's sort of a parental/family figure relationship between them. Do NOT ship them, please. I don't need toxic shippers in the JTH fandom, nor do I want to associate with them.*