Aegian Healing Compedium

[Aren Whitestorm 65]

((I had this idea to write a list of rp uses plants and other items in healing. I do not know if there is another one like this one.))

Aegis Healing Compedium

By feather of Aren Whitestorm, former Oren Ranger and Phoenix Royal Guard, a traveller.

I have wrote this book after years of service in Oren's Military and wandering around the Aegis. Traveling through the land have tought me how to use Nature to help you. In this book I wish to share my knowledge with others. Most of the things you will read has been found out by travels i performed. As some of them have been long time ago, my thoughts of those events are slightly clouded, and I did not forbidden myself from mistakes. I will be glad if a druid or equally wise person would instruct me on better uses of the materials I'll list.

Plants & Their Products

Most plants growing in Aegis have certain healing capabilities. Most of ones with best effects can be found in Oren and Malinor.

White Flowers - Most commonly found in oak and birch forests. Their flowers and leaves can be crushed and eaten preferably with bread, as they refresh your mind and remove some of the exhaustion. After being cut in half, rolled flat and dried off their stems can be used as bandages.

Red Flowers - They appear in same places as White Flowers, but are rarer and thus harder to find, as They have greater power than White ones. They are probably the best at preventing your wounds from being infected and stopping bleeding. Crush the leaves and stuck them in the wounds, or squeeze the juice out of them, and rub the bandages with it. Alternatively, cover wounds with leaves or burn them and cover wounds with ash, in both cases cover them with bandage and tie tightly. When the bleeding stops and wounds begins to heal, remove whaever is left of the Flowers from the wound, and wash it carefully. It is also said mix of red flowers and bonemeal cures common cold.

Leaves - They have no known effect to me. When there is no other way, they can be used to stop cover the wound and bad quality scalpels when dried off perfectly.

Sugar Cane - They are rather used as tools. It's best use is being alike a scalpel. When it is dried off, squeeze and rol it into a slim stick. Then, cut off the end, so low you almost cut the sugar cane in half. Then, sharpen the end until you can cut yourself when touching it. Such a scalpel should be used only once, as it gets moist and useless with each use. On the other hand, sugar should not normally be given to the wounded. It speeds up thier heartbeat, resulting in greater blood loss. Sugar should be used only in case when heartbeat is dangerously low, or the wound is poisoned. When mixed with red mushrooms, it can be a potent painkiller, but is quite dangerous due to chance of heart attack.

Melons - Useful plants when travelling far from civilization. Mainly because eating them seems to not only relieve from hunger, but also they seem to make you more immune to diseases. The melon skin can be used to fix a broken limb in position. Also, melons can be used as bandages, that last for about a day. Cut a melon to slices, put them on the wound, press a bit for them to attach to it, and ewentually tie it with something. As it dries off enough to fall off it's useles, but fully dried slices can be used as support bandages.

Wheat & Wild Grass - They have no notable uses, except for yielding wheat used to make bread, and seeds to grow first mentioned. I will explain the role of bread further in the compedium.

Cacti - Really useful when travelling through the desert. Not only they contain water rich in different substances, but they are good wet bandages themselves. Important when travelling through deserts or large grasslands. Remember, remove the spikes before use or it might cause in sudden pain.

Vines - Vines are generally quite poisonous, but they have one good use. As they are quite long and strong, they can be used to squeeze a limb and stop the blood circulation, useful when the wound is large or an artery is damaged. Don't keep the limb squeezed for too long though, as without blood your body will begin to rot. Apart from that, Vines are poisonous only when raw, when mixed with light mushroom salve (made of reduced mushrooms, ale, and sprig of clower) it makes a quite good painkiller.

Wood - Planks and sticks are generally used to keep broken limbs straight, or as walking sticks. 1 long plank tied up with wool or vines

to a leg can keep it straight, thus increasing healing rate of the bone. As mentioned before, sticks can be used to support walking when one of the legs cannot supprot body weight.

P.S. Recently I have found a plant with strange, pale-blue leaves (It doesn't exist, so don't look for it, it's just for rp), that when chewed on, generally decrease the pain.

This is the end of 'Plants & Their Products' section. Further in the book you'll find description of human-made materials, monster-gained items, and various items that classify as neither one of mentioned above.

Credit goes to Ivy Druid Silion for sharing with me recipes of vine and sugar cane painkillers.

[Aren Whitestorm 65]

Creature Products

When it comes to monsters, their products have mostly no medical features (except for few items, such as skeletons' bones), and are rather harmful. Only domestic animals and such yield anything useful.

Zombie - They yield nothing useful, as their flesh and extracts are poisoned. Avoid using anything from them.

Skeleton - Those are quite useful when they're dead. As they are kept alive by magic, despite being slightly rotten, their bones are quite strong, so they can be used to help to heal borken bones. Also according to the book mix of red flowers and bonemeal helps to heal cold.

Spider - Technically no good uses. only it's string can be used to heal spider bites and stitch wounds.

Enderman - incredibly dangerous and harmful creatures. it is said that its eyes can show the time, and work with ones mind. Possible help with mental ilnesses, but might turn out completely different. Also, using Ender Pearls as a way of transportation is harmful, awoid using it frequently.

Slime - Those green lumps of slime have techinally no good use for healing. Slimeballs can be used to help close the wounds and lock them from air, but it isn't a very healthy way of doing things.

Zombie Pigmen - No healing use, as they drop slightly infected porkchops. They might be useful after cooking.

Blaze - They drop blaze rods, which are useful ofr making potions and required for brewing stands. Other than alchemical uses, they have no other uses.

Ghast - Same as above, except for Ghast Tears, an alchemical ingredient, they do not have medical features.

Creeper - No info on that certain creature.

Pig - Their meat is quite useful. When placed on a bruise or a wound it ceases the pain. Cooked porkchops provide resources needed for wounded or people who move a lot. Also, molten pig fat is a certain way to close wounds, but a painful one.

Cow - They have generally same features as pigs, except for the leather. Leather is generally used for belts or armours, but it can be used to temporarily cover the wounds, tie up bones to legs (look up at skeleton) or stop circulation in a limb in case of heavier injuries. Also, cow milk is very healthy, and it is advised to drink it, especially after bone injuries.

Chicken - Nothing much to say about this particular animal. It's sharp-tipped feathers can be used to make small cuts or insertions, but besides that, nothing else is special. Chicken meat is slightly less resourceful than that of a pig or cow.

Sheep - They grow a very useful resource: wool. It is very versatile as a bandage or in making cold-proof or bruise protecton clothes. It needs to be cleaned in water and high temperature before used though. Sheep meat isn't very good, I rather not eat it (sheep doesn't drop meat yet).

This is end of this 2nd chapter. In Chapters 3 & 4 you'll find info about hand-made items and other, unspecified ones used for healing.

[Aren Whitestorm 65]

I won't list all the hand-made items, only the ones that have medical use.

Hand-made Items

There are some items madeby Aegians that help with healing process or have medical capabilities.

Axe - Use of this is quite unpleasant. It is generally used when the limb cannot be saved, and needs to be amputated. It is recommended, or even required that you give patient some painkillers before doing so, and you prepare some wooden needles and string to stitch the blood vessels. Some hot, molten fat to burn out the wound might be useful.

Sticks & String - Pair of those is a good way of stitching wounds. 2 sharpen sticks and strong, but small string can stitch a wound easily, and in a way that allows to get the stitches off easily.

Bucket - As it can hold liquids, it's quite useful. Water, both cold and hot, can be used to clean wounds, or help during the birth. Milk buckets are source of resources for bones, and they wear down potion effects. If you're an alchemist it is always a good thing to keep some milk buckets with you.

Bread - Bread is most basic and easy to make food. It is prepared by baking grinded wheat. It is quite good at keeping you up for few days, as long as it stays fresh. Also, wet bread after few hours of lying gets covered in fungus. Bread covered with it when put on wound seme to desinfect the wound.

End of this short chapter 3. Next section will talk about things that do not fall under any category listed above.

[Aren Whitestorm 65]

Other

This section will talk about items with medical uses that do not fall under any of the 3 categories above.

Gunpowder - I know little of it, although I know it is an explosive/flammable powder. It might be useful when a wound needs to be burnt out. No other uses or sources known.

Mushrooms - Those are quite good source of food. You mix red and brown mushrooms in equal proportions, mix them in a bowl, heat it up slightly, and you get very resourceful soup. Some say that mushroom paste is a good trigger for increased healing speed.

Water - Even though how simple and common it is, certain types of water are beneficial. For example, water streams gonig through the

cave often get minerals out of rocks, what makes it really healthy to drink. In lava and sulphur rich areas goes quite stinky, but very relaxing water, ceising pain and bringing relax. It is more commonly known as hot spring. Another healthy water is the one coming from mountaintops, from snow and long-hold deposits of ice.

- Water can be determinated how healthy it is based on what types of animals live in it. If you want further identification, use abook containing animal descriptions and the surroundings they live in, if there is one.

Thi is end of 'Aegian Healing Compedium'. I might expan it in the futur, if there will be worth mentioning addition. I hope whoever reads this book will put it to a good use.

Kamees, 26th Of The First Seed, 1345

[Etienne Harken 11]

A quality piece of literature, but, a few suggestions may be in order. Firstly, vines are only poisonous when consumed raw. As someone who lives on a daily basis partialy plant-like, covered in vaugely sentient vines, I've unlocked their secrets. Mostly, when baked very lightly, they can be mixed with a light mushroom salve (which is crafted with reduced mushrooms, ale, and a sprig of clover) to create a painkiller. Also, sugar cane reduced down, and mixed with a squeezed red mushroom can be a potent painkiller, but should not be used to a great excess, due to its liability to increase chance of heart attacks.

[Cosmik 220]

((If you were to make ig copies of the final draft, I'm sure a few people would buy it - myself included.))

[Aren Whitestorm 65]

(Bump) I have resumed working on this book, expect it to be finished soon.

[Arkelos 1027]

((I would love to buy a book as Syrila, she plans on becoming a medic, using other things then her weak magic that drains her physically and mentally. She would view this book as a godsend))

[Lexperiments 18]

Motsham Lex'Lur, while being able to heal with magic, knows it won't always work and takes a good look at this. He copies it down into a book, then continues walking.

((Great info, it'll be really useful.))

[Twilight Druid 188]

((try flogging it at the druids grove))

[Aren Whitestorm 65]

-bump-

[Aren Whitestorm 65]

The Compedium is now in form of a book, 39 pages.

[CosmicWhaleShark 2488]

Where can I find it?

[steelersfan1221 300]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.