marshmerrow is not only a sweet treat, but also a well-known analgesic. workers (including slaves) often chew on stalks of marshmerrow to ease the strain of effort as they work, and a common childhood remedy for colds, growing pains, and simple scrapes and bruises is a simple bowl of saltrice porridge imbued with marshmerrow oil.
but what the parents administering this dish don't know is that it's not just a folk remedy, but actual alchemy. it's not far off from the typical healing potion a temple healer might give you for more severe ailments and injuries, albeit far less concentrated and potent. one of the first things novice alchemists in morrowind learn is the combination of common saltrice with analgesic marshmerrow to create a healing salve. but the knowledge is also an ancestral knowing passed down through the peasantry from as far back as the old velothi days, prior to the establishment of the great houses.
