#resource: ja

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note 2 self:

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useful link (7 herbs)

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today i was bored in biology (I had time after the test) and started looking up stuff about salves and poultices and herby healing and stuff. gwenna has made salves in her time, and jem obviously makes them up regularly. anyway, here are just some notes for myself

plaintain (not the banana) is a winner apparently. antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal. good for bites, stings, eczema, psoriasis, poison ivy/oak/sumac, sunburn, rashes, cuts... [x] [x]

can also be made into a tea, which helps with heartburn/indigestion 

needs to be used dried, so that works for Nore setting, seeing as though it wouldn't be growing, and would probably be imported from elsewhere. Sol, i suppose? everything comes from Sol lmao. but yeah no needs to be dry. so that works

olive oil is a pretty core ingredient in most salves. i was thinking about this - olive oil has been around since forever, and grindy olive press things too have been kickin for ages upon ages. at first i was like, shit man, olive oil would be expensive as fuck if it was imported, but it was also such a massive part of medieval cooking apparently. and then i was like, well duh zip, they probably just grow a shit ton of olives off in sol or something and then import them to sell locally in nore. then probably someone makes oil. and rolls in $$$

honeycomb. honeycomb, man. this is hard. this is a tough one. but its an important ingredient, esp. powdered. i imagine you might be able to buy powdered or raw honeycomb off traders, BUT, i reckon it'd be seriously expensive. there's the harvesting -- which can't be particularly safe -- and then importing and its like. lmao. how. but like

tumeric. im gonna guess that tumeric would be a southern isles thing so im gonna take another guess and say that it'd have to go through sol...first...? deserts even? somewhere beyond the deserts? anyway. if you manage to get your hands on it in nore, i think it'd probably cost you a ton. but shit man, it has a lot of uses. 

sprinkle powdered turmeric onto a clean minor cut or scrape, cover with a bandage. antibacterial

shit, even arthritis. anti-inflammatory. but u have to swallow it, and like 400mg a day. 

one tsp powder with milk works as a general whole-body helper. this same mix can also be used with a compress

comfrey is pretty solid. good for poultices and salves. you snip them into a dish, then like boil water over them, mash it up, let it cool, then spread it over the site and cover with bandages. as a salve, bruises, cuts, scrapes, joint and muscle pain.

this site is fantastic.

lemon balm is another versatile herb and i think jem's already used it (?) in eir tea thingy. or maybe that was lemongrass. lemongrass? fuck, i don't remember. one of the two. anyway, unlike comfrey and plantain, it's better for stuff like insomnia, menstrual pains, headaches, colds and flu, fever, digestive ills, even working to calm some anxiety down. it can be made into tea, hot water infusions, tinctures, poultices. [x]

interesting! apparently lemon balm wine shared between two friends is said to have, in folklore, powers to bring about love.  lemon balm in general encourages success, love, healing, and people used to carry a few sprigs around, which is cute as hell.

lemon balm grows throughout summer and into autumn. i imagine it'd grow in sol. god, nore really relies on sol regarding herbs, fruit, vegetables...most plant matter i guess, or whatever can't be grown throughout winter. cattle, even, wouldn't be a go because they need to graze, man, they need to graze. so, dairy would pretty much just be goats. 

i wonder if salves would be available ready made. i suppose they would. i wonder if it'd be cheaper to buy them as they are? maybe in some cases. depends on ingredients and quantity. but i think the more of it is made, the harder it would be to transport, so the price would go up. gee

i think im thinking about this too much

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