Medicine

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Medicine and herbs have been used by most tribes throughout both Pyrrhia and Pantala.

Known medicine and herbs

  • A Brightsting cactus
    Brightsting cactus: Its juice heals the venom of SandWing tail barbs.[1]
  • Cactus sap: Qibli mentions a cactus sap that can heal burns.[2]
  • Cobwebs: A RainWing medic was seen putting them on a shelf.[3]
  • Corpse flowers: Sundew has some plants that are described as "shiny red, mottled with yellow streaks and curved in around itself so there was a hollow in the middle and a point at one end." Sundew tells Cricket to crush it under Swordtail's nose. When she does, it emits a horrible smell that made her eyes water. It woke Swordtail up.[4] These were later identified as "Corpse flowers."[5]
  • Green plant stimulant: Cricket uses it to unfreeze Swordtail after he is paralyzed by a HiveWing nerve toxin.[6] It was light green, which Blue describes as the same color as grass[7] and was turned into emerald steam with flamesilk from a lamp, then inhaled by Swordtail. It had some unusual side effects, such as making him stronger, faster, crazier, and much more reckless.[8] It also turned his eyes and silk emerald green.[9] It is usually used to save plants that are poisoned, and makes them stronger and grow faster.[10]
  • Minty paste: The RainWings have a paste that, when dabbed on injuries, numbs them.[11]
  • Moss: Sundew has a bundle of moss that she says can "soak up an entire pond."[12] and the RainWing healers were seen storing it.[3]
  • Sleep inducing plant: Sundew has this plant in one of her pouches.[13] She had Cricket use it on some guards.
  • Smokeberries: Kinkajou took them while she had a wing injury. She stated that these berries gave her "the weirdest hallucinations".[14]
  • Swordleaf root: Helps with headaches,[15] Thorn took it.
  • Various leaves:
    • RainWing healers used leaves to soak up blood and clean Icicle's wounds.[16]
    • The RainWing healer hut was stocked with piles of medicinal leaves.[17]
    • When the Librarian is bitten by a bullet ant, Sundew gives her a few dark green leaves and tells her to chew them up and spit them on the sting area, which eases the pain and makes her tongue feel very weird.[18]

Other examples

  • Peril used her firescales to burn the venom of a dragonbite viper out of Clay's leg.
  • RainWing venom from related RainWings cancels each other out, turning the venom into a harmless gloppy black mess.
  • Tranquilizer darts are used to keep patients sleeping. The RainWings say that it comes from a certain frog, and lasts for a few hours. Similarly, humans on Pantala have a flower juice that makes people sleep during surgeries.[19]
  • When Qibli was hit by frostbreath in the arm when fighting with Winter, Thorn calls for water and hot coals to treat the injury.[20]
  • The so-called "Heart of Salvation" was thought to be the cure to the othermind, but was revealed to be the breath of evil when Sundew and Mandrake attempt to grow more of it.[21]

Known hospitals and medical centers

References

  1. The Hidden Kingdom, page 144
  2. Escaping Peril, page 129
  3. 3.0 3.1 Talons of Power, page 150
  4. The Hive Queen, page 25-26
  5. The Poison Jungle, page 166
  6. The Lost Continent, page 117-118
  7. The Lost Continent, page 114
  8. The Lost Continent, page 123
  9. The Lost Continent, page 119
  10. The Lost Continent, page 115
  11. The Hidden Kingdom, page 230-231
  12. The Hive Queen, page 23
  13. The Lost Continent, page 191
  14. Moon Rising, page 94
  15. Moon Rising, page 105
  16. Winter Turning, page 110
  17. Winter Turning, page 113
  18. The Lost Continent, page 218
  19. The Flames of Hope, prologue
  20. Darkness of Dragons, page 147
  21. The Poison Jungle, page 257
  22. Darkstalker, prologue
  23. Escaping Peril, page 134
  24. Talons of Power, page 62
  25. Talons of Power, page 77
  26. Talons of Power, page 132
  27. Talons of Power, page 268
  28. Darkstalker, page 214
  29. Talons of Power, page 159
  30. The Hidden Kingdom, page 86
  31. The Lost Continent, page 28
  32. Escaping Peril, page 184
  33. Darkness of Dragons, page 33
  34. A Guide to the Dragon World, page 203