Calling herb-geeks, take two
Nov. 17th, 2005 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo here I am in chapter 18 of my book. My poor hero is wounded, but nobly soldiering on, and he's just made an emergency stop at his family home to have an Extremely Awkward Conversation with his mother to hit her up for help and vitally needed information. Mom, seeing that her boy has suffered a rather nasty wound, has not let him take off again without stuffing something he can use to take care of himself in his saddlebags. My question for the herbally inclined on my Friends list is, therefore, what might she give her boy, and how should he use it? Taken orally, or maybe mashed up into a poultice?
Pertinent bits of data for those of you not familiar with Lament of the Dove:
1) Assume a general technology/cultural level roughly equivalent to the late 1700's in real life, although the book is set in my own world. Similar levels of herbal and medical knowledge/awareness should therefore apply.
2) My boy's got a nasty wound in the chest that has been already partially magically healed and also tended by a village doctor who knew what she was doing.
3) Since the aforementioned doctor was being leaned on to give my boy too much laudanum, he's really cranky about taking anything that would overly muddle his wits. He's on a vital mission and needs to keep functional. This means pain control but not any more reduction in mental clarity than absolutely necessary.
4) My boy is a member of a holy Order that also involves military training, so it can be assumed that he knows how to dress his own wound if he needs to.
As with my last question of this nature, this is something that I'm likely to hit only as a passing brief detail, but it's something I'd like to get right. :) Thanks in advance for any useful cluage, folks!
Pertinent bits of data for those of you not familiar with Lament of the Dove:
1) Assume a general technology/cultural level roughly equivalent to the late 1700's in real life, although the book is set in my own world. Similar levels of herbal and medical knowledge/awareness should therefore apply.
2) My boy's got a nasty wound in the chest that has been already partially magically healed and also tended by a village doctor who knew what she was doing.
3) Since the aforementioned doctor was being leaned on to give my boy too much laudanum, he's really cranky about taking anything that would overly muddle his wits. He's on a vital mission and needs to keep functional. This means pain control but not any more reduction in mental clarity than absolutely necessary.
4) My boy is a member of a holy Order that also involves military training, so it can be assumed that he knows how to dress his own wound if he needs to.
As with my last question of this nature, this is something that I'm likely to hit only as a passing brief detail, but it's something I'd like to get right. :) Thanks in advance for any useful cluage, folks!
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Date: 2005-12-06 05:45 pm (UTC)I don't know much more about the actual use. The leaves are about as long as the width of the hand, so they'd need to be held in place with wrappings of some kind.
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Date: 2005-12-12 12:22 am (UTC)