-This herb is easily identified by its long feathery stalks, clustering together to form a shape that looks like the top of a broom. The herb grows in well ariated ground, often found on plains in temperate zones at the end of the summer season. If the tips of the plant are green, then it is past its prime. The herb may be dried and stored for up to three years before losing its potency.
-A vile substance indeed, this herb is best destroyed upon being found, indeed to be found in one's possession is a crime that will get you a Tower warrant for your arrest. Know it by its slightly bitter scent, in powdered form it is mainly green with speckels of red from the crushed and dried berries.
-One of the more popular contraceptive teas, used by women of the Tear and Mayene regions mostly. The plant itself is characterized by its heartshaped leaves veined with light blue. If the roots of the plant are creamy it is ready to be hearvested, if they are plum it is past its prime. Use caution when making the tea itself, for too much will render a woman permeantly infertile. A handfull the size of a childs fist should be mixed with two pounds of standard tea.
-This herb is easily identified by its brilliant orange blossoms with their heady spicey scent. Used as an herb to flavor food in Bearlon for centuries, it also can be used in pultices to aid in the healing of burns.
-It is very important to wear thick gloves when drying and powdering this root, as well as a cloth mask to keep the dust from your lungs. This pale green root with black tips must be harvested in Choren from the edges of the great Handon Mirk. Once powdered, take just a pinch and twist it up tight into a small bit of clean black muslin. The powder can then be injested by adults only to aid in sleeping, for children it would be fatal.
-Long used by the single women of Arafel as a decoration for their hair during Bel Tine to signal their single status, the petals of this flower are pratcial as well as beautiful. Harvested during the spring, these petals can be used to encourage fertility in men if they are eaten once a month when the moon is at its fullest.
-A gentle, if bitter, tea that can be used by even the most sensitive of stomaches to purge the system of mild food poisioning and cramping. Sold around the world it is grown in vast tremalking orchards around Andor.
-Boil the roots down to a gummy paste and place it into a sealed clay jar to ferment for three months. After this point a thimble full of this tincture will heal sores in the mouth and throat caused by infection. The root itself is most usually found in mountainous terrain.
-Small, round, and black with a slightly bitter yet distinct odor, these beans are still being explored by the Yellow Ajah. We believe that they originate from the homeland of the Seanchan. Certain members of the Brown Ajah have developed a taste for the bitter tea brewed from these beans.
-Found in the depths of the muggy Handon Mirk, these berries grow best beneath the enormous bows of old trees. When the berries turn from solid pink to a white speckeled maroon, they are ready to be hearvested. To get the most effect from them, it is best if they are eaten fresh. They have been used by the healers of Tear and Mayene for centuries to treat for heart problems.
-Use this herb with extreme caution. Before allowing a patient to eat a honey coated section of this herb, take a small bit of the juice and place it upon the patients wrist. If swelling occures do NOT allow the patient to eat this root. It has been used for generations by the people of Amadicia and the Two Rivers area to rid the body of intestinal worms, and as such the people have built up a resistance to the subtle poisions of the root. Outsiders may expiernce an allergic reaction resulting in a swelling of the intestines and eventuall death.
-As lovely to eat as they are to look upon, these soft pink flowers grow on the Isle of Jafar. Best if picked fresh and then eaten either alone or in a salad to help clear up acne and cleanse the breath.
-DANGER! These berries are a deadly strong poision and to be avoided at all costs. The soliders of Mayene grind up the berries into a poisionous paste to be used to coat their swords and arrows. Even the most shallow of cuts often lead to a long and horrible death.
-Gathered from the hives of Saldaea, this royal bee honey sooths even the most troubeled tummy. Best used to make other herbal teas and remidies pallatable to those with sensitive tongues and to children.
-This ivy is best picked fresh from the Hills of Kintara. It is often found growing up the sides of pine trees, for it thrives in the acidic soil. While the leaves are still fresh, grind them into a paste to be used on wounds and sores to aid in the staving off of infections.
-Willow Bark tea has long been used to bring down fevers and to sooth ulcers. It is important that when you harvest this bark that you do not kill the tree from whence it came, only take a little bit at a time and avoid taking from the same tree more than once every five years.
-You will not find a good wife's kitchen without this important herb in it. It is grown all over the world in almost every garden, an herb whose qualities range from soothing headaches, to numbing pain.
