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==Treatment==
===The One Power===
{{Main|Healing}}
===Other forms===
For those that cannot use the One Power to Heal, there are still a wide range of herbs and other treatments. In most villages, this is the role of one woman, such as the Wisdom

==Herbs==
See also [[List of Herbs]]
===Medicinal Herbs===
;Acem
Used as a tea for head pain ({{tsr|52}})
;Andilay root
Used for fatigue ({{tdr|48}})
;Boneknit
Used to aid mending bones ({{tdr|48}})
;Blisterleaf
A herb from the Borderlands that can slow the spread of the taint from a Thakan'dar forged blade  ({{prol13}})
;Blue Goatflower
Used to aid mending bones along with boneknit ({{tdr|48}})
;Bluespine
An unpleasant tasting tea, used mostly as a punishment ({{tfoh|5}})
;Bluewort
Used as a tea for an upset stomach ({{tdr|48}})
;Chainleaf
Used as a tea for an upset stomach ({{tdr|48}})
;Corenroot
Helps make blood ({{tdr|38}})
;Dogweed
Used as a tea on  people who have been moping ({{tdr|7}})
;Dogwort
For knitting flesh  ({{tdr|38}})
;Feverbane
Used for fever ({{tdr|10}})
;Five-finger
Used with ivy and sunburst root as an ointment of bruising ({{teotw|38}})
;Flatwort tea
Used for fatigue ({{tdr|48}})
;Foxtail
Used with marasin in a tea to help sleep but not leave the person groggy ({{teotw|19}})
;Gheandin Blossom
Used powdered to treat otherwise fatal heart pains ({{tdr|48}})
;Healall
Unknown use ({{tdr|38}})
;Heartleaf
Used as a tea to prevent conception ({{wh|12}}
;Ivy
Used ground with five-finger and sunburst root as an ointment of bruising ({{teotw|38}})
;Marisin
Used with foxtail in a tea to help sleep but not leave the person groggy ({{teotw|19}})
;Marshwhite
Used as a tea for an upset stomach ({{tdr|48}})
;Rannel
Given along with sheepstongue root to people acting the fool or faking illness. It tastes unpleasant but does no harm ({{tgh|8}})
;Red Daisy
Given as a tea with sheepstongue root. It may cure headaches, or may just be used on people who complain when nothing is wrong with them ({{tfoh|13}})
;Sheepstongue Root
Given along with rannel to people acting the fool or faking illness. It tastes unpleasant but does no harm ({{tgh|8}})
;Silverleaf
Used as a tea with timsin root to cure headaches ({{tsr|34}})
;Sleepwell
;Sunburst Root
Used with ivy and sunburst root as an ointment of bruising ({{teotw|38}})
;Timsin Root
Used as a tea with silverleaf to cure headaches ({{tsr|34}})
;Whitefennel
Used to ease birthing pains in a hard birth ({{tdr|48}})
;Willowbark
Used as a tea for headpain ({{tsr|52}}) and general fever ({{tgh|14}})
;Worrynot Root
Used for fever ({{tdr|10}})

===Poisonous Herbs===
;Crimsonthorn root
A sweet tasting root that will kill, but slowly, even in large amounts, first paralysing the victim ({{acos|28}}, {{tpod|8}})
;Tarchrot Leaf
A bitter tasting poison that needs to be administered either repeatedly or in large amounts ({{tgs|32}})

==Illness==
;Black Fever
A disease that killed Artur Hawkwing's parents
;Blackbile Fever
A contagious disease ({{prol2}})
;Breakbone Fever
A disease that causes the sufferer to sweat and writhe, but will typically pass ({{teotw|21}})
;Spotted Fever
A disease that once killed eleven people in Emonds's Field ({{cot|30}})
;Yelloweye Fever
A fever that turns the irises yellow and leaves the person unable to stand ({{teotw|38}})
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