-- There are many medicinal plants on Pern, below is a short list of some of them and what they are used for.

*Adonis - Used for heart palpitations.

*Alfalfa - Used as a tea for the stomach, diuretic.

*Aloe - Used on burns.

*Ash tree - Bark is used as a diuretic.

*Asparagus - Used to stave off drunkedness. Part of the 'killer cure' for hangovers.

*Barley - Used as a tea to combat symptoms of cystis.

*Basil - Used as an antispasmodic.

*Borage - Used as a cooking herb and for coughs.

*Box - Used as a diaphoretic.

*Comfrey - Used for burns and coughs.

*Cucumber - Used for burns.

*FeatherFern - Used to relieve fever.

*Fellis Tree - Used as a narcotic painkill that can be addictive.

*Garlic - Used for high blood pressure, a cold remedy and as a pallative.

*Glovecap - Used as a anodyne.

*Grass - The heart of the plant can be dried and ground into a power that is good for fever, esp Firehead.

*Hissop - Used for coughs. It's said that a winecupfull a day keeps off respitory problems, such as croup.

*Hops - Used as a anaodyne.

*Hex - Used to treat pneumonia.

*Lovage - Used for coughs.

*Needlethorn - Used as syringe for injections and to draw blood.

*Nettleweed - Used as a tonic.

*Numbweed - Used to numb pain. To prepare the salve, it requires 3 days of stewing, then 1 day to strain it, and the juice skimmed to the right consistency for the salve.

*Pink Root - Used for bellyache.

*Red willow Salic - Used as an analgesic.

*Redwort - Used as a scrubbing/cleansing agent (disinfectant?) and also for infection.

*Tansy - Used as a tonic, relieves heart palpitations.

*Tarragon - Used as a medicinal herb.

*Thymus - Used for coughs on runners as well as Humans.

*Tussilago - Used for coughs.

*Vines - When it's leaves are bruised, it releases a sap that will neutralize insect stings.

*White bulb - Used as a febrifuge.

*White thorn - Used as an anodyne and to relieve heart palpitations.

*Willow - Used as a tea to keep arthritis under control. Used with sage and wintergreen as a tea for headaches. Willowsalic is used for headache in a crystal-likeform.

*Wintergreen - Used in combination with sage and willow as a headache tea.

*Witch hazel - Used on burns.

*Yarrow - Used for acne.

All of the above information was found at: http://www.io.com/~fantasy/misc/plants.html thanks to Della for providing this list.

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