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| Medicines |
| of Gor |
| Bazi plague: a deadly, rapidly-spreading disease with no known cure; its symptoms include pustules which appear all over the body, and a yellowing of the whites of the eyes breeding wine: a sweet beverage which counteracts the effects of slave wine, making a slavegirl fertile; also called second wine capture scent: chloroform Dar-Kosis (lit. 'holy disease'): an incurable, wasting disease akin to the Earth disease of leprosy gieron: a drug, an allergen, which causes a yellowing of the whites of the eyes; in combination with sajel, it reproduces the symptoms of the Bazi plague kanda: a shrub of the Gorean desert; a lethal poison can be extracted from its roots, while chewing the leaves has an addictive narcotic effect kes: a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage kosis: disease needle tree: a tree of the Thentis region, whose oil is used in perfumes sajel: a drug which causes harmless pustules to erupt on the body; in combination with gieron, it reproduces the symptoms of the Bazi plague slave wine: a black, bitter beverage that acts as a contraceptive; its effect is instantaneous and lasts for well over a month; can be counter-acted with another, sweet-tasting beverage Stabilization Serums: a series of medical injections which, among other things, retards the aging process; an invention of the Priest-Kings, approved by them for use by humans; administered in 4 injections Tassa powser: a reddish powder, usually mixed with red wine, which renders the consumer unconscious telekint: a plant of the Tahari; its roots, mashed & mixed with water, provide a red dye teslik: a plant whose extract is the active ingredient in breeding wine veminium: a bluish wildflower commonly found on the lower ranges of the Thentis mountains; used in perfumes veminium, desert: small, purplish flower found in the Tahari; used in perfumes |