Herbalism - Open Wound Care and Cause Bleeding

Open Wound Care

Coat a weapon with a 50/50 mixture of crushed herb and water, Crush herb into a poultice, apply directly onto effected skin, or make into a drink of 50/50 (hide it in strong flavored food or drink).  Only need a teaspoon ingested to be effective (ingestion takes one extra post for effect).  Can be inhaled in the form of smoke (takes one extra post for effect)

Name: Papaya
Type: Open wound care
Required Herbalism Level: 15
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 1 post
Primary Effect: Stops 2 points of bleeding damage per post
Other Effect: None
Additional Details: None.
Counters effect of: Bleeding damage
Counter with: N/A
Found: in tropical areas
Physical Description: The papaya is a large, tree-like plant, with a single stem growing from 16 to 33 ft. tall, with spirally arranged leaves confined to the top of the trunk. The lower trunk is conspicuously scarred where leaves and fruit were borne. The leaves are large, 20–28in in diameter, deeply palmately lobed, with seven lobes.  The flowers are similar in shape to the flowers of the Plumeria, but are much smaller and wax-like. They appear on the axils of the leaves, maturing into large fruit - 5.9–18in long and 3.9–12in in diameter. The fruit is ripe when it feels soft and its skin has attained an amber to orange hue.
Part(s) Used: Fruit

Name: Marigold
Type: Open Wound Care
Required Herbalism Level: 35
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 2 posts
Primary Effect: Stops 4 points of bleeding damage per post
Other Effect: Sooths skin: Treats 2 points of physical damage of the skin from non-bleeding wounds like burns, frostbite, etc.
Additional Details: None
Counters effect of: Bleeding damage
Counter with: N/A
Found: will thrive in full sun, fertile soil and cool weather, but will bloom satisfactorily in all conditions except deep shade and extreme heat.
Physical Description: short-lived aromatic herbaceous perennial, growing to 31 in tall, with sparsely branched lax or erect stems. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, 2–7 in long, hairy on both sides, and with margins entire or occasionally waved or weakly toothed. The flower head is 4–7 cm diameter surrounded by two rows of hairy bracts.  An intense orange-yellow color. The flowers may appear all year long where conditions are suitable
Part(s) Used: flower and leaves

Name: Broadleaf plantain
Type: Open wound care
Required Herbalism Level: 55
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 4 posts
Primary Effect: Stops 5 points of bleeding damage per post
Other Effect: Doubles the effect of other Open Wound Care herbs if they are used as a poultice placed on a Broadleaf placed on the wound. Doubles the points not the posts.
Additional Details: A poultice of the leaves can be applied to wounds, stings, and sores in order to facilitate healing and prevent infection. The active chemical constituents are aucubin (an anti-microbial agent), allantoin (which stimulates cellular growth and tissue regeneration), and mucilage (which reduces pain and discomfort)
Counters effect of: Bleeding damage
Counter with: N/A
Found: Grows in lawns and fields, along roadsides, and in other areas with that have been disturbed by humans. Plantain does particularly well in compacted or disturbed soils.
Physical Description: A perennial plant with a rosette of leaves 15–30 cm in diameter.  Each leaf is oval-shaped, 5–20 cm long and 4–9 cm broad, with an acute apex and a smooth margin. The flowers are small, greenish-brown with purple stamens, produced in a dense spike 5–15 cm long on top of a stem 13–15 cm tall (rarely to 70 cm tall)
Part(s) Used: leaves

Name: Horsetail
Type: Open wound care
Required Herbalism Level: 75
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 6 posts
Primary Effect: Stops 7 points of bleeding damage per post
Other Effect: None
Additional Details: Used to stop bleeding, heal ulcers and wounds, and treat tuberculosis and kidney problems. Can be a throat irritant if brewed improperly.
Counters effect of: Bleeding damage
Counter with: N/A
Found: native throughout the arctic and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere.
Physical Description: 2 types of stems: the sterile stems are 10–90 cm tall and 3–5 mm diameter, with jointed segments around 2–5 cm long with whorls of side shoots at the segment joints; the side shoots have a diameter of about 1 mm. Some stems can have as many as 20 segments. The fertile stems are succulent-textured, off-white, 10–25 cm tall and 3–5 mm diameter, with 4–8 whorls of brown scale leaves, and an apical brown spore cone 10–40 mm long and 4–9 mm broad
Part(s) Used: Leaves and stems

Name: Purple coneflower
Type: Open wound care
Required Herbalism Level: 95
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 7 posts
Primary Effect: Stops 7 points of bleeding damage per post
Other Effect: Treats 2 points of infection per post
Additional Details: Also used for cold and flu.
Counters effect of: Bleeding and infection damage
Counter with: N/A
Found: Dry open woods, prairies and barrens
Physical Description: 47in tall by 20in wide at maturity. Depending on the climate, it blooms throughout spring and summer.  Its cone-shaped flowering heads are usually, but not always, purple in the wild
Part(s) Used: Leaves and Flower

Cause Bleeding

Coat a weapon with a 50/50 mixture of crushed herb and water.

Name: Ginger – Cause Bleeding
Type: Cause Bleeding
Required Herbalism Level: 25
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 1 post
Primary Effect: causes 2 points of bleeding damage per post
Other Effect: None
Additional Details: Slows clotting.  Requires a 4:1 ratio of Herb:Water (not a 50/50, that would work as a cure)
Counters effect of: N/A
Counter with: Open Wound Care
Found: Grows in filtered sunlight, warm weather, humidity, and rich, moist soil.  
Physical Description: Ginger produces clusters of white and pink flower buds that bloom into yellow flowers. Because of its aesthetic appeal and the adaptation of the plant to warm climates, ginger is often used as landscaping around subtropical homes. It is a perennial reed-like plant with annual leafy stems, about a meter (3 to 4 feet) tall
Part(s) Used: Root

Name: Peony
Type: Cause Bleeding
Required Herbalism Level: 45
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 2 posts
Primary Effect: Causes 4 points of bleeding damage per post
Other Effect: None
Additional Details:  Slows clotting
Counters effect of: N/A
Counter with: Open Wound Care
Found: Coniferous woods, rocky hillsides amongst shrubs and in dry steppe grassland.  Forest margins and clearings
Physical Description: Most are perennial plants 1.5 - 5 feet tall, but some resemble trees up to 5 - 10 feet tall. They have compound, deeply lobed leaves, and large, often fragrant flowers, ranging from red to white or yellow,
Part(s) Used: Leaves and flowers

Name: Ginkgo biloba
Type: Cause Bleeding
Required Herbalism Level: 65
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 4 posts
Primary Effect: causes 5 points of bleeding damage per post
Other Effect: None
Additional Details: Slows clotting
Counters effect of: N/A
Counter with: Open Wound Care
Found: It grows on rich sandy soils.  It cannot grow in the shade. It prefers dry or moist soil and can tolerate drought
Physical Description: Ginkgo trees can sometimes live for as long as 2,000 years and can reach heights of over 100 feet. They are extremely hardy.  The trees have medium sized fan-shaped leaves that can be made into a medicinal ginkgo extract
Part(s) Used: Leaves

Name: Dan Shen
Type: Cause Bleeding
Required Herbalism Level: 85
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 6 posts
Primary Effect: causes 7 points of bleeding damage per post
Other Effect: None
Additional Details: Causes excessive anticoagulation and bleeding
Counters effect of: N/A
Counter with: Open Wound Care
Found: it grows at 300 to 3,900 ft. elevation, preferring grassy places in forests, hillsides, and along stream banks
Physical Description: A perennial with branching stems that are 0.98 to 2ft. tall, with widely spaced leaves that are both simple and divided. The 0.98 ft. inflorescences are covered with hairs and sticky glands. Flowers grow in whorls, with light purple to lavender blue corollas that are approximately 0.082 ft. long, with a dark purple calyx.
Part(s) Used: Root