Herbalism Tranquilizer/Sedative, Stimulants, and Antiseptics

Tranquilizers/Sedatives

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

Name: Chamomille
Type: Tranquilizer/Sedative
Required Herbalism Level: 15
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 1 post
Primary Effect: Decreases Strength and Agility by 5
Other Effect: None
Additional Details: Treats sleeplessness, anxiety, and gastrointestinal conditions such as upset stomach
Counters effect of: Stimulant
Counter with: Stimulant
Found: It often grows near roads, around landfills, and in cultivated fields as a weed, because the seeds require open soil to survive.
Physical Description: part of the Daisy family… he loves me, he loves me not.  White petals and a yellow center.
Part(s) Used: flower and stem


Name: Jamaica dogwood
Type: Tranquilizer/Sedative
Required Herbalism Level: 40
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 3 posts
Primary Effect: 1st post decreases stamina by 15
Other Effect: last 2 posts are of unconsciousness
Additional Details: Also treats pain, insomnia and anxiety
Counters effect of: Stimulant
Counter with: Stimulant
Found: It prefers well-drained sandy soils, with a top layer of humus.  The tree has some tolerance to short-term storm surges of brackish water or seawater. Although it grows in coastal conditions, the tree is usually protected from direct salt spray by adjoining vegetation. Established trees are highly tolerant of drought. It’s sensitive to the cold.
Physical description: tree attains medium size with heights of 12 to 15 m and bole diameters of 46 to 118 cm. An irregular, open crown develops with stout, erect branches.  Its deciduous leaves (9 to 23 cm long) are alternate and pinnately compound. Five to 11 leaflets (each 4 to 8 cm long) are present in an opposite arrangement. Leaflets are dark green above and distinctly paler grayish-green below with pubescence.  The white flowers are tinged with red or pink.  They appear in pea-like clusters.  Stem bark is thin and olive gray in color with irregular dark patches and many smaller scales
Part(s) Used: Leaves

Name: Belladonna – Tranquilizer/Sedative
Type: Tranquilizer/Sedative
Required Herbalism Level: 55
Posts to take effect: 1 posts
Duration of effect: 4 posts
Primary Effect: 1st post decreases Strength and Agility by 10, 2nd post both are decreased again by another 10 and Weapon or Hand to Hand by 10
Other Effect: last two posts are of unconsciousness
Additional Details: This herb is also a poison and requires a triple dose of water to dilute enough to not be poisonous.  The name itself means "beautiful woman"
Counters effect of: Stimulant
Counter with: Stimulant
Found: Found under the shade of trees, on wooded hills, on chalk or limestone, it will grow most luxuriantly, forming bushy plants several feet high, but specimens growing in places exposed to the sun are apt to be dwarfed.  
Physical description: The root is thick, fleshy and whitish, about 6 inches long, or more, and branching. It is perennial. The purplish-colored stem is annual and herbaceous. It is stout, 2 to 4 feet high, undivided at the base, but dividing a little above the ground into three - more rarely two or four branches, each of which again branches freely. The leaves are dull, darkish green in color and of unequal size, 3 to 10 inches long, the lower leaves solitary, the upper ones in pairs alternately from opposite sides of the stem, one leaf of each pair much larger than the other, oval in shape, acute at the apex, entire and attenuated into short petioles.
Part(s) used: Roots, leaves, tops


Name: Kava – Tranquilizer/Sedative
Type: Tranquilizer/Sedative
Required Herbalism Level: 80
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 6 posts
Primary Effect: 1st post decreases Strength and Stamina by 20, 2nd post decreases Weapon or Hand to Hand by 20
Other Effect: Last 4 posts are of unconsciousness
Additional Details: Also a poison: needs a triple dose of water to dilute enough to not be poisonous.
Counters effect of: Stimulant
Counter with: Stimulant
Found: usually grow in a shady, damp area. Best grown on tropical mountains
Physical Description: A shrub several feet high with large leaves that look almost like lily pads, with very short axillary spikes of flowers, stem is spotted
Part(s) Used: root’s bulb

Name: Reserpine
Type: Tranquilizer/Sedative
Required Herbalism Level: 90
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 7 posts
Primary Effect: 1st post decreases Magic by 20 and Stamina by 30, 2nd post decreases both by an additional 10, 3rd post decreases both by an additional 10
Other Effect: Last 4 posts are of unconsciousness
Additional Details: Also causes inability to complete tasks and mental depression
Counters effect of: Stimulant
Counter with: Stimulant
Found: Moist forests shady places near rain-forest
Physical Description: An erect perennial shrub with a long, irregularly, nodular, yellowish root stock.  The leaves are in whorls of 3, thin, lanceolate, acute, bright green above and pale beneath.  The flowers are in irregular corymbose cymes, white, often tinged with violet.  The fruit is a drupe, single or didymous, shining black, the inflorescence with red pedicels and calyx and white corolla.
Part(s) Used: Roots and Leaves

Stimulant

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

Name: Khat
Type: Stimulant
Required Herbalism Level: 30
Posts to take effect: Effective Immediately
Duration of effect: 2 posts
Primary Effect: increases Agility, Weapon, and Hand to Hand by 10
Other Effect: none
Additional Details: Very mild Stimulant
Counters effect of: Tranquilizer/Sedative
Counter with: Tranquilizer/Sedative
Found: Grows in hot wet areas.
Physical Description:  Khat is a slow-growing shrub or tree that grows to between 1.4 m and 3.1 m tall, depending on region and rainfall. It has evergreen leaves 5–10 cm long and 1–4 cm broad. The flowers are produced on short axillary cymes 4–8 cm long. Each flower is small, with five white petals. The fruit is an oblong three-valved capsule containing 1–3 seeds
Part(s) Used: Leaves

Name: Ephedra – Stimulant
Type: Stimulant
Required Herbalism Level: 70
Posts to take effect: 1 post
Duration of effect: 5 posts
Primary Effect: Increases stamina and agility by 30
Other Effect: Also a poison – See ‘Ephedra – Poison’
Additional Details: Needs a triple dose of water to dilute enough to not be poisonous.
Counters effect of: Tranquilizer/Sedative
Counter with: Tranquilizer/Sedative
Found: grow in dry climates over wide areas, also in temperate climates, most Ephedra species grow on shores or in sandy soils with direct sun exposure.
Physical Description: An evergreen Shrub growing to 1ft 4in.  Fruit has two carpels with a single seed in each and is a succulent cone, branches slender and erect, small leaves, scale-like, articulated and joined at the base into a sheath
Part(s) Used: leaves, stems, and fruit

Antiseptic

Coat a weapon with a 50/50 mixture of crushed herb and water, or Crush herb into a poultice, apply directly onto effected skin.

Name: Lavender
Type: Antiseptic
Required Herbalism Level: 25
Posts to take effect: Effective immediately
Duration of effect: N/A for antiseptic.  Calm lasts 3 posts
Primary Effect: Used as an antiseptic to clean.  To replace herbs on weapons or in their containers when a new one is available, can only clean off remnants of herbs from levels 15-50.  Also can be used to clean hands before or after handling a wound.
Other Effect: Aroma induces a calming effect
Negative Effect: If used on a weapon, causes damage of 1/10 the Weapon's rating rounded up to the nearest whole number UNLESS used with a 50/50 mixture of Tea Tree Oil.
Additional Details: None
Counters effect of: N/A
Counter with: N/A
Found: Dry grassy slopes amongst rocks, in exposed, usually parched, hot rocky situations often on calcareous soils
Physical Description: a strongly aromatic shrub growing as high as 3.3 to 6.6 ft. tall. The leaves are evergreen, 0.79–2.4 in long, and 0.16–0.24 in broad. The flowers are pinkish-purple (lavender-colored), produced on spikes 0.79–3.1 in long at the top of slender, leafless stems 3.9–12 in long.
Part(s) Used: Flowers and Leaves

Name: Tea tree oil
Type: Antiseptic Boost
Required Herbalism Level: 55
Posts to take effect: Effective immediately
Duration of effect: N/A
Primary Effect: Used to help an antiseptic to clean.  To replace herbs on weapons or in their containers when a new one is available. Tea Tree Oil, mixed 50/50 with Lavender or Oregano, stops the damage to weapons.
Other Effect: None
Additional Details: antibacterial and antifungal agent
Counters effect of: N/A
Counter with: N/A
Found: along streams of swamps by the coast
Physical Description: Leaves are linear, 10–35 mm long and 1 mm wide. White flowers occur in spikes 3–5 cm long. Small woody, cup-shaped fruit are 2–3 mm in diameter
Part(s) Used: Leaves and twigs

Name: Oregano
Type: Antiseptic
Required Herbalism Level: 75
Posts to take effect: Effective Immediately for primary, 2 for Other, and 3 for side-effect
Duration of effect: N/A for primary, 3 for other, N/A for side-effect
Primary Effect: Used as an antiseptic to clean.  To replace herbs on weapons or in their containers when a new one is available, can only clean off remnants of herbs from levels 50-100.  Also can be used to clean hands before or after handling a wound.
Other Effect: A cure for stomach, respiratory ailments, and as a pain reliever for sore throat
Negative Effect: If used on a weapon, causes damage of 1/10 the Weapon's rating rounded up to the nearest whole number UNLESS used with a 50/50 mixture of Tea Tree Oil.
Additional Details: side-effect: may cause misscarriage
Counters effect of: N/A
Counter with: N/A
Found: It prefers a hot, relatively dry climate, but will do well in other environments: dry grassy areas and scrub.  Suitable for sandy, loamy and clay soils, prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It prefers dry or moist soil. The plant can tolerate strong winds but not maritime exposure.  
Physical Description: Oregano is a perennial growing to 20 inches, with purple flowers and spade-shaped, olive-green leaves
Part(s) Used: Leaves and Stems