Snaeha Datura's plotnotes!

[Snaeha Datura]

Short-term goals for Summer, 514AV

- Job threads, if applicable
- Hypnosis training threads (may require moderation?)
- Further interest in Ionu, with the aim of attaining his gnosis.

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[Snaeha Datura]

Helpful plants to know!

Midwife miracle :

Midwife miracle. The plant gets its name from its ability, in many forms, to grant relief from many pregnancy-related ailments. L2 herbalism to identify and harvest.

Fauxsil :

Frequency: Uncommon, Locale: Marshlands and Riverbanks, Harvest Type: Perennial, Cost: 5 cm/oz of dried or fresh leaves or flowers. Fauxsil is a fernlike weed with small hollow stalks. It’s seed fronds and leaves cluster in trios along the stalk. Its leaves and stalks are commonly eaten as a leafy snack like lettuce but it’s most often used as an infusion to help with sleep. The effects are very calming. L1 herbalism to identify and harvest.

Vyfox :

Frequency: Common, Locale: Any Temperate Lowlands, Forests and Marshlands, Harvest Type: Perennial, Cost: 5 cm/ comb of flowers (roughly 1/10oz of flowers if crushed) or 1 oz dry leaf. Vyfox is an erect plant of slight stems with long, lance-shaped leaves formed of hundreds of tinier leaves. It has small white flowers that grow in flat combs and clusters atop the herb. Vyfox is known as a natural antiseptic and coagulant.

Heldrog :

Frequency: Uncommon, Locale: Temperate Forests and Marshlands, Harvest Type: Biennial, Cost: 15 sm/oz of juice or per 4 oz of dried leaves and roots. Heldrog has a rather distasteful smell similar to that of rotting fruit. Heldrog is an erect plant with a smooth woody stalk. Its leaves are feathery with tiny white flowers. Its juices are normally highly diluted and used by philterers in salves or mixed in wine to serve as a sedative

Lidgefar :

Frequency: Uncommon, Locale: Temperate Fields, Harvest Type: Annual, Cost: 7 sm/oz of dried or fresh flowers or 1/8 oz dried seeds or seed powder. Lidgefar grows up to three feet tall with tiny oblong leaves and pink to purple blossoms present through the summer that lead to flattened black seeds by autumn. Lidgefar flowers are abundant and attractive enough that they are often used for decoration. The flowers and seeds are also used in a variety of forms to aid in helping blood clot thus serving well in treating wounds. L2 herbalism to identify and harvest.

Hommos :

Frequency: Common, Locale: Temperate, Harvest Type: Perennial, Cost: 5 cm/4oz of leaves or 3 bunches of flowers. Hommos is a short, shrub-like herb with a strong woodsy stalk. It grows straight and tall and has lance-shaped leaves with blue flowers. The herb flowers in summer with a dozen or more blossoms. The flowers are often used in infusions of tea to help with stomach pain or as gargles to sooth sore throats. They can even be soaked in baths to help body aches and pains. An herb of many uses, theflowers and roots can be boiled to make deep blue dye or dried for incense. As far as preparation, hommos is tied in bunches and dried immediately after midsummer. The leaves are usually just dried through macerating them in oil. Its blossoms and leaves are often macerated into an oil to create a dark purple oil that can be burned as a lamp oil. L2 herbalism to identify and harvest.

Delaviv :

Frequency: Uncommon, Locale: Any Temperate, Harvest Type: Annual, Cost: 5 sm/oz of dried flowers, buds or leaves and stalks. Delaviv grows only 8 inches high with square stalks and velvety round leaves. It has seed buds that bloom into tiny purple flowers in late summer. Delaviv is most often decocted into wine to ease and speed baby deliveries though the same medicines are used to aid in the flushing of poisons from the body. L1 herbalism to identify and harvest.

Calgonquit :

Frequency: Rare, Locale: Mountain Forests, Harvest Type: Biennial, Cost: 12 gm/1 oz of dried root, 20 gm for whole fresh root. Calgonquit is an ugly weed with tough roots that crawl and climb at great speed. Its dark green heart-shaped leaves have black ribs and undersides. Calgonquit can spread over a 5 foot wide area. The only useful part is its tuberous central root. When chewed, the root helps clear the mind and is especially useful in meditation. It can also be cut, dried, powdered and finds better use when dissolved in liquid. L2 herbalism to identify and harvest.

Tom :

Frequency: Common, Frequency: Any Hills and Lower Mountains, Harvest Type: Perennial, Cost: 5 cm/1oz of dried root. Tom has a strong scent and grows on slim, erect stems with long hairy saw-toothed leaves topped in summer by light red flower combs and bunches. It is most often used in teas or tonics to ease pain, aid sleep and relax aching muscles. L1 herbalism to identify and harvest.

Jile :

Frequency: Common, Locale: Temperate Forests or Hills, Harvest Type: Perennial/Evergreen, Cost: 5 cm/oz of berry juice/20 berries or 3 oz bark or twigs. Jile is an aromatic evergreen tree or shrub with green nettles smelling of pine with tiny brown to black berries all over them. The berries take two years to ripen but there are always berries of varying age present. Five berries are often taken as a fast-acting poison antidote. When decocted, berries and bark may be turned into salves to soothe skin conditions or as a wound cleanser. L1 herbalism to identify and harvest plus L1 philtering to craft a salve.

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