Herb list

  This is the short and simple herbal.



  It is by no means comprehensive, and is literally just the short list. The main vault has example sources for further study, should one wish. Despite this, we have provided this short reference to give an example of traditional use.

Warming Herbs

  Capsicum peppers, mustard, black and white pepper, horseradish, and ginger are examples of warming herbs. Preparations are sometimes used to draw bloodflow to the skin where applied, and capsacian ointment is one of the more common over the counter medicines globally.

Cooling Herbs

  Mint, especially peppermint, eucalyptus, and the camphor of rosemary are considereed cooling herbs.

Pain-Killing Herbs

  Willow bark, the opium poppy, kratom, and the wild prickly lettuce are all painkilling herbs, some of them dangerous. Wintergreen mint gets its minty coolness from methyl salicylate, as opposed to menthol, and also falls in this category.

Styptics

  Common yarrow (achillea millefolium) is somewhat famous for it's hemostatic effect.

Antinausea Herbs

  Ginger (zingiber officinale) exerts a powerful antinausea effect via serotonin antagonism at the 5HT3 receptor via its consitutent shoagol.

  Apple and fennel have been used, likely for its pectin and allylbenzene contents.

Sedative Herbs

  Hops and lavender are considered very potent sedatives. Chamomille has also been used.

Diarrhea

  Opium has been used to stop diarrhea. While not an herb, dirt is sometimes boiled and eaten to add bulk.

  Fibrous leaves and bran have also used to add bulk, in the hopes of solidity.

Constipation

  Consuming any vegetable oil will tend to reduce constipation, preventing adhesion while lubricating. Common buckthorn fruit (r. cathartica) and chittem/cascara bark (r. purshiana) are known as particularly violent laxatives


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