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concoctive) wrote2024-05-24 07:41 pm
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In the earliest recordings of the Language of Flowers, foxgloves symbolized riddles, conundrums, and secrets, but by the Victorian era they had devolved into the more negative symbol of insincerity. Foxgloves give us digitalin, a glysoside used to treat heart disease, and this powerful plant has been used for heart tonics since Celtic and Roman times. However, the plant is poisonous if consumed directly, and can cause a number of health problems.
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Tetanus? [ lmao ] Most boiling will clear stuff up in water, but at least my flower crown had yarrow in it. It's good for astringents. Maybe someone has stuff for detoxifying water.
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There's... not another way to do it? I mean, you wanna use the right berries, otherwise you're gonna be having the shits for days if not something worse. But that's how we apothecaries do things.
Which, the least they could've done is let me keep all my concoctions if they were gonna do this to us.
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Pretty sure there's machines and such that make 'em now.
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... this is gonna be like speakers, ain't it. We don't have machines for making medicine, that's why we got apothecaries with their medicines and clerics with their healing magic.
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Oh, are you from somewhere more... [ slight pause. um. ] -- Rural?
[ completely ignoring the healing magic thing ]
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Backwater as backwater can be, at least in the Riverlands. I'm kinda getting used to nobody knowing where that is, though.
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Y'know, I guess that's fair. Riverlands, Cliftlands, Woodlands, Coastlands... Frostlands, Flatlands... man, we really went with a real dumb naming theme, huh.
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Shucks, I grew up in Clearbrook, and it's got brooks and streams and rivers all around it. Not real creative. Figure Flamesgrace probably got named that because that's where the main cathedral of the Church of the Sacred Flame is.
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