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You recognize quite a few of the plants. A bundle of willow bark and a jar of poppy seeds, to reduce pain. Dried jewelweed leaves, for cuts. Cattail roots, for burns. Feverfew and meadowsweet for colds. Sage to sharpen the mind. Yarrow to cure poison. Violets for sore throat. Nothing odd.

The mistletoe, dried oleander leaves, leaves from the yew tree, holly berries, and the basket of thorn-apples and rhubarb are...less than normal. Mistletoe can cause instant death, as can yew and oleander. Rhubarb is not a medicinal plant, and this is not a kitchen.

The little book contains instructions on far more than simple poultices. Instructions for distilling poisons are also scripted into that innocuous little red book. Twelve black lotus petals, crushed, strained, and boiled in a cold iron vessel for forty-eight hours creates a single dose of extremely potent poison that soaks through the skin into the blood, causing instant death.

Rhubarb leaves can be substituted for terinav roots; reverse-boil the a pound of leaves or half a pound of roots in a blue ice jar, crush into powder, let it sit for a day and night, and let add enough fresh thorn-apple juice so that it becomes a thick paste.

And that's just what you can see on the two pages the book is open to.