"Whistlestop Guide to Herbs" is a guide to herbs from the British Isles, where they grow, and what they have been used to treat or mis-treat.
It isn't a medical reference, and doesn't discuss dosage, effectiveness, counterindications, etc. For example, for most people, mint, basil, etc. improve digestion, but for some people, they can worsen digestion and trigger vomiting.
It doesn't include rules for treating symptoms.
It should help roleplay treating symptoms, in pre-Industrial campaigns, especially in the British Isles or elsewhere in Northern Europe.
It doesn't help roleplay poisoning, or investigating poisonings, especially since it omits deadly nightshade and foxglove.
It would be nice to include more herbs, from more regions, and to include more information about rarity, taste, effects, and side-effects.
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