From the writings of Peshotan, who rules in Zhrahnyābhuhmihs;

I bid the reader good health, and that they might find ways to keep it so and prevent bad health in these words. May your efforts and the Fire keep you warm and right in the world, and may these words aid in such efforts and keep your Ember ever glowing. I shall waste no more words in such prefaces, for this is for the betterment of all. Therefore, I shall start with what I know. May you and those after us add to it in time.

I start with those things in our whole region, that all who read this might benefit from it.

In All Places of the Aryatsarūn

There is an iris known to all the lands both far and wide - we have seen it everywhere. This purple-blue flower blossoms with two petals to the sides, while others remain upright, and with white or yellow streakings from the center of the petals. Know this: to eat any such flower is to cause pain within the stomach, but this may yet prove of benefit. When one finds themselves unable to relieve themselves, or having ingested some thing even worse than the iris, they may take it, and find themselves able to be relieved, or compelled to repulse the thing from within themselves.

In hemp there can be found many good things - that it alone has sustained people when there has been no other food is known. Beyond this, there is also things to resolve one's worries - that they are heated, and the steam from their cooking is inhaled, in doing so this will provide adequate solution to anxiety and the like. It may, too, be used to sooth pain when applied as a paste to the area of irritation. Oil from this plant then relieves swelling, and does wonders for such pain. Know clearly this plant, for it too may expel parasites in these ways, in ingestion and application of paste and oil.

Then there is honey, something of many uses itself. Most commonly I have seen it added in part with milk or water (and when available, mustard seed), and warmed for a soothing throat when one coughs or falls ill. Yet there is more to it than this. When heated and let to pass through a mesh of hemp or hair and heated once more, it may then be cooled and applied to such wounds as burns and other rashes, and soothe them as well. I have seen some alternate this application with that of a hemp paste, or mixing hemp oil with that of the honey for the same effect.

Chives and garlic share many things, and may be used in these ways that I will speak of, though garlic should be preferred. When there is an open cut, paste and juices of these things should be used around it and within it. This may prove painful, but does away with sickness that might enter the body otherwise, as sickness detests garlic and chives like a child might. In other things, they may help one remain alert and duly diligent in their work, as it purges apathy from the body as well.

For those sailors and others who find themselves with scurvy, there are a number of remedies. I do prescribe the fruit of the dog rose, mountain ash, or the cinnamon rose, that is is ingested in whole to prevent and cure the disease.

Mountain ash may also be used when brewed to help against fevers, coughing, trouble breathing, sicknesses and gout, though it should not be consumed excessively, as it may bring more harm than good.

I then turn my attention to those things in the west and along the coasts, so that those beyond our lands and within the seas to our southwest might stand to benefit as well.

In The Lands of the West and the Shores

The primrose - that low flower of pale yellow, usually of five petals and growing in bunches - can be eaten like one would a salad. The roots, when cooked and eaten, do provide relief to pain and spasms.

Annual claries may be used to help those of sore teeth. The leaves of this should be trimmed and brewed, and the substance then drank. To grow this also is a boon for those making honey, as it adds to the flavor that results from it.

Goutweed is as the name suggests, to be used against swelling like gout and such pains as it. One should apply the leaves and roots in hot wrappings around the area, after boiling them and exchanging them for new after a time.

When one is troubled with stomach pains, they should chew the resin of the mastic tree. This reduces the pain, and gives the mind something to focus on, while producing a pleasant taste.

Juniper should be taken for those who frequently struggle to breathe, as it provides them relief, though it should not be taken while carrying child. To take such a thing may risk the life of the child.

When goutweed does not provide relief, turn to the crosswort, which is its brother. Apply it similarly to goutweed. This, too, may be used for headaches when eaten, or when the fumes of it's cooking is inhaled. Dropsy, too, may yet be dealt with by it in wrappings.

For pink eye and for painful passing of fluids, one should ingest the nargis flower whole.

I then turn my attention to the lands in the east, that our friends in the steppes as well as those in our own lands might benefit from them.

In the Eastern Lands

Much like the purple-blue iris, there is a yellow one of fitting description in the east. This is ingested, though it may cause discomfort, it may yet stop the bleeding when one relieves one's self, and in this there is a benefit to the cost of stomach pains.

Black mustard may be ground into a poultice, and placed upon the back until there is a stinging sensation, so that it might clear the throat of anything preventing breathing. This same paste can be placed upon aching muscles, and relieve them.

The small balsam of the east contains many uses. Leaves and seeds may be cooked, and then eaten, though the main form of use should be like that of goutweed, as a warm covering when boiled. It should be applied to ringworm, warts, and nettle stings, that they might be relieved.

There is in the far east, to the other side of the mountains, a wondrous plant called the peony. The fruits and roots of this flower are used for many things, and have been used to cure or relieve indigestion, bleeding, exhaustion, and the difficulty of breath, and more, though I have not personally witnessed anything beyond those I have already written of. Even these things alone are something to marvel at, all from one plant!

For those needing to relieve themselves and find themselves unable to do so, and who do not want to risk the wrath of the iris, the yellow meadow-rue is an effective substitute.

Beyond these things, I have not seen with my own eyes or felt with my own body the proof of the matter. I would ask that those of you after me add to this, as there is only so much that can be learned from one life. The World Shall Be, Through Our Efforts And The Flame.