Avoid the Poison Ivy - Abaven Healing Training

As the rest of the group introduced themselves, Arpeggio still hung back warily, watchfully. She didn't know any of them, really, and knowing their names didn't change that. So she stayed quiet. The pale woman who'd called the meeting began by asking who knew any of the herbs. A few of the wolves spoke up, so she went on to describe them. She recognized a couple from her training with her mother, so when she heard the explanations, she frowned, and decided to speak up.

"Alfalfa's got a lot more uses," she spoke up quietly from the back. "It's really important as a diuretic and for stimulating milk production. But it can be dangerous to give to someone who's pregnant because it can cause contractions." Harmony had always tried to make certain to teach her when not to use an herb, when it would do more harm than good and when it was outright dangerous. Her mother had always taken the healer's oath quite seriously, and the idea of accidentally causing harm through neglecting to properly learn the dangers of the herbs she used would have been abhorrent to her.

She'd never taught Peggy about the last herb Vail spoke of, and again Peggy felt compelled to speak up. "Why use it at all if it has the potential to be so dangerous?" she asked. "What makes it worth using it instead of something without the paranoia and hallucinations?" She'd said they were commonly used herbs that she was teaching them, but she couldn't imagine something having the side effects as bad as she'd described being used so commonly.