What's the word?

Beaming under the praise again, his viridian eyes glowed with joy. His slight frame practically vibrated to continue to show her everything he knew.

"I do enjoy medicine. And finding the differences between similar plants. Sometimes the concoctions are so strong they can clear someone's airway within minutes of taking the concentrated tincture. Oh, but that's peppermint, Yarrow here can stop a wound from bleeding profusely. You can chew it up and apply it as a paste in emergencies, and keep a wound from bleeding out."

Her encouragement was like a warm drink on a stormy day. She leaned closer with her playful glint in her eyes and he couldn't help but catch his breath with expectation. He didn't know what these feelings were but they were making his ears buzz. "Less common? Well..." He looked down at the plant, what else could she teach him? Probably everything under the sun.

"Well, its less common uses are for things like internal bleeding, diarrhea, and helping ease symptoms of a girl's heat." He said looking down at the herb, he brought it up to the light, and let the light of the flames of a torch in the market play through the feathery appendages as he spoke. He looked back at Absinth. Was that sufficient? He wasn't quite sure what a girl's heat was about, only that it made them uncomfortable around their birthday and he had herbs to help them with it.

"Speech!"