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Our Lady’s Mantle

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Available: Su, Au 60%
Preparation: none
Cost: 1s. 6d./3s.
Uses: 2
Effective: 65% / 30%

A perennial plant, with rounded leaves and small green flowers growing in loose clusters. Found in damp places, such as meadows and shady woodland.

The clean, fresh, green leaves of the Lady’s Mantle may, if taken as a tea, settle the stomach and the bowel, reducing the symptoms of poor appetite, stomach upset and diarrhoea. The extract of the plant may also, when applied externally, aid in coagulation of the blood – reducing bleeding.

The influence of the herbal remedy over the blood has also led to a reputation for returning ‘bigness and hardness’ to the otherwise sagging or over large breasts of a woman by the application of the bruised leaves to the bosom. Use the second Effective rating in determining the success rate of the herb for this purpose. The effects are temporary.

Maelstrom Herbal Overview

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Not the most exciting post for many, but I don’t care. I have compiled a ‘complete’ herbal overview for Maelstrom, and uploaded the result at Scribd.com. I did say this would very likely not excite many people.

The herbal overview includes all the information from the original rules, broken down into a succinct and common language. So, you will find all prices in pennies and all timings in days, for example. I have also appended the short herbal expansion included in the as yet unpublished Maelstrom: Beggars’ Companion. Anything new I have shown the name in a green-tinted cell and there should be a ‘X’ in the New column at the end of the row.

For slightly extended information on, and illustrations of, the herbs you will need to refer to the original rules (or wait patiently for the release of the Beggars’ Companion).