Editing Herbal medicine

{{Infobox main|medicine
| name = Herbal medicine
| image = Herbal medicine.png
| description = A pack of herbal concoctions typically extracted from the healroot plant. It is less potent than industrial pharmaceuticals, but much better than nothing.
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| type2 = Medicine
| tech level = Neolithic
| hp = 60
| deterioration = 6
| marketvalue = 10
| beauty = -4
| mass base = 0.35
| flammability = 1.3
| stack limit = 25
| path cost = 14
| rotatable = false
| days to rot = 150
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| medical potency base = 0.6
| medical quality max = 0.7
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| draw gui overlay = true
| e type = Medicine
| graphic class = Graphic_Single
| graphic path = Things/Item/Resource/MedicineHerbal
| label = herbal medicine
| parent name = ResourceBase
| resource readout priority = Middle
| selectable = true
| sound drop = Standard_Drop
| sound interact = Standard_Drop
| thing class = Medicine
| ticker type = Rare
| use hit points = true
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'''Herbal medicine''' is an organic medicine used in [[doctoring]] to improve the results of medical treatment over not using medicine at all, but is significantly less effective than [[medicine]] and [[glitterworld medicine]].  In addition, herbal medicine will spoil in 150 days, or 2.5 years, if not refrigerated. See [[Temperature#Temperature Thresholds|Temperature]] for details. It will [[Deterioration|deteriorate]], under the usual conditions.

== Acquisition ==
Herbal medicine can be harvested from [[healroot]] and [[wild healroot]], purchased from neolithic traders, or found on [[Tribal]] pawns. 

== Usage ==
Herbal medicine can also be used to make industrial [[medicine]]. This requires {{Required Resources|Medicine}}, and a crafter with at least 4 Intellectual and 4 Crafting in order to do.
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== Summary ==
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Any form of medicine can be used whenever a [[doctoring|doctor]] tends to an [[injury]] or [[disease]]. In most cases, medicine does not directly cause healing. Instead, using medicine and better types of medicine will increase [[tend quality]], increasing the [[injury#Healing rate|rate of healing]] for injuries, or slowing down progression of a disease. For [[gut worms]] and [[muscle parasites]], tend quality is directly used to cure the disease.

With a Medical Potency of 60%, herbal medicine has a 60% multiplier on both tend quality and surgery success. Herbal medicine has a maximum tend quality of 70%.

Unlike other forms of medicine, herbal medicine will spoil in 2.5 years when left [[Temperature|unrefrigerated]]. 

=== Experience ===
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== Analysis ==
Herbal medicine is a cost-efficient choice for treating injuries and illnesses. With a good doctor, herbal medicine will be sufficient to treat almost all [[disease]]s, where its maximum tend quality of 70% will suffice. Even if you don't have a good doctor, if a patient is sufficiently far ahead of their disease, then herbal can be used to save industrial medicine.

It often isn't practical to use herbal medicine for surgery, as a 60% medical potency means surgery has a greater chance to fail. But in the right setup, it is possible to reach the 98% [[surgery|surgery success chance cap]], even with herbal medicine. For example, the following conditions give 98% success with herbal medicine:
* Surgeon with 8 Medical skill, and with (at least) 100% [[Manipulation]] and 100% [[Sight]]
* [[Sterile tile|Sterile room]] (0.6 Cleanliness) that is well-[[light|lit]]
* [[Hospital bed]] of ''excellent [[quality]] or higher''

Note that some surgeries, like [[carcinoma]] removal, are more difficult than usual. Others, like [[ovum]] extraction {{BiotechIcon}}, are much easier and require less stringent conditions. It is also possible to use herbal medicine for [[prisoner]]s and other pawns you don't care about, even if you don't reach the surgery success cap.

== Version history ==
* [[Version/0.8.657|0.8.657]] - Added
* Beta 19/1.0 - now has a limit to maximum tend quality.

[[Category:Medical Item]] [[Category:Medicine]]