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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| hp = 60
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| 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
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| 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
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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 also [[Deterioration|deteriorate]] when left outdoors, 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.

Under most circumstances it is not 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]]. With herbal medicine, you can reach the 98% surgery success in the following conditions:
* 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]]