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Weird. That seems overpowered in some ways.

I've never had it cure disease or snakebites. But.

Well, no more so than other prodigals. Take Werewolves or Fera for example.

They just HEAL.

This is crippled compared to that. :)

But disease? "I have Ebola, just slap a heatherbalm on!"

How would you get Ebola??

Well, yes. We are magical fairies and not susceptible to mortal ailments.

IF you know Heatherbalm, which is a 4-point art.

In mortal bodies. And Ebola has been found to reside in bushmeat and fruit bat saliva.

If you get to someone in time, AND they can cure all of the health levels of damage faster than you're taking them, then yes, you can be cured

4-point or not...still....waggles hand I am almost sure there was a reason we all took it not to mean lethal diseases.

But bear in mind, I am a lethal and harsh ST.

It might not cure cancer. Or, like, permanent ailments - MS? I think it's down to house rules at that point.

Pynki made her rolls not to be plant food. 🙂

Say, it cures all of the damage caused by the cancer, but it will keep on tumoring up, etc.

HB would do WONDERS for folks on Chemo though. Heal THAT damage.

I just know that almost every year, Jer has been hospitalized with pneumonia because a) 1 Stamina 2) lung damage 3) smoker 4) lack of spleen.

Never figured HB would fix all that.

So, HB might heal him up, but it can't fix 1-4. So, he may just go right back down again.

The hospital may actually be safer.

Yeah. Well, and to be fair, that's a lot of Glamour to spend on a guy with a high diff. to heal.

Pneumonia is an infection, after all, not a disease

Point. See, that's where we start getting into the hair-splitting that makes it hard.

Um. Wait

Yeah, once I am looking up the clinical definition of "disease"...

haha.

It is a disease, but it is also a body's response to the disease.

Ever heard of a cytokine storm?

HB can't fix allergies, but it could help someone having a reaction / anaphylactic shock. That's kinda how I see it.

Not familiar, no

But the shock is the body's OWN reaction.

A cytokine storm, also known as cytokine cascade and hypercytokinemia, is a potentially fatal immune reaction consisting of a positive feedback loop between cytokines and white blood cells, with highly elevated levels of various cytokines.

It's what killed most of the healthy young people in the Spanish Flu of 1918

Stronger immune system = more lethal.

Still, I think it would fall under the magical understanding of a bodily ailment that magic could cure. OH DAMN, CAN'T BREATH? *magic*. No?

It can fill your lungs with fluid and you drown, for one thing.

No...because isn't that what an allergic reaction is?

This is interesting and probably the topic of many a changeling scholar.

An immune response? Can HB cure allergies or asthma?

Ask Herr Doktor....

This is part of why I just said, "Damage, not disease"....

Damage caused by disease, yes

Disease, no

I'd compromise and say that HB could heal the damage being caused until the shock wore off? It's not the allergen that is killing you, but the damage to your cells as you are unable to breath, etc. That stuff it could cure, so it's really splitting hairs.

Yeah

shrug It says it can cure disease, I'm good with that.

There's enough in the books left vague and unanswered, when they actually provide guidance I tend to take it.

I don't go by that, it's too vague in other places.