Special Healings

Extraction of Creb's Tooth
CB 11, 179	"One bad tooth is the same as another. Just make me some willow-bark tea."
CB 11, 180	"I thought you said willow bark wouldn't help much?" "Nothing will help much. You can try a piece of sweet-rush root to chew, it might do some good. But I doubt it."
CB 11, 181	(...) Iza said after she swabbed the wound on Creb's gum with a mixture of geranium and spikenard-root powder on the tip of her finger. "It's too bad I don't have any of the fungus that is so good for toothaches. Sometimes it will deaden the nerve, often draw it out. Then I might not have to take the tooth. It's best to use when it's fresh, but dried works, and it should be collected at the end of summer. If I find some next year, I'll show you, Ayla."
CB 11, 182	Creb nodded and swallowed the drink. It's from the same plant I use to help men with the memories, he thought. But I think I saw Iza boil it; she makes a decoction rather than an infusion. It's stronger than when it's steeped. It has many uses. Datura must be a gift from Ursus. He was beginning to feel the narcotic effects. (...) She sprinkled dried geranium root on the bleeding hole and dipped a small piece of absorbent rabbit skin in an antiseptic solution of balsam-gum bark and a few of the dried leaves, and packed his jaw with the damp leather.

	Abbreviations	Editions
CB	The Clan of the Cave Bear	The page numbers refer to the hardcover editions by Crown Publishers, Inc, New York 1980, 1982, 1985, 1990. Book 1-3 are the Special Collector's Edition, I don't know if the page numbers differ from those of the 'normal' hardcover editions.
VH	The Valley of Horses
MH	The Mammoth Hunters
PP	The Plains of Passage
(...)	omission	Copyright
...	original in text	All book quotes: © Copyright Jean M. Auel The format and text contents of this site are the property of the author
MGMH	'A Modern Herbal', by Mrs. M. Grieve

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Extraction of Creb's Tooth