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Dawali was fairly used to teaching his trade, although not in this setting, perhaps. Usually, he would not move on to poultices with his students until they had proved able to recognized, locate and properly treat a wide variety of plants. Liliana did not have the luxury of knowing these things, and so he moved on quite speedily, not quite taking that fact into consideration. Still, he trusted that she would simply come and ask him if anything was unclear. Perhaps this, too, was somewhat naive, but time would show. In any worst case scenario, if a horse did become sick, he assumed she would call for him anyways for good measure. The order of things didn't matter that much; he merely wanted to give her a general impression and some ideas and basic concepts.
He was used to words he did not understand. Perhaps "infection" described what he would call a leaking wound, a wound that would not close, that was painful and often swollen, or that could not stop bleeding although it should. "Yes, if it seems unable to heal, and wet with various substances, you could use a poultice of seeds. They would suck the blood and other fluids into them, so the wound can heal better." He nodded enthusiastically, assuming they had found a common understanding of the type of wound he spoke about. Terms were terms; as long as they reached common ground, terms that differed didn't matter much. Her next question was a great one; he had completely forgotten to mention that detail. "Ah, I mark them thus: This symbol for a plant with a flower, in the color of its flower, and this symbol for a plant without a flower, in the color of that plant. There are many of the green plants without flowers, and some of them are marked with extra leaves and such just so I can remember which pouch is which." He pointed to the symbols as he explained hoping the logic behind the system would be quite clear. As far as he had understood, humans writing was much of the same; a system of symbols to give meaning, only vastly more sophisticated than his little symbols for flowers, and color-neutral. The system he had made was mostly for himself, and he hoped that whoever would need to use his supplies from time to time would also find it a good system to remember. She posed another question, and now he nodded. "Yes, to make a dry poultice you put seeds in with water and boil only for a very short time so they are slightly softer, remove all the water, then you mix it with slightly wetted bread so that it can become a seedy material that can be packed on to the wound, and then you fasten it with cloth. For wet poultices you would do the same, but the inner layers would probably have to consist of cloth dipped in the poultice as well, as it would be quite a lot thinner." He motioned with his hands the packing motion of a dry poultice and the wrapping motion automatically, not even noticing how his body helped stress the key concepts of the medicinal concept.