“Most medicines can be as harmful as they are healing. It’s all to do with the affliction, the dosage, and the patient.”
Nadira knew it was important to remember the two-sided nature of the cures they created, but did Healer Mentor Fong have to start every single lesson with it? And usually finish with it too.
It was all well and good in the first year of study, but it had been three years and still they said it.
“Nadira, name for me three ways a potion can harm a subject.”
“If the dosage is too much, measured for a patient larger than the one being treated, or given too often. If the patient displays an adverse reaction to the cure but it continues to be administered. Or if…” Narida’s memory failed her. Was there a third one? She scrambled to think, then cold certainty dropped into her stomach. “If the medicine is kept too long and turns bad.”
She shouldn’t have traded her turn to clear out the store cupboard with Javi, he always shirked.
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