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"Well, that is more than most people know," Birk nodded. "Speak from my own experience," he was amazed, how many people here actually knew about medical plants and stuff that could help you, while, where he came from... well, either you healed yourself or you died. There was not much vegetation there. And until coming here he had thought that this was the way nature worked. 

Remembering his latest ailment - a bad case of cold - and how he had heard one opinion about it, he decided to ask for a second - just to compare. "So, what do you know about runny noses, constant sneezing and coughing?"