Firefly Glen [BWH] First Lesson

The little fish-girl watched quietly, sea-glass eyes watching wide. The herbs which she had put together would now come to have names. The man lifted one from her 'spicy' group and said that this one was called thyme. Thyme - bristly, spicy scent, helped blood move and helped you breathe... but how, exactly did it do that? 

 Swelling, pain, immune system, cloves-! Chinook took a deep breath. Do you eat all of them? Her mother had once put something on a cut on Chinook's nose when she fell on slice rocks, but she had also seen her father chew on some. So some you ate, like if your tummy hurt and some you put on things, like with a cut or sore. What about these here?