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Natural Healer

Natural Healer

Heal yourself using all types of natural medicines (single game).

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How to unlock the Natural Healer achievement in The Long Dark - Definitive Guide

This involves:
- reishi tea (2 bits of reishi mushroom, found on tree stumps)
- rose hip tea (three bushes worth of rose hips - 24 rose hips - found on little bushes with red thingies)
- old man's beard lichen dressing (3 pieces of old man's beard lichen, found hanging from trees)

Materials are easy to find, you have to prepare reishi and rose hips in the crafting menu and then cook them with 0,25 l water. Linen is even easier, you just use the crafting menu.

The tricky thingie is getting the right injury in the right way.

- rose hips heal wrist and anckle sprains - you can get them by falling (not recommended) or by walking a lot on slopy surfaces. It's random, but you'll likely get it anyway, so just keep a tea handy;
- reishi tea heals all kinds of infections - you can get dysyntery (never got it - probably from unboiled water), food poisoning or parasites. You'll want food poisoning, since the treatment is over after a single dose of reishi (parasites need 10 over the course of 10 days and that might actually be the end of your survivor); to do this just eat raw meat of a deer or a rabbit (carnivore meat will give you parasites);
- linen heals infected wounds and there's no way to get those other than to get bitten by a wolf (preferably) or a bear; just remember to have some bandage, imminent blood loss is an easy way to kill you.

GlitterLicks indicated that you don't actually have to get the injury, you can use the medicine on your healthy self :) I didn't test that, following the achievements descripiton, but it's probably true, Confirmed by Singularity69, so disregard the above :)
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07 Aug 2017 06:43

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can also confirm still works on 100% healthy, as of the build on the date of this post.
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By Khan Garth on 27 Jul 2020 01:54
I've given my self food poisoning 3 times now and drank 2 cups of heated reishi tea each time and it's not healing my food poisoning. I've eaten both rabbit meat and deer meat. The only way the food poisoning is going away is by sleeping off. Not sure what else to do. Any tips @Zlodziey?
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By BobLoblaw on 17 Aug 2017 20:09
I'm not entirely sure, but doesn't healing food poisoning require both sleep and reishi tea? :)
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By Zlodziey on 18 Aug 2017 15:37
Just a heads-up, I was able to get this achievement without getting sick or injured. I just made the teas and the linchen dressing and used them and the achievement popped.
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By BobLoblaw on 18 Aug 2017 16:30
Healing food poisoning does require both the tea and sleep. I can confirm that you can just apply medication without injury. I drank both teas at camp to deal with injuries and then just applied Old Man's Beard anyway. Achievement popped immediately after that.
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By Singularity69 on 23 Aug 2017 02:07
Confirmed, the 3 treatments can be applied to 100% healthy survivor, no injury or affliction necessary.
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By CRT JEDIMARK on 03 Oct 2017 05:37
Great guide. Just make and use them. Doesn't matter about your status at all.
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By Sidewinder316 on 04 Nov 2018 00:58
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Use every natural first aid in the game to heal their respective afflictions.

There are only three you need and that's Old man's beard wound dressing, Rose hip tea and Reishi tea

You have to use them to heal afflictions and not simply use them on nothing or the wrong ailment.

Old man's wound dressing is used for infections (comes with getting cut from attacks) *
Rose hip tea is used for pain relief (comes with spraining your ankle or wrist)
Reishi tea is for food poisoning (comes with eating gone-off food)


*Ironically because of the way you get infections, it is harder to do this on pilgrim.
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09 Sep 2023 00:00

There are 3 types of natural medicines:

  1. Old man's beard wound dressing (no long needs a work bench)
  2. Reishi tea made from Reishi Mushrooms
  3. Rose hips tea made from Rose hips berries

Video by Randomise User:

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To obtain this achievement, you need to use these herbal medicines for treatment in random order during one survival:
Reishi tea;
rosehip tea;
moss bandage.
It is not necessary to have illnesses/injuries. The main thing is to use these medications
In story mode you can also
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12 Jan 2019 23:16

The trophy is very easy and can be obtained even at the very beginning of the game. You need to drink Reishi Tea, which is brewed in any pot from prepared Reishi mushrooms (You just need to find 2 Reishi mushrooms that grow on stumps), Rosehip Tea, which in turn is brewed from Prepared rosehips (You need 24 rosehips, which can be collected from exactly three bushes rose hips), and you also need a Moss Bandage, which is made from three units of Old Hanging Moss. Cooked Reishi mushrooms, cooked rose hips and a moss bandage can be crafted even in the inventory so there is no need to look for a workbench. All this needs to be used in one survival and the diseases themselves are not needed. That is, you just need to click use on all three things and the trophy is in your pocket. Verified and current May 4, 2020.
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04 May 2020 19:25