Medical science has a way to go in Westeros.
Here are some popular House of the Dragon treatments.
This article contains spoilers throughHouse of the Dragonseason 2.
Medical advancements arent exactly at their peak during the Dance of the Dragons war betweenthe Greens and the Blacks.
Moon Tea
Moon Tea is used to prevent pregnancy.
Milk of the Poppy
The most common medicine weve seen is Milk of the Poppy.
InHouse of the Dragon, it was regularly used to ease the pain of King Viserys.
The drink is effectively the shows version of morphine and is drunk by patients.
Before anyone understood what was wrong with him, the first option was a casual leeching on his sores.
When things got a little more desperate, they resorted to placing his hand in a bucket of maggots.
It might sound gross, but maggots are used to eat away at dead skin in real-life medicine.
When the maggots hatched, it was placed on lesions to try and remove the dead flesh.
In 2022, maggots are apparently FDA approved and are used to treat the likes of pressure ulcers.
Youll also remember Samwell Tarlys excruciating cure for Ser Jorah Mormonts greyscale inGame of Thrones.
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