Is it possible to do surgery with only herbal medicine?

[Phil]

Hey guys,

I would like to know if there's a mod to make surgery with only herbal medicine possible. I want skilled medics to be able to cut out the cancer that all of my elves, dwarfs and humans are suffering of (cause of too much pipe-weed... xD)


I'm playing in medieval era so there's no way for me to research better medicine than herbal.


Does anyone have an idea how to do that or know a mod that does that?

:D

[Dr.Desty Nova]

As far as I'm aware, nothing stop you from using herbal medicine in surgery.

It's just more risky ^^

[Bio[redacted]]

Nope. I'm just glad you aren't my doctor, cause surgey without meds is not only incredibly painful but also incredibly dangerous considering you need to not only anesthize your patient but also disinfect any incisions

[Phil]

I'm playing in a world of magic, my pawns can insta heal wounds! :)

@Dr.Desty Nova: Whenever I try to do surgery with only herbal medicine in stock it says "need material" to do the surgery...

[MagicSoda]

There's nothing stopping you from researching medicine it will just take a bit longer.

[AlexMBrennan]

There's nothing stopping you from researching medicine it will just take a bit longer.

If you install a mod to limit you to medieval technology then you are limited to medieval technology. What part of this is difficult to understand?

[BoogieMan]

I couldn't have a doctor excise a liver carcinoma without meds earlier. It wouldn't even let me try.

"needs materials"

Stupid Yorkie got into the beer supplies.

[Henry of Skalitz]

Yeah but I don't think you can remove cancer with herbal meds only.

[M.K.]

Surgery with herbal? Yes. Cancer-removal? no.
Thus spake the wiki:
"Any doctor can perform most types of surgery (excising carcinomas requires 10 medical skill), and herbal medicine is the minimum required medicine for most surgical operations, although it's not advisable to use herbal medicine in surgery unless you have an exceptionally good doctor. "

You might also want to know "It's not the best idea to excise cancerous growths using ordinary medicine due to its 0.7x success factor and 25% death chance on failure"

you can do most operations with just Herbal medicine.
The success rate is just a bit sucky.
A L20 doctor doing field surgery with just Herbal, will have less than 50/50 chance for success.
If that surgery is removing a cancer, drop that another 30%.
A L5 doctor... would not be advised.

Some specialized surgeries, such as the cancer removal you require, needs at least real medicine. With glitterworld meds *strongly* advised.

[Phil]

Thanks for the answers! :)

Ok I see. I mean even if the succes rate was only 20 %, that would still be a 1 time out of 5 succes rate. I don't lack colonists, and the cancer is really slowing them down in their daily tasks and not as useful as fighters also. Worst case, the necromancer's gonna bring them back to life

I guess there's also no mod that allows trying to cure cancer with love 'n air? :D

[Mr Majestic]

Originally posted by Phil:

Is it possible to do surgery with only herbal medicine?

That should be a character trait.

Naturopath: Will refuse to use or receive any medical treatment above Herbal.

Nothing would drive home the importance of evidence based medicine like a giant mound of misshapen corpses produced by a Rimworld naturopath.

[Hendrikus3]

Well yes, all my surviving prisoners can confirm that.