Nail rot cure Technology / Science in Land of the Ancients | World Anvil

Nail rot cure

This is worth every coin I can spare.
— Lute player

Nail rot has been a problem for centuries with most cures over the years doing absolutely nothing.

This was a problem that Romeo Regada set out to tackle. It took him three decades of studying the disease and experimentation at the House of the Ill in order to come up with a treatment that worked.

Inventor(s)
Romeo Regada
Access & Availability

The treatment takes about two weeks, it requires cooling with ice, and an unusual ingredient. All of these reasons have mede the cure rather unobtainable, particularly for those who live far from where there is ice.

The time requirement can also make it problematic for those who simply do not have the time to both travel to the House of the Ill and to wait out the treatment.

Discovery

It took two breakthrough realizations in order to reach a cure.

The first breakthrough came when he found out that nail rot slows dramatically when the fingernail is cooled a lot, which he thought could be used both as a way to slow the progress down, ana maybe work as a vector to let the body handle the rest.

The second one came from various salves and tinctures that he was experimenting with. These solutions were in an effort to find a way to encourage the body to take care of the disease by itself.

The success came from the secretions from a giant spiders joints, which worked well when heavily diluted, it almost killed a few people in its pure form, and the nail was cooled afterwards.


Comments

Please Login in order to comment!