Medical Herb

Medical Herb
Artwork from Secret of Mana
First appearance	Final Fantasy Adventure (1991)
Latest appearance	Visions of Mana (2024)
Location(s)	Various
Effect	Cures status aliments
Related items Unicorn Horn

The Medical Herb, also known as the Prestoveggie or Pep Root, is a recurring recovery item in the Mana series. Available since the very first game, this strange root resembling a radish or common carrot is known to cure various status ailments not directly caused by magic. It cannot reverse magic effects such as time manipulation, defense breakdown, or offense breakdown.

A much weaker variant, the Antidote, debuted in Final Fantasy Adventure, where it was called a Potion of Pure, with the icon for a potion set to the left. Its only function is neutralizing poison.

History

Adventures of Mana

The Antidote^AoM (originally Pure^FFA) is used to cure Sumo from the poison status. It can be used three times per item.

• Buy: 30 GP
• Sell: 15 GP
• Effect: Cure Sumo from poison.
• Places to buy: Crooked Boulder Sundries, Ish Sundries, Jadd Sundries, Menos Sundries, Northwestern Cliff Sundries, Oil Peddler, Swamp Shack, Topple Sundries, Tundra Sundries, Wendel Sundries.
• Item Drop from Death Flowers.

Secret of Mana

The Medical Herb can cure a single party member of all status aliments. The Undine spell Remedy has the same effect.

• Buy: 10 GP (Neko: 20 GP)
• Sell: 6 GP
• Effect: Cure an ally's status effects.
• Places to buy: Dwarf Village • Forest of Seasons • Gold City • Haunted Forest • Kakkara • Kippo Village • Lofty Mountains • Mana Palace • Mandala • Matango • Moogle Village • Neko's Crystal Forest Branch • Neko's General Store • Northtown • Pandora • Potos Village • Republic of Tasnica • Southtown • Todo Village • Witch's Castle
• Item Drop from Beast Zombie • Bomb Bee • Chess Knight • Crawler • Eggatrice • Eye spy • Ghoul • Green Drop • Howler • Lullabud • Mad Mallard • Nemesis Owl • Pumpkin Bomb • Sand Stinger • Steelpion • Trap Flower • Weepy Eye • Zombie

Trials of Mana

HD sprite

Medical Herbs once again cure an ally from all status aliments but death. The Lumina spell Twinkle Rain has the same effect. The plant can be bought for 10 lucre in stores for the 2D version and 20 lucre in the 3D one.

In the 2D version, medical herbs can be grown from the Magic Pot by planting an Item Seed. In the 3D version, they can also sprout from the magic pot should the player use either an item seed, a silver, gold or rainbow item seed. They can also be found by collecting sparkles or by breaking red urns.

Buy	10 lucre2D/20 lucre3D
Sell	5 lucre
Effect	Cure an ally from status effects.
Places to buy	Alrant • Altena • Astoria • Beiser • Beiser's Night Market3D • Diin • Dior • Dwarf Village • Jadd Stronghold • Maia • Mintas • Palo • Pedda • Sirhtan • Tomato Town • Valsena • Wendel
Item Drop	Assassinant, Beelancer2D, Bulette2D, Chess Knight2D, Dark Batmo2D, Eggatrice2D, Evil Sword2D, Frost Dragon2D, Gremlin2D, Howler2D, Imp2D, Kid Dragon2D, Kid Drazombie2D, Ladeeb2D, Mushboom, Parpoto2D, Pricklebeak2D, Sahagin2D, Shape Shifter2D, Silver Knight2D, Slime, Specter2D, Succube2D, Tremorkin2D, Zombie
Magic Pot	Yes (Item Seed2D/Item, Silver, Gold, or Rainbow Item Seeds3D)
Sparkles/ Chests/Urns	Astoria (3) • Beuca Island (1) • Beiser (1) • Burning Sands (1) • Cascade Cavern (2) • Daria (1) • Dark Castle (1) • Duskmoon Forest (1) • Dwarf Tunnels (1) • Ghost Ship (3) • Jadd Stronghold (1) • Koropokkur Woods (1) • Lampbloom Woods (1) • Laurent Secret Base (1) • Molebear Moors (2) • Nevarl Fortress (1) • Sirhtan (1) • Rabite Forest (2) • Valsena (2)

Sword of Mana

A Prestoveggie will cure an ally from many status effect. Below is a list of status aliments cured by the item:

Name	Curable	Name	Curable
Bedraggled		Poison
Bewitched		Pose
Charm		PowerDown
Confusion		Silence
Darkness		Sleep
Death		Snowman
FireMan		SpeedDown
Numb		Toxin
Petrify		Wimp

• Buy: 15 Lucre
• Sell 7 Lucre
• Effect: Cure an ally's status effects.
• Places to buy: All item shops
• Item Drop from Assassinant, Bebe, Bonny Matango, Cobra, Eye Spy, Ice Leech, Land Leech, Mushboom, Viper, Wizard Eye

Children of Mana

A Pep Root will cure the hero from any status effect, save from poison or ghost.

• Buy: 80 Lucre
• Sell ? Lucre
• Effect: Cure an ally's status effects except Poison or Ghost.
• Places to buy: Golden Goods
• Item drop from ?

Behind the scenes

The original Antidote is based on the recurring item in Final Fantasy. As well, concept drawings render it as a small bottle filled with the substance. Antidotes were redrawn for Adventures of Mana; they now resemble the modern Medical Herb. The rationale behind this particular change is not known.

Gallery

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  Final Fantasy Adventure artwork

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  Final Fantasy Adventure sprite

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  Secret of Mana sprite

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  Secret of Mana HD sprite

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  Trials of Mana sprite

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  Trials of Mana HD sprite

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  Sword of Mana sprite

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  Children of Mana sprite

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  Children of Mana sprite

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  Twitter's Echoes of Mana item showcase

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  Visions of Mana sprite

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	プイプイ草 Puipui kusa	Puipui Grass
Spanish	Vegeantídoto
Italian	Verzura

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