Kaidokuzai Sōzō (Antidote Creation)
This is actually a simple more specific application of Medicine Creation developed solely to counteract Poisons, Toxins and Venoms.
An antidote is a substance you'll administer to your patient that will counteract the effects and the progression of a poison, toxin or venom. It not only neutralizes poisons, toxins and venoms that are in the body and not in effect yet as it also neutralizes them when they are already acting while also countering the effects their triggered in the patient. Basically,you do the same and follow the same principle as in Medicine Creation as an antidote is, basically, a medicine.
But how do we know what to put into the antidote?
For this you'll need to first use either the poison extraction technique or the poison extraction seal. In the case you use the technique, as you'll be using diagnosis in tandem, you'll be able to know, as you gather the poison and extract it from the body of the patient, its components and mainly its effects. If you use the sealing technique, you just unseal the poison and use diagnosis on the poison to the same effect.
Once you know what the poison is made of and what it can do, you'll be able to determine what herbs and solvents to mix to create an antidote. But here comes the issue: how can you, an NB RPear, know what herbs and what not to mix to counter a custom poison for example? Its not easy and it would become overly complex for the RP to make players do this. Thats why it was decided that creating fixed component of all antidotes, called
antiserum* thats made of various herbs, antibodies from various animals and humans, that can counteract any and all non specific or custom poisons, toxins and venoms.
*in reality, antiserum is the component of blood in which passive immunity to diseases is "memorized". Basically, once you're exposed to a disease your body will create antibodies to combat, leading you to cure that disease. Those antibodies don't disappear. Instead, your body creates more and keeps them in the antiserum, circulating in your body for a time when the disease might attack again. If that happens, the antibodies will attack the disease before it infects you and you trully gain immunity to the disease. Vacination works on this principle. And real life antidotes to snake and other poisons, venoms and toxins is often produced and derived from large mammal antiserum (horses, pigs, etc).
Ofc, you'll still need to add specific herbs to counter the effects that poison, toxin or venom creates in the patient but you won't need to worry about finding herbs that are capable of neutralizing the poison. Some toxins, poisons and venoms though, have very specific antidotes, clearly known and defined. When its such a case, you simply use that.
Ok, so how does it actually work? And what technique is that?
So, lets start by stages:
- Extract Poison and Analyse it
- Determine the effects you need to counter and if the venom/toxin/poison has a known antidote
- Gather the antisserum to counter the poison plus all the active ingrdients needed to counter its effects plus a suitable medium for delivery
- Mix them all together and create the final medicine, your antidote
- Administer it to the patient
- Monitor results
Like all medicines, you can choose to administer it in various ways but, normally, intravenously or intramuscular methods are best because they are much faster acting.
But this isn't practical in combat!
Ofc not. Even a very experienced poison master will not be able to counter poisons in combat as you first need access to the poison. However, if you had access to the poison before, you can create an antidote for it and save it on your bio for future uses.
Additionally, you'll always have with you a medical scroll containing all the known herbs you'll need, most mediums/solvents possible and infinite amounts of antiserrum. This way, your own priority is surviving until the end of the fight so you can then produce and administer the antidote for a poison affecting you.
In the long run, however, the best survival possibility is to have someone to treat you if you ever become poisoned.
So, there's really nothing we can do in a fight?
Well, there is a minor technique that might save you long enough to produce the antidote. But its no sure method. This technique is a variation of Power of Resistance but directed at Poisons and Toxins. It works by halting the progression of the poison using chakra, focus and will power. It can't be used until the first effects of the poison are felt though, so you won't be able to fully remain unscaved. Its a self usage technique that cannot be used on others.
Upon feeling the first effects of the poison, you'll focus and use the same method as Power of Resistance to raise your resistance but this time you'll visualize the poison and your own body and focus on having your chakra "hold the poison in place". You cannot expel the poison, neutralize it or cancel it. No. You simply temporarily stop its effects. The first effects you felt, will be there but there won't be a progression of symptons for as long as you can sustain the technique.
But then here comes the various limitations. The technique requires constant chakra input so the effort and drain of chakra is enormous. Additionally, if you're in a fight, you'll consume one of your allocated moves per turn the first time you use the skill. While using this will still allow you to use other techniques at the same time (its treated more as a passive skill), the longer you use it, the longer the cost is and the harder it is to focus and maintain the technique.
( Iryo Ninjutsu: Doku Teikouryoku ) - Medical Technique: Poison Resistance
Type: Supplementary
Rank: N/A
Range: N/A
Chakra: ( 40 per turn )
Damage: N/A
Description: The user will raise his resistance enabling him to stop the progression of a poison, toxin or venom he might have been contaminated with after feeling its first effects. This will not cure the poisoning but rather stop its progression so the user can continue to fight, hopefully winning the fight, to then be able to treat the poisoning. This is a skill that only consumes a move when activated, passively draining chakra, focus and stamina from the user as each turn passes.
Btw, this technique has no other defensive effect other than stopping the progression of a poisoning once it starts. This poisoning, however, can be of any origin like custom elements or custom poisons but cannot be an infection like from bacteria, fungi or nano-insects.
Materials needed:
Add these to your summoning scroll
抗血清 - antisserum
ハーブ - various medical herbs
溶剤 - various solvents and mediums
All can be used to summon any known medical herb, antisserum and any known solvent and medium. These can also be used for medicine creation if you wish.
