May have found a bit of a bug, most things seem to cure quite well but it seems to spam lucidity slush I've put an example in the text dump below, its happened on a few different occasions and it sips lucidity until you dv diagnose.
Although after playing around with it rebounding dosnt seem to actually effect weapons any more. I can still raze it but it dosnt actually stop me hitting someone with a sword.
ah I tinkered around with the pipes, it seems like it had the pipe list there allready but it was trying to light empty pipes. Fixed it just by manually putting the right herb in the pipes.
I've only got a little bit of exp from the guides about how they work, From what I can gather monks and warriors basically bash peoples limbs in to get wounds which cause worse and worse afflictions …