The Shingetsu is a neutral aligned subsect of the Mangetsu that draws its origins in the Far Eastern karsts north of The Dragon's Mouth. The main estate of the Shingetsu is located off seas in The Mist on Vylbrand. Although known to specialize in traditional Far Eastern herbal health consultation, medicines, and treatments they sometimes carry a few other oddities from the Far East as well as affiliated goods.
If you feel something is wrong with your aether or body, you can also seek out a proper consultation first before purchasing remedies! Don't have a single gil to your name? You are more than welcome to trade your own wares or services instead. Just make sure you know what you're offering first...
The highly food and drink motivated group may be easier to trade with than you think.
Traditional Herbal Medicine?
Unlike most potions, ethers, remedies, and panacea that are mass produced on the markets, the medicines and remedies offered at Shingetsu are made for everyday consumption to naturally strengthen one's body overtime. They are more akin to health supplements, vitamins, and other consumables that would aid in a healthy lifestyle.
The goal is to strengthen the body and health in a more preventive way rather than a reactive way like those found in the common marketplace. Make no mistake, they can be used to help recover from more serious ailments as well, but it would take longer.
Where these remedies lose in matters of quickness, they make up for in reach where even magic cannot help one's body. As well as accessibility, even more common folk can afford such treatments.
On Properties of Aether
None can deny that aetherial healing is a quick and convenient way to bolster one's natural recovery, but it cannot cure what the body itself can't. Healing and purification will only aid one's life force and what the target body can handle itself. While a skilled healer can attempt to even surpass the impossible, they cannot save someone who's suffering from ailment their body cannot naturally recover from alone or have had their life force depleted. By strengthening the body's ability to combat illness, one might even say aetherial healing's reach benefits from traditional herbal practices.
Powerfully potent healers are also rare and for those who require constant care or lack funds to pay for such services one should look towards other options. There is also those who have peculiarities or sensitivity around such bursts of aether. For them, we recommend traditional forms medicines and treatments or alchemy.