Alchemy in a Forest

In my world, the knowledge of science is largely lost, but many of the practical facts are still remembered. Chemistry morphed back into alchemy. My main character grew up as a peasant in a city's outskirts, and learned alchemy from an old textbook and experimenting on what she could find in the forest.

My question: what kind of chemistry can you do only with the ingredients you might find in a forest with high biodiversity? Let's say that the main character was lucky and also found some mineral deposits or somesuch. What chemicals would she have had access to?

posted over 7 years ago

Kronimiciad‭

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