Basic Healing Tea

Keep a couple in your pockets on a farming run. A wolf takes a chunk out of you at the treeline, you finish it with your spear, drink a tea and keep swinging at the node while your health creeps back. The game describes it plainly: hydration and a small heal over time.

That last part decides everything. Over time means it is useless in the middle of a gunfight, where you need health now. A bandage patches you up faster; the tea's advantage is that it costs nothing but berries and leaves your cloth for other things.

It is brewed from berries at the Mixing Table. Wild bushes are fine for the first batch, but a large planter box of berries in your base keeps the supply steady and spares you a walk every time you run low. When you have more basic teas than you drink, mix them up into an Advanced Healing Tea, which the game says heals a moderate amount.