Primitive Medicine?

 A common online misconception is that Gorean medicine is roughly on the level of the Middle Ages on Earth, consisting of herbal concoctions and not much more. This is very far from what is presented in the books. Below are some examples of highly developed medical practice of the Gorean city cultures.

On the first day the physician, a quiet man in the green garments of his Caste, examined me, thoroughly. The instruments he used, the tests he performed, the samples he required were not unlike those of Earth. Further, certain pieces of equipment were clearly far from primitive. For example, there was a small machine with gauges and dials. In this he would place slides, containing drops of blood, and urine, flecks of tissue, a strand of hair. With a stylus he would note readings on the machine, and on the small screen at the top of the machine, I saw vastly enlarged what reminded me of an image witnessed under a microscope. He would briefly study the image, and then make further jottings with his stylus.  

(Captive of Gor 92-93)

Aging was a physical process and, as such, was susceptible to alteration by physical means. All physical processes are theoretically reversible. Entropy itself is presumably a moment in a cosmic rhythm. The physicians of Gor, it seemed, had addressed themselves to the conquest of what had hitherto been a universal disease, called on Gor the drying and withering disease, called on Earth, aging. Generations of intensive research and experimentation had taken place. At last a few physicians, drawing upon the accumulated data of hundreds of investigators, had achieved the breakthrough, devising the first primitive stabilization serums, later to be developed and exquisitely refined. 

(Slave Girl of Gor)

A culture capable of this sort of medical research and practice does not need to depend only on herbal poultices. In several ways, Gorean medicine is described as being more advanced than that of any society on modern day Earth. The matter of primitive Gorean medicine can be readdressed once we have come up with a risk-free contraceptive that works indefinitely and can be counteracted with a simple antidote, and when we can stall or reverse aging. Until then, let us be a bit more ambitious than making tea for indigestion in our roleplay.