It depends how desperate the woman is, and I'm guess that very few are. She may be desperate to Heal with the Power, but if she is useless, she'll be disuaded by the Yellows and regarded poorly by them when raised to the shawl. I doubt anyone would choose the Yellow if Healing left them gasping, and they'd barely Healed a bruise. It's like a retarded woman choosing the Brown - they probably wouldn't, but nothing's to stop them from heading for the Brown shawl when they're raised.



It's not part of the Yellows, Healing is. Suana knows that Egwene sucks at Healing but she wants a woman of her power in her ajah. Sharina's ability was nearly enough to cause Romanda to reverse her whole opinion on older novices. They're very fickle that way, but no more than a sports team who wants someone famous, even if he's a figurehead who costs more than he's worth.



Pevara may be the only Red with a decent reason for entering the Red ajah, and even she's demented if she thinks male channelers lead her to darkfriends. The others could only join for idiotic reasons considering males are so rare.



There's no proof that Nynaeve's herbs do anything except satisfy her own complexes about being a Wisdom and 'maintaining the craft'.


Egwene didn't dive into the plants and examine them - she mentioned a few of what she saw.



Because so many plants in the head of the yellow's quarters leads to a logical conclusion. Egwene would be dense not to think of that first. What would you have her think primarily... that Suana has decided to provide her own food?



Why would an Aes Sedai grow her own food?