Curing poisons

[Axebeard]

Does making enough saves to cure a poison merely preclude your character from having to make more saves against that dose of poison, or does it also remove all of the damage caused by the poison?

Basically,

"The poison has run its course, but it's still left me too weak to raise my sword." vs. "The poison has run its course, and I'm feeling much better now!"

I've been trying to figure this out for a while without much success. Thanks in advance.

[Joana]

In the Glossary, under afflictions (which encompasses both diseases and poisons):

Quote:

Cure: This tells you how the affliction is cured. Commonly, this is a number of saving throws that must be made consecutively. Even if the affliction has a limited frequency, it might be cured prematurely if enough saving throws are made. Hit point damage and ability score damage is not removed when an affliction is cured. Such damage must be healed normally.

[Emphasis added]

[nosig]

wow - joana - I almost missed the "not" above. threw me for a sec there.