Because of her eccentric treatment of patients (whom she will readily injure if they do not follow her orders), along with her reclusive nature and spiteful method of checking for injury (deliberately prodding the ailing area causing her patients pain and forcefully knocking them out via Chopper), she is often called a "witch." However, she is a legitimate practitioner of medicine, and has kept herself healthy and fit at nearly 140 years old (a "young 99 and a half" in the dub version). She considers herself a beautiful virgin flower, dresses in a style more suited to women one-sixth her age, and cannot stand being called "old" or a "hag" (which usually ends up in her punching or kicking the offender across the room). Kureha seems to have a drinking habit, judging by the bottle of umeshu (梅酒, "plum sake") (bug juice in the English dub anime) she always keeps close at hand, though she may consider this part of the regimen that keeps up her (relative) youth, she is also quite strong, able to smash through solid brick walls and is capable of beating up fighters as experienced as Zoro in seconds
