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Medicine herbs:Alder Bark
Description: Bark of the alder tree.
Usage: For tooth pain.
Effect: Eases toothaches.
Blackberry Leaves
Description: Leaves from the prickly blackberry bush.
Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Eases the swelling of bee stings.
Borage Leaves
Description: It is easily distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves.
Usage: It is chewed and eaten by nursing queens.
Effect: It produces more and better milk. It also brings down fevers.
Burdock Root
Description: Tall-stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves.
Usage: The root is dug up, the soil is washed off, and then it is chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Lessens and heals the pain of infected rat bites.
Burnet
Description: Has oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges. Stem has large clusters of small flower buds on top.
Usage: A traveling herb.
Effect: Gives strength.
Catchweed
Description: A plant with fuzzy green balls on long stems.
Usage: The burrs are put on the pelt where poultices are.
Effect: Stops poultices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.
Catmint
Description: A leafy and delicious-smelling plant.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Best remedy for the deadly greencough, which kits and elders usually catch in the season of leaf-bare. It can also be used for whitecough.
Celandine
Description: Yellow flower with four petals.
Usage: Juice is trickled into the eye.
Effect: Soothes damaged eyes.
Chamomile
Description: A small, white flower with a large, yellow center.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind. It is also given to traveling cats for strength.
Chervil
Description: A sweet-smelling plant with large, leafy, fern-like leaves and small white flowers. The roots are described as being knobby and brown.
Usage: Chewed to extract the juice of the leaves or the root.
Effect: For infected wounds and bellyache, it can also be used during kitting.
Chickweed
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
Effect: Treats greencough, though catmint is often preferred.
Cobwebs
Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders.
Usage: Press over wound.
Effect: To soak up and stop (or slow) the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.
Coltsfoot
Description: A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions. Grows best in newleaf.
Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Eases breathing or kitten-cough, as well as cracked or sore pads.
Comfrey Root
Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots.
Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultice.
Effect: Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds. Also used for wrenched claws. It can be used for itching or for inflammation on stiff joints.
Daisy Leaf
Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves.
Usage: Chewed into a paste.
Effect: Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a travelling herb.
Dandelion
Description: Common yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems. After flowering is finished, the flower transforms a sphere made out of hundreds of smaller white florets with seed heads at the bottom that connect to the flower head.
Usage: The white liquid is thought to be applied to bee stings. Leaves can be chewed.
Effect: Thought to soothe and heal bee stings. Its leaves can also be chewed to act like a painkiller.
Dock
Description: Common, large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste.
Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches. Similar to sorrel.
Effect: Soothes scratches, though can sting when being applied. Soothes sore pads.
Fennel
Description: Thin, spiky leaves.
Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth.
Effect: Helps pain in the hips.
Feverfew
Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies. Has a sharp tangy smell and small soft leaves.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Reduces body temperature for cats with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, especially good for headaches.
Goldenrod
Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
Usage: Chewed into a poultice.
Effect: Good for healing wounds.
Heather Nectar
Description: Nectar found in bell-shaped flowers.
Usage: Included in herbal mixtures.
Effect: Makes swallowing easier and sweetens mixtures.
Honey
Usage: Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it.
Effect: Soothes infections, smoke-damaged or sore throats, helps cats swallow other concoctions, helps soothe coughing, and gives energy.
Horsetail
Description: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant, referred to with fleshy stalks.
Usage: Chewed to a poultice, and applied to wounds.
Effect: Treats infections and stops bleeding.
Juniper Berries
Description: Purple-blue berries from the dark green, spiky-leaved juniper bush.
Usage: Chewed and eaten.
Effect: Soothes bellyaches, gives strength, and helps troubled breathing. It is also used to help calm cats.
Lavender
Description: A small purple flowering plant.
Effect: Cures fever and chills. Also a herb used to hide the scent of death.
Mallow Leaves
Description: Large fuzzy three-knobbed leaves from a flowering shrub; sweet rose scent.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Soothes bellyache.
Marigold
Description: A low-growing flower; yellow to bright orange.
Usage: Petals or leaves chewed in a poultice. Juice can be used as well.
Effect: It stops infection and bleeding. Used for inflammation of stiff joints.
Mouse Bile
Extracted from the mouse. The only remedy for ticks, mouse bile is foul smelling, and is stored in moss. When dabbed on a tick, the tick falls off. Smell can be masked by wild garlic, or by washing paws in running water. If accidentally swallowed, can leave a horrible taste in mouth for days. Medicine cats always have to remember to wash their paws in a body of water, such as a creek or stream, after using mouse bile.
Dried Oak Leaf
Description: Round, cartoon-like ruffled leaves.
Effect: Stops infection from setting in.
Parsley
Description: A long-stemmed plant with ragged-edged crinkly leaves, Sharp scent, tastes cold and fresh, tastes the same fresh or dried.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Stops a queen from producing milk if her kits die, her kits don’t need milk anymore, or are producing too much milk. Also used to cure bellyache.
Poppy Seeds
Description: Tiny, round black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flower-head.
Usage: Chewed on.
Effect: They can help a cat sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens.
Ragwort Leaves
Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers. Tastes foul to cats.
Usage: Crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints.
Effect: Treats aching joints and keeps a cat's strength up.
Ragweed
Description: Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern.
Usage: Thought to give cats extra strength.
Effect: Like lamb's ear, ragweed gives a cat extra strength and energy.
Raspberry Leaves
Description: Soft to the touch, but with jagged edges.
Usage: It could be a painkiller, or help stop bleeding during kitting.
Effect: Could possibly ease pain, or stop bleeding.
Rosemary
Description: Tall with needle-like leaves and purple flowers.
Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead cat to prepare for burial.[86]
Effect: Hides the scent of death.
Rush
Description: It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks.
Usage: Used to bind broken bones.
Effect: Helps hold a broken limb in place.
Snakeroot
Description: The best remedy for poison, especially snake bites.
Usage: To be applied to wounds.
Effect: To heal poison.
Sorrel
Description: Similar to dock, Sorrel is used as a traveling herb.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Traveling herb.
Stick
Usage: Cats in pain bite it when other medicine is either unavailable or not recommended.
Effect: Distracts cats from pain. It is recommended for queens giving birth.
Stinging Nettle
Description: It has green, spiny seeds.
Usage: The seeds are eaten by a cat who has swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound.
Effect: Induces vomiting, or brings down swelling, respectively. It can be mixed with comfrey to help heal broken bones. Helps with wounds.
Tansy
Description: The tansy plant has round, yellow leaves, and has a very sweet and strong scent, making it good for disguising a cat's scent.
Usage: To be consumed, but only in small doses.
Effect: Cures coughs. Can be used to cure wounds and poisons .Stops cats from getting greencough. Soothes throats.
Tormentil
Description: It has a strong, aromatic scent to it and a sharp taste.
Usage: Chewed and put on the wound.
Effect: Its root is good for treating all wounds and extracting poison.
Thyme
Description: Small, delicate, thick, sticky leaves with a fresh tang.
Usage: Leaves can be chewed on.
Effect: Calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats who are in shock.
Traveling Herbs
Traveling Herbs consists of sorrel, daisy, chamomile and burnet. Used to give a cat more energy and strength.
Watermint
Description: A green, leafy plant.
Usage: It is usually chewed into a pulp, and then eaten.
Effect: Eases the suffering that originates from a bellyache.
Wild Garlic
Description: Due to its strong smell, it is good for hiding the scent of a certain Clan, and disguising cats on raids.
Usage: One must roll in it.
Effect: Prevents infection, especially rat bites.
Willow Bark
Description: Bark of the willow tree.
Effect: Eases pain.
Willow Leaves
Description: Leaves of the willow tree.
Effect: Stops vomiting.
Wintergreen
Description: Easily identifiable by its red berries.
Effect: Treats wounds and some poisons.
Yarrow
Description: A flowering plant.
Usage: Its leaves are chewed into a poultice that can be given to cats or applied to a wound depending on the situation.
Effect: Extracts poison from wounds. Will make a cat vomit up toxins. The ointment will soften and help heal cracked pads.
Deathberries
Description: Red berries from the dark-leaved, poisonous yew bush.
Usage: Sometimes used to kill other cats by making them eat the berry.
Effect: Kills a cat within minutes when consumed.
Foxglove Seeds
Description: Tiny, black seeds from the bell-shaped flower of the foxglove plant.
Usage: They are used to treat the heart
Effect: They can easily cause paralysis and heart failure
Deadly Nightshade
Description: A small shrub with faintly scented, bell-shaped flowers that are purple tinged with green in color. Berries are shiny and black when ripe.
Usage: To kill a cat who cannot be saved quickly.
Effect: Poisonous.
Water Hemlock
Description: Green or white flowers with petals in umbrella-shaped clusters
Effect: Causes writhing and foaming at the mouth