Post by Cosmic Kitties on Jan 21, 2023 22:36:13 GMT -6
Herb List
KEY:
Treatment of wounds
Treatment of diseases
Other
Alder Bark
Description: Dark gray bark, fissured. Younger trees can also have greenish bark. Branches can sometimes be sticky.
Location: Along rivers, can also grow in swampy areas. Can be found during Leaf-bare.
Usage: Chewed
Effect: Eases toothaches
Beech Tree / Nuts / Leaves
Description: Broad, shiny leaves. Can have a variety of leaf colors, but typically are green, yellow, or golden. Female trees produce beech nuts. Bark can be thin, smooth, and gray in color.
Location: Solarclan territory. Grows well in moist, deep, and rich soil.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Nuts are good for attracting prey.
Bindweed
Description: Blue petals with a white throat and a yellow center. Typically blooms in warmer weather. Stems contain green leaves.
Location: Borealisclan
Usage: Helps bind sticks together
Effect: When combined with sticks, can help mend a broken leg and keep it in-place.
Birch Sap
Description: A thick, sticky liquid commonly found in or on birch trees.
Location: Eventideclan
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Unknown
Blackberry / Blackberry leaves
Description: Plant itself carries pinkish-white flowers, each flower has five petals and produces one fruit crop a year. Grows in sunny areas. Carries a sharp scent.
Location: Almost anywhere; a hardy plant
Usage: Leaves are chewed into a pulp
Effect: Mixed into a poultice to ease the pain of bee stings
The Blazing Star / Smoothstem Blazingstar
Description: A plant with spiky leaves and yellow flowers, whose five petals spread out separately and resemble a star.
Location: Found near pine forests
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Unknown
Borage / Borage Leaves
Description: Easily distinguishable by its small blue or pink star-shaped petals and hairy leaves. Can also be distinguished by smell as well as sight. The best leaves are typically halfway up the stem, and has a zesty scent to them. Leaves can be dark green or grey-green in color, soft, and they lose their flavor when they are dried out.
Location: Grows around the Lake
Usage: Chewed and eaten
Effect: Helps queens produce more and higher quality milk. Also helps to bring down fevers. Soothes bad bellies and relieves tight chests.
Bright-Eye
Description: Light pink with darker pink middles
Location: Suny areas, wooded areas, thickets
Usage: Crushed into a poultice mixture
Effect: Mix with lovage to help cure coughs
Broom
Description: Shrubs with small leaves and small yellow flowers. Flowers are often solitary, but can also come in pairs
Location: Grows in the Solarclan territory. Can also be found during Leaf-Bare
Usage: Ground into a poultice
Effect: Used in poultices that can help broken legs and wounds.
Burdock / Burdock Root
Description: Tall-stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves. Has a bitter taste
Location: Borealisclan territory
Usage: The root is dug up, the soil washed off, and then it is chewed into a pulp
Effect: Soothes and heals rat bites especially if they are infected. Can give cats bellyaches if they eat too much of it. Numbs rat bites to the point a cat can not feel the pain. Also good for infected paws and other sores.
Burnet
Description: Medium green-colored basal leaves. Can occasionally have spokes of purple flowers.
Location: Solarclan and other general sunny areas
Usage: A traveling Herb. The leaves are swallowed.
Effect: Used to give strength. Good for expecting queens.
Catchweed / catchweed bedstraw / Catchweed burrs
Description: A plant with fuzzy green balls on long stems.
Location: Common in hedges and other low, shrubby vegetation. Found main in the Solarclan territory.
Usage: The burrs are put on the pelt where poultices are
Effect: Stops poultices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.
Catmint / Catnip
Description: A tall, leafy, and delicious smelling plant. Has gray-green leaves, stem is hairy, and has pale purple flowers. Is easily killed by frost. Looks like nettles but doesn’t sting.
Location: Thrives in areas with dry soil and is very tolerant of dryer conditions, like that of Solarclan.
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Best remedy for deadly greencough, which cats (mainly kits and elders) can catch in leaf-bare. Also useful for whitecough. Considered highly dangerous in extremely high doses.
Celandine
Description: Yellow flower with four petals. Celandine poppy have bigger petals, whereas the greater celandine are smaller
Location: Grows in both Solarclan and Eventideclan, but possibly grows better in the forest.
Usage: Crushed into juice and trickled into eyes
Effect: Soothes weakened or damaged eyes
Chamomile
Description: A small, white flower with a large yellow center
Location: can be found in sandy-like soil. Best in cooler areas
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind. 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
Location: Found in Eventideclan and occasionally in Borealisclan
Usage: Chewed to extract the juice of the leaves or the root
Effect: For infected wounds and bellyache, respectively. Can also be used during kitting.
Chickweed
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond shaped leaves.
Location: Sunny areas
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Treats greencough, though catmint is often preferred.
Cob Nuts
Description: A smooth brown nut with a hard outside shell. A type of hazelnut
Location: in, under, or near hazel trees that grow in sunny spots
Usage: Made into ointments
Effect: attracts prey out of their burrows.
Cobwebs
Description: Long, Thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very Common
Location: All territories. Among the roots of the trees
Usage: Pressed over wounds
Effect: To soak up and stop, or slow, 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
Location: Grows well in Eventideclan territory
Usage: leaves chewed into a pulp
Effect: eases breathing or kitten-cough, as well as cracked or sore paw pads.
Comfrey Root
Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shapped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple and fat, brown roots. Tangy smell
Location: Damp, grassy places
Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultice. Can also be lined in ones nest
Effect: repairs broken bones or soothes wounds. Also used for wrenched claws. Can be used for itching or for inflammation on stiff joints. Also eases stiffness on wrenched shoulders when lined in a nest. Can be used for burns.
Daisy Leaf
Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves
Location: Solarclan
Usage: Chewed into a paste
Effect: eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a traveling herb
Dandelion
Description: Common yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems. After flowering is finished, the flower transforms into s sphere made out of hundreds of smaller white florets with sead heads at the bottom that connect to the flower head.
Location: Almost everywhere
Usage: The white liquid is thought to be applied to bee stings. Leaves can be chewed. The roots can also be used to help cure the affects of meadow saffron poisoning
Effect: Thought to soothe and heal bee stings. Its leaves can also be chewed to act like a painkiller
Dock / Dock leaf
Description: Common, big, dark-green large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste
Location: Doesn’t grow well in mountains, best in leafy areas. Grows near streams as well.
Usage: chewed up and applied to scratches. Similar to sorrel. Also can be put in ones nest during sleep
Effect: Soothes scratches, though can sting when being applied. Soothes sore pads. If placed in nests it can ease the pain of wounds. Can be used to help practice healing group mates.
Elder Leaves
Description: Leaves from the elder tree
Location: found in or near elder trees
Usage: turned into a poultice
Effect: soothes sprains
Fennel
Description: Thin, spikey leaves
Location: Found in numerous places, especially on dry soils near the lakeshore and riverbanks
Usage: stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receivers mouth
Effect: helps with pain in the hips
Feverfew
Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies. Has a sharp tangy smell and small soft leaves
Location: grows best along water
Usage: eaten
Effect: reduces body temperature for cats with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, especially good for headaches
Goatweed
Description: Plant with ovate leaves
Location: Eventideclan
Usage: unkown
Effect: Eases grief
Goldenrod
Description: A tall plant with bright yellow flowers
Location: Grows well in Solarclan
Usage: chewed into a poultice
Effect: Good for healing general wounds
Hawkweed
Description: Small green plant with yellow and orange flowers
Location: unkown
Usage: unknown
Effect: Like catmint but not as strong
Heather nectar
Description: Nectar found in the bell-shapped flowers of Heather
Location: best grown in shady areas
Usage: included in herbal mixtures
Effect: makes swallowing easier and sweetens mixtures
Honey
Description: A sweet, golden-colored liquid made by bees
Location: In honeycombs or bees nests up in trees
Usage: Eaten or given by moss soaked in it
Effect: Soothes infections, is a great remedy for smoke-damaged or sore throats, helps cats swallow other concoctions, helps sooth coughing, and gives energy
Horsetail
Description: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant, referred to with fleshy stalks
Location: any marshy area
Usage: chewed into a poultice and applied to wounds
Effect: treats infections and stops bleeding
Ivy Leaf
Description: Leaves from ivy vines
Location: grows in most meddie dens
Usage: used to store other herbs for safe keeping
Effect: none
Juniper Berries
Description: Purple-blue berries from the dark green, spiky-leaved juniper bush
Location: grows in places that are not wet
Usage: Chewed and eaten
Effect: Soothes bellyaches, gives strength, and helps troubled breathing. It is also used to help calm cats
Lamb’s ear
Description: Soft, fuzzy green plant
Location: Commonly found in the mountains
Usage: unknown
Effect: gives a cat strength
Laurel leaf
Description: Green, glabrous leaves
Location: Solarclan
Usage: Making herb wraps
Effect: none
Lavender
Description: A small purple flowering plant
Location: Grown in sunny spots with sandy or gravely soil
Usage: Placed under cats’ nose and is to be inhaled constantly, or rubbed/placed on an animals body to hide the scent of death
Effect: Cures fever and chills. Can also be used to hide the scent of death
Lovage
Description: A tall plant with shiny glabrous green to green-yellow stems and leaves. Smells somewhat bitter when crushed
Location: Found in sunny, cool places. Likes moist soil
Usage: Unknown
Effect: If it is mixed with bright-eye, it can help cure coughs
Lungwort
Description: An herb with dark green leaves speckled with grey
Location: between Solarclan and Lunarclan
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Cures yellowcough
Mallow leaves
Description: Large fuzzy three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub; sweet rose scent
Location: grows best near lakeshore; best collected at sunhigh, when they are dry
Usage: eaten
Effect: soothes bellyache
Marigold
Description: A low-growing flower; bright yellow to orange
Location: Near water
Usage: petals or leaves chewed into a poultice. Juice can be used as well
Effect: Stops infection. Stops bleeding. Used for inflammation of stiff joints
Mint
Description: Downy, serrated leaves framing from freen to purple and yellow in color. Flowers are small and white or purple
Location: Solarclan
Usage: Rubbed on a dead body
Effect: Hides scent of death
Moss
Description: A spongey, soft green shrub, commonly found on trees or marshy areas
Location: abundant in forests and marshy locations
Usage: used to soak up fluid and line nests
Effect: none
Mouse Bile
Description: Foul-smelling, yellowish-green liquid
Location: must be extracted from mice
Usage: liquid is stored in moss and dabbed onto ticks embedded in pelts
Effect: Kills ticks
Oak Leaf (dried)
Description: Round, cartoon-like ruffled leaves
Location: Wherever Oak trees grow
Usage: The dried leaves are to be stored in a dry location until the time of usage, when they are chewed into a thick poultice and spread on a wound
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
Location: grows best in moist, well-drained soil, with full sun
Usage: eaten
Effect: Stops a queen from producing milk in her litter dies, no longer needs milk, or is producing too much milk. Also used to cure bellyaches.
Poppy seeds
Description: Tiny, round black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead
Location: all over the lake territories
Usage: Chewed on
Effect: They can help a cat sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens
Ragweed
Description: Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern
Location: thought to be commonly found in the mountains
Usage: Thought to give cats extra strength
Effect: Like lamb’s ear, ragweed gives a cat extra strength and energy
Ragwort leaves
Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers. Tastes foul to cats
Location: almost everywhere, especially in cool areas with high rainfall
Usage: crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries.
Effect: treats aching joints and keeps cats strength up
Raspberry leaves
Description: Soft to the touch, but with jagged edges
Location: Found in raspberry bushes
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
Location: Found in Solarclan territory
Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead cat to prepare for burial
Effect: Hides the scent of death
Rush
Description: It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks
Location: often grows in infertile soils with a wide range of moisture conditions
Usage: Used to bind broken bones
Effect: Helps hold broken limb in place, such as a cast for twolegs
Sorrel
Description: Similar to dock
Location: found near twoleg nests, and will grow just outside the Borealisclan meddies' den.
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Traveling Herb, can also build up appetite
Stick
Description: Wood protrusions that grow on and fell from trees
Location: on, and around trees
Usage: can be bitten down on or used as a binding
Effect: Distracts cats from pain when bitten down on, especially during kitting. Can also be used to help set broken bones
Stinging Nettle
Description: Green, spiny seeds
Location: All over the lake territories
Usage: the seeds are eaten by a cat who has swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound. Stem can also be chewed.
Effect: Induces vomiting, or brings down swelling, respectively. Can be mixed with comfrey to help heal broken bones. Helps with wounds. Chewing the stem helps fight against infection
Sweet-sedge
Description: Thick green stem with long buds at the top
Location: grows all through leaf-bare. Most common in Eventideclan territory
Usage: One must swallow the sap
Effect: Eases infection
Tansy
Description: round, yellow flowers, and has a very sweet and strong scent
Location: found growing outside of the Borealisclan meddie den
Usage: To be consumed, but only in small doses
Effect: Cures cough, can be used to cure wounds and poisons. Stops cats from getting greencough, soothes throats. Can be extremely dangerous to pregnant cats
Tormentil
Description: It has a strong, aromantic scent to it and a sharp taste
Location: found in most cool or cold areas but other types may be found in gardens
Usage: chewed and put on wounds
Effect: It’s root is good for treating all wounds and extracting poison
Thyme
Description: Small, delicate, thick, sticky leaves with a fresh tang
Location: Best in hot, sunny locations
Usage: leaves can be chewed on
Effect: calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats who are in shock
Watermint
Description: A light green plant with Oval-shaped leaves and purple flowers at the end of its spiky stems
Location: Usually found in streams or damp earth
Usage: usually chewed into a pulp, and then eaten
Effect: Eases the suffer that originates from a bellyache
Wild Garlic
Description: Extremely sharp and tangy scent. Grows in patches, and typically has a white bulb with green leaves. They can also produce a flower
Location: Found in Eventideclan, Lunarclan, and Solarclan
Usage: One must roll in it
Effect: Draws out poison in rat bites. Prevents infection
Willow Bark
Description: Bark of a willow tree
Location: anywhere willow trees are found
Usage: unknown
Effect: eases pain
Willow leaves
Description: the leaves of the white willow tree are shaped like elongated ovals and are paler then most other willows due to the felt-like covering of fine white hairs on the bottom side of each leaf
Location: Found on willow trees, or on the ground nearby willow trees. Willow trees grow in wet soil, usually near a lake, river, pond, or other body of water
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Stops vomiting
Wintergreen
Description: Easily identifiable by its red berries
Location: Oak/Pine woods and sandy habitats
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Treats wounds and some poisons
Wood Sorrel
Description: A medium-sized weed with green, heart-shaped leaves, and five-petaled yellow or white flowers. The flowers can also be pink or violet depending on the species. It has a sour or tart flavor
Location: Grows best in partial shade. Found mainly in Borealisclan.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Dries up wounds
Yarrow
Description: A flowering plant with Green, Jagged leaves, a tangy scent and a bitter taste
Location: Solarclan territory and just outside of Borealisclan territory
Usage: its leaves are chewed into a poultice that can be given to cats or applied to a would depending on the situation
Effect: Extracts poison from wounds. Will make a cat vomit up toxins. The ointment will soften and help heal cracked paw pads.
