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Alder Bark
Alder Bark
Description: Bark of the alder tree.
Usage: For tooth pain
Effect: Eases toothaches
Beech Leaves
Beech Leaves
Description: The distinguishing feature of the leaf is the serrated edges
Usage: By ThunderClan medicine cats for carrying other herbs.
Effect: None
Blackberry Leaves
Blackberry Leaves
Description: Leaves from the prickly blackberry bush.
Location: Almost anywhere; they are very hardy plants.
Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Eases the swelling of beestings.
Borage Leaves
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
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
Burnet
Description: Has oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges. Stems grow 50-200cm tall, with large clusters of small flower buds on top.
Usage: A traveling herb
Effect: Is said to help stop minor bleeding on humans. Keeps a cat's strength up
Catchweed
Catchweed
Description: A plant with fuzzy green balls on long clining stems.
Usage: The burrs are put on the pelt where poltices are.
Effect: Stops poltices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.
Catmint/Catnip
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. Can also be used for whitecough.
It is best to collect late in the day, as the dew will have burned off (evaporated) so it won't rot in the store.
Celandine
Celandine
Description: Yellow flower with four petals
Usage: Juice is trickled into the eye
Effect: Soothes damaged eyes.
Chamomile
Chamomile
Description: A small, white flower with a large, yellow center
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind. Also given to traveling cats for strength.
Chervil
Chervil
Description: A sweet-smelling plant with large, leafy, fern-like leaves and small white flowers.
Usage: Chewed to extract the juice of the leaves or the root.
Effect: For infected wounds and bellyache, respectively, Can be used during kitting
Chickweed
Chickweed
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Treats greencough, though catmint is often preferred.
Cob Nuts
Cob Nuts
Description: A smooth brown nut with a hard outside shell. A type of hazelnut.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Made into ointments.
Effect: Unknown
Cobwebs
Cobwebs
Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very common.
Usage: Press over wound.
Effect: To soak up and stop (or slow) the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.
Coltsfoot
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
Comfrey Root
Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots. Tangy smell
Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultice
Effect: Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds. Also used for wrenched claws. Can be used for itching, Used for inflammation on stiff joints
Daisy Leaf
Daisy Leaf
Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed into a paste
Effect: Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a travelling herb.
Dandelion
Dandelion
Description: Common yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems.
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
Dock
Description: Common, large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste.
Location: Doesn't grow well in mountains, best in leafy areas
Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches. Similar to sorrel.
Effect: Soothes scratches, though can sting when being applied. Soothes sore pads
Fennel
Fennel
Description: Thin, spiky leaves
Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth[48]
Effect: Helps pain in the hips
Feverfew
Feverfew
Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies, sharp tangy smell, 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
Goldenrod
Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
Usage: Chewed into a poultice.
Effect: Good for healing wounds.
Heather Nectar
Heather Nectar
Description: Nectar found in bell-shaped flowers.
Usage: Included in herbal mixtures.
Effect: Makes swallowing easier and sweetens mixtures
Honey
Honey
Description: A sweet, golden-coloured liquid made by bees.
Usage: Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it.
Effect: Soothes infections, smoke-damaged or sore throats, and helps cats swallow other concoctions.
Horsetail
Horsetail
Description: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant, referred to with fleshy stalks
Usage: Chewed to a poultice, and applied to wounds
Effect: Treats infections
Ivy Leaf
Ivy Leaf
Description: Leaves from the ivy vine.
Usage: By ShadowClan medicine cats to store other herbs.
Effect: None
Juniper Berries
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.
Lamb's Ear
Lamb's Ear
Description: Soft, fuzzy green plant.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Gives a cat strength.
Lavender
Lavender
Description: A small, purple, flowering plant.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Cures fever and chills. Also a herb used to hide the scent of death.
Mallow Leaves
Mallow Leaves
Description: Three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub, sweet rose scent
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Soothes bellyache.
Marigold
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: Stops infection. Stops bleeding. Used for inflammation of stiff joints
Mint
Mint
Description: None
Usage: Rubbed on a dead body
Effect: Hides the scent of death
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.
Oak Leaf
Dried Oak Leaf
Description: Round, cartoony ruffled leaves.
Usage: Unknown, but stored in a dry place.
Effect: Stops infection from setting in.
Parsley
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, don't need milk anymore, or are producing too much milk. Also used to cure bellyache.
Poppy Seeds
Poppy Seeds
Description: Small black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead.
Usage: Chewed on
Effect: They can put a cat to sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens.
Ragwort Leaves
Ragwort Leaves
Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers, Tastes foul to cats
Location: Unknown
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
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
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
Rosemary
Description: Tall with needle-like leaves and purple flowers.
Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead cat to prepare for burial.
Effect: Hides the scent of death.
Rush
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, such as casts for Twolegs
Snakeroot
Snakeroot
Description: The best remedy for poison, especially snake bites
Usage: Thought to be applied to wounds
Effect: Thought to heal poison
Sorrel
Sorrel
Description: Similar to dock, Sorrel is used as a traveling herb
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Traveling herb
Stinging Nettle
Stinging Nettle
Description: It has green, spiny seeds.
Usage: The seeds are eaten by a cat who's swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound.
Effect: Induces vomiting, or brings down swelling, respectively. Can be mixed with comfrey to help heal broken bones. Helps with wounds
Tansy
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
Tormentil
Description: It has a strong, romantic scent to it and a sharp taste
Usage: Chewed and put on the wound[102]
Effect: Its root is good for treating all wounds and extracting poison
Thyme
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
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
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
Willow Bark
Description: Bark of the willow tree
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Eases pain
Wintergreen
Wintergreen
Description: Easily identifiable by its red berries
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Treats wounds and some poisons[102]
Stoneteller mentioned to Jaypaw while treating Gray's wound, wondering if the Clans used it.
Yarrow
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.
Poisons
Deathberries
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.
ShadowClan medicine cats use them to end a cat's life to prevent unnecessary suffering.
Foxglove Seeds
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
They are often mistaken for poppy seeds because they look extremely similar. They are known to be a dangerous medicine.
Holly Berries
Holly Berries
Description: Plant with spiny leaves that produces red berries with no medicinal value.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Unknown
Holly berries, while not as dangerous as deathberries, are still a danger to kits.
Nightshade
Nightshade
Description: Tubular flower with radiating petals
Usage: To kill a cat who cannot be saved quickly.
Effect: Poisonous
Water Hemlock
Water Hemlock
Description: Green or white flowers with petals in umbrella-shaped clusters
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Causes writhing and foaming at the mouth.
Water hemlock is the most poisonous plant in the Clan territories after deathberries.
Alder Bark
Description: Bark of the alder tree.
Usage: For tooth pain
Effect: Eases toothaches
Beech Leaves
Beech Leaves
Description: The distinguishing feature of the leaf is the serrated edges
Usage: By ThunderClan medicine cats for carrying other herbs.
Effect: None
Blackberry Leaves
Blackberry Leaves
Description: Leaves from the prickly blackberry bush.
Location: Almost anywhere; they are very hardy plants.
Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Eases the swelling of beestings.
Borage Leaves
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
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
Burnet
Description: Has oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges. Stems grow 50-200cm tall, with large clusters of small flower buds on top.
Usage: A traveling herb
Effect: Is said to help stop minor bleeding on humans. Keeps a cat's strength up
Catchweed
Catchweed
Description: A plant with fuzzy green balls on long clining stems.
Usage: The burrs are put on the pelt where poltices are.
Effect: Stops poltices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.
Catmint/Catnip
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. Can also be used for whitecough.
It is best to collect late in the day, as the dew will have burned off (evaporated) so it won't rot in the store.
Celandine
Celandine
Description: Yellow flower with four petals
Usage: Juice is trickled into the eye
Effect: Soothes damaged eyes.
Chamomile
Chamomile
Description: A small, white flower with a large, yellow center
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind. Also given to traveling cats for strength.
Chervil
Chervil
Description: A sweet-smelling plant with large, leafy, fern-like leaves and small white flowers.
Usage: Chewed to extract the juice of the leaves or the root.
Effect: For infected wounds and bellyache, respectively, Can be used during kitting
Chickweed
Chickweed
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Treats greencough, though catmint is often preferred.
Cob Nuts
Cob Nuts
Description: A smooth brown nut with a hard outside shell. A type of hazelnut.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Made into ointments.
Effect: Unknown
Cobwebs
Cobwebs
Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very common.
Usage: Press over wound.
Effect: To soak up and stop (or slow) the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.
Coltsfoot
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
Comfrey Root
Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots. Tangy smell
Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultice
Effect: Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds. Also used for wrenched claws. Can be used for itching, Used for inflammation on stiff joints
Daisy Leaf
Daisy Leaf
Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed into a paste
Effect: Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a travelling herb.
Dandelion
Dandelion
Description: Common yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems.
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
Dock
Description: Common, large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste.
Location: Doesn't grow well in mountains, best in leafy areas
Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches. Similar to sorrel.
Effect: Soothes scratches, though can sting when being applied. Soothes sore pads
Fennel
Fennel
Description: Thin, spiky leaves
Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth[48]
Effect: Helps pain in the hips
Feverfew
Feverfew
Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies, sharp tangy smell, 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
Goldenrod
Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
Usage: Chewed into a poultice.
Effect: Good for healing wounds.
Heather Nectar
Heather Nectar
Description: Nectar found in bell-shaped flowers.
Usage: Included in herbal mixtures.
Effect: Makes swallowing easier and sweetens mixtures
Honey
Honey
Description: A sweet, golden-coloured liquid made by bees.
Usage: Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it.
Effect: Soothes infections, smoke-damaged or sore throats, and helps cats swallow other concoctions.
Horsetail
Horsetail
Description: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant, referred to with fleshy stalks
Usage: Chewed to a poultice, and applied to wounds
Effect: Treats infections
Ivy Leaf
Ivy Leaf
Description: Leaves from the ivy vine.
Usage: By ShadowClan medicine cats to store other herbs.
Effect: None
Juniper Berries
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.
Lamb's Ear
Lamb's Ear
Description: Soft, fuzzy green plant.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Gives a cat strength.
Lavender
Lavender
Description: A small, purple, flowering plant.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Cures fever and chills. Also a herb used to hide the scent of death.
Mallow Leaves
Mallow Leaves
Description: Three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub, sweet rose scent
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Soothes bellyache.
Marigold
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: Stops infection. Stops bleeding. Used for inflammation of stiff joints
Mint
Mint
Description: None
Usage: Rubbed on a dead body
Effect: Hides the scent of death
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.
Oak Leaf
Dried Oak Leaf
Description: Round, cartoony ruffled leaves.
Usage: Unknown, but stored in a dry place.
Effect: Stops infection from setting in.
Parsley
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, don't need milk anymore, or are producing too much milk. Also used to cure bellyache.
Poppy Seeds
Poppy Seeds
Description: Small black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead.
Usage: Chewed on
Effect: They can put a cat to sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens.
Ragwort Leaves
Ragwort Leaves
Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers, Tastes foul to cats
Location: Unknown
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
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
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
Rosemary
Description: Tall with needle-like leaves and purple flowers.
Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead cat to prepare for burial.
Effect: Hides the scent of death.
Rush
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, such as casts for Twolegs
Snakeroot
Snakeroot
Description: The best remedy for poison, especially snake bites
Usage: Thought to be applied to wounds
Effect: Thought to heal poison
Sorrel
Sorrel
Description: Similar to dock, Sorrel is used as a traveling herb
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Traveling herb
Stinging Nettle
Stinging Nettle
Description: It has green, spiny seeds.
Usage: The seeds are eaten by a cat who's swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound.
Effect: Induces vomiting, or brings down swelling, respectively. Can be mixed with comfrey to help heal broken bones. Helps with wounds
Tansy
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
Tormentil
Description: It has a strong, romantic scent to it and a sharp taste
Usage: Chewed and put on the wound[102]
Effect: Its root is good for treating all wounds and extracting poison
Thyme
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
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
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
Willow Bark
Description: Bark of the willow tree
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Eases pain
Wintergreen
Wintergreen
Description: Easily identifiable by its red berries
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Treats wounds and some poisons[102]
Stoneteller mentioned to Jaypaw while treating Gray's wound, wondering if the Clans used it.
Yarrow
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.
Poisons
Deathberries
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.
ShadowClan medicine cats use them to end a cat's life to prevent unnecessary suffering.
Foxglove Seeds
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
They are often mistaken for poppy seeds because they look extremely similar. They are known to be a dangerous medicine.
Holly Berries
Holly Berries
Description: Plant with spiny leaves that produces red berries with no medicinal value.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Unknown
Holly berries, while not as dangerous as deathberries, are still a danger to kits.
Nightshade
Nightshade
Description: Tubular flower with radiating petals
Usage: To kill a cat who cannot be saved quickly.
Effect: Poisonous
Water Hemlock
Water Hemlock
Description: Green or white flowers with petals in umbrella-shaped clusters
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Causes writhing and foaming at the mouth.
Water hemlock is the most poisonous plant in the Clan territories after deathberries.