Herb Usage

Alder Bark:

 * Description: bark of an alder tree
 * Location: mainly boggy/wet terrain
 * Usage: tooth pain


 * Effect: eases the pain

Beech Leaves:

 * Description: large,broad leaves that can be serrated,entire or sparsely toothed
 * Location: grows in almost any soil that is not waterlogged
 * Usage: used to carry other herbs
 * Effect: noneAlder Bark.jpgBeech Leaves.jpgBlackberry Leaves.jpg

Bindweed:

 * Description: arrowhead shaped leaves with pale white or pink trumpet shaped flowers
 * Location: almost anywhere
 * Usage: fastens sticks to broken legs to keep them in place
 * Effect: unknown

Blackberry Leaves:

 * Description: prickly leaves from the blackberry bush
 * Location: almost anywhere, very handy plants
 * Usage: leaves are chewed into a pulpBorage Leaves.jpg
 * Effect: eases swelling of bee stings

Borage Leaves:

 * Description: small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves
 * Location: grows best in forests
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 * Effect: produces more and better milk, brings down fevers

Bright-eye:

 * Description: unknown
 * Location: unknown
 * Usage: unknown
 * Effect: if mixed with lovage, helps cure coughs

Broom:

 * Description: shrubs with small leaves and yellow flowers
 * Location: forests
 * Usage: makes a poultice for broken bones and wounds
 * Effect: unknown

Burdock Root:

 * Description: tall stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves
 * Location: best in dry areas
 * Usage: the root is dug up, the soil is washed off, then it is chewed to a pulp


 * Effect: lessens and heals the pain of infected rat bites, used to prevent infection of rat bites

Burnet:

 * Description: oval shaped leaves with serrated edges, stems grow 50-200 cm tall with large clusters of small flower buds on top
 * Location: dry, grassy medows
 * Usage: traveling herb
 * Effect: help stop minor bleeding on two-legs, keeps a cats strength up

Catchweed:

 * Description: plant with fuzzy green balls on long stems
 * Location: common in hedges and other low,shrubby bushes
 * Usage: burrs are put on the pelt where the poultices are


 * Effect: stops poultices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin

Catmint/Catnip:

 * Description: leafy and delicious smelling plant
 * Location: rarely in wild, mostly in two-leg garden
 * Usage: eaten
 * Effect: best remedy for deadly green cough
 * best to collect later in the day, when the dew has evaporated

Celandine:

 * Description: yellow flower with four petals
 * Location: forest/ watery areas
 * Usage: juice is trickled into the eye
 * Effect: soothes damaged eyes

Chamomile:

 * Description: small white flowers with large white center
 * Location: two-leg gardens
 * Usage: eaten
 * Effect: strengthens heart and soothes mind, traveling herbs for strength

Chervil:

 * Description: sweet smelling plant with large,leafy,fern-like leaves and small white flowers
 * Location: forest territories,near rocks
 * Usage: chewed to extract the juice oh the leaves or the root
 * Effect: helps infected wounds and bellyache, also used with kitting

Chickweed:

 * Description: tall stemmed plant with fat, almond shaped leaves
 * Location: forest territories near rocks
 * Usage: eaten
 * Effect: back up for cat-mint

Cob Nuts:

 * Description: smooth brown nut with hard outside shell,type of hazelnut
 * Location: in/under/near hazel trees that grow in sunny spots
 * Usage: made into ointments
 * Effect: unknowen

Cobwebs:

 * Description: long,thin, shiny strands of spiders silk, extremely common
 * Location: anywhere
 * Usage: press against wound
 * Effect: stop or slow the flow of blood, can be used to mend broken bones

Coltsfoot:

 * Description: flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions grows best in new-leaf
 * Location: near water
 * Usage: leaves chewed into a pulp
 * Effect: eases breathing or kitten-cough as well as cracked and sore pads

Comfrey Root:

 * Description: large leaves,small bell shaped flowers which are pink, white and purple,fat,black roots, tangy smell
 * Location: damp, grassy places
 * Usage: roots chewed into poultice/ lined in ones nest
 * Effect: repairs broken bones,soothes wounds,used for wrenched claws and itching, inflammation on stiff joints,eases stiffness on wrenched shoulders when lined in a nest, used for burns

Daisy Leaf:

 * Description: thick,dark green, oval shaped leaves
 * Location: almost everywhere
 * Usage: chewed into a paste
 * Effect: eases pain of aching joints,traveling 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
 * Location: almost everywhere
 * Usage: white liquid is applied to bee stings, leaves also chewed as a painkiller

Dock:

 * Description: common, large leafed plant with tangy smell and taste
 * Location: leafy areas
 * Usage: chewed up and applied to scratches, similar to sorrel, can be put in ones nest during sleep, can be used to cats to vomit on
 * Effect: soothes scratches, can sting when applied, soothes sore pads, placed in nests, it eases the pain of wounds

Elder Leaves:

 * Description: leaves from elder tree
 * Location: often found in 5-9 leaflets
 * Usage: turned into poultice
 * Effect: soothes sprains

Fennel:

 * Description: thin,spiky leaves
 * Location: dry soils near sea/coasts and on river banks
 * Usage: stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receivers mouth
 * Effect: helps pain in the hips

Feverfew:

 * Description: small bush with flowers resembling daises, has a sharp tangy smell and small soft leaves
 * Location: along the water
 * Usage: eaten
 * Effect: reduces temperature for cats with fever and chills, heals aches and pains, good for headaches

Goatweed:

 * Description: plant with ovate leaves
 * Location: watery areas
 * Usage: unknown
 * Effect: eases anxiety and grief

Goldenrod:

 * Description: tall plant with bright yellow flowers
 * Location: moors
 * Usage: chewed into poultice
 * Effect: heals wounds

Hawkweed:

 * Description: small green plant with yellow and orange flowers
 * Location: unknown
 * Usage: n/a
 * Effect: like cat mint but not as strong

Heather Nectar:

 * Description: nectar found in bell shaped flowers
 * Location: shady areas
 * Usage: included in herbal mixtures
 * Effect: makes swallowing easier and sweetens herbs

Honey:

 * Description: sweet, golden colored liquid made by bees
 * Location: honeycombs or bees nests up in trees (good luck getting it)
 * Usage: eaten or given by moss soaked in it
 * Effect: soothes infections,smoke-damaged or sore throats, coughing and helps cats swallow herb mixtures, gives energy

Horsetail:

 * Description: tall bristly stemmed plant, fleshy stalks
 * Location: any marshy area
 * Usage: chewed to a poultice and applied to wounds
 * Effect: treats infections and stops bleeding

Ivy Leaf:

 * Description: leaves from an ivy vine
 * Location: trees
 * Usage: store other herbs
 * Effect: none

Juniper Berries:

 * Description: blue-purple berries from dark green, spiky leaved juniper bush
 * Location: places that are not wet
 * Usage: chewed and eaten
 * Effect: soothes bellyaches, gives strength, helps with trouble breathing, used to calm cats

Lamb's Ear:

 * Description: soft,fuzzy green plant
 * Location: mountains
 * Usage: unknown
 * Effect: gives cats strength

Lavender:

 * Description: small purple flowering plant
 * Location: sunny spots with sandy or gravely soil, two-leg gardens
 * Usage: placed under cats noses and inhaled constantly, rubbed/placed on an animals body to hide the smell of death
 * Effect: cures fever and chills

Lovage:

 * Description: unknown
 * Location: unknown
 * Usage: unknown
 * Effect: if mixed with bright eye, it can cure coughs

Lungwort:

 * Description: herb with dark green leaves speckled with grey
 * Location: moors
 * Usage: eaten
 * Effect: cures yellow-cough

Mallow Leaves:

 * Description: large, fizzy, three nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub sweet rose scent
 * Location: near shores, best collected at sun high, when they are dry
 * Usage: eaten
 * Effect: cures bellyache

Marigold:

 * Description: low growing flower, yellow to orange flower
 * Location: near water
 * Usage: petals or leaves chewed into a poultice, juice can be used as well
 * Effect: stops infection and bleeding, used for inflammation of stiff joints

Mint:

 * Description: downy, serrated leaves ranging from green to yellow to purple in color flowers are small and white and purple in color
 * Location: forest, two-leg gardens
 * Usage: rubbed on a dead body
 * Effect: hides the scent of death

Mouse Bile:

 * Description: foul smelling, yellowish green liquid
 * Location: anywhere mice are present
 * Usage: stored in moss and dabbed on ticks embedded into pelt
 * Effect: ticks fall off

Dried Oak Leaf:

 * Description: round, cartoon like ruffled leaves
 * Location: all over forest floor, collected in leaf fall
 * Usage: store in a dry location until needed, chewed into a thick poultice and spread on wound
 * Effect: stops infection from setting in

Parsley:

 * Description: long stemmed plant with ragged edged crinkly leaves sharp scent, tastes cold and fresh, the same fresh or dried
 * Location: moist, well drained soil, with full sun
 * Usage: eaten
 * Effect: stops a queen from producing milk if her kits die, don't need milk, or is producing to much milk, cures belly ache

Poppy Seeds:

 * Description: tiny, round, black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flower head
 * Location: all over forests
 * Usage: chewed on
 * Effect: helps a cat sleep,soothes shock and distress, eases pain, not recommended for nursing queens

Ragwort Leaves:

 * Description: tall shrub with yellow flowers
 * Location: cool areas with high rainfall
 * Usage: crushed and chewed, mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints
 * Effect: helps aching joints and keeps a cats strength up

Ragweed:

 * Description: ragged leaved plant resembling a fern
 * Location: mountains
 * Usage: eaten
 * Effect: keeps a cats strength up and gives extra energy

Raspberry Leaves:

 * Description: soft to touch but with jagged edges
 * Location: raspberry bushes
 * Usage: eaten
 * Effect: painkiller to stop bleeding during kitting

Rosemary:

 * Description: tall with needle like leaves and purple flowers
 * Location: forests
 * Usage: put on the pelt of a dead cat
 * Effect: hides the scent of death

Rush:

 * Description: long narrow leaves and lavender colored head stalks
 * Location: infertile soils with wide range of moisture levels
 * Usage: used to bind broken bones
 * Effect: heals broken bones

Sorrel:

 * Description: similar to dock
 * Location: near two-leg nests
 * Usage: eaten
 * Effect: traveling herb, can also build up an appetite

Sticks:

 * Description: wood twigs coming off of branches
 * Location: in trees anywhere
 * Usage: cats in pain can bite it when other herbs aren't recommended or cant be used, used to heal broken bones as well
 * Effect: distracts cats from pain * ESPECIALLY FOR KITTING QUEENS *

Stinging Nettle:

 * Description: tall plant with green spiny seeds
 * Location: all over the forest
 * Usage: seeds are eaten by a cat who has swallowed poison,leaves are chewed into poultice for wounds, stems can be chewed
 * Effect: induces vomiting,brings down swelling, if mixed with comfrey, helps heal broken bones, helps wounds, chewing stems can help fight against infections

sweet-sedge:

 * Description: thick green stem with long buds at the top
 * Location: grows through leaf bare, watery areas
 * Usage: one swallows the sap
 * Effect: eases infection

Tansy:

 * Description: round, yellow leaves with a very strong and sweet scent, making it good for disguising a cats scent
 * Location: forests and in two-leg gardens
 * Usage: consumed * ONLY IN SMALL DOSES could kill a cat if over-dosed,use about 2 leaves at most *
 * Effect: cures coughs, wounds and poisons, stops cats from getting greencough, soothes throats

Tormentil:

 * Description: strong, aromatic scent to it and a sharp taste
 * Location: most cool or cold areas, but may be found in gardens
 * Usage: Chewed and put on the wound
 * Effect: root is good for treating all wounds and extracting poison

Thyme:

 * Description: Small, delicate, thick, sticky leaves with a fresh tang
 * Location: hot, sunny locations
 * Usage: Leaves can be chewed on
 * Effect: Calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats who are in shock

Watermint:

 * Description: green, leafy plant
 * Location: in streams or damp earth
 * Usage: 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
 * Location: forests
 * Usage: roll in it
 * Effect: Prevents infection, especially rat bites

Willow Bark:

 * Description: Bark of the willow tree
 * Location: Grows near Two-leg places
 * Usage: Unknown
 * Effect: Eases pain

Willow Leaves:

 * Description: Leaves of the willow tree
 * Location: Unknown
 * Usage: Eaten
 * Effect: Stops vomiting

Wintergreen:

 * Description: Easily identifiable by its red berries
 * Location: Oak-pine woods and sandy habitats to sub-alpine places
 * Usage: Unknown
 * Effect: Treats wounds and some poisons

*Yarrow:

 * Description: A flowering plant
 * Location: forest territories
 * Usage: 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