Herbs and Remedies

== Herbs ==
=== Used for wound treatment ===
==== Blackberry leaves ====
Scientific name: Rubus fruticosus 'Chester'
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; they are very handy plants.
Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Mixed into a poultice to ease the pain of bee stings.
==== Burdock root ====
Scientific name: Arctium minus
Description: Tall-stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves. Has a bitter taste.
Location: By the gorge.
Usage: The root is dug up, the soil is washed off, and then it is chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Soothes and heals rat bites especially if they are infected. Can give cats a bellyache if they eat too much of it. Numbs rat bite to the point a cat cannot feel the pain. Also good for infected paws and other sores.
==== Celadine ====
Scientific name: Stylophorum diphyllum or Chelidonium majus
Description: Yellow flower with four petals. Celandine poppy have bigger petals, whereas the greater celandine are smaller.
Location: Grows on both ThunderClan and RiverClan's territories, but possibly grows better on ThunderClan land.
Usage: Crushed into juice and trickled into the eye.
Effect: Soothes weakened or damaged eyes.
==== Chervil ====
Scientific name: Anthriscus cerefolium
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: Snakerocks
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.
==== Cobwebs ====
Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very common.
Location: All around the forest. Among the roots of the trees.
Usage: Press over wound.
Effect: To soak up and stop, or slow, the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.
==== Comfrey root ====
Scientific name: Symphytum officinale
Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped 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 one's 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.
==== Dandelion ====
Scientific name: Taraxacum platycarpum
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: 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 effects of meadow saffron poisoning.
Effect: Thought to soothe and heal bee stings. Its leaves can also be chewed to act like a painkiller.
==== Dock leaf ====
Scientific name: Rumex obtusifolius
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 the stream by the RiverClan medicine cat den.
Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches. Similar to sorrel. Also can be put in one's 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 on Clanmates.
==== Elder leaves ====
Scientific name: Sambucus nigra
Description: Leaves from the Elder tree.
Location: Often found in 5-9 leaflets.
Usage: Turned into a poultice.
Effect: Soothes sprains.
==== Fennel ====
Scientific name: Foeniculum vulgare
Description: Thin, spiky leaves.
Location: Found in numerous places, especially on dry soils near the sea/coast and on riverbanks.
Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth.
Effect: Helps pain in the hips.
==== Goldenrod ====
Scientific name: Solidago virgaurea
Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
Location: Grows well on the WindClan moors.
Usage: Chewed into a poultice.
Effect: Good for healing wounds.
==== Horsetail ====
Scientific name: Equisetum arvense
Description: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant, referred to with fleshy stalks.
Location: Any marshy area.
Usage: Chewed to a poultice, and applied to wounds.
Effect: Treats infections and stops bleeding.
==== Marigold ====
Scientific name: Tagetes
Description: A low-growing flower; yellow to bright orange.
Location: Near water.
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.
==== Dried oak leaf ====
Scientific name: Quercus Alba
Description: Round, cartoon-like ruffled leaves.
Location: All over the forest floor and collected in leaf-fall.
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.
==== Ragwort leaves ====
Scientific name: Jacobaea vulgaris
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, it can help aching joints.
Effect: Treats aching joints and keeps a cat's strength up.
==== Rush ====
Scientific name: Juncus effusus
Description: It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks.
Location: Often grows in infertile soils in a wide range of moisture conditions.
Usage: Used to bind broken bones.
Effect: Helps hold a broken limb in place, such as casts for Twolegs.
==== Stinging nettle ====
Scientific name: Urtica dioica
Description: It has green, spiny seeds.
Location: All over the forest.
Usage: The seeds are eaten by a cat who's swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound. The stems 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 stems helps fight against infection.
==== Tormentil ====
Scientific name: Potentilla erecta
Description: It has a strong, aromatic 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 the wound.
Effect: Its root is good for treating all wounds and extracting poison.
==== Wild garlic ====
Scientific name: Allium ursinum
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: Near the entrance to ThunderClan's camp. ShadowClan territory.
Usage: One must roll in it.
Effect: Draws out poison in rat bites. Prevents infection.
==== Willow bark ====
Scientific name: Salix alba 'Vitellina-Tristis' 
Description: Bark of the willow tree.
Location: Grows near Twoleg places.
Usage: Unknown.
Effect: Eases pain.
=== Used for disease treatment ===
==== The Blazing Star ====
Scientific name: Mentzelia laevicaulis
Description: The Blazing Star is a plant with spiky leaves and yellow flowers, whose five petals spread out separately and resemble a star.
Location: It is found on the side of the Thunderpath, near the pine forest.
Usage: Unknown.
Effect: Cures unknown diseases. 
==== Chickweed ====
Scientific name: Stellaria media
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
Location: In the forest territories, it grew near Sunningrocks.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Treats greencough, though catnip is often preferred.
==== Lavendar ====
Scientific name: Lavandula angustifolia
Description: A small purple flowering plant.
Location: Grown in Twoleg gardens. Can also be found in sunny spots with sandy or gravelly soil.
Usage: Placed under a cats nose and is to be inhaled constantly, or rubbed/placed on an animal's body to hide the scent of death.
Effect: Cures fever and chills. Also used to hide the scent of death.
==== Lungwort ====
Scientific name: Pulmonaria
Description: An herb with dark green leaves speckled with gray.
Location: WindClan moor.
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Cures yellowcough.
==== Sweet-sedge ====
Scientific name: Acorus calamus
Description: Thick green stem with long buds at the top.
Location: Grows all through leaf-bare. Most common around the RiverClan camp.
Usage: One must swallow the sap.
Effect: Eases infection.
==== Tansy ====
Scientific name: Tanacetum vulgare
Description: The tansy plant has round, yellow flowers, and has a very sweet and strong scent, making it good for disguising a cat's scent.
Location: Can be found near Twolegplaces
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. Can be extremely dangerous to pregnant cats.
=== Poisons ===
==== Deathberries ====
Scientific name: Taxus baccata
Description: Red berries from the dark-leaved, poisonous yew bush.
Location: The ravine in the ThunderClan forest territory.[source?] Most commonly found in moist and temperate forest habitats with a nice amount of shade.
Usage: Sometimes used to kill other cats by making them eat the berry.  As a last resort, the flesh of the berry can be used to kill an infection within a cat.
Effect: Kills a cat within minutes when consumed.  However, if the flesh of the berry is used (with the seed carefully removed), it can cure an infection within an animal without killing them.
==== Foxglove seeds ====
Scientific name: Digitalis purpurea
Description: Tiny, black seeds from the bell-shaped flower of the foxglove plant. 
Location: Can be found in forested areas, specifically in woodland clearings and in dappled shade with well-watered soil.
Usage: They have no apparent medicinal value, unless they are used as a poison.
Effect: They can easily and quickly cause paralysis, heart failure, and lead to coma and death.
==== Holly berries ====
Scientific name: Ilex aquifolium
Description: An evergreen flowering plant with dark green, spiny leaves that produces red berries with no medicinal value.
Location: Widely found in deciduous and oak forests, and prefers moist areas. 
Usage: Has no medicinal purpose; could be used as a mild poison.
Effect: Vomiting, belly pain, and loss of appetite are all common effects, but is only deadly in large quantity or if a cat is very young or very old. 
==== Meadow saffron ====
Scientific name: Colchicum autumnale
Description: A plant with purple flowers. It seems to emerge directly from the earth on slender stems, with six sleek, glossy purple petals and orange anthers encased within.
Location: Can be found nearly anywhere. Common in damp, grassy areas as well as woodland.
Usage: Unknown.
Effect: Poisonous. Causes lethargy, vomiting, and difficulty breathing.
==== Water hemlock ====
Scientific name: Atropa belladonna
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.
Location: Moist, shady places. Often grows in places where the soils are rich in limestone.
Usage: To quickly kill a cat who cannot be saved.
Effect: Poisonous.
=== Misc. ===
==== Alder bark ====
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Scientific name: Alnus glutinosa
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 the snowy season. 
Usage: Chewed
Effect: Eases toothaches. 
==== Beech leaves/nuts ====
Scientific name: Fagus sylvatica
Description: Has broad, shiny leaves. Can have a variety of color but are typically green, yellow, or golden. Can be smaller and short. Nuts sometimes fall of the tree. 
Location: ThunderClan Territory. Grows in moist, deep, and rich soil.
Usage: Unknown.
Effect: Nuts are good for attracting prey. 
==== Borage ====
Scientific name: Borago officinalis
Description: It is easily distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped petals and hairy leaves. Can be distinguished by smell just 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 gray-green in color, soft, and they lose their flavor when they are dried out.
Location: Forestland in ThunderClan territory. Near ThunderClan's old camp in the forest during the early Clan days
Usage: Chewed and eaten.
Effect: It produces more and better milk. It also brings down fevers. Helps sooth bad bellies and relieves tight chests.
==== Bright Eyes ====
Scientific name: Phlox paniculata
Description: Light pink with darker pink in the middles.
Location: Sunny areas, wooded areas, thickets.
Usage: Crushed into a poultice mixture.
Effect: Mix with lovage to help cure coughs.
==== Broom ====
Scientific name: Cytisus scoparius
Description: Shrubs with small leaves and small yellow flowers. Flowers are often solitary, but can also come in pairs.
Location: Grows in ThunderClan's forest territory. Can be found during the snowy season.
Usage: Ground into a poultice.
Effect: Used in poultices that can help broken legs and wounds.
==== Burnet ====
Scientific name: Sanguisorba officinalis
Description: Medium green-colored basal leaves. Can occasionally have spikes of purple flowers.
Location: ThunderClan territory in the forest. Sunny areas.
Usage: A traveling herb. The leaves are swallowed.
Effect: Used to give strength. Good for expecting queens.
==== Catchweed ====
Scentific name: Galium aparine L.
Description: A plant with fuzzy green balls on long stems.
Location: It is common in hedges and other low, shrubby vegetation. Found in ThunderClan territory.
Usage: The burrs are put on the pelt where poultices are.
Effect: Stops poultices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.
==== Chamomile ====
Scientific name: Chamaemelum nobile
Description: A small, white flower with a large, yellow center.
Location: Can be found in Twoleg gardens. 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.
==== Cob nuts ====
Scientific name: Corylus avellana
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 dens.
==== Coltsfoot ====
Scientific name: Tussilago farfara
Description: A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions. Grows best in newleaf.
Location: Grows by a waterfall in RiverClan's forest territory.
Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Eases breathing or kitten-cough, as well as cracked or sore pads.
==== Ferverfew ====
Scientific name: Tanacetum parthenium
Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies. Has a sharp tangy smell and small soft leaves.
Location: Grows best along the water.
Usage: Eaten. 
Effect: Reduces body temperature for cats with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, especially good for headaches.
=== Goatweed ===
Scientific name: Epimedium 
Description: Plant with ovate leaves
Location: RiverClan territory
Usage: Unknown. 
Effect: Eases grief.
==== Heather nectar ====
Description: Nectar found in bell-shaped flowers.
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 soothe coughing, and gives energy.
==== Ivy leaf ====
Scientific name: Hedera Helix
Description: Leaves from the ivy vine.
Location: Grows in the ThunderClan medicine den.
Usage: By medicine cats to store other herbs.
Effect: Unknown. 
==== Juniper berries ====
Scientific name: Juniperus communis
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 ====
Scientific name: Stachys byzantina
Description: Soft, fuzzy green plant.
Location: Commonly found in the mountains.
Usage: Unknown.
Effect: Gives a cat strength.
==== Laurel leaf ====
Scientific name: Laurus nobilis
Description: Green, glabrous leaves
Location: ThunderClan territory
Usage: Making herb wraps
Effect: None. 
==== Mallow leaves ====
Scientific name: Malva sylvestris L.
Description: Large fuzzy three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub; sweet rose scent.
Location: Grows best near shore, but best collected at sunhigh, when they are dry.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Soothes bellyache.
==== Mint ====
Scientific name: Mentha piperita
Description: Downy, serrated leaves ranging from green to purple and yellow in color. Flowers are small and white or purple in color. 
Location: Patch beside ThunderClan nursery in the forest territories. 
Usage: Rubbed on a dead body 
Effect: Hides the scent of death. 
==== Moss ====
Scientific name: Bryophyta
Description: A spongy, soft green shrub, commonly found on trees or marshy areas. 
Location: Abundant in forests and marshy locations 
Usage: Used to soak up fluid 
Effect: None. 
==== Mouse bile ====
Description: Foul smelling, yellowish-green liquid. 
Location: Can be found anywhere there are mice present. 
Usage: The liquid is stored in moss and dabbed onto ticks embedded in pelt. 
Effect: Kills ticks 
==== Parsley ====
Scientific name: Petroselinum crispum
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 if her kits die, don't need milk anymore, or are producing too much milk. Also used to cure bellyache. 
==== Poppy seeds ====
Scientific name: Papaver somniferum
Description: Tiny, round black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead. 
Location: All over forest. 
Usage: Chewed on. 
Effect: They can help a cat sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens. 
==== Ragweed ====
Scientific name: Ambrosia psilostachya
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. 
==== Raspberry leaves ====
Description: Soft to the touch, but with jagged edges. 
Location: Found on raspberry bushes. 
Usage: It could be a painkiller, or help stop bleeding during kitting. 
Effect: Could possibly ease pain or stop bleeding. 
==== Rosemary ====
Scientific name: Rosmarinus officinalis
Description: Tall with needle-like leaves and purple flowers. 
Location: Near the ThunderClan warriors' den in the forest territory. 
Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead cat to prepare for burial. 
Effect: Hides the scent of death. 
==== Sorrel ====
Scientific name: Rumex acetosa
Description: Similar to dock, sorrel is used as a traveling herb. 
Location: Can be found near Twoleg nests 
Usage: Eaten. 
Effect: Traveling herb, can also build up appetite 
==== Stick ====
Description: Thin wooden protrusions that grow on and fall from trees. 
Location: Can be found anywhere there are trees. 
Usage: Cats in pain bite it when other medicine is either unavailable or not recommended. Also used to help broken legs heal. 
Effect: Distracts cats from pain. Recommended for queens giving birth. 
==== Thyme ====
Scientific name: Thymus vulgaris 
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 ====
Scientific name: Mentha aquatica
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: It is usually chewed into a pulp, and then eaten. 
Effect: Eases the suffering that originates from a bellyache. 
==== Willow leaves ====
Scientific name: Salix alba
Description: The leaves of the white willow tree are shaped like elongated ovals and are paler than most other willows due to a felt-like covering of fine white hairs on the bottomside 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 ====
Scientific name: Gaultheria procumbens
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. 
==== Wood sorrel ====
Scientific name: Oxalis
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 of forests and fields.  Near the ThunderClan-ShadowClan border. 
Usage: Unknown. 
Effect: Dries up wounds 
==== Yarrow ====
Scientific name: Achillea millefolium
Description: A flowering plant with green, jagged leaves, a tangy scent and a bitter taste. 
Location: Snakerocks in the forest territories 
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. 
== Notice ==
* All information here was taken directly off of the Warrior Wiki and the information comes from Culpeper's Herbal Remedies. 
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