Medicine

A Medicine Cat's main job is to heal their fellow Clanmates of their wounds and sicknesses. They have many ways of doing so, mostly through herbs and berries kept in the Medicine Cat's herb store inside their den.

## **MEDICINES AND HERBS**

### **Alder**

* **Description:** Dark gray bark, fissured. Younger trees can also have greenish bark. Branches can sometimes be sticky.
* **Location:** Grows along rivers, but can also grow in swampy areas. Can be found during leafbare.
* **Usage:** Chewed.
* **Effect:** Eases toothaches.

### **Basil**

* **Description:** Very small, tender green leaves.
* **Location:** ForestClan territory.
* **Usage:** Used for herb wraps.
* **Effect:** None.

### **Bay Leaves**

* **Description:** Dark green, somewhat sharp leaves.
* **Location:** ForestClan and WaterClan territory.
* **Usage:** Making herb wraps. Can also be rubbed/placed on an animal's body to hide the scent of death.
* **Effect:** Hides the scent of death if rubbed on a dead body.

### **Beech**

* **Description:** Has broad, shiny leaves. Can have a variety of leaf colors, but typically are green, yellow, or golden, and can also be smaller or short. Female trees typically produce beech nuts. Bark can be thin, smooth, and gray in color.
* **Location:** ForestClan and FireClan territory. Grows well in moist, deep and rich soil.
* **Usage:** Nuts are used as bait for prey.
* **Effect:** Nuts are good for attracting prey.

In *Tawnyflame's Echo*, Wildsong and Tawnyflame accidentally bring Sorrelflower and Otterpaw beech leaves, though they are actually meant to be looking for dock leaves. Wildsong claims they look the same, although Otterpaw is annoyed by this.

### **Bindweed**

* **Description:** Blue petals with white throat and yellow center. Typically blooms in warmer weather. Stems contain green leaves.
* **Location:** Near EarthClan territory.
* **Usage:** Helps bind sticks together.
* **Effect:** When combined with sticks, can help mend a broken leg and keep it in place.

### **Birch Sap**

* **Description:** Thick, sticky liquid commonly found in or on birch trees.
* **Location:** More commonly found on WaterClan territory.
* **Usage:** Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it.
* **Effect:** Slows down the effect of Deathcough, but doesn't prevent it.

In *Quickstar's Vow*, Snowfrost tries to give moss soaked in birch sap to Quickstar after she is struck by Deathcough, hoping that slowing the disease down would allow it to be cured, but Quickstar doesn't accept it.

### **Blackberry**

* **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:** Leaves are chewed into a pulp.
* **Effect:** Mixed into a poultice to ease the pain of bee stings.

### **Blazingstar**

* **Description:** Plant with spiky leaves and yellow flowers, whose five petals spread out separately and resemble a star.
* **Location:** Found near the Pine Clearing.
* **Usage:** Chewed.
* **Effect:** Cures Greencough.

### **Borage**

* **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:** The river near WaterClan territory. Forestland in ForestClan territory.
* **Usage:** Chewed and eaten.
* **Effect:** It causes she-cats to produce more and better milk. It also brings down fevers, helps soothe bad bellies and relieves tight chests.

### **Bright-eye**

* **Description:** Light pink with darker pink in the middle.
* **Location:** Sunny areas, wooded areas, thickets.
* **Usage:** Crushed into a poultice mixture.
* **Effect:** Mix with lovage to help cure coughs.

In *Stormstar's Omen*, Silverleaf tells Whitepoppy to ask Hawkblaze if Gravelpelt's cough has cleared up with the mixture of bright-eye and lovage that Silverleaf had suggested.

### **Broom**

* **Description:** Shrubs with small leaves and small yellow flowers. Flowers are often solitary, but can also come in pairs.
* **Location:** Grows in ForestClan territory. Can be found during leafbare.
* **Usage:** Ground into a poultice.
* **Effect:** Used in poultices that can help broken legs and wounds.

### **Burdock Root**

* **Description:** Tall-stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves. Has a bitter taste.
* **Location:** By the Sharpgorge.
* **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.

In *Redsight's Secret*, Pinewhisker asks Redsight to fetch burdock root to help Tigerleap's rat bite.

### **Burnet**

* **Description:** Medium green-colored basal leaves. Can occasionally have spikes of purple flowers.
* **Location:** ForestClan territory. Sunny areas.
* **Usage:** A traveling herb. The leaves are swallowed.
* **Effect:** Used to give strength. Good for expecting queens.

### **Catchweed**

* **Description:** A plant with fuzzy green balls on long stems.
* **Location:** It is common in hedges and other low, shrubby vegetation. Found in ForestClan territory.
* **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. Has gray-green leaves, stem is hairy, and has purple flowers. Is easily killed by frost. Looks like nettles, but doesn't sting.
* **Location:** Rarely found in the wild; mostly found in Twoleg gardens. Can specifically be found in the Twolegplace near ForestClan's territory. Can also be found in AirClan territory by the lake. Located in Wheat's Barn before it was abandoned. Thrives in areas with dry soil and is very tolerant of drier conditions.
* **Usage:** Eaten.
* **Effect:** Best remedy for the deadly Greencough, which cats, mainly kits and elders, usually catch in the season of leaf-bare. Can also be used for Whitecough. Can be considered dangerous in extremely high dosages.

In *Fallenstar's Prophecy*, Cloverleaf mentions that it is better to gather catmint once the dew has burned off of the plants. This makes it easier to gather dryer sprigs so they do not rot while in the Medicine Cat Den.

### **Celandine**

* **Description:** Yellow flower with four petals. Celandine poppy have bigger petals, whereas the greater celandine are smaller.
* **Location:** Grows on both ForestClan and WaterClan's territories, but grows better on ForestClan land.
* **Usage:** Crushed into juice and trickled into the eye.
* **Effect:** Soothes weakened or damaged eyes.

### **Chamomile**

* **Description:** A small, white flower with a large, yellow center.
* **Location:** Can be found in Twoleg gardens and 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:** ForestClan and EarthClan territory and near the Sharpgorge.
* **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.

In *Twigheart's Devotion*, Heronpaw attempts to use chervil leaf juice to cure Twigheart's infected badger wounds, but it doesn't work, as the infection had already spread.

### **Chickweed**

* **Description:** Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
* **Location:** The Sharpgorge and near the River.
* **Usage:** Eaten.
* **Effect:** Treats Greencough, though catnip 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. Used as bait for prey.
* **Effect:** Nuts are used to attract prey. Ointments are used to soothe muscles.

In *Fallenstar's Prophecy*, cob nuts are mentioned by Acornpaw when she suggested they use some from Mousestep's store to attract the prey out of their burrows.

### **Cobweb**

* **Description:** Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very common.
* **Location:** All around the forest.
* **Usage:** Press over wound.
* **Effect:** To soak up and stop, or slow, the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.

In *Twigheart's Devotion*, Heronpaw uses cobwebs to try to stop Twigheart's bleeding after he is attacked by a badger.

In *Quickstar's Vow*, Quickstar wakes up covered in cobwebs after losing her first life.

### **Coltsfoot**

* **Description:** A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions. Grows best in newleaf.
* **Location:** Grows by the River, usually only in WaterClan's side.
* **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, 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.

### **Daisy Leaves**

* **Description:** Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves.
* **Location:** ForestClan territory.
* **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 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 to be applied to bee stings. Leaves can be chewed.
* **Effect:** Thought to soothe and heal bee stings. Its leaves can be chewed to act like a painkiller.The roots can also be used to help cure the effects of meadow saffron poisoning.

In *Brightflame's Chance*, Hollow says they should give the sick ForestClan cats dandelion root, as it cures the poison of meadow saffron.

### **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. 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.

In *Tawnyflame's Echo*, Sorrelflower asks Tawnyflame and Wildsong to hunt down dock leaves, so Otterpaw can use them to practice what he needs to do in case his Clanmates get hurt. Wildsong claims dock leaves look like beech leaves, when they mistakenly bring back beech leaves instead.

### **Elder Leaves**

* **Description:** Leaves from the elder tree.
* **Location:** Often found in 5-9 leaflets.
* **Usage:** Turned into a poultice.
* **Effect:** Soothes sprains.

In *Redsight's Secret*, they are used when Briarclaw wrenches her shoulder.

### **Fennel**

* **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.

### **Feverfew**

* **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**

* **Description:** Plant with ovate leaves.
* **Location:** WaterClan territory.
* **Usage:** Chewed.
* **Effect:** Eases grief.

### **Goldenrod**

* **Description:** A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
* **Location:** Grows well on the AirClan moors.
* **Usage:** Chewed into a poultice.
* **Effect:** Good for healing wounds.

### **Grass**

* **Description:** Green, soft blades of grass. Tastes slightly tangy.
* **Location:** Anywhere where there is moist soil.
* **Usage:** Eaten.
* **Effect:** While not used to treat any illnesses or injuries, it is recommended cats eat it.

### **Hawkweed**

* **Description:** Small green plant with yellow and orange flowers.
* **Location:** AirClan territory.
* **Usage:** Chewed.
* **Effect:** Similar to catmint, but not as strong.

### **Heather Nectar**

* **Description:** Nectar found in bell-shaped flowers.
* **Location:** Best grown in shady areas. Usually found throughout AirClan territory.
* **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.

### **Horsetail**

* **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.

### **Ivy Leaf**

* **Description:** Leaves from the ivy vine.
* **Location:** Grows in the ForestClan and EarthClan Medicine Dens.
* **Usage:** By Medicine Cats to store other herbs.
* **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:** Eaten.
* **Effect:** Gives a cat strength.

### **Lavender**

* **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 cat's 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.

### **Lovage**

* **Description:** Tall plant with yellowish-green flowers.
* **Location:** By the River in WaterClan and ForestClan territory.
* **Usage:** Chewed into a pulp.
* **Effect:** If it is mixed with bright-eye, it can help cure coughs.

In *Stormstar's Omen,* lovage is mentioned by Silverleaf when she tells Whitepoppy to ask Hawkblaze if Gravelpelt's cough had eased with the mix of lovage and bright-eye.

### **Lungwort**

* **Description:** An herb with dark green leaves speckled with gray.
* **Location:** AirClan moor.
* **Usage:** Eaten.
* **Effect:** Has the same effect as catmint, but not as strong.

### **Mallow Leaves**

* **Description:** Large fuzzy three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub; sweet rose scent.
* **Location:** Grows best near shore or in the Wetlands, but best collected at sunhigh, when they are dry.
* **Usage:** Eaten.
* **Effect:** Soothes bellyache.

### **Marigold**

* **Description:** A low-growing flower; yellow to bright orange.
* **Location:** Near water. Also grows well in the Wetlands.
* **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.

In *Quickstar's Vow*, Quickclaw finds Houndspots looking for marigold in the Wetlands near the FireClan/EarthClan border.

### **Mint**

* **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 the ForestClan Nursery.
* **Usage:** Rubbed on a dead body.
* **Effect:** Hides the scent of death.

### **Moss**

* **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.

### **Oak Leaves**

* **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.

### **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 if her kits die, 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 flowerhead.
* **Location:** All over the forest.
* **Usage:** Chewed on.
* **Effect:** They can help a cat sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens.

In *Fallenstar's Prophecy*, Fallenkit and Acornkit dare each other to eat poppy seeds, although neither kit knew what they were. Mousestep confirms that they are, in fact, poppy seeds, and it will just make Acornkit sleepy.

### **Ragweed**

* **Description:** Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern.
* **Location:** Commonly found in mountainous areas.
* **Usage:** Crushed and chewed.
* **Effect:** Gives a cat extra strength.

### **Ragwort**

* **Description:** Tall ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern with yellow flowers. Tastes foul to cats.
* **Location:** Almost everywhere, especially in cool areas with high rainfall. Also commonly found in the mountains.
* **Usage:** Crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints.
* **Effect:** Treats aching joints and keeps a cat's strength up. Also gives cats extra strength.

### **Raspberry Leaves**

* **Description:** Soft to the touch, but with jagged edges.
* **Location:** Found on raspberry bushes.
* **Usage:** Painkiller. Also helps stop bleeding during kitting.
* **Effect:** Eases pain and stops bleeding.

### **Rosemary**

* **Description:** Tall with needle-like leaves and purple flowers.
* **Location:** Near the ForestClan Warrior's Den.
* **Usage:** Put on the pelt of a dead cat to prepare for burial.
* **Effect:** Hides the scent of death.

Snowfrost and Emberfall used this herb in *Quickstar's Vow* to prepare Swiftrain's body for burial.

### **Rush**

* **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.

### **Seaweed**

* **Description:** Generally very dark green leaves that feel slightly rubbery when chewed.
* **Location:** Grows on rocks near the sea in the Sandyplace and is sometimes washed up on the shore.
* **Usage:** Chewed.
* **Effect:** Calms nervousness, anxiety and cats who are in shock and treats coughing.

In *Twigheart's Devotion*, Twigheart and Heronpaw find Moonheart and Swiftpaw out in the Sandyplace looking for seaweed.

### **Sorrel**

* **Description:** Similar to dock, sorrel is used as a traveling herb.
* **Location:** Can be found near Twoleg nests, and grows just outside the medicine den in the Rough Hollow.
* **Usage:** Eaten.
* **Effect:** Travelling herb, can also build up appetite.

### **Sticks**

* **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.

### **Stinging Nettle**

* **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.

### **Sweet-sedge**

* **Description:** Thick green stem with long buds at the top.
* **Location:** Grows all through leaf-bare. Most common around the Willow Falls.
* **Usage:** One must swallow the sap.
* **Effect:** Eases infection.

In *Froststar's Retaliation* it is used to help keep Cricketkit's paw infection down.

### **Tansy**

* **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, and also grows just outside the medicine den in the Rough Hollow.
* **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.

### **Tormentil**

* **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.

### **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.

### **Traveling Herbs**

* **Herbs:** Burnet, chamomile, daisy and sorrel.

* **Description:** Mixture consists of burnet, chamomile, daisy and sorrel.
* **Location:** Places where Burnet, chamomile, daisy and sorrel are found.
* **Usage:** Eaten.
* **Effect:** When mixed together, they suppress hunger pains and give a cat strength.

### **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:** It is usually chewed into a pulp, and then eaten.
* **Effect:** Eases the suffering that originates from a bellyache. Also used to smoothen pelts and hide the scent of death.

### **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:** Near the entrance to the Verdant Glade. FireClan territory.
* **Usage:** One must roll in it.
* **Effect:** Draws out poison in rat bites. Prevents infection.

In *Redsight's Secret*, Pinewhisker tells Redsight that wild garlic can be used to help with rat bites, if Redsight is unable to find burdock root.

### **Willow**

* **Description:** Tree with a grayish bark and small, raindrop-shaped leaves.
* **Location:** Grows in WaterClan territory and near Twoleg places.
* **Usage:** The bark is chewed into a pulp and the leaves are eaten.
* **Effect:** The bark eases pain and the leaves stop vomiting.

In *Redsight's Secret*, Redsight uses willow leaves to stop Robinkit's vomiting.

### **Wintergreen**

* **Description:** Easily identifiable by its red berries.
* **Location:** Oak-pine woods and sandy habitats to sub-alpine places.
* **Usage:** Chewed into a pulp for wounds, eaten for poisons.
* **Effect:** Treats wounds and some poisons.

### **Wood Sorrel**

* **Description:** Plant with big leaves and small yellow flowers.
* **Location:** Near FireClan Territory.
* **Usage:** Eaten.
* **Effect:** Similar to sorrel, but with stronger effects.

### **Yarrow**

* **Description:** A flowering plant with green, jagged leaves, a tangy scent and a bitter taste.
* **Location:** Near the Elderwood, just outside the medicine den in the Rough Hollow, around ForestClan camp.
* **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.

In *Redsight's Secret*, yarrow is used by Pinewhisker to cure Redkit and Dustkit's bellyache.

## **POISONS**

### **Foxglove Seeds**

* **Description:** Tiny, black seeds from the bell-shaped flower of the foxglove plant. Often mistaken by poppy seeds, as they are extremely similar.
* **Location:** Almost everywhere, especially in temperate regions.
* **Usage:** None.
* **Effect:** They are poisonous and can easily cause paralysis and heart failure if consumed.

### **Holly Berries**

* **Description:** Plant with spiny leaves that produces red berries with no medicinal value.
* **Location:** Forests.
* **Usage:** None.
* **Effect:** Can kill a cat if consumed. Not as dangerous as deathberries, but still a danger to kits.

### **Meadow Saffron**

* **Description:** A plant with purple flowers.
* **Location:** Can be found nearly anywhere.
* **Usage:** None.
* **Effect:** Poisonous.

In *Brightflame's Chance*, Blitzen reveals that ForestClan's sick cats may have encountered meadow saffron, noting the effects of being poisoned by it are very similar to the symptoms experienced by it. It is not poisonous to prey, but if prey has consumed the plant, it is poisonous to the cat who eats the prey.

### **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.
* **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.

Medicine Cats use them to end a cat's life to prevent unnecessary suffering.

### **Water Hemlock**

* **Description:** Green or white flowers with petals in umbrella-shaped clusters.
* **Location:** Wet, marshy areas.
* **Usage:** None.
* **Effect:** Causes writhing, pain, and foaming at the mouth.

### **Yew Berries**

* **Description:** Also known as deathberries. Red berries from the dark-leaved, poisonous yew bush.
* **Location:** In FireClan and ForestClan territory.
* **Usage:** Sometimes used to kill other cats by making them eat the berry.
* **Effect:** Kills a cat within minutes when consumed.

Whiteflower mentions to Sandpaw that her previous Apprentice, Patchpaw, died after accidentally consuming deathberries.

In *Lilyfur's Desire*, Lilyfur sneaks deathberries into Lilacpetal's share of fresh-kill to kill her.

In *Patchcloud's Path*, it is revealed by Mapletrail that Spottedheart gave Barlow a rabbit with deathberries in it, thinking he was on his last life, which caused him to lose his eighth life.