Herbs and Remedies

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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

Alderbark art by AugustScientific 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.***