Herb Usage

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* 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: none

#### 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 pulp
* Effect: eases swelling of bee stings

#### Borage Leaves:

* Description: small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves
* Location: grows best in forests
* Usage: chewed and eaten by nursing queens
* 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