Little herb guide

HERB GUIDE SUCKER

**1.**| -If one of the herbs gets wet place in the sun to dry, make sure it doesn't dry out or else it'll lose it's medicinal properties.
**2**|-Make sure to leave enough of a plant during collection, that way it'll spread by reproduction and grow.
**3**| -Obvious, but gather new herbs whenever the stock gets low.
**4**| -Throw out herbs that lost their medicinal properties, they take up space in the stock.

Name | Appearance | Use
Alphabetical order.

**Alder Bark**
*A brown-grey substance which will flake from a tree.*
-Once chewed, the bark will ease toothaches.

**Alfalfa**.
Elders, kits and pregnant queens should *not* consume/use.
*Small leaves with white roots and purple flowers.*
-Chewed, the plant will help to prevent tooth decay. If consumed it can aid in healthy digestion.

**Aloe Vera**
*Broad green leaves with spikes emerging from the edges.*
-Once extracted, the jelly can be placed on burns or irregular skin conditions to promote healing.

**Ash Tree Sprouts**
*Thin stems with rounded leaves.*
-Once chewed into a poultice, the sprouts can be placed on serpent bites to nullify the effects of the venom.

**Ash Tree Seeds**
*Lanky green leaves.*
-Once consumed, the seeds can help to ease gastrointestinal pain.

**Ash Tree Bark**
*Grey or white with a black circular pattern.*
-Once the inner layer of bark is consumed, it can be used to reduce fevers.

**Basil**
*Small leaves that grow in bunches of 4+.*
-Once consumed, basil can help to reduce mucus in athsma or bronchitis, chewed, the minty tang can help relieve pain from irritated mouth sores, if mixed with warm water and consumed, it can help to dissipate headaches.

**Belladonna Leaves**
*Oval-shaped leaves.*
-Once chewed, it is known to ease cramps in expectant queens.

**Birthwort**
*Broad purple flowers with broad leaves.*
-Once consumed, this herb causes contractions to induce labor in pregnant queens.

**Beech Leaves**
*Large, broad leaves.*
-Used to carry herbs.

**Bindweed**
*A tall weed with white flowers.*
-Used to bind splints to broken limbs.

**Blackberry**
*Large leaves with jagged edges and stems speckled with thorns, similar to that of a rose bush.*
-Once the leaves are chewed into a poultice, they can be placed on a bee sting to iniate healing and reduce swelling.

**Blessed Thistle**
*A purple poofy flower with a spiked base.*
-Once consumed, it will increase blood circulation.

**Borage**
*Soft leaves with purple flowers.*
-Once consumed by a mother, it can help their milk circulate and increase, if consumed by a regular cat it can aid in fever reduction.

**Bramble Twig**
*Vine-like stems speckled with thorns.*
-Once the syrup is consumed, can induce sleep.

**Broom**
*Tall yellow flowers that grow in bunches.*
-Once chewed into a broom-and-comfrey poultice, can be placed on sprains or fractured limbs to promote healing.

**Burdock Root**
*Long brown roots with wavy-leafed edges atop the stem.*
-Once chewed into a poultice, burdock can be used to ease infection in rat bites.

**Burnet**
*Spherical flowers with smaller green spheres as the center.*
-Once consumed, this herb can be used to aid in clearing indigestion.

**Buttonbush Down**
*Oval leaves with pointed tips and jagged edges.*
-Once consumed, burnet can be used as a traveling herb to ease hunger while maintaining strength.

**Catchweed**
*Long stems with fuzzy green burrs.*
-Once the burrs are placed on an organism's pelt, they can be used to hold cobweb bandages in place.

**Catmint**
*Jagged leaves with pointed tips.*
-Once consumed, catmint can aid in the healthy overcoming of Whitecough or Greencough.

**Celandine**
*Four thin petals and jagged leaves with pointed tips.*
-Once the cold liquid from the stem is trickled into an organisms damaged eye, celandine will soothe the damage and ease the pain.

**Chamomile**
*Small white flowers with yellow powdery middles.*
-Once consumed, chamomile will strengthen the mind and the heart as to bring confidence.

**Chervil**
*Small, green leaves.*
-Once consumed, chervil can aid in easing bellyaches, if chewed into a poultice it can ease infection in wounds.

**Chickweed**
*Long stems with white flowers resting on the leaves.*
-Once consumed, chickweed can aid in the curing of Whitecough or Greencough, though catmint is highly preferred instead.

**Cobnut**
A type of hazelnut.
*Russet-colored tree-nut.*
-Once crushed itno fine pieces and dissolved in a small amount of water, the solution can be mixed with herbal remedies to create an ointment. Ointments can be placed on fur or skin.

**Cobweb**
*A thin lattice of white thread from a spider's abdomen.*
-Once applied to a wound, it can be applied it to a wound, providing pressure, to slow or completely stop the bleeding, if stretched, it can be used to hold a splint in place, although bindweed is typically preferred, if stretched, it can also be placed over a wound to conceal small poultices and keep the area santitary. However, the bandages must be changed before growing soggy. If managed properly, it can be used to absorb very small, or minor, liquid messes/spills

**Coltsfoot**
*Yellow flowers with long petals are large centers.*
-Once chewed into a pulp, coltsfoot can soothe dry or cracked pads, if consumed, coltsfoot can ease coughs found in Youths.

**Comfrey**
*Long, black roots.*
-Once the roots are chewed into a poultice and mixed with broom, comfrey can be plastered onto a broken limb to ensure proper healing, if chewed into a pulp it can be placed on irritated or itching wounds to enduce soothing and comfort, it can also be placed on a wrenched claw to aid in proper healing and it can be plastered onto stiff joints to relieve tension.

**Daisy**
*Feather-shaped leaves with wavy edges.*
-Once the leaves are chewed into a paste, daisy can be plastered onto stiff joints to relieve tension.

**Damiana**
*Small, faded leaves with long stems.*
-Once the sprigs are crushed and mixed into water and consumed, damiana can increase blood circulation.

**Dandelion**
*A flat flower top with long, yellow petals which curve at their climax.*
-Once the leaves are chewed, dandelion will act as a pain killer, if the liquid is extracted from the stem it will ease the pain of bee stings.

**Dill**
*Stalks with small green leaves, similar to the appearance of parsley.*
-Once consumed, dill will ease and aid in curing indigestion.

**Dock**
*Large leaves with rounded tips.*
-Once the leaves are chewed into a poultice, dock can be placed on scratches to heal scratches.

**Dried Oak Leaf**
*Brown, brittle leaves with wavy edges.*
-Once the leaves are dry, they can be chewed into a paste to prevent the infection of a wound.

**Echinacea**
*Puffed orange and black middles with pink, draping petals.*
-Once chewed into a poultice it can be plastered on a wound to ease infection.

**Eyebright**
*White flowers with glossy, jagged leaves attached to the stem.*
-Once consumed, will ease excessive sneezing and/or watery eyes.

**Fennel**
*Thin stalks, with thin pine needle-like leaves.*
-Once consumed, will ease pain in the hips, if the seeds are consumed, fennel will aid in the prevention of vomiting.

**Feverfew**
*White flowers with curved petals.*
-Once consumed, will ease fevers along with the aches and pains that come as symptoms.

**Ginger**
*Thick, pale roots.*
-Once crushed and mixed with hot water to diffuse into the air, ginger is known to help control asthma symptoms, if consumed it will ease coughs.

**Goldenrod**
*Tall plant with thin leaves branching from the stem before being topped with whispy yellow flowers.*
-Once chewed into a poultice, this herb can be plastered into a wound to ensure the meticulous healing of a wound.

**Goosegrass**
*Round patches of grass with stems branching from the center.*
-Once woven into cobweb bandaging, goosegrass will slow the bloodflow of a wound.

**Gotu Kola**
*Round leaves with a soft v-shaped notch.*
-Once consumed, this herb will help to relieve daily anxiety issues to an extent, if chewed into a poultice, this herb can be plastered onto a scar to reduce tissue damage.

**Gumweed**
*Yellow flowers with darker centers.*
-Once consumed, this herb with ease coughs and inflammated sinuses.

**Heather-Nectar**
*A tall plant with small purple flowers lining the stems.*
-Once mixed with bitter herbs or remedies, this herb will sweeten the mixture.

**Honey**
*A golden liquid produced by bees.*
-Once mixed with hot water or tea and consumed, it can ease sore throats or throats that have taken smoke damage, if mixed with aloe Vera it can be placed on a variety of burns to soothe and heal them, if drizzled over other herbal mixtures, it can improve the taste without depleting the mixture of its healing properties.

**Hops**
*Green leaves bundled into a pine cone-like structure.*
-Once consumed, this herb will relieve anxiety issues to an extent.

**Horsetail**
*Tall grass ringed with brown streaks.*
-Once chewed into a poultice, this herb can be plastered onto a wound to slow bloodflow and prevent infection.

**Ivy**
*Star-like leaves without a bottom point.*
-The leaves can be used to store herbs or premade remedies.

**Juniper**
*Small, purple berries growing in bunches on a species of prickly bush.*
-Once the berries are consumed, juniper can ease nerves associated with anxiety or stress, it can also ease minor breathing troubles, lastly, juniper can aid in the relieving of small bellyaches.

**Lamb's Ear**
*Green, soft-textured leaves shaped similarly to the ear of a lamb.*
-Once consumed it will bring strength.

**Lavender**
*Small-stemmed plants with several bunches of purple flowers lining the top.*
-Once consumed, this herb will relieve fevers, if crushed and mixed with hot water to diffuse into the air, this herb eases a troubled mind.

**Lemongrass**
*Tall green grass with a singular, round root.*
-Once consumed, this herb will ease a stomach ache.

**Lotus Roots**
*Light brown roots with star-shaped middles.*
-Once consumed, this herb will keep the recipient awake for a period of time.

**Mallow**
*Hairy stems with pink-purple flowers and fan-like leaves.*
-Once the leaves are consumed, this herb will ease bellyaches.

**Marigold**
*Puffed yellow-orange flowers.*
-Once chewed into a poultice, this herb can be plastered onto a wound to drive out infection.

**Mint**
*Jagged, green leaves.*
-Once rubbed on the embodiment of a corpse, this herb will dissipate the scent of death.

**Oak Sap**
*Bark from the tree is a monochrome shade of brown.*
-Once the sap is extracted from the tree and consumed, this remedy will help to contain Blackcough.

**Parsley**
*Tall stems topped with green leaves.*
-Once consumed over the course of several days, this herb will dry up a queen's milk.

**Pawpaw**
*A green-yellow fruit complete with an orange center and round, black seeds.*
-Once consumed, this fruit will ease and cure kitten-cough.

**Peach Leaves**
*A long skinny, green leaf.*
-Once consumed, this herb will ease nausea.

**Poppy Seeds**
Do *not* feed to kits.
*Small round, gray seeds.*
-Once consumed, this herb will put a patient to sleep, it will relax nerves and ease internal pain.

**Ragweed**
*Of similar structure to goldenrod, but without the yellow flowers.*
-Once consumed, this herb will provide temporary strength.

**Raspberry**
*Similar to that of a blackberry plant.*
-Once the leaves are chewed by a queen during birth, this herb will help to reduce bleeding.

**Rosemary**
*A thick stem enveloped with pine-like needles.*
-Once consumed, this herb will improve appetite, it can also be rubbed on the body of a corpse to chase away the stench before burial.

**Rosinweed**
*A tall stem topped with a single, yellow flower.*
-Once consumed, this herb can ease symptoms of digestive disorders such as stomach pains/cramps and bloating.

**Saffron**
Keep away from elders and kits.
*A purple flower with six petals.*
-Once consumed, this herb will put the patient in a state of unconsciousness.

**Sage**
*Long, round-tipped leaves with a soft texture.*
-Once the leaves are consumed, this herb can ease symptoms of digestive disorders such as stomach pains/cramps and bloating, it can be mixed with water and steamed over a heated stove-top to be inhaled to ease the symptoms of asthma.

**Skullcap**
*Tall plants with purple, bell-shaped flowers.*
-Once the seeds are mixed with chamomile and consumed, this herb will bring mental strength and rest to an anxious recipient.

**Snakeroot**
*Bunches of small white, puffed flowers.*
-Once consumed, this herb will help with the symptoms of insomnia and/or schizophrenia.

**Snapdragon**
*Downward-facing, brightly-colored flower with an open front.*
-Once the seeds are made into an ointment, this herb can be placed on an area to rid of ringworm.

**Sorrel**
*Slightly wavy, leafed plant.*
-Once consumed, this herb will ease hunger pains.

**Stinging Nettle**
Must be soaked in water before use, if not the toxins in the plant will sting the patient and the medicine cat.
*Broad jagged leaves with white flowers placed along the stem.*
-Once chewed into a poultice, this herb can be placed on wounds to ease swelling, it will also fight intestinal infections.

**Sticks**
*Fallen brown limbs deriving from trees.*
-Once placed on two sides of a broken limb and tied with bindweed, they can act as a sturdy splint.

**Sweet-sedge**
Do not feed to pregnant queens or she-cats who are still producing milk for their kits.
*Tall sharp-pointed grass-like leaves fanning out from a center point.*
-Once mixed with hot water and consumed, this solution will help to recover anorexic patients, it also activates the speech portion of the brain, so it may aid in recovering speech disorders due to paralytic issues.

**Tansy**
*Puffed, yellow flowers atop a tall, erect stem.*
-Once consumed, this herb will aid in the depletion of coughs.

**Thyme**
*Small, quarter-inch leaves growing along stems which fan from the center and grow upward.*
-Once consumed, this herb soothes a patient's nerves.

**Tormentil**
*Small, yellow flowers with four petals and thin stems.*
-Once chewed into a poultice, this herb can be plastered onto a poisoned wound, especially an serpent bite, to neutralize the toxins, if the fluid extract is removed from the stem, it can be placed on a wound to act as a styptic.

**Watermint**
*Crowded purple flowers encasing the top of the stem.*
-Once consumed, this herb will ease bellyaches.

**Wild Garlic**
*A grass-like root with upright leaves.*
-Once rolled in, this herb will prevent rat bites from advancing to infection.

**Willow**
*A large tree with draping fronds.*
-Once the bark is chewed, this portion of the tree will ease minor pains, if the leaves are consumed it will prevent a patient from excessively vomiting.

**Wintergreen**
*Brightly-colored, bowl-shaped leaves with red berries.*
-Once the berries are chewed into a juice, this herb can be used to soothe and decrease swelling of a wound.

**Windflower Sprouts**
*White flowers with white petals, green middles, and white pollen around the middles.*
-Once this herb is consumed, this herb will aid in the birthing process by raising levels of nevous activity in the body.

**Yarrow**
*Small white flowers with small yellow centers.*
-Once consumed, this herb removes toxins from the stomach through regurgitation.

**Yerba Santa**
*Dense bush with long, thin leaves with purple stems that lead up to bunches of purple flowers.*
-Once the leaves are consumed, this herb will support expectoration for comfortable breathing.

**Deadly Dapperling**
*A tan fungus with white spores and brown rings.*
-If consumed, can cause severe liver toxicity.

**Death/Yew Berries**
*Bright red berries with open tops and hollow middles.*
-If consumed, the effects will bring death almost instantly.

**Foxglove**
Can be easily confused with poppy seeds.
*Pink flowers with tiny black seeds.*
-If the seeds are consumed, can cause heart failure or paralysis.

**Holly Berries**
*Bright red berries with jutted edges.*
-If consumed, can cause life-threatening stomach problems.

**Nightshade**
*Purple star-shaped flowers with black berries.*
-If consumed, the effects will bring death almost instantly.

**Water Hemlock**
*Tall stems with white flower bunches.*
-If consumed, can cause foaming at the mouth and writhing or life-threatening pains.

Treatment of wounds
-Blackberry; Burdock root; Celandine; Chervil; Cobwebs; Comfrey root; Dandelion; Dock; Elder leaves; Fennel; Goldenrod; Horsetail; Marigold; Dried oak leaf; Ragwort leaves; Rush; Stinging nettle; Tormentil; Wild garlic; Willow bark.

Treatment of diseases
-Catmint; Chickweed; Hawkweed; Lavender; Lungwort; Sweet-sedge; Tansy.

Poison
-Deathberries; Foxglove; Holly berries; Nightshade; Water hemlock.

Other
-Alder; Beech; Bindweed; Borage; Brighteye; Broom; Burnet; Catchweed; Chamomile; Cobnuts; Coltsfoot; Daisy leaf; Feverfew; Goatweed; Heather nectar; Honey; Ivy leaves; Juniper berries; Lamb's ear; Lovage; Mallow leaves; Mint; Mouse bile; Parsley; Poppy seeds; Ragwort; Raspberry; Rosemary; Sorrel; Stick; Thyme; Traveling herbs; Watermint; Willow leaves; Wintergreen; Yarrow.