Alder Bark
Description: Bark of the alder tree.
Usage: Chewed on, but not swallowed.
Effect: Eases toothaches.
Beech Leaves
Description: The distinguishing feature of the leaf is the serrated edges.
Usage: To carry other herbs or mix poultices on.
Blackberry Leaves
Description: Leaves from the prickly blackberry bush.
Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Eases the swelling of beestings.
Borage Leaves
Description: It is easily distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves.
Usage: It is chewed and eaten by nursing queens.
Effect: It produces more and better milk. It also brings down fevers.
Burdock
Description: Tall-stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves.
Usage: The root is dug up, the soil is washed off, and then it is chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Lessens and heals the pain of infected rat bites.
Burnet
Description: Has oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges. Stems grow 50-200cm tall, with large clusters of small flower buds on top.
Usage: A traveling herb.
Effect: Keeps a cat's strength up.
Catchweed
Description: A plant with fuzzy green balls on long clining stems.
Usage: The burrs are put on the pelt where poltices are.
Effect: Stops poltices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.
Catmint
Description: A leafy and delicious-smelling plant.
Location: Rarely found in the wild; mostly found in Twoleg gardens.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Best remedy for the deadly greencough, which kits and elders usually catch in the season of leaf-bare. Can also be used for whitecough.
Celandine
Description: Yellow flower with four petals.
Usage: Juice is trickled into the eye.
Effect: Soothes damaged eyes.
Chamomile
Description: A small, white flower with a large, yellow center.
Location: Can be found in Twoleg gardens.
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.
Usage: Chewed to extract the juice of the leaves or the root.
Effect: For infected wounds and bellyache, respectively. Can be used during kitting.
Chickweed
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
Usage: Chewed.
Effect: Treats greencough, though catmint is often preferred.
Cob Nuts
Description: A smooth brown nut with a hard outside shell. A type of hazelnut.
Usage: Made into ointments.
Effect: Can help soothe irritated skin, but not burnt skin.
Cobwebs
Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very common.
Usage: Press over wounds.
Effect: To soak up and stop (or slow) bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.
Coltsfoot
Description: A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions. Grows best in newleaf.
Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Eases breathing or kitten-cough, as well as cracked or sore pads.
Comfrey
Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots. Tangy smell.
Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultice.
Effect: Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds. Also used for wrenched claws. Can be used for itching or inflammation on stiff joints.
Daisy Leaf
Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves.
Usage: Chewed into a paste.
Effect: Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a travelling herb.
Dandelion
Description: Common yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems.
Usage: Flower is squeezed to produce a white liquid.
Effect: Thought to soothe and heal bee stings. Its leaves can also be chewed to act like a painkiller.
Deathberries
Description: Red berries from the dark-leaved, poisonous yew bush.
Usage: Consumed.
Effect: Kills a cat within minutes.
Dock
Description: Common, large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste.
Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches. Similar to sorrel.
Effect: Soothes scratches, though can sting when being applied. Soothes sore pads.
Fennel
Description: Thin, spiky leaves.
Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth.
Effect: Helps pain in the hips, used most often in kitting.
Feverfew
Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies, sharp tangy smell, small soft leaves.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Reduces body temperature for cats with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, especially good for headaches.
Foxglove Seeds
Description: Tiny, black seeds from the bell-shaped flower of the foxglove plant.
Usage: They are used to treat the heart.
Effect: They can easily cause paralysis and heart failure.
Goldenrod
Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
Usage: Chewed into a poultice.
Effect: Good for healing wounds.
Heather Nectar
Description: Nectar found in bell-shaped flowers.
Usage: Included in herbal mixtures.
Effect: Makes swallowing easier and sweetens mixtures.
Holly Berries
Description: Plant with spiny leaves that produces red berries with no medicinal value.
Effect: Poisonous.
Honey
Description: A sweet, golden-coloured liquid made by bees.
Usage: Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it.
Effect: Soothes infections, smoke-damaged or sore throats, and helps cats swallow other concoctions.
Horsetail
Description: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant, referred to with fleshy stalks.
Usage: Chewed to a poultice, and applied to wounds.
Effect: Treats infections.
Juniper Berries
Description: Purple-blue berries from the dark green, spiky-leaved juniper bush.
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.
Usage: Chewed and eaten.
Effect: Gives a cat strength.
Lavender
Description: A small, purple, flowering plant.
Usage: Mixed into a poultice.
Effect: Cures fever and chills. Also a herb used to hide the scent of death.
Mallow Leaves
Description: Three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub, sweet rose scent.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Soothes bellyache.
Marigold
Description: A low-growing flower, yellow to bright orange.
Usage: Petals or leaves chewed in a poultice. Juice can be used as well.
Effect: Stops infection and bleeding. Juice is used for inflammation of joints.
Mint
Usage: Rubbed on a dead body.
Effect: Hides the scent of death.
Mouse Bile
Extracted from the mouse. The only remedy for ticks, mouse bile is foul smelling, and is stored in moss. When dabbed on a tick, the tick falls off. Smell can be masked by wild garlic or by washing paws in running water. If accidentally swallowed, can leave a horrible taste in mouth for days. Medicine cats always have to remember to wash their paws in a body of water, such as a creek or stream, after using mouse bile.
Nightshade
Description: Tubular flower with radiating petals.
Usage: To kill a cat who cannot be saved quickly.
Effect: Poisonous.
Oak Leaf
Description: Round, cartoony ruffled leaves.
Usage: Chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Stops infection from setting in.
Parsley
Description: A long-stemmed plant with ragged-edged crinkly leaves, Sharp scent.
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: Small black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead.
Usage: Chewed on.
Effect: They can put a cat to sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens.
Ragwort Leaves
Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers. Tastes foul.
Usage: Crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints.
Effect: Treats aching joints and keeps a cat's strength up.
Ragweed
Description: Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern.
Usage: Chewed and eaten.
Effect: Like lamb's ear, ragweed gives a cat extra strength and energy.
Raspberry Leaves
Description: Soft to the touch, but with jagged edges.
Usage: Chewed and eaten.
Effect: Eases pain or stops bleeding.
Rush
Description: It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks.
Usage: Placed along broken bones.
Effect: Helps hold a broken limb in place.
Snakeroot
Description: The best remedy for snake venom.
Usage: Chewed and applied to wounds.
Effect: Extracts venom from the wound.
Sorrel
Description: Similar to dock, sorrel is used as a traveling herb.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Gives a cat strength.
Stinging Nettle
Description: It has green, spiny seeds.
Usage: The seeds are eaten by a cat who's swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound.
Effect: Induces vomiting, or brings down swelling, respectively. Can be mixed with comfrey to help heal broken bones.
Tansy
Description: The tansy plant has round, yellow leaves, and has a very sweet and strong scent, making it good for disguising a cat's scent.
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.
Tormentil
Description: It has a strong, romantic scent to it and a sharp taste.
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.
Usage: Leaves can be chewed on.
Effect: Calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats who are in shock.
Watermint
Description: A green, leafy plant.
Usage: It is usually chewed into a pulp, and then eaten.
Effect: Eases the suffering that originates from a bellyache.
Water Hemlock
Description: Green or white flowers with petals in umbrella-shaped clusters
Effect: Causes writhing and foaming at the mouth.
Wild Garlic
Usage: One must roll in it.
Effect: Prevents infection, especially rat bites.
Willow Bark
Description: Bark of the willow tree.
Usage: Chewed on.
Effect: Eases pain.
Wintergreen
Description: Easily identifiable by its red berries.
Usage: Chewed to a pulp.
Effect: Treats wounds and some poisons.
Yarrow
Description: A flowering plant.
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.
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