The Medicine Cat's Complete Guide to the Herbs Around Us.
Feb 21, 2015 17:09:55 GMT -5
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Post by Dyzzie on Feb 21, 2015 17:09:55 GMT -5
So this is meant as a quick reference guide to the herbs Medicine cats use to help their clan mates. When searching for a particular herb, or use feel free to use the nifty find feature for quick referencing. Click the name of the plant to be taken to an image of the plant as well. All herbs will include where they are located, what the help with, and basic appearances!
Pictures and Informaiton provided by Warrior Cats Wiki with additional reasearch by Dyzzie.
Alder bark --- thin trees, usually varying shades of gray.
Bindweed --- Small, arrow shaped leaves and white trumpet flowers grown on vines.
Blackberry Leaves --- Small, slightly pointed pale green leaves grown on blackberry bushes
Borage Leaves --- Plant with hairy leaves, often topped with pink or blue star shaped flowers.
Broom --- Shrub bushes with tiny leaves and small, powdery yellow flowers.
Burdock Root --- Thistle bush with dark leaves, long stems and a very sharp scent.
Burnet --- large bush with oval shaped leaves. Often found with clusters of flowers at the top of this plant.
Catchweed --- thin stemmed plant with fuzzy pale green or near white balls at the top
Catnip (Catmint) --- small plant with an array of small leaves with a very rich, and delicious smell to cats.
Celandine --- A yellow flower with four petals shaped up in a plate like shape.
Chamomile --- small white flowers grown in clusters with bright yellow centers.
Chervil --- Sweet smelling plant with very leafy limbs and small flowers (white).
Chickweed --- tall palnt with large, almond shaped leaves.
Cob nuts --- A type of hazelnut. Small brown nut in a harder outer shell.
Cobwebs --- shiny webs made from spiders, found commonly all around in all territories.
Coltsfoot --- Dandelien-like yellow flower.
Comfrey Root --- Fat black roots with a tangy smell, small flowers and green leaves.
Daisy Leaf --- thick, dark green oval shaped leaves, distinguisable by the white flower on the stem.
Dandelion --- long hollow stems with a large flowered yellow bud.
Dock --- Common, large leafy plant with a tangy taste and smell.
Fennel --- large bush with thin, spiky or stringy leaves
Feverfew --- bush with smll white flowers (resembling daisies sligtly) with small, soft leaves.
Goldenrod --- tall plant with small yellow flowers.
Heather Nectar --- Small bell shaped flowers, usually blue, purple, or white. Nectar is gathered inside the flowers.
Honey --- Delicious syrup found in bee hives when they're broken into.
Horsetail --- Tall, spindly dark green plant.
Juniper Berries --- Spiky green leafed bush, with tiny purple-blue berries.
Lamb's Ear --- A small, soft, and fuzzy light green plant.
Lavender --- A tall plant with rows of purple flowers at the top
Mallow Leaves --- Has a rose-like scent. Soft, fuzzy leaves with pink or purple flowers.
Marigold --- A short stemmed flower, usually pale yellow, golden, or orange.
Mint --- A plant with many leaves in green, yellow or purple in color. Flowers can appear (small and white or purple).
Mouse bile --- No accurate description
Oak leaf --- large leaves with between five and seven prongs.
Parsley --- Sharp scented plant that tastes cool and fresh. Long stemmed, dark vibrant green with ragged, crinkled edge leaves.
Poppy Seeds --- Small black seeds shaken from Poppy Flowers.
Ragwort Leaves --- Tall, foul tasting plant with yellow flowers and large leaves.
Ragweed --- A long leaved plant that can resemble a fern.
Raspberry Leaves --- Large leaves with jagged edges, but are soft to the touch, with large multi-seed red or dark purple-red berries.
Rosemary --- Long stemmed plant with sharp needle leaves and purple flowers.
Rush --- long narrow leaves with plump tops in a lavender color.
Snakeroot --- dark green leaf plant with bright white 'fluffy' looking flowers.
Sorrel --- Similar to dock. Small leafy plant.
Sticks --- The broken limbs of trees collected off the ground.
Stinging Nettle --- A plant with pale green, spiny seeds.
Sweet-Sedge --- Plants with thick green stems and yellow, long buds on top.
Tansy --- A plant with round, yellow leaves and a sweet but strong scent.
Tormentil --- Thin stemmed plant with large leaves and yellow buds. Strong, aromic scent but sharp taste.
Thyme --- brown stems with small, sticky green leaves.
Traveling herbs --- Sorrel, Daisy, Chamomile and Burnet
Watermint --- a leafy green plant with purple 'spiky' flowers.
Wild Garlic --- A strong smelling plant with green leaves and white stems, and a white bulb growing in ground.
Willowbark --- Pale Ash-brown bark of a willow.
Willow Leaves --- Long, slim and sleek leaves of the willow tree.
Wintergreen --- Plant with small, sleek to the touch leaves and small red berries.
Yarrow --- A long, thin stemmed plant with bunches of tiny white flowers at the end of each stem.
Poisons
Deathberries --- Bright red berries of the Yew bush.
Foxglove Seeds --- Small black seeds found in the backs of Foxglove plants.
Holly Berries --- Small red berries of the Holly bush
Deadly Nightshade --- Small shubery with small purple and green flowers. Berries are small and black.
Water Hemlock --- Small, dainty white flowers that grown in a half sphere shaped cluster.
Pictures and Informaiton provided by Warrior Cats Wiki with additional reasearch by Dyzzie.
Alder bark --- thin trees, usually varying shades of gray.
Where it's found: This tree is typically found in wet, boggy, or swamp like areas.
What it's used for: Chewing on this bark will help to ease tooth aches, and other pains of the jaw.
Bindweed --- Small, arrow shaped leaves and white trumpet flowers grown on vines.
Where it's found: Multitude of places (everywhere)
What it's used for: Used to help stabilize broken, or sprained limbs by binding sticks, and other items to the limb to keep it straight during the healing process.
Blackberry Leaves --- Small, slightly pointed pale green leaves grown on blackberry bushes
Where it's found: Found all over in a multitude of places.
What it's used for: Chewed to a pulp before being applied to the site of a bee sting to help reduce the swelling.
Borage Leaves --- Plant with hairy leaves, often topped with pink or blue star shaped flowers.
Where it's found: Mostly found in forests
What it's used for: Eaten to help reduce fevers. Also chewed and eaten by queens to help produce more, and better milk.
Broom --- Shrub bushes with tiny leaves and small, powdery yellow flowers.
Where it's found: Typically found in open plains.
What it's used for: Used in poultices for open wounds, or broken limbs.
Burdock Root --- Thistle bush with dark leaves, long stems and a very sharp scent.
Where it's found: Found in dry areas
What it's used for: Chewed up and applied to rat bites to help avoid or heal infection as well as deminish pain.
Burnet --- large bush with oval shaped leaves. Often found with clusters of flowers at the top of this plant.
Where it's found: Found in dry places, or very grassy meadows
What it's used for: Helps to aid in keeping a traveling cat's strength up.
Catchweed --- thin stemmed plant with fuzzy pale green or near white balls at the top
Where it's found: Found near hedges or other low shubbery plants
What it's used for: burrs (fuzzy balls) are put on pelts to help hold the poultice onto the pelt with out it rubbing off or hurting the cat.
Catnip (Catmint) --- small plant with an array of small leaves with a very rich, and delicious smell to cats.
Where it's found: Rarely found in the wild (usually in a twolegged garden)
What it's used for: Eaten to help cure whitecough or greencough.
Celandine --- A yellow flower with four petals shaped up in a plate like shape.
Where it's found: In damp wooded areas in partial or full shade.
What it's used for: Soothes eye pain when juice is leaked into eye.
Chamomile --- small white flowers grown in clusters with bright yellow centers.
Where it's found: Found in towleg garden
What it's used for: Eaten to help soothe the mind, and strengthen the heart. Can give a traveling cat strength.
Chervil --- Sweet smelling plant with very leafy limbs and small flowers (white).
Where it's found: Found in the forest
What it's used for: Chewed to extract juices. Helps to soothe belly aches, infected wounds, and used to help with kitting.
Chickweed --- tall palnt with large, almond shaped leaves.
Where it's found: Found in foresty type areas.
What it's used for: Helps to treat green cough (Catnip is preferred).
Cob nuts --- A type of hazelnut. Small brown nut in a harder outer shell.
Where it's found: In, under or near hazel trees. Usually found in sunny places.
What it's used for: Unknown use except for ointments to wounds.
Cobwebs --- shiny webs made from spiders, found commonly all around in all territories.
Where it's found: Found all over, in forests, bushes, and elsewhere.
What it's used for: Used to soak up blood, stop bleeding, bind broken limbs, or hold poultices and pulps into place.
Coltsfoot --- Dandelien-like yellow flower.
Where it's found: Found in open areas, usually areas that show signs of having been disturbed.
What it's used for: Eases breathing, helps with kitten-cough, and help sore or broken paw-pads.
Comfrey Root --- Fat black roots with a tangy smell, small flowers and green leaves.
Where it's found: Damp, grassy places
What it's used for: Chewed into a poultice to help sooth wounds, help repair broken bones, fix wrenched claws, sooth ictching or help the pain of stiff joints.
Daisy Leaf --- thick, dark green oval shaped leaves, distinguisable by the white flower on the stem.
Where it's found: Almost Everywhere
What it's used for: Chewed to a paste to ease aching joints
Dandelion --- long hollow stems with a large flowered yellow bud.
Where it's found: Almost Everywhere
What it's used for: Leaves can be chewed and applied as a painkiller, or help with bee stings.
Dock --- Common, large leafy plant with a tangy taste and smell.
Where it's found: Best in leafy areas
What it's used for: Chewed and applied to scratches or soore paw pads. Can sting when applied.
Fennel --- large bush with thin, spiky or stringy leaves
Where it's found: Found in dry soil near riverbanks, the sea, or coast.
What it's used for: Stalk is broken and juice dripped into cat's mouth to help with pain (especially of the hips).
Feverfew --- bush with smll white flowers (resembling daisies sligtly) with small, soft leaves.
Where it's found: Found near water
What it's used for: Reduces the body temperature of cats with fevers of chills. Can also heal aches and pains and headaches. Eaten.
Goldenrod --- tall plant with small yellow flowers.
Where it's found: In groves or clusters, usually along trails in the forest, or higher altitude areas.
What it's used for: Can be chewed into a poultice to help heal wounds. Juices can also help as a pain killer.
Heather Nectar --- Small bell shaped flowers, usually blue, purple, or white. Nectar is gathered inside the flowers.
Where it's found: Usually found in areas of shade
What it's used for: Used in mixtures to make them easier to swallow and taste sweeter.
Honey --- Delicious syrup found in bee hives when they're broken into.
Where it's found: Honeycombs and Bee hives high in the trees
What it's used for: To be eaten or soaked up by moss. Soothes infections, sore throats, smoke damage, help to soothe coughing, helps to make other mixtures taste better and be easier to swallow, and can help give a cat energy.
Horsetail --- Tall, spindly dark green plant.
Where it's found: In any kind of marshy area.
What it's used for: Chewed into a paste and applied to wounds, to treat infection and stop bleeding.
Juniper Berries --- Spiky green leafed bush, with tiny purple-blue berries.
Where it's found: Found in any dry locations
What it's used for: Chewed/Eaten. Can soothe belly aches, help with troubled breathing, Used in helping to calm cats, or give cats strength.
Lamb's Ear --- A small, soft, and fuzzy light green plant.
Where it's found: Found in the mountains and rocky areas
What it's used for: Helps to give a cat strength.
Lavender --- A tall plant with rows of purple flowers at the top
Where it's found: Found in twoleg gardens, or in sunny spots with loose soil.
What it's used for: Breathed in to help heal fevers and chills. Can be rubbed on a body or pelt to hide teh scent of death.
Mallow Leaves --- Has a rose-like scent. Soft, fuzzy leaves with pink or purple flowers.
Where it's found: Found near the shoreline.
What it's used for: Eaten to cure belly aches.
Marigold --- A short stemmed flower, usually pale yellow, golden, or orange.
Where it's found: Near water.
What it's used for: Petals and Leaves are chewed into a poultice, or juice is collected. Used to stop infection and bleeding, or to help rid pain of stiff joints.
Mint --- A plant with many leaves in green, yellow or purple in color. Flowers can appear (small and white or purple).
Where it's found: In patches in the forest, or in a two-leg garden.
What it's used for: Rubbed onto a body to hide the scent of death.
Mouse bile --- No accurate description
Where it's found: Taken from mouse and stored in moss.
What it's used for: Lightly dabbed on a tick to remove it effortlessly.
Oak leaf --- large leaves with between five and seven prongs.
Where it's found: All over forest floor - best collected during leaffall.
What it's used for: Chewed into a thick paste to stop infection.
Parsley --- Sharp scented plant that tastes cool and fresh. Long stemmed, dark vibrant green with ragged, crinkled edge leaves.
Where it's found: Lots of sun and moist areas. Or Twoleg gardens.
What it's used for: Eaten to cure belly ache or to stop a queen from producing milk.
Poppy Seeds --- Small black seeds shaken from Poppy Flowers.
Where it's found: All over the forest
What it's used for: Chewed on to make a cat sleep, ease stress, panic or fear, and to help stop pain.
Ragwort Leaves --- Tall, foul tasting plant with yellow flowers and large leaves.
Where it's found: Everywhere (best in cool places(
What it's used for: Crushed and chewed on to help keep a cat's strength up. Can be mixed with juniper berries to ease pain of joints.
Ragweed --- A long leaved plant that can resemble a fern.
Where it's found: Found in the mountains an other rocky areas of high altitude.
What it's used for: Chewed and eaten to help give strenght and energy.
Raspberry Leaves --- Large leaves with jagged edges, but are soft to the touch, with large multi-seed red or dark purple-red berries.
Where it's found: Found on rasberry bushes out in plains, meadows, in the forest or in a twolegger garden.
What it's used for: Helps ease pain or stop bleeding. Helps during kitting to ease and stop bleeding.
Rosemary --- Long stemmed plant with sharp needle leaves and purple flowers.
Where it's found: In the forest
What it's used for: Placed on a cat's pelt to cover scent of death before burial.
Rush --- long narrow leaves with plump tops in a lavender color.
Where it's found: Found in infertile soil, all over with high moisture.
What it's used for: Helps bind broken limbs.
Snakeroot --- dark green leaf plant with bright white 'fluffy' looking flowers.
Where it's found: Found in warm areas
What it's used for: Applied to wounds to cure poison (especially snake bites).
Sorrel --- Similar to dock. Small leafy plant.
Where it's found: Found near twoleg nests
What it's used for: Eaten to keep up energy.
Sticks --- The broken limbs of trees collected off the ground.
Where it's found: Found anywhere near trees.
What it's used for: Bite down to distract a cat from pain (such as during Kitting), or used to help stabilize broken limbs.
Stinging Nettle --- A plant with pale green, spiny seeds.
Where it's found: Found all over foresty areas
What it's used for: Can be eaten to make a cat vomit poison. Leaves can be chewed into a paste for wounds to help reduce swelling, and heal them. Can be mixed with Comfrey to help heal broken bones.
Sweet-Sedge --- Plants with thick green stems and yellow, long buds on top.
Where it's found: Growns near water -- especially during leaf-bare.
What it's used for: By swallowing sap can help to ease infection.
Tansy --- A plant with round, yellow leaves and a sweet but strong scent.
Where it's found: Found in foresty areas or near two leg nests.
What it's used for: Eaten (in small doses) to cure coughs, wounds, and poisons. Can soothe the throat, and help fight against catching greencough. Can also be applied to a cat's pelt to hide their scent.
Tormentil --- Thin stemmed plant with large leaves and yellow buds. Strong, aromic scent but sharp taste.
Where it's found: Found in cold or cool areas, or in two leg gardens.
What it's used for: Chewed and placed on a wound to help it heal and remove poison.
Thyme --- brown stems with small, sticky green leaves.
Where it's found: Found in areas of sunlight or twoleg garden.
What it's used for: Chewing on leaves help to calm a nervous, anxious or shock-ridden cat.
Traveling herbs --- Sorrel, Daisy, Chamomile and Burnet
What it's used for: Keeping a cat's strength and energy up and feel full for longer.
Watermint --- a leafy green plant with purple 'spiky' flowers.
Where it's found: Found in streams or wet places.
What it's used for: Chewed into a pulp and then eaten to ease belly aches.
Wild Garlic --- A strong smelling plant with green leaves and white stems, and a white bulb growing in ground.
Where it's found: In the forest
What it's used for: Rolling in it will prevent infection and also hide a cat's scent.
Willowbark --- Pale Ash-brown bark of a willow.
Where it's found: Watery areas and near two leg places
What it's used for: Helps to ease pain.
Willow Leaves --- Long, slim and sleek leaves of the willow tree.
Where it's found: Watery areas and near two leg places.
What it's used for: Eaten to stop vomitting.
Wintergreen --- Plant with small, sleek to the touch leaves and small red berries.
Where it's found: Mountains, wooded areas,
What it's used for: Treats poisons and helps with healing wounds.
Yarrow --- A long, thin stemmed plant with bunches of tiny white flowers at the end of each stem.
Where it's found: In Forests
What it's used for: Chewed to a poultice and then applied to wounds to help with infection, and rid poisons. When eaten can help a cat vomit to rid itself of toxins. Can be applied to paw pads to soften and help heal them.
Poisons
Deathberries --- Bright red berries of the Yew bush.
Where it's found: Ravines of foresty areas
What it's used for: Kills a cat instantly when eaten.
Foxglove Seeds --- Small black seeds found in the backs of Foxglove plants.
Where it's found: Almost everywhere (temperate regions)
What it's used for: When used in careful moderation can treat the heart. Too much will cause heart failure and paralysis.
Holly Berries --- Small red berries of the Holly bush
Where it's found: Forests
What it's used for: Not as dangerous as Deathberries, but still deadly to kits. Can be used carefully to cause a cat to vomit.
Deadly Nightshade --- Small shubery with small purple and green flowers. Berries are small and black.
Where it's found: Moist and Shady places.
What it's used for: Given to a cat as a mercy-killing method.
Water Hemlock --- Small, dainty white flowers that grown in a half sphere shaped cluster.
Where it's found: Wet, Marshy locations
What it's used for: When eaten can cause foaming at mouth, severe pain, and death
