Post by ☀Eternal☀ on Apr 25, 2016 11:28:48 GMT -7
HERBS AND USAGE
Alder Bark
Description: Bark from an alder tree
Location: Can be found growing in boggy, wet terrain
Usage: Used to ease toothaches
Beech Leaf
Description: A leaf that is large and broad. It is usually serrated either entirely or partially
Location: Grows in most soil unless the area is waterlogged
Usage: For carrying other herbs
Bindweed
Description: An arrow-head shaped leaf that has pale pint and white flowers shaped like a trumpet
Location: Grows generally everywhere
Usage: Binding to fasten sticks to broken limbs to keep them in place so they will heal
Blackberry Leaves
Description: The leaves from a rather prickly blackberry bush
Location: Very common, almost everywhere
Usage: Chewed into a pulp to ease swelling caused by bee stings
Borage Leaves
Description: Has small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves
Location: Grows best in forests
Usage: It is chewed, eaten, by queens who are nursing to produce better or more milk. Also helps to bring a fever down
Broom
Description: A shrub that has small leaves and small yellow flowers
Location: Found in undergrowth forest areas, such as TC
Usage: Made into a poultices for broken bones or used for wounds
Burdock Root
Description: A sharp smelling tall stemmed thistle that has dark leaves
Location: Found in dry areas
Usage: the root is chewed into a pulp after being dug up and washed to be used on an infected rat bite; to prevent or treat. Lessens the pain as well
Burnet
Description: Oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges and large clusters of small flower buds on top. The stems grow from a range of 50 to 200cm tall
Location: Found in dry, grassy meadows
Usage: Either as a traveling herb or to help keep a cat's strength up
Catchweed
Description: A long plant with fuzzy green balls on the stem
Location: Found in hedges or different types of low, shrubby vegetation
Usage: Burrs are placed upon the pelt where poultices have been applied to keep them from being rubbed off, this does not harm the skin
Catmint
Description: A delicious smelling leafy plant
Location: Mostly found in twoleg gardens, rarely found within the wild
Usage: A chewed and eaten remedy used for whitecough and greencough.
Celandine
Description: Four petal yellow flower
Location: Grows best in the forest but can be found near the river
Usage: Juice is trickled into damaged eye to help soothe them
Chamomile
Description: Small, white flower with a large, yellow center
Location: Found within twoleg gardens
Usage: Chewed and eaten to help strengthen the heart or soothe the mind. Also used in traveling herbs
Chervil
Description: A large plant with leafy, fern like leaves and small white flowers. It is very sweet smelling
Location: In the Forest near rocky areas
Usage: Chewed for the use of the juice that has been extracted from the leaves or roots. Used during kitting or for infected wounds and bellyaches
Chickweed
Description: A tall stemmed plant with fat almond shaped leaves
Location: In the Forest near sunningrocks and other warm rocks
Usage: Eaten like as catmint/catnip to treat whitecough and greencough
Cob Nuts
Description: A type of hazelnut that is brown and has a hard outside shell
Location: Near, under or found inside hazel trees. Generally grows in sunny places
Usage: Can be made into an ointment
Cobwebs
Description: Shiny, long and thin strands that have been spun by spiders
Location: Can be found anywhere, highly common
Usage: Press over wound to soak up, slow down, or stop bleeding. Helps to bind broken bones as well
Coltsfoot
Description: A yellow and white flower that resembles the dandelion
Location: Grows by the gorge, usually thrives best in newleaf
Usage: Leaves are chewed into a pulp to ease breathing or for kitten-cough. Also good for cracked or sore pads
Comfrey Root
Description: Large leafed plant with small pink, white or purple bell shaped flowers. Has fat, black roots
Location: Found in damp grassy areas
Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultices to line nests, heal broken bones, soothe wounds, wrenched claws or joints and the inflammation of stiff joints. Also be used for itching
Daisy Leaf
Description: A dark green, thick plant with oval shaped leaves
Location: Almost everywhere
Usage: Made, chewed, into a paste for aching joints or in traveling herbs
Dandelion
Description: A flowered plant with long, hollow stems that is yellow. Can be harvested for planting later, after the flower transforms white with small seed heads.
Location: Almost everywhere
Usage: Leaves are chewed, or the white sticky liquid is used to soothe and heal bee stings, or the leaves are chewed for a simple painkiller
Dock
Description: A large leafy plant that has a tangy taste and smell.
Location: Found in leafy areas
Usage: Applied to scratches, once chewed, by licking the juices onto scratches. May be lined in one's nest, soothes scratches, sore pads and eases the pain of wounds. Sometimes stings when applied
Fennel
Description: Thin, spiky leaves
Location: Found areas of dry soils near or on riverbanks
Usage: The stalks are broken and the juice is then squeezed into the patient's mouth for hip pain
Feverfew
Description: A tiny bush with small soft leaves and flowers that resemble the daisy. It has a rather sharp tangy smell.
Location: Found growing best beside water
Usage: Eaten to reduce body temperature for cats with chills or a fever. Good for aches, pains and headaches
Goatweed
Description: A plant with ovate leaves
Location: RiverClan territory
Usage: Given daily for anxiety or grief
Goldenrod
Description: A tall bright plant with yellow flowers
Location: Grows best in the moorlands
Usage: Chewed into a poultice to heal wounds
Hawkweed
Description: Small green plant with yellow and orange flowers
Location: Not usually found anymore
Usage: Like catmint but not as strong.
Heather Nectar
Description: The juice, nectar, found within the bell shaped flowers
Location: Grows best in shaded areas grown in shady areas.
Usage: Slipped into herbal mixtures to make swallowing easier or make the mixtures taste sweet rather than bitter
Honey
Description: A liquid made by bees that is golden colored and incredibly sweet
Location: In a bees nest high up in trees.
Usage: Generally eaten, or lapped up from soaked moss, to help remedy damaged or sore throats. Also helps to soothe infections, for coughing, to give energy or to sweeten bitter concoctions
Horsetail
Description: A bristly stemmed plant that is very tall with strange fleshy stalks
Location: Marshy areas
Usage: Chewed to a poultice and applied to wounds to help treat infection and or stop bleeding
Ivy Leaf
Description: Leaves within an ivy vine
Location: Grows in caves or along rocks
Usage: To store other herbs but has no other use
Juniper Berries
Description: A purplish blue berry that come from a spikey dark green leafed juniper bush
Location: Grows in many places as long as the area is not wet
Usage: Chewed and eaten to give strength, help with those having trouble breathing or to soothe bellyaches. May also be used to calm frantic cats
Lavender
Description: A small plant with purple flowers
Location: Grows in sunny places with sandy or rocky soil. Usually found and grown inside a twoleg garden
Usage: Is placed beneath a cats nose to be inhaled continuously to cure fever or chills. laced under a cats nose and is to be inhaled constantly. Also rubbed or placed on another animals body to hide the scent of death
Mallow Leaves
Description: A flowery shrub that has fuzzy and large leaves. The scent is sweet and rose like
Location: Grows best near shore but usually collected during sunhigh when it is dry
Usage: Eaten to soothe bellyaches
Marigold
Description: A yellow or bright orange flower that is low growing
Location: Near water generally
Usage: The leaves or petals or chewed into a poultice to stop infection and bleeding. The juices are also helpful and can be used for the inflammation within stiff joints.
Mouse Bile
Description: An extremely foul smelling yellow green liquid from mice
Location: Found wherever mice roam
Usage: The liquid is kept stored in moss until needed. Then it is dabbed onto a stick to be placed upon ticks stuck in a pelt, until the tick falls off
Dried Oak Leaf
Description: Has strange cartoon like ruffled leaves and is very round
Location: On the forest floor and generally collected during leaf-fall.
Usage: The dry leaves must be stored in a dry location until it is time to be used. They are then chewed into a poultice and applied on a wound to stop infection
Parsley
Description: A sharp scented plant that has a strange cold and fresh taste with long stems and ragged crinkly leaves
Location: Grows in a sunny well drained area with moist soil
Usage: Eaten to stop a queen from producing milk, if not needed anymore or have too much. May also be used for bellyaches
Poppy Seeds
Description: Shaken from dried poppyhead and is a small, round black seed
Location: In the forest
Usage: Swallowed or lapped up to help sooth shock, distress, ease pain or help a cat sleep. Not to be used on nursing queens
Ragwort Leaves
Description: A tall yellow flowered shrub that has a foul taste
Location: Almost everywhere, especially in places with a high percentage of rainfall
Usage: Chewed and crushed to be mixed with juniper berries to help aching joints, or to keeps a cats strength up
Raspberry Leaves
Description: A jagged edge leaf that is soft to the touch
Location: On raspberry bushes
Usage: Chewed for a painkiller or sometimes used to help stop bleeding during kitting
Rosemary
Description: A tall plant with purple flowers and needle leaves
Location: Forest
Usage: Placed upon the dead to hide the scent of death before burial
Rush
Description: Long narrow leafed plant with lavender head stalks
Location: Grows in infertile soil, in widely different moisture conditions
Usage: Used to bind broken limbs to keep them in place so they may heal
Snakeroot
Description: A smooth light green or tan stemmed plant with a strange spindly-disc like white flowerhead
Location: Grows in warmer areas, though occasionally found in cooler places
Usage: Thought to be crushed or chewed to be applied to wounds or to heal poison
Stinging Nettle
Description: A plant with green and spiny seeds
Location: Around the forest
Usage: Seeds are eaten to induce vomiting. Leaves are chewed into a poultice for wounds to bring down swelling and or to be mixed with comfrey for broken bones. The stems can also be chewed to fight infections
Sweet-Sedge
Description: A plant with green thick stems that have long buds at the top
Location: Grows in all seasons, even leafbare, and is usually found on RiverClan soil
Usage: Swallowing the sap helps to ease infection
Tansy
Description: A strong smelling sweet and tasting plant with round yellow leaves
Location: Found on the border near twoleg place within the forest
Usage: Eaten in small doses to cure coughs, or for wounds and poison. Also helps to soothe the throat or prevent greencough
Tormentil
Description: A large leafed plant with small bright yellow flowers that has a distinctive strong scent and sharp taste
Location: Grows in cool, cold areas or in twoleg gardens.
Usage: Root is chewed and placed on wounds for healing or for extracting poison
Thyme
Description: A tiny, delicate plant with thick sticky leaves and tangy smell
Location: Found in warm, hot sunny locations
Usage: Leaves are chewed to calm nerves anxiety or for those in shock
Traveling Herbs
Description: A mixture of burnet, chamomile, daisy and sorrel
Location: mixed and gathered together in medicine cat dens
Usage: Eaten by cats who need more energy and strength, and to keep hunger at bay during traveling
Watermint
Description: A small stemmed green and leafy plant with large lavender flowerheads
Location: Found in damp earth or in, around, streams
Usage: Chewed into a pulp before being swallowed to ease pain from a bellyache
Wild Garlic
Description: Strange small green and white plant with a overwhelming strong scent
Location: Forest, TC mostly
Usage: Rolled into to prevent infection from setting in, especially infection from rat bites
Willow Bark
Description: Bark from the willow tree.
Location: Grows near the border of twoleg place
Usage: Eases pain
Willow Leaves
Description: Leaves of the willow tree
Location: Anywhere a willow tree resides
Usage: Eaten to cease vomiting
Wintergreen
Description: A dark green busy plant with easily spotted bright red berries.
Location: Woods that are predominately oak or pine
Usage: Treats wounds or poison
Yarrow
Description: A thin stemmed plant with a flowering white head
Location: Forest, snakerocks in TC
Usage: Leaves are chewed into a poultice to be applied to wounds to extract poison. However, can be fed to a cat to induce vomiting to extract toxins as well as made into an ointment to heal and soften cracked pads
Alder Bark
Description: Bark from an alder tree
Location: Can be found growing in boggy, wet terrain
Usage: Used to ease toothaches
Beech Leaf
Description: A leaf that is large and broad. It is usually serrated either entirely or partially
Location: Grows in most soil unless the area is waterlogged
Usage: For carrying other herbs
Bindweed
Description: An arrow-head shaped leaf that has pale pint and white flowers shaped like a trumpet
Location: Grows generally everywhere
Usage: Binding to fasten sticks to broken limbs to keep them in place so they will heal
Blackberry Leaves
Description: The leaves from a rather prickly blackberry bush
Location: Very common, almost everywhere
Usage: Chewed into a pulp to ease swelling caused by bee stings
Borage Leaves
Description: Has small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves
Location: Grows best in forests
Usage: It is chewed, eaten, by queens who are nursing to produce better or more milk. Also helps to bring a fever down
Broom
Description: A shrub that has small leaves and small yellow flowers
Location: Found in undergrowth forest areas, such as TC
Usage: Made into a poultices for broken bones or used for wounds
Burdock Root
Description: A sharp smelling tall stemmed thistle that has dark leaves
Location: Found in dry areas
Usage: the root is chewed into a pulp after being dug up and washed to be used on an infected rat bite; to prevent or treat. Lessens the pain as well
Burnet
Description: Oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges and large clusters of small flower buds on top. The stems grow from a range of 50 to 200cm tall
Location: Found in dry, grassy meadows
Usage: Either as a traveling herb or to help keep a cat's strength up
Catchweed
Description: A long plant with fuzzy green balls on the stem
Location: Found in hedges or different types of low, shrubby vegetation
Usage: Burrs are placed upon the pelt where poultices have been applied to keep them from being rubbed off, this does not harm the skin
Catmint
Description: A delicious smelling leafy plant
Location: Mostly found in twoleg gardens, rarely found within the wild
Usage: A chewed and eaten remedy used for whitecough and greencough.
Celandine
Description: Four petal yellow flower
Location: Grows best in the forest but can be found near the river
Usage: Juice is trickled into damaged eye to help soothe them
Chamomile
Description: Small, white flower with a large, yellow center
Location: Found within twoleg gardens
Usage: Chewed and eaten to help strengthen the heart or soothe the mind. Also used in traveling herbs
Chervil
Description: A large plant with leafy, fern like leaves and small white flowers. It is very sweet smelling
Location: In the Forest near rocky areas
Usage: Chewed for the use of the juice that has been extracted from the leaves or roots. Used during kitting or for infected wounds and bellyaches
Chickweed
Description: A tall stemmed plant with fat almond shaped leaves
Location: In the Forest near sunningrocks and other warm rocks
Usage: Eaten like as catmint/catnip to treat whitecough and greencough
Cob Nuts
Description: A type of hazelnut that is brown and has a hard outside shell
Location: Near, under or found inside hazel trees. Generally grows in sunny places
Usage: Can be made into an ointment
Cobwebs
Description: Shiny, long and thin strands that have been spun by spiders
Location: Can be found anywhere, highly common
Usage: Press over wound to soak up, slow down, or stop bleeding. Helps to bind broken bones as well
Coltsfoot
Description: A yellow and white flower that resembles the dandelion
Location: Grows by the gorge, usually thrives best in newleaf
Usage: Leaves are chewed into a pulp to ease breathing or for kitten-cough. Also good for cracked or sore pads
Comfrey Root
Description: Large leafed plant with small pink, white or purple bell shaped flowers. Has fat, black roots
Location: Found in damp grassy areas
Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultices to line nests, heal broken bones, soothe wounds, wrenched claws or joints and the inflammation of stiff joints. Also be used for itching
Daisy Leaf
Description: A dark green, thick plant with oval shaped leaves
Location: Almost everywhere
Usage: Made, chewed, into a paste for aching joints or in traveling herbs
Dandelion
Description: A flowered plant with long, hollow stems that is yellow. Can be harvested for planting later, after the flower transforms white with small seed heads.
Location: Almost everywhere
Usage: Leaves are chewed, or the white sticky liquid is used to soothe and heal bee stings, or the leaves are chewed for a simple painkiller
Dock
Description: A large leafy plant that has a tangy taste and smell.
Location: Found in leafy areas
Usage: Applied to scratches, once chewed, by licking the juices onto scratches. May be lined in one's nest, soothes scratches, sore pads and eases the pain of wounds. Sometimes stings when applied
Fennel
Description: Thin, spiky leaves
Location: Found areas of dry soils near or on riverbanks
Usage: The stalks are broken and the juice is then squeezed into the patient's mouth for hip pain
Feverfew
Description: A tiny bush with small soft leaves and flowers that resemble the daisy. It has a rather sharp tangy smell.
Location: Found growing best beside water
Usage: Eaten to reduce body temperature for cats with chills or a fever. Good for aches, pains and headaches
Goatweed
Description: A plant with ovate leaves
Location: RiverClan territory
Usage: Given daily for anxiety or grief
Goldenrod
Description: A tall bright plant with yellow flowers
Location: Grows best in the moorlands
Usage: Chewed into a poultice to heal wounds
Hawkweed
Description: Small green plant with yellow and orange flowers
Location: Not usually found anymore
Usage: Like catmint but not as strong.
Heather Nectar
Description: The juice, nectar, found within the bell shaped flowers
Location: Grows best in shaded areas grown in shady areas.
Usage: Slipped into herbal mixtures to make swallowing easier or make the mixtures taste sweet rather than bitter
Honey
Description: A liquid made by bees that is golden colored and incredibly sweet
Location: In a bees nest high up in trees.
Usage: Generally eaten, or lapped up from soaked moss, to help remedy damaged or sore throats. Also helps to soothe infections, for coughing, to give energy or to sweeten bitter concoctions
Horsetail
Description: A bristly stemmed plant that is very tall with strange fleshy stalks
Location: Marshy areas
Usage: Chewed to a poultice and applied to wounds to help treat infection and or stop bleeding
Ivy Leaf
Description: Leaves within an ivy vine
Location: Grows in caves or along rocks
Usage: To store other herbs but has no other use
Juniper Berries
Description: A purplish blue berry that come from a spikey dark green leafed juniper bush
Location: Grows in many places as long as the area is not wet
Usage: Chewed and eaten to give strength, help with those having trouble breathing or to soothe bellyaches. May also be used to calm frantic cats
Lavender
Description: A small plant with purple flowers
Location: Grows in sunny places with sandy or rocky soil. Usually found and grown inside a twoleg garden
Usage: Is placed beneath a cats nose to be inhaled continuously to cure fever or chills. laced under a cats nose and is to be inhaled constantly. Also rubbed or placed on another animals body to hide the scent of death
Mallow Leaves
Description: A flowery shrub that has fuzzy and large leaves. The scent is sweet and rose like
Location: Grows best near shore but usually collected during sunhigh when it is dry
Usage: Eaten to soothe bellyaches
Marigold
Description: A yellow or bright orange flower that is low growing
Location: Near water generally
Usage: The leaves or petals or chewed into a poultice to stop infection and bleeding. The juices are also helpful and can be used for the inflammation within stiff joints.
Mouse Bile
Description: An extremely foul smelling yellow green liquid from mice
Location: Found wherever mice roam
Usage: The liquid is kept stored in moss until needed. Then it is dabbed onto a stick to be placed upon ticks stuck in a pelt, until the tick falls off
Dried Oak Leaf
Description: Has strange cartoon like ruffled leaves and is very round
Location: On the forest floor and generally collected during leaf-fall.
Usage: The dry leaves must be stored in a dry location until it is time to be used. They are then chewed into a poultice and applied on a wound to stop infection
Parsley
Description: A sharp scented plant that has a strange cold and fresh taste with long stems and ragged crinkly leaves
Location: Grows in a sunny well drained area with moist soil
Usage: Eaten to stop a queen from producing milk, if not needed anymore or have too much. May also be used for bellyaches
Poppy Seeds
Description: Shaken from dried poppyhead and is a small, round black seed
Location: In the forest
Usage: Swallowed or lapped up to help sooth shock, distress, ease pain or help a cat sleep. Not to be used on nursing queens
Ragwort Leaves
Description: A tall yellow flowered shrub that has a foul taste
Location: Almost everywhere, especially in places with a high percentage of rainfall
Usage: Chewed and crushed to be mixed with juniper berries to help aching joints, or to keeps a cats strength up
Raspberry Leaves
Description: A jagged edge leaf that is soft to the touch
Location: On raspberry bushes
Usage: Chewed for a painkiller or sometimes used to help stop bleeding during kitting
Rosemary
Description: A tall plant with purple flowers and needle leaves
Location: Forest
Usage: Placed upon the dead to hide the scent of death before burial
Rush
Description: Long narrow leafed plant with lavender head stalks
Location: Grows in infertile soil, in widely different moisture conditions
Usage: Used to bind broken limbs to keep them in place so they may heal
Snakeroot
Description: A smooth light green or tan stemmed plant with a strange spindly-disc like white flowerhead
Location: Grows in warmer areas, though occasionally found in cooler places
Usage: Thought to be crushed or chewed to be applied to wounds or to heal poison
Stinging Nettle
Description: A plant with green and spiny seeds
Location: Around the forest
Usage: Seeds are eaten to induce vomiting. Leaves are chewed into a poultice for wounds to bring down swelling and or to be mixed with comfrey for broken bones. The stems can also be chewed to fight infections
Sweet-Sedge
Description: A plant with green thick stems that have long buds at the top
Location: Grows in all seasons, even leafbare, and is usually found on RiverClan soil
Usage: Swallowing the sap helps to ease infection
Tansy
Description: A strong smelling sweet and tasting plant with round yellow leaves
Location: Found on the border near twoleg place within the forest
Usage: Eaten in small doses to cure coughs, or for wounds and poison. Also helps to soothe the throat or prevent greencough
Tormentil
Description: A large leafed plant with small bright yellow flowers that has a distinctive strong scent and sharp taste
Location: Grows in cool, cold areas or in twoleg gardens.
Usage: Root is chewed and placed on wounds for healing or for extracting poison
Thyme
Description: A tiny, delicate plant with thick sticky leaves and tangy smell
Location: Found in warm, hot sunny locations
Usage: Leaves are chewed to calm nerves anxiety or for those in shock
Traveling Herbs
Description: A mixture of burnet, chamomile, daisy and sorrel
Location: mixed and gathered together in medicine cat dens
Usage: Eaten by cats who need more energy and strength, and to keep hunger at bay during traveling
Watermint
Description: A small stemmed green and leafy plant with large lavender flowerheads
Location: Found in damp earth or in, around, streams
Usage: Chewed into a pulp before being swallowed to ease pain from a bellyache
Wild Garlic
Description: Strange small green and white plant with a overwhelming strong scent
Location: Forest, TC mostly
Usage: Rolled into to prevent infection from setting in, especially infection from rat bites
Willow Bark
Description: Bark from the willow tree.
Location: Grows near the border of twoleg place
Usage: Eases pain
Willow Leaves
Description: Leaves of the willow tree
Location: Anywhere a willow tree resides
Usage: Eaten to cease vomiting
Wintergreen
Description: A dark green busy plant with easily spotted bright red berries.
Location: Woods that are predominately oak or pine
Usage: Treats wounds or poison
Yarrow
Description: A thin stemmed plant with a flowering white head
Location: Forest, snakerocks in TC
Usage: Leaves are chewed into a poultice to be applied to wounds to extract poison. However, can be fed to a cat to induce vomiting to extract toxins as well as made into an ointment to heal and soften cracked pads
