Warrior Cats Medical Herbs

Alder Bark

Description: Bark of the alder tree.

Location: Grows mainly in boggy, wet terrain.

Usage: For tooth pain.

Effect: Eases toothaches.

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: By ThunderClan medicine cats for carrying other herbs.

Effect: None.

Bindweed

Description: Arrow-head shaped leaves with pale white or pink trumpet shaped flowers.

Location: Grows almost anywhere.

Usage: Fastens sticks to broken legs to keep them in place.

Effect: None

Blackberry Leaves

Description: Leaves from the prickly blackberry bush.

Location: Almost anywhere; they are very hardy plants.

Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp.

Effect: Eases the swelling of bee stings.

Borage Leaves

Description: It is easily distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves.

Location: Grows best in forests.

Usage: It is chewed and eaten by nursing queens.

Effect: It produces more and better milk. It also brings down fevers.

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, 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.

Location: Usually found in dry, grassy meadows.

Usage: A traveling herb.

Effect: Is said to help stop minor bleeding on humans. Keeps a cat's strength up. (A traveling herb used in The Fourth Apprentice little is known about it)

Catchweed

Description: A plant with fuzzy green balls on long stems.

Location: It is common in hedges and other low, shrubby vegetation.

Usage: The burrs are put on the pelt where poultices are.

Effect: Stops poultices 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. (It is best to collect late in the day, as the dew will have burned off (evaporated) so it won't rot in the store)

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.

Location: Grows better on ThunderClan's territory, though it also grows on RiverClan's territory.

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. The roots are described as being knobby and brown.

Location: In the Forest Territories, it was found at Snakerocks.

Usage: Chewed to extract the juice of the leaves or the root.

Effect: For infected wounds and bellyache, respectively. Can also be used during kitting

Chickweed

Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.

Location: In the Forest Territories, it grew near Sunningrocks.

Usage: Eaten, such as catmint/catnip.

Effect: Treats greencough, though catmint is often preferred

Cobwebs

Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very common.

Location: All around the forest.

Usage: Press over wound.

Effect: To soak up and stop (or slow) the 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.

Location: Grows by a waterfall in RiverClan's forest territory. It also grows well in ShadowClan's lake territory.

Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp.

Effect: Eases breathing or kitten-cough, as well as cracked or sore pads

Comfrey Root

Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots. Tangy smell.

Location: Damp, grassy places.

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 for inflammation on stiff joints.

Daisy Leaf

Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves.

Location: Almost everywhere.

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. 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: The white liquid is thought to be applied to bee stings. Leaves can be chewed.

Effect: Thought to soothe and heal bee stings. Its leaves can also be chewed to act like a painkiller

Dock

Description: Common, large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste.

Location: Doesn't grow well in mountains, best in leafy areas.

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.

Location: Found in numerous places, especially on dry soils near the sea/coast and on riverbanks.

Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth.

Effect: Helps pain in the hips

Feverfew

Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies. Has a sharp tangy smell and small soft leaves.

Location: Grows best along the water.

Usage: Eaten.

Effect: Reduces body temperature for cats with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, especially good for headaches

Goldenrod

Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.

Location: Grows well on the WindClan moors.

Usage: Chewed into a poultice.

Effect: Good for healing wounds

Heather Nectar

Description: Nectar found in bell-shaped flowers.

Location: Best grown in shady areas.

Usage: Included in herbal mixtures.

Effect: Makes swallowing easier and sweetens mixtures.

Honey

Description: A sweet, golden-coloured liquid made by bees.

Location: In honeycombs or bees nests up in trees.

Usage: Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it.

Effect: Soothes infections, smoke-damaged or sore throats, helps cats swallow other concoctions, helps soothe coughing, and gives energy.

Horsetail

Description: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant, referred to with 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 the ivy vine.

Location: Grows in the ThunderClan medicine den.

Usage: By ShadowClan medicine cats to store other herbs.

Effect: None.

Juniper Berries

Description: Purple-blue berries from the dark green, spiky-leaved juniper bush.

Location: Grows in places that are not wet.

Usage: Chewed and eaten.

Effect: Soothes bellyaches, gives strength, and helps troubled breathing. It is also used to help calm cats.

Lavender

Description: A small purple flowering plant.

Location: Grown in Twoleg gardens. Can also be found in sunny spots with sandy or gravelly soil.

Usage: Unknown.

Effect: Cures fever and chills. Also a herb used to hide the scent of death.

Mallow Leaves

Description: Large fuzzy three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub; sweet rose scent.

Location: Grows best near shore, but best collected at sunhigh, when they are dry.

Usage: Eaten.

Effect: Soothes bellyache.

Marigold

Description: A low-growing flower; yellow to bright orange.

Location: Near water.

Usage: Petals or leaves chewed in a poultice. Juice can be used as well.

Effect: Stops infection. Stops bleeding. Used for inflammation of stiff joints.

Mint

Description: Downy, serrated leaves ranging from green to purple and yellow in colour. Flowers are small and white or purple in colour.

Location: Patch beside ThunderClan nursery in the Forest Territories.

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

Dried Oak Leaf

Description: Round, cartoon-like ruffled leaves.

Location: All over the forest floor and collected in leaf-fall.

Usage: Unknown, but it is stored in a dry place.

Effect: Stops infection from setting in.

Parsley

Description: A long-stemmed plant with ragged-edged crinkly leaves, Sharp scent, tastes cold and fresh, tastes the same fresh or dried.

Location: Grows best in moist, well drained soil, with full sun.

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: Tiny, round black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead.

Location: All over forest.

Usage: Chewed on.

Effect: They can help a cat sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens.

Ragwort Leaves

Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers. Tastes foul to cats.

Location: Almost everywhere, especially in cool areas with high rainfall.

Usage: Crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints.

Effect: Treats aching joints and keeps a cat's strength up.

Raspberry Leaves

Description: Soft to the touch, but with jagged edges.[100]

Location: Found on raspberry bushes.

Usage: It could be a painkiller, or help stop bleeding during kitting.

Effect: Could possibly ease pain, or stop bleeding.

Rosemary

Description: Tall with needle-like leaves and purple flowers.

Location: Near the ThunderClan warriors' den in the forest territory.

Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead cat to prepare for burial.

Effect: Hides the scent of death.

Rush

Description: It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks.

Location: Often grows in infertile soils in a wide range of moisture conditions.

Usage: Used to bind broken bones.

Effect: Helps hold a broken limb in place, such as casts for Twolegs.

Sorrel

Description: Similar to dock, sorrel is used as a traveling herb.

Location: Can be found near Twoleg nests.

Usage: Eaten.

Effect: Traveling herb.

Stinging Nettle

Description: It has green, spiny seeds.

Location: All over the forest.

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. Helps with wounds.

Sweet-Sedge

Description: Thick green stem with long buds at the top.

Location: Grows all through leaf-bare. Most common around the RiverClan camp.

Usage: One must swallow the sap.

Effect: Eases infection.

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.

Location: Found in the forest and near Twoleg places.

Usage: To be consumed, but only in small doses.

Effect: Cures coughs. Can be used to cure wounds and poisons. Helps stop cats from getting greencough if symptoms appear. Soothes throats.

Thyme

Description: Small, delicate, thick, sticky leaves with a fresh tang.

Location: Best in hot, sunny locations.

Usage: Leaves can be chewed on.

Effect: Calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats who are in shock.

Traveling Herbs

Traveling Herbs consists of sorrel, daisy, chamomile and burnet. Used to give a cat more energy and strength, and it keeps the cat from getting hungry for a long time.

Watermint

Description: A green, leafy plant.

Location: Usually found in streams or damp earth.

Usage: It is 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: Not far from the forest entrance in the ThunderClan camp.

Usage: One must roll in it.

Effect: Prevents infection, especially rat bites.

Willow Bark

Description: Bark of the willow tree.

Location: Grows near Twoleg 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: Snakerocks, in the Forest Territories.

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.

 POISONOUS

Deathberries
Description: Red berries from the dark-leaved, poisonous yew bush.
Location: The ravine in the ThunderClan forest territory
Usage: Sometimes used to kill other cats by making them eat the berry.
Effect: Kills a cat within minutes when consumed.

Foxglove Seeds
Description: Tiny, black seeds from the bell-shaped flower of the foxglove plant.
Location: Almost everywhere, especially in temperate regions.
Usage: They are used to treat the heart
Effect: They can easily cause paralysis and heart failure

Holly Berries
Description: Plant with spiny leaves that produces red berries with no medicinal value.
Location: Forests.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Dangerous to kits

Deadly Nightshade
Description: A small shrub with faintly scented, bell-shaped flowers that are purple tinged with green in colour. Berries are shiny and black when ripe.
Location: Moist, shady places. Often grows in places where the soils are rich in limestone.
Usage: To kill a cat who cannot be saved quickly.
Effect: Poisonous.

Water Hemlock
Description: Green or white flowers with petals in umbrella-shaped clusters
Location: Wet, marshy areas.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Causes writhing and foaming at the mouth.