Post by Mana on Mar 31, 2015 14:19:44 GMT
A medicine cat's main job is to heal their fellow Clanmates from their wounds. They have many ways of doing so, mostly through herbs and berries throughout the medicine cat of their Clan's store.
Treatment of Wounds
Blackberry Leaves
Description: Leaves from the prickly blackberry bush
Location: Everywhere
Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp
Effect: Eases the swelling of bee stings
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; used to prevent infection of rat bites.
Celandine
Description: Yellow flower with four petals
Location: Grows better on OakClan territory, though it also grows on StreamClan territory
Usage: Juice is trickled into the eye
Effect: Soothes damaged eyes
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: Found at Snake Cove in OakClan territory
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.
Cobwebs
Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very common
Location: Everywhere
Usage: Press over wound
Effect: To soak up and stop (or slow) the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.
Comfrey Root
Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white or purple and fat, balck 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.
Dandelion
Description: Common yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems. After flowering is finished, the flower transforms a sphere made out out of hundreds of smaller white florets with seed at the bottom that connect to the flower head.
Location: 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-leaved plant with a tangy smell and taste.
Location: Grows best in OakClan and DuskClan territory where there are a lot of leaves
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 and on riverbanks.
Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth
Effect: Helps pain in the hips.
Goldenrod
Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers
Location: Grows well on CloudClan territory
Usage: Chewed into a poultice
Effect: Good for healing wounds
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
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.
Dried Oak Leaf
Description: Round, cartoon-like ruffled leaves.
Location: All over the forest floor; collected in leaf-fall
Usage: The dried leaves are to be stored in a dry location until the time of usage, when they are chewed into a thick poultice and spread on a wound.
Effect: Stops infection from setting in
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 limp in place
Snakeroot
Description: The best remedy for poison, especially snake bites
Location: Grows mainly in warmer areas, however some grow in cooler areas
Usage: Thought to be applied to wounds
Effect: Thought to heal poison
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.
Tormentil
Description: It has a strong, aromatic scent to it and a sharp taste.
Location: Found in most cool or cold areas, but other types may be found in gardens
Usage: Chewed and put on the wound
Effect: Its root is good for treating all wounds and extracting poison.
Willow Bark
Description: Bark of the willow tree
Location: Grows near Twoleg places
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Eases pain
Treatment of Diseases
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.
Chickweed
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond shaped leaves
Location: Found growing near the Basking Patch in OakClan territory and sometimes along the rivers edge in StreamClan territory
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Treats greencough, though, catmint is often preferred
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: Placed under a cats nose and is to be inhaled constantly. Or rubbed/placed on an animals body to hide the scent of death.
Effect: Cures fever and chills. Also a herb used to hide the scent of death
Ragwort Leaves
Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers. Tastes foul to cats
Location: Everywhere
Usage: Crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries it can help aching joints
Effect: Treats aching joints and keeps a cats strength up
Sweet-Sedge
Description: Thick green stem with long buds at the top
Location: Grows all through leaf-bare. Most common around the StreamClan 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 which makes 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 cough. Can be used to cure wounds and poisons. Stops cats from getting greencough. Soothes throats.
Poisons
Deathberries
Description: Red berries from the dark-leaved, poisonous yew bush
Location: OakClan 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: Everywhere
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: Unknown
Deadly Nightshade
Description: A small shrub with faintly scented, bell-shaped flowers that are purple tinged with green in color.
Location: Moist, shady places
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, pain and foaming at the mouth.
Other
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: Used to carry other other herbs
Effect: None
Bindweed
Description: Arrow-head shaped leaves with pale white or pink trumpet shaped flowers
Location: Everywhere
Usage: Fastens sticks to broken legs to keep them in place
Effect: Unknown
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.
Broom
Description: Shrubs with small leaves and small yellow flowers.
Location: Grows best in OakClan territory
Usage: It is used to make poultices for broken legs and wounds
Effect: Unknown
Burnet
Description: Has oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges. Stems grow 50-200 cm tall with large clusters of small flower buds on top.
Location: Usually found in dry, grassy meadows
Usage: A traveling herb
Effect: Keeps a cats strength up
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
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
Cob Nuts
Description: A smooth brown nut with a hard outside shell. A type of hazelnut.
Location: In, under or near hazel trees that grow in sunny spots
Usage: Made into ointments
Effect: Unknown
Coltsfoot
Description: A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions. Grows best in newleaf.
Location: Grows inside StreamClan and DuskClan territories
Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp
Effect: Eases breathing or kitten-cough, as well as cracked or sore pads.
Daisy Leaf
Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves
Location: Everywhere
Usage: Chewed into a paste
Effect: Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a traveling herb.
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 temmperature for cats with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, especially good for headaches.
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-colored liquid made by bees
Location: Honeycombs or bee nests
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.
Ivy Leaf
Description: Leaves from the ivy vine
Location: Grows best in OakClan teritory
Usage: Can 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. Also used to help calm cats.
Mallow Leaves
Description: Large fuzzy three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub; sweet rose scent
Location: Grows best near shores. Best collected when they are dry at sunhigh
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Soothes bellyache
Mint
Description: Downy, serrated leaves ranging from green to purple and yellow in color. Flowers are small and white or purple in color.
Location: Inside OakClan territory
Usage: Rubbed on a dead body
Effect: Hides the scent of death
Mouse Bile
Description: Extracted from the mouse. The only remedy for ticks. 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. Smell can be masked by wild garlic or by washing paws in running water.
Location: From a mouse
Usage: For ticks; When dabbed on a tick, the tick falls off.
Effect: Removes ticks from a cats pelt
Parsley
Description: A long-stemmed plant with ragged-edged crinkly leaves and a sharp scent. Has a cold, fresh taste and tastes the same fresh or died.
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. Can also be used to cure bellyaches.
Poppy Seeds
Description: Tiny, round black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead.
Location: All over the forest
Usage: Chewed on
Effect: They ccan help a cat sleep, soothe shock or distress or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens
Ragweed
Description: Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern
Location: Grows best near Star Ridge
Usage: Thought to give cats extra strength
Effect: Like lamb's ear, ragweed gives a cat extra strength and energy.
Raspberry Leaves
Description: Soft to the touch but with jagged edges
Location: Found on raspberry bushes
Usage: 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: OakClan territory
Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead cat to prepare for burial
Effect: Hides the scent of death
Sorrel
Description: Similar to dock, sorrel is used as a traveling herb
Location: Can be found near Twoleg nests
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Traveling herb
Sticks
Description: Tree branches
Location: Everywhere
Usage: Cats in pain bite it when other medicine is either unavailable or not recommended. Also used to help broken legs heal.
Effect: Distracts cats from pain. Recommended for queens giving birth
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
Description: Traveling herbs consist of sorrel, daisy, chamomile and burnet.
Location: None
Usage: Used for when cats are traveling a long way
Effect: Used to give a cat more energy and strength. Keeps the cat from getting hungry for a long time.
Watermint
Description: A green, leafy plant
Location: Streams and damp earth
Usage: It is usually chewed into a pulp and then eaten
Effect: Eases the suffering that originates from a bellyache.
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
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Treats wounds and some poisons
Yarrow
Description: A flowering plant
Location: Snake Cove
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 vomit up toxins. The ointment will soften and heal cracked pads.
Treatment of Wounds
Blackberry Leaves
Description: Leaves from the prickly blackberry bush
Location: Everywhere
Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp
Effect: Eases the swelling of bee stings
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; used to prevent infection of rat bites.
Celandine
Description: Yellow flower with four petals
Location: Grows better on OakClan territory, though it also grows on StreamClan territory
Usage: Juice is trickled into the eye
Effect: Soothes damaged eyes
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: Found at Snake Cove in OakClan territory
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.
Cobwebs
Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very common
Location: Everywhere
Usage: Press over wound
Effect: To soak up and stop (or slow) the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.
Comfrey Root
Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white or purple and fat, balck 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.
Dandelion
Description: Common yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems. After flowering is finished, the flower transforms a sphere made out out of hundreds of smaller white florets with seed at the bottom that connect to the flower head.
Location: 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-leaved plant with a tangy smell and taste.
Location: Grows best in OakClan and DuskClan territory where there are a lot of leaves
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 and on riverbanks.
Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth
Effect: Helps pain in the hips.
Goldenrod
Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers
Location: Grows well on CloudClan territory
Usage: Chewed into a poultice
Effect: Good for healing wounds
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
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.
Dried Oak Leaf
Description: Round, cartoon-like ruffled leaves.
Location: All over the forest floor; collected in leaf-fall
Usage: The dried leaves are to be stored in a dry location until the time of usage, when they are chewed into a thick poultice and spread on a wound.
Effect: Stops infection from setting in
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 limp in place
Snakeroot
Description: The best remedy for poison, especially snake bites
Location: Grows mainly in warmer areas, however some grow in cooler areas
Usage: Thought to be applied to wounds
Effect: Thought to heal poison
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.
Tormentil
Description: It has a strong, aromatic scent to it and a sharp taste.
Location: Found in most cool or cold areas, but other types may be found in gardens
Usage: Chewed and put on the wound
Effect: Its root is good for treating all wounds and extracting poison.
Willow Bark
Description: Bark of the willow tree
Location: Grows near Twoleg places
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Eases pain
Treatment of Diseases
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.
Chickweed
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond shaped leaves
Location: Found growing near the Basking Patch in OakClan territory and sometimes along the rivers edge in StreamClan territory
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Treats greencough, though, catmint is often preferred
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: Placed under a cats nose and is to be inhaled constantly. Or rubbed/placed on an animals body to hide the scent of death.
Effect: Cures fever and chills. Also a herb used to hide the scent of death
Ragwort Leaves
Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers. Tastes foul to cats
Location: Everywhere
Usage: Crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries it can help aching joints
Effect: Treats aching joints and keeps a cats strength up
Sweet-Sedge
Description: Thick green stem with long buds at the top
Location: Grows all through leaf-bare. Most common around the StreamClan 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 which makes 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 cough. Can be used to cure wounds and poisons. Stops cats from getting greencough. Soothes throats.
Poisons
Deathberries
Description: Red berries from the dark-leaved, poisonous yew bush
Location: OakClan 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: Everywhere
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: Unknown
Deadly Nightshade
Description: A small shrub with faintly scented, bell-shaped flowers that are purple tinged with green in color.
Location: Moist, shady places
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, pain and foaming at the mouth.
Other
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: Used to carry other other herbs
Effect: None
Bindweed
Description: Arrow-head shaped leaves with pale white or pink trumpet shaped flowers
Location: Everywhere
Usage: Fastens sticks to broken legs to keep them in place
Effect: Unknown
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.
Broom
Description: Shrubs with small leaves and small yellow flowers.
Location: Grows best in OakClan territory
Usage: It is used to make poultices for broken legs and wounds
Effect: Unknown
Burnet
Description: Has oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges. Stems grow 50-200 cm tall with large clusters of small flower buds on top.
Location: Usually found in dry, grassy meadows
Usage: A traveling herb
Effect: Keeps a cats strength up
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
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
Cob Nuts
Description: A smooth brown nut with a hard outside shell. A type of hazelnut.
Location: In, under or near hazel trees that grow in sunny spots
Usage: Made into ointments
Effect: Unknown
Coltsfoot
Description: A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions. Grows best in newleaf.
Location: Grows inside StreamClan and DuskClan territories
Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp
Effect: Eases breathing or kitten-cough, as well as cracked or sore pads.
Daisy Leaf
Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves
Location: Everywhere
Usage: Chewed into a paste
Effect: Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a traveling herb.
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 temmperature for cats with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, especially good for headaches.
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-colored liquid made by bees
Location: Honeycombs or bee nests
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.
Ivy Leaf
Description: Leaves from the ivy vine
Location: Grows best in OakClan teritory
Usage: Can 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. Also used to help calm cats.
Mallow Leaves
Description: Large fuzzy three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub; sweet rose scent
Location: Grows best near shores. Best collected when they are dry at sunhigh
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Soothes bellyache
Mint
Description: Downy, serrated leaves ranging from green to purple and yellow in color. Flowers are small and white or purple in color.
Location: Inside OakClan territory
Usage: Rubbed on a dead body
Effect: Hides the scent of death
Mouse Bile
Description: Extracted from the mouse. The only remedy for ticks. 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. Smell can be masked by wild garlic or by washing paws in running water.
Location: From a mouse
Usage: For ticks; When dabbed on a tick, the tick falls off.
Effect: Removes ticks from a cats pelt
Parsley
Description: A long-stemmed plant with ragged-edged crinkly leaves and a sharp scent. Has a cold, fresh taste and tastes the same fresh or died.
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. Can also be used to cure bellyaches.
Poppy Seeds
Description: Tiny, round black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead.
Location: All over the forest
Usage: Chewed on
Effect: They ccan help a cat sleep, soothe shock or distress or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens
Ragweed
Description: Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern
Location: Grows best near Star Ridge
Usage: Thought to give cats extra strength
Effect: Like lamb's ear, ragweed gives a cat extra strength and energy.
Raspberry Leaves
Description: Soft to the touch but with jagged edges
Location: Found on raspberry bushes
Usage: 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: OakClan territory
Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead cat to prepare for burial
Effect: Hides the scent of death
Sorrel
Description: Similar to dock, sorrel is used as a traveling herb
Location: Can be found near Twoleg nests
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Traveling herb
Sticks
Description: Tree branches
Location: Everywhere
Usage: Cats in pain bite it when other medicine is either unavailable or not recommended. Also used to help broken legs heal.
Effect: Distracts cats from pain. Recommended for queens giving birth
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
Description: Traveling herbs consist of sorrel, daisy, chamomile and burnet.
Location: None
Usage: Used for when cats are traveling a long way
Effect: Used to give a cat more energy and strength. Keeps the cat from getting hungry for a long time.
Watermint
Description: A green, leafy plant
Location: Streams and damp earth
Usage: It is usually chewed into a pulp and then eaten
Effect: Eases the suffering that originates from a bellyache.
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
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Treats wounds and some poisons
Yarrow
Description: A flowering plant
Location: Snake Cove
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 vomit up toxins. The ointment will soften and heal cracked pads.