Mainly used by medicine cats, herbs and treatments can help heal cats of their wounds and illnesses.
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Alder[]
Usage: Chewing alder bark eases toothache; alder leaves with morning dew can attract fleas from a nest and be disposed of.
Location: Along rivers, ponds, marshes, wet woodland, and streams.
Description: Dark fissured bark, often covered in lichen, with rounded leaves and green/yellow catkins.
Beech[]
Usage: Beech leaves can be applied to hot swellings and bound with cobwebs; beech leaves can also be made into a poultice to relieve swellings.
Location: Grows in woods and near Highstones.
Description: Smooth, grey bark with reddish-brown beech nuts.
Bird-claw[]
Usage: The plant can be chewed up into a poultice and pressed against inflamed skin, bound by cobweb. The flowers can be used as a mild sedative.
Location: Found in short grassland.
Season: newleaf to greenleaf
Description: Red-and-yellow flowers, typically reddish when budding. The petals are round, with 3-6 flowers growing into a head. When blooming, they look like a bird's foot.
- known as bird's-foot-trefoil to Twolegs
Birch[]
Usage: Sap can be used to feed a cat struggling to chew by collecting it with moss; leaves can become a poultice to ease pain in the lower back pressing against the stomach.
Location: Dry woodlands, downs, and heaths.
Description: White bark becomes black and rugged at the base, with smooth twigs and dark warts, and triangular leaves.
Dawn's-tongue[]
Usage: Ground stem rarely used to treat bellyache; the crushed leaves rubbed over a scratch or spot can sooth them; wet-and-dried leaves can soothe sore pads.
Location: Under bracken, near bluebells.
Season: late newleaf
Description: Dark pink petals drooping down like a cat's tongue.
- known as wild gladiolus to Twolegs
Lousewort[]
Usage: A bitter-tasting herb that can be used with travelling herbs (by RiverClan and ShadowClan); root poultice can be applied to swellings and sore muscles, or swallowed to reduce swelling.
Location: Grows in damp open grassland and bog.
Season: newleaf to early greenleaf
Description: Pale pink flowers that look like they come straight out of the ground.
Orchid[]
Usage: The roots can be chewed up and given to sick cats to soothe bellyache if other herbs are unavailable.
Location: Some varieties found in grassland, others in bog.
Season: newleaf to mid-greenleaf
Description: White, pink, or purple flowers with spots.
Sun-spike[]
Usage: Used by WindClan in burial rituals for young cats - "may you continue to bask in the sun".
Location: Low heathland and around bogs.
Season: newleaf to early greenleaf
Description: Small spiny shrub with yellow flowers spiking out.
- known as petty whin to Twolegs
Sundew[]
Usage: Rarely used, the plant can be dug up and chewed into juice to be dripped into a cat's mouth, giving strength or easing coughs.
Location: Bogs and fen.
Season: greenleaf
Description: Red plants with harmless spikes and dew-like tips.
Tormentil[]
Usage: Roots chewed up and swallowed to ease mild pains, toothache, and diarrhea; the root can also be applied as a poultice to cuts.
Location: Grassland, heathland, and moorland.
Season: newleaf to greenleaf
Description: Four-petalled yellow flowers.