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Alder Bark[]

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Alder Bark
Description: Bark of the alder tree.
Location: Grows mainly in boggy, wet terrain.
Usage: For tooth pain.
Effect: Eases toothaches.


Beech Leaves[]

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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 medicine cats of ThunderClan for carrying other herbs.
Effect: None.

Bindweed[]

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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: Unknown.


Blackberry Leaves[]

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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[]

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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. Reduces fevers.


Broom[]

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Broom
Description: Shrubs with small leaves and small yellow flowers.
Location: Grows in ThunderClan's territory.
Usage: It is used to make poultices for broken legs and wounds.
Effect: Unknown


Burdock Root[]

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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.


Burnet[]

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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.


Catchweed[]

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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[]

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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.


Celandine[]

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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. Eases pain.


Chamomile[]

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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[]

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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 near rivers.
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[]

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Chickweed
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
Location: Found near rivers.
Usage: Eaten, such as catmint.
Effect: Treats greencough, though catmint is often preferred.


Cob Nuts[]

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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


Cobwebs[]

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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[]

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Coltsfoot
Description: A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions. Grows best in newleaf.
Location: Grown near water.
Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Eases breathing, as well as cracked or sore pads.


Comfrey Root[]

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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[]

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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[]

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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[]

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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. Mixed with goldenrod juices for major injuries.


Fennel[]

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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[]

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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[]

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Goldenrod
Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
Location: Grows well on moors.
Usage: Chewed into a poultice.
Effect: Good for healing wounds.


Heather Nectar[]

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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.
  • Jaypaw uses this for Squirrelflight's herbs in The Sight.

Honey[]

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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[]

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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[]

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Ivy Leaf
Description: Leaves from the ivy vine.
Location: Grows in the forest.
Usage: By medicine cats to store other herbs.
Effect: None.


Juniper Berries[]

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Juniper Berries
Description: Purple-blue berries from the dark green, spiky-leaved juniper bush.
Location: Grows in places that are dry.
Usage: Chewed and eaten.
Effect: Soothes bellyaches, gives strength, and helps troubled breathing. It is also used to help calm cats.


Lamb's Ear[]

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Lamb's Ear
Description: Soft, fuzzy green plant.
Location: Commonly found in the mountains.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Gives a cat strength.

Lavender[]

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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.


Mallow Leaves[]

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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[]

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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[]

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

Oak Leaf[]

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Dried Oak Leaf
Description: Round, cartoon-like ruffled leaves.
Location: All over the forest floor and 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.


Parsley[]

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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 bellyaches.


Poppy Seeds[]

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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[]

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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.


Ragweed[]

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Ragweed
Description: Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern.
Location: Thought to be commonly found in the mountains.
Usage: Thought to give cats extra strength.
Effect: Like lamb's ear, ragweed gives a cat extra strength and energy.


Raspberry Leaves[]

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

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Rosemary
Description: Tall with needle-like leaves and purple flowers.
Location: In the forest.
Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead cat to prepare for burial.
Effect: Hides the scent of death.


Rush[]

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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.


Snakeroot[]

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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.


Sorrel[]

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Sorrel
Description: Similar to dock, sorrel is used as a traveling herb.
Location: Can be found near Twoleg nests.
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Traveling herb, can also build up appetite


Sticks[]

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Stick
Description: Thin wooden protrusions that grow on and fall from trees
Location: Can be found anywhere there are trees.
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.


Stinging Nettle[]

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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[]

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Sweet-Sedge
Description: Thick green stem with long buds at the top.
Location: Grows all through leaf-bare.
Usage: One must swallow the sap.
Effect: Eases infection.


Tansy[]

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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.  Stops cats from getting greencough. Soothes throats. Can be deadly to nursing queens.


Tormentil[]

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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.

Thyme[]

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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[]

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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[]

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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: In the forest
Usage: One must roll in it.
Effect: Prevents infection, especially rat bites.


Willow Bark[]

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Willow Bark
Description: Bark of the willow tree.
Location: Grows near Twoleg places.
Usage: Unknown.
Effect: Eases pain.


Willow Leaves[]

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Willow Leaves
Description: Leaves of the willow tree.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Eaten.
Effect: Stops vomiting.


Wintergreen[]

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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[]

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Yarrow
Description: A flowering plant.
Location: In the forest.
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.


Poisons[]

Deathberries[]

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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[]

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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[]

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

Deadly Nightshade[]

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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[]

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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.
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