MEDICINAL HERBS!

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Alder Bark: Chewed into a pulp and swished around in the mouth around a sore tooth. Eases toothaches.

Beech Leaves: Used by ThunderClan medicine cats to carry herbs.

Blackberry Leaves: Chewed into a pulp and placed on bee stings to ease the swelling.

Borage Leaves: Chewed and eaten by nursing queens. Helps queens produce more milk. Also brings down fevers.

Burdock Root: Chewed into a pulp and applied to rat bites. Brings down the infection and eases the pain.

Burnet: A travelling herb. Eaten to help keep a cat's strength up.

Catmint: Eaten by cats suffering with greencough. Can also be used for whitecough.

Celandine: Juice is trickled into the eye. Soothes damaged or injured eyes.

Chamomile: A travelling herb. Eaten to help give a cat strength.

Chervil: Leaves are chewed into a pulp and placed on infected wounds. Root is eaten to treat bellyache.

Chickweed: Eaten to treat greencough, though not as effective as catmint.

Cobwebs: Placed over wounds to soak up and slow/stop bleeding. Also used to bind broken bones.

Coltsfoot: Eaten to ease breathing or coughing. Also chewed into a pulp and placed on sore or cracked pads to ease them.

Comfrey Root: Chewed into a poultice. Good for repairing broken bones, soothing wounds, wrenched claws, itching, and stiff joints.

Daisy Leaf: Chewed into a paste to ease the pain of aching joints. Also eaten as a travelling herb.

Dandelion: Milk can be applied to bee stings to ease pain. Leaves can be chewed as a painkiller.

Dock Leaves: Chewed up and applied to scratches. Can sting when being applied. Also good for sore pads.

Feverfew: Eaten to reduce body temperature for cats with fever or chills. Also good for aches, especially headaches.

Goldenrod: Chewed into a poultice and applied to wounds to help them heal.

Heather Flower: Included in herbal mixtures. Makes swallowing easier and sweetens mixtures.

Honey: Eaten, or given by moss soaked with it. Soothes infection, sore throats, and helps cats to swallow other mixtures.

Horsetail: Chewed into a poultice and applied to wounds to treat infection.

Ivy Leaf: Used by ShadowClan medicine cats to store other herbs.

Juniper Berries: Chewed to help soothe bellyaches. Also gives strength, and helps with breathing. Good for calming cats.

Lamb's Ear: Little is known, as it grows in the mountains. It is said to give a cat strength.

Lavender: Good for curing fevers and chills.

Mallow Leaves: Eaten to soothe bellyache.

Marigold: Petals or leaves are chewed into poultice. The juice can be used as well. Stops infection and stops bleeding. Also good for inflammation of stiff joints.

Mouse Bile: Extracted from a dead mouse. Can be rubbed on ticks to make them fall off. Foul smelling, and tastes horrible. It is preferred to wash your paws after using.

Oak Leaf: Prevents infection from setting in.

Parsley: Eaten to stop a queen's milk from coming. Normally used for queens whose kits have died, whose kits are old enough to eat prey, or who are producing too much milk.

Poppy Seeds: Chewed on. Put cats to sleep. Also good for easing pain and soothing shock or distress. Not recommended for nursing queens.

Ragwort Leaves: Crushed, mixed with juniper berries, and chewed. Helps treat aching joints, and keeps a cat's strength up.

Ragweed: Gives a cat extra strength and energy. Again, little is known about this plant, as it is often found in the mountains.

Raspberry Leaves: Work as a painkiller, and help stop bleeding during kitting. Little is known about them.

Rush: Used to bind broken bones.

Snakeroot: Applied to wounds to extract poison, especially on snake bites.

Sorrel: Eaten as a travelling herb.

Stinging Nettle: Seeds can be eaten by a cat who's swallowed poison. Leaves can be chewed into a poultice for a wound. Good for inducing vomiting or bringing down swelling, respectively. Also mixed with comfrey to heal broken bones.

Tansy: Eaten, in small doses. Cures coughs. Can also be used to cure wounds and poisons, prevent cats from getting greencough, and soothing throats.

Tormentil: Chewed and placed on wound to help heal and extract poison. Not normally found in the forest.

Thyme: Leaves can be chewed on to calm nervousness, anxiety, and cats that are in shock.

Travelling Herbs: See sorrel, daisy, chamomile, and burnet.

Watermint: Chewed into a pulp, then eaten. Eases the pain of bellyache.

Wild Garlic: Rolled in to prevent infection, especially from rat bites. Also good for disguising scents.

Yarrow: Leaves are chewed into a poultice that can be eaten or applied on a wound. Extracts poisons from wounds. Will make a cat vomit up toxins. The ointment will soften and heal cracked pads.

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Deathberries: Eaten, cause death within minutes of being consumed. Have been used to kill rival cats.

Foxglove Seeds: Can be used to treat the heart, but can easily cause paralysis and heart failure.

Holly Berries: Poisonous, if eaten can make a cat sick. Can be fatal to kits and elders.

Nightshade: Poisonous flowering plant, if eaten, will cause death. Harder to find than deathberries.