Glossary/Herbs and their uses

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Alder Bark: Toothaches
Aloe Vera: Juices used on cracked or sunburnt skin to sooth

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Bindweed: Bindings for sticks (helps with broken bones)
Birch Sap: Some believe it is used for Yellowcough
Blackberry Leaves: Used in a poultice to sooth bee stings
Borage Leaves: Helps milk productions, belly aches, tight cheats, and fever reducers
Bright Eye: Used along with Lovage in a poultice to sooth coughs
Broom: Used in a poultice to heal broken bones and shallow wounds
Burdock Root: Sooths and heals rat bites
Burnet: Gives strength to birthing queens and is used in travel herbs (strengthening)

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Catmint: An herb chewed to help with cough, but it is very precious and almost exclusively used for green cough or occasionally white cough
Catchweed: Used to put over poultices on wounds to keep it from rubbing off
Celandine: Juices are dribbled into the eyes to help sooth the wound.
Chamomile: Used for strength and heartaches, often a component of traveling herbs
Chervil: The juices are chewed out of the root and used for infected wounds, bellyache, and sometimes birth
Chickweed: Used in the place of catmint when treating green cough if none is available.
Cob Nuts(Hazel nuts): Chewed into an ointment and spread over aching joints
Cobwebs: Put over poultices on wounds to keep the wound clean and poultice on the wound. Is also rarely used for broken bone binding
Coltsfoot: Used in place of catmint for kits, and can be spread over cracked paw pads
Comfrey Root: Used on aching joints, sore wounds, broken bones, and wrenched claws. It cos also used to line nests for cats with sore shoulders and burns.

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Daisy Leaf: Eases joint pains as well as used for traveling herbs
Dandelion: The petals are chewed to release bee stings, the leaves and stem are chewed for a pain reliever (typically used for kits as it won't put you to sleep like poppy seed)
Dock Leaf: Chewed to put over wounds, if a patient is in pain you can also line the nests with them.
Death Berries (poisonous): Used to put cats out of their misery, it is usually shunned by most clans but ShadowClan is a distinct one known to use them due to their abundance on their old territory
Deadly Nightshade (poisonous): Used in the same ways as death berries, it causes a swift death for those unsaveable though  they are often ruled out in favor of the endlessly more popular death berries

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Elder Leaf: Chewed to relieve sprain pains

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Fennel: Odten used during kitting, the stem will be snapped in half and trickled into the cats mouth to help with hip pain
Feverfew: Helped to reduce fevers and headaches
Foxglove Seeds (poisonous): When eaten, there is a chance the her will assist a failing heart or cause heart failure, if the patient lives it leaves paralysis

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Goat weed: Chewed by the patient to assist in calming a grieving or panicked cat
Goldenrod: Used in a poultice to apply to wounds

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Hawkweed: Cough soother, though it is used in the same way as catmint it is much weaker
Heather Nectar: Throat soother, and a sweetener for foul tasting herb mixtures. It is also used to help herbs go down easier, typically for kits, elders, and picky warriors
Honey: Used in the same way as Heather Nectar, it's a throat soother, a sweetener, and helps herb mixtures go down easier. It can also be used for bee stings, but it is increasingly unpopular due to the stickiness
Horsetail: It helps stop infection and clot blood (helps keep the wound from bleeding)
Holly Berries (poisonous): Can also be used to put cats out of their misery, but it is an often unused method due to it taking half an hour to an hour to kill the cat

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Ivy Leaf: Not necessarily an herb, but it is used along with other large leaves in storing herbs on the medicine shelves

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Juniper Berries: It can be eaten whole to sooth bellyaches, and assist breathing, but while uncommon it can also be used for calming

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Lambs Ear: Strengthening, typically used for traveling herbs
Laurel Leaf: Used for making wraps for broken, sprained, or damaged limbs
Lavender: A sweet smelling flower whoms petals and buds are laid over a cat who's passed on before burial to allude the smell of death during the vigil. However it can also be used to cool fevers and assist with shivers as well as lining nests to allow better sleep.
Lovage: Mixed with the herb Bright-Eye to cure coughs
Lungwort: Eaten whole to assist in curing Yellow Cough

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Mallow Leaf: Beat eaten dry to help cure bellyaches
Marigold: Petals are chewed and placed onto wounds to help prevent infection
Mint: Used in the same ways as lavender, laid over dead bodies to help mask the scent of death for the vigil. Can also be chewed to sooth throats and freshen breath
Moss: Used for bedding, transporting water for drinking bedridden cats, and cleaning of wounds
Mousebile: The bike in a mouses stomach or intestines, put on the end of a stick to poke ticks and make them drop off a cats skin
Meadow Saffron (poisonous): Often seen affecting cats when an unaffected price of prey eats it, then gets eaten by a cat

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Oak Leaf: Chewed and put on wounds to prevent infection as well as be laid over poultices and wrapped with cobweb to keep fresh/in place

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Parsley: Queens are given this to dry up their milk if they overproduce or their kit dies. It can also very uncommonly be used for bellyaches
Poppy Seed: Used to sooth panic, grief, or pain in a cat as well as induce  sleep

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Ragwort: Chewed and spread on appendages to sooth aching joints as well as used in travel herbs for strength 
Raspberry Leaf: Eases pain and prevents bleeding when eaten during birth
Rosemary: Another nice smelling herb spread over dead bodies to mask the smell of death for vigils
Rush: Assists in holding a broken bone in place during healing

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Sorrel: Eaten for strength and used in traveling mixes
Sticks: Not exactly an herb, but used for queens to bite down on during birth as well as using as a splint to keep a broken bone in place and straightened
Stinging Nettle: Seeds are eaten to dispel poison by vomit, while the leaves can be chewed and spread over wounds to prevent infection
Sweet Sedge: Eaten whole to ease infection

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Tansy: Usually given to cats who have a cough to heal it if the medicine cat believes it will evolve into green cough
Tormentil: The root of the plant is chewed and put onto wounds to help extract poison
Thyme: Used for the patient to chew to sooth shock and nerves

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Water mint: Soothes bellyaches
Wild Garlic: Patient rolls on the garlic to help prevent infections in rat bites
Willow Bark: Chewed to help ease pain
Willow Leaf: Eaten by the patient to ease nausea and prevent vomiting
Wintergreen: When applied to the wound, it helps advance healing and draw out poisons
Wood Sorrel: Chewed and fed to a patient to assist if a cat is having difficulty breathing
Water Hemlock (poisonous): Causes foaming of the mouth and profuse vomiting for a slow and painful death

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Yarrow: Can be chewed into a poultice to apply to wounds or eaten for the same effect of drawing out poisons. It can also be chewed and smoothed into cracked paw pads to help hydrate the skin and draw out any potential toxins

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⏰ Last updated: Mar 21, 2023 ⏰

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