Medicine - Names and Uses

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Medicine:


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: By ThunderClan medicine cats for carrying other herbs.

Effect: None.


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

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

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.


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.


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

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.

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