If you know of an herb to add to this list, please reply to this post with the name of the herb, its uses, the location you can find it, and an image. This herb knowledge is only known by Medicine Wolves and their Apprentices. Warriors generally do not know these particular herbs and where to find them, and would ask a Medicine Wolf. Each Clan has its own stores of herbs in its pack camp near the Medicine Den.
Key:Red Name = Treatment of Wounds
Yellow Name = Treatment of Diseases
Gray Name = Poisonous
Green Name = Other
Alder Bark
Description: Bark of the alder tree.
Location: Unknown.
Usage: For tooth pain
Effect: Eases toothaches
Beech Leaves
Description: The distinguishing feature of the leaf is the serrated edges
Location: Unknown
Usage: By ThunderClan medicine wolves for carrying other herbs.
Effect: None
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 beestings.
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: Unknown
Usage: A traveling herb
Effect: Is said to help stop minor bleeding on humans. Keeps a wolf's strength up
Catchweed
Description: A plant with fuzzy green balls on long clining stems.
Location: Unknown
Usage: The burrs are put on the pelt where poltices are.
Effect: Stops poltices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.
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 pups and elders usually catch in the season of leaf-bare. Can also be used for whitecough.
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.
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 wolves for strength.
Chervil
Description: A sweet-smelling plant with large, leafy, fern-like leaves and small white flowers.
Location: In the Forest Territories, it was found at Snakerocks.
Usage: Chewed to extract the juice of the leaves or the root.
Effect: For infected wounds and bellyache, respectively. Can be used during whelping
Chickweed
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
Location: In the Forest Territories, it grew near Sunningrocks.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Treats greencough, though catmint is often preferred.
Cob Nuts
Description: A smooth brown nut with a hard outside shell. A type of hazelnut.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Made into ointments.
Effect: Unknown
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
Description: A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions. Grows best in newleaf.
Location: Grows by a waterfall in RiverClan's forest territory. It also grows well in ShadowClan's lake territory[27]
Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp
Effect: Eases breathing or puppy-cough, as well as cracked or sore pads.
Comfrey Root
Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots. Tangy smell
Location: Unknown
Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultice
Effect: Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds. Also used for wrenched claws. Can be used for itching, Used for inflammation on stiff joints
Daisy Leaf
Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed into a paste
Effect: Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a travelling herb.
Dandelion
Description: Common yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems.
Location: Unknown
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
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
Fennel
Description: Thin, spiky leaves
Location: Unknown
Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth
Feverfew
Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies, sharp tangy smell, 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
Effect: Helps pain in the hips
Goldenrod
Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
Location: Grows well on the WindClan moors
Usage: Chewed into a poultice.
Effect: Good for healing wounds.
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
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, and helps wolves swallow other concoctions.
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
Ivy Leaf
Description: Leaves from the ivy vine.
Location: Grows in the ThunderClan medicine den
Usage: By ShadowClan medicine wolves to store other herbs.
Effect: None
Juniper Berries
Description: Purple-blue berries from the dark green, spiky-leaved juniper bush.
Location: Grows in places that are not wet
Usage: Chewed and eaten.
Effect: Soothes bellyaches, gives strength, and helps troubled breathing. It is also used to help calm cats.
Lamb's Ear
Description: Soft, fuzzy green plant.
Location: Commonly found in the mountains
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Gives a wolf strength.
Lavender
Description: A small, purple, flowering plant.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Cures fever and chills. Also a herb used to hide the scent of death.
Mallow Leaves
Description: 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
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
Description: None
Location: Patch beside ThunderClan nursery
Usage: Rubbed on a dead body
Effect: Hides the scent of death
Mouse BilesExtracted 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.
Dried Oak Leaf
Description: Round, cartoony ruffled leaves.
Location: All over the forest floor and collected in leaf-fall.
Usage: Unknown, but stored in a dry place.
Effect: Stops infection from setting in.
Parsley
Description: A long-stemmed plant with ragged-edged crinkly leaves, Sharp scent, tastes cold and fresh, tastes the same fresh or dried
Location: Unknown
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Stops a queen from producing milk if her pups die, don't need milk anymore, or are producing too much milk. Also used to cure bellyache.
Poppy Seeds
Description: Small black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead.
Location: All over the forest
Usage: Chewed on
Effect: They can put a wolf to sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens.
Ragwort Leaves
Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers, Tastes foul to cats
Location: Unknown
Usage: Crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints.
Effect: Treats aching joints and keeps a wolf's strength up
Ragweed
Description: Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern.
Location: Thought to be commonly found in the mountains
Usage: Thought to give wolves extra strength
Effect: Like lamb's ear, ragweed gives a wolf extra strength and energy
Raspberry Leaves
Description: Soft to the touch, but with jagged edges.
Location: In the forest, it grew near the catmint
Usage: It could be a painkiller, or help stop bleeding during whelping
Effect: Could possibly ease pain, or stop bleeding
Rosemary
Description: Tall with needle-like leaves and purple flowers.
Location: Near the ThunderClan warriors den in the forest territory.
Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead wolf to prepare for burial.
Effect: Hides the scent of death.
Rush
Description: It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks
Location: Unknown
Usage: Used to bind broken bones
Effect: Helps hold a broken limb in place, such as casts for Twolegs
Snakeroot
Description: The best remedy for poison, especially snake bites
Location: Unknown
Usage: Thought to be applied to wounds
Effect: Thought to heal poison
Sorrel
Description: Similar to dock, Sorrel is used as a traveling herb
Location: Can be found near Twoleg nests
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Traveling herb
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
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.
Tormentil
Description: It has a strong, romantic scent to it and a sharp taste
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed and put on the wound
Effect: Its root is good for treating all wounds and extracting poison
Thyme
Description: Small, delicate, thick, sticky leaves with a fresh tang
Location: Unknown
Usage: Leaves can be chewed on
Effect: Calms nervousness, anxiety, and wolves who are in shock.
Travelling HerbsTraveling Herbs consists of sorrel, daisy, chamomile and burnet. Used to give a wolf more energy and strength.
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
Description: Due to its strong smell, it is good for hiding the scent of a certain Clan, and disguising cats on raids.
Location: Not far from the forest entrance in the ThunderClan camp.
Usage: One must roll in it
Effect: Prevents infection, especially rat bites.
Willow Bark
Description: Bark of the willow tree
Location: Grows near Twoleg places
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Eases pain
Wintergreen
Description: Easily identifiable by its red berries
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Treats wounds and some poisons
Yarrow
Description: A flowering plant
Location: Snakerocks
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.
POISONSDeathberries
Description: Red berries from the dark-leaved, poisonous yew bush.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Sometimes used to kill other cats by making them eat the berry.
Effect: Kills a wolf within minutes when consumed.
Foxglove Seeds
Description: Tiny, black seeds from the bell-shaped flower of the foxglove plant.
Location: Unknown
Usage: They are used to treat the heart
Effect: They can easily cause paralysis and heart failure
Holly Berries
Description: Plant with spiny leaves that produces red berries with no medicinal value.[120]
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Not a bother to adult wolves, however can be poisonous for pups.
Nightshade
Description: Tubular flower with radiating petals
Location: Unknown
Usage: To kill a wolf who cannot be saved quickly.
Effect: Poisonous
Water Hemlock
Description: Green or white flowers with petals in umbrella-shaped clusters
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Causes writhing and foaming at the mouth.
References:
http://warriors.wikia.com/wiki/Medicine#Borage_Leaves (Manually copy pasted and colored, bolded, and images came from there as well. Took a couple hours. *phew*)
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