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[spoiler=HELPFUL HERB GUIDE FOR MYSELF]Alder Bark
--- Usage: chewed into bits
--- Effect: eases toothaches
Aloe Vera
--- Usage: Apply gel to burned area
--- Effect: Treats burns
Beech Leaves
--- Usage: N/A
--- Effect: used for carrying herbs
Bindweed
--- Usage: Fastens sticks to broken legs to keep them in place
--- Effect: N/A
Blackberry Leaves
--- Usage: Chewed into a pulp
--- Effect: Eases the swelling of bee stings
Borage Leaves
--- Usage: Chewed and eaten by nursing queens
--- Effect: Produces better milk; brings down fevers
Broom
--- Usage: Makes poultices for broken legs and wounds
--- Effect: N/A
Burdock Root
--- 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; prevents rat bite infections
Burnet
--- Usage: Travelling herb
--- Effect: Stops minor bleeding; keeps up a cat's strength
Catchweed
--- Usage: burrs are put on the pelt where poultices are
--- Effect: tops poultices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin
Catmint
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Best remedy for the deadly greencough, whitecough
Celadine
--- Usage: Juice is trickled into the eyes
--- Effect: Soothes damaged eyes
Chamomile
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind
Chervil
--- Usage: Chewed to extract the juice of the leaves or the root
--- Effect: For infected wounds and bellyache; can also be used during kitting
Chickweed
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Treats greencough, though catnip is preferred
Cob Nuts
--- Usage: Made into oitments
--- Effect: Unknown
Cobwebs
--- Usage: Pressed over wound
--- Effect: Soaks up blood; holds together broken limbs
Coltsfoot
--- Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp
--- Effect: Eases breathing or kitten-cough; treats cracked or sore paws
Comfrey Root
--- Usage: Chewed into a poultice; can line one's nest
--- Effect: Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds; also used for wrenched claws; can be used for itching or for inflammation on stiff joints; also eases stiffness on wrenched shoulders when lined in a nest.
Daisy Leaf
--- Usage: Chewed into a pase
--- Effect: Eases pain of aching joins; also a traveling herb
Dandelion
--- Usage: White liquid applied to bee stings; leaves can be chewed
--- Effect: Liquid soothes bee stings; leaves can be used as a painkiller
Dock
--- Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches; can line one's nest
--- Effect: Soothes scratches and sore pads, but can sting when applied; can ease the pain of wounds when placed in a nest
Fennel
--- Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth
--- Effect: Helps pain in the hips
Feverfew
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Reduces body temperature for cats with fever or chills; also heals aches and pains; especially good for headaches
Goatweed
--- Usage: Given daily
--- Effect: Eases anxiety and grief
Goldenrod
--- Usage: Chewed into a poultice
--- Effect: General wound-healing
Hawkweed
--- Usage: N/A
--- Effect: Similar to catmint, but not as strong
Heather Nectar
--- Usage: Included in herbal mixtures
--- Effect: Makes swallowing easier and sweetens mixtures
Honey
--- Usage: Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it
--- Effect: Soothes infections; s a great remedy for smoke-damaged or sore throats; helps cats swallow other concoctions; helps soothe coughing; gives energy
Horsetail
--- Usage: Chewed to a poultice, and applied to wounds
--- Effect: Treats infections; stops bleeding
Ivy Leaf
--- Usage: Stores other herbs
--- Effect: N/A
Juniper Berries
--- Usage: Chewed and eaten
--- Effect: Soothes bellyaches; gives strength; helps troubled breathing; also used to help calm cats.
Lamb's Ear
--- Usage: Unknown
--- Effect: Gives a cat strength
Lavender
--- 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 fevers and chills; masks the scent of death
Lungwort
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Cures yellowcough
Mallow Leaves
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Soothes bellyaches
Marigold
--- 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
--- Usage: Rubbed on a dead body
--- Effect: Hides the scent of death
Mouse Bile
--- Usage: The liquid is stored in moss and dabbed onto ticks embedded in pelt
--- Effect: Killing ticks
Dried Oak Leaf
--- 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
--- 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 bellyache
Poppy Seeds
--- Usage: Chewed on
--- Effect: They can help a cat sleep; soothe shock or distress; ease pain.Not recommended for nursing queens
Ragwort Leaves
--- Usage: Crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints
--- Effect: Treats aching joints; keeps a cat's strength up
Ragweed
--- Usage: N/A
--- Effect: Gives a cat extra strength and energy
Raspberry Leaves
--- Usage: N/A
--- Effect: Painkiller; stops bleeding during kitting
Rosemary
--- Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead cat
--- Effect: Helps hide the scent of death
Rush
--- Usage: Binds broken bones
--- Effect: Helps hold a broken limbs in place
Snakeroot
--- Usage: Applied to wounds
--- Effect: Said to heal on-contact poison
Sorrel
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Traveling herb; builds up an appetite
Sticks
--- 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
--- Usage: The seeds are eaten by a cat who's swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound; the stems can also be chewed.
--- Effect: Induces vomiting; brings down swelling; can be mixed with comfrey to help heal broken bones; helps with wounds; chewing the stems helps fight against infection
Sweet-Sedge
--- Usage: Swallow sap
--- Effect: Eases infections
Tansy
--- Usage: Consumed only in small doses
--- Effect: Cures coughs; can be used to cure wounds and poisons; stops cats from getting greencough; soothes throats
Tormentil
--- Usage: Chewed and put on the wound
--- Effect: General wound-trating; heals poison
Thyme
--- Usage: Leaves can be chewed on
--- Effect: Calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats in shock
Watermint
--- Usage: Chewed into a pulp, then eaten
--- Effect: Eases bellyache pain
Wild Garlic
--- Usage: One must roll in
--- Effect: Prevents infection, especially rat bites
Willow Bark
--- Usage: Unknown
--- Effect: Eases pain
Willow Leaves
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Stops vomiting
Wintergreen
--- Usage: Unknown
--- Effect: Treats wounds and some poisons
Yarrow
--- Usage: Chewed into a poultice and applied to the wound
--- Effect: Extracts poison from wounds; will make a cat vomit up toxins; the ointment will soften and help heal cracked pads
Deathberries
--- Usage: Cosumed
--- Effect: Kills within minutes
Foxglove
--- Usage: Used to treat heart and heart attacks
--- Effect: Can easily cause paralysis or heart failure
Holly Berries
--- Usage: Unknown
--- Effect: Unknown
Deadly Nightshade
--- Usage: Kill a cat who cannot be saved quickly
--- Effect: Death
Water Hemlock
--- Usage: Unknown
--- Effect: Causes writhing, pain, and foaming at the mouth[/spoiler]
[spoiler=HELPFUL HERB GUIDE FOR MYSELF]Alder Bark
--- Usage: chewed into bits
--- Effect: eases toothaches
Aloe Vera
--- Usage: Apply gel to burned area
--- Effect: Treats burns
Beech Leaves
--- Usage: N/A
--- Effect: used for carrying herbs
Bindweed
--- Usage: Fastens sticks to broken legs to keep them in place
--- Effect: N/A
Blackberry Leaves
--- Usage: Chewed into a pulp
--- Effect: Eases the swelling of bee stings
Borage Leaves
--- Usage: Chewed and eaten by nursing queens
--- Effect: Produces better milk; brings down fevers
Broom
--- Usage: Makes poultices for broken legs and wounds
--- Effect: N/A
Burdock Root
--- 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; prevents rat bite infections
Burnet
--- Usage: Travelling herb
--- Effect: Stops minor bleeding; keeps up a cat's strength
Catchweed
--- Usage: burrs are put on the pelt where poultices are
--- Effect: tops poultices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin
Catmint
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Best remedy for the deadly greencough, whitecough
Celadine
--- Usage: Juice is trickled into the eyes
--- Effect: Soothes damaged eyes
Chamomile
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind
Chervil
--- Usage: Chewed to extract the juice of the leaves or the root
--- Effect: For infected wounds and bellyache; can also be used during kitting
Chickweed
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Treats greencough, though catnip is preferred
Cob Nuts
--- Usage: Made into oitments
--- Effect: Unknown
Cobwebs
--- Usage: Pressed over wound
--- Effect: Soaks up blood; holds together broken limbs
Coltsfoot
--- Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp
--- Effect: Eases breathing or kitten-cough; treats cracked or sore paws
Comfrey Root
--- Usage: Chewed into a poultice; can line one's nest
--- Effect: Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds; also used for wrenched claws; can be used for itching or for inflammation on stiff joints; also eases stiffness on wrenched shoulders when lined in a nest.
Daisy Leaf
--- Usage: Chewed into a pase
--- Effect: Eases pain of aching joins; also a traveling herb
Dandelion
--- Usage: White liquid applied to bee stings; leaves can be chewed
--- Effect: Liquid soothes bee stings; leaves can be used as a painkiller
Dock
--- Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches; can line one's nest
--- Effect: Soothes scratches and sore pads, but can sting when applied; can ease the pain of wounds when placed in a nest
Fennel
--- Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth
--- Effect: Helps pain in the hips
Feverfew
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Reduces body temperature for cats with fever or chills; also heals aches and pains; especially good for headaches
Goatweed
--- Usage: Given daily
--- Effect: Eases anxiety and grief
Goldenrod
--- Usage: Chewed into a poultice
--- Effect: General wound-healing
Hawkweed
--- Usage: N/A
--- Effect: Similar to catmint, but not as strong
Heather Nectar
--- Usage: Included in herbal mixtures
--- Effect: Makes swallowing easier and sweetens mixtures
Honey
--- Usage: Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it
--- Effect: Soothes infections; s a great remedy for smoke-damaged or sore throats; helps cats swallow other concoctions; helps soothe coughing; gives energy
Horsetail
--- Usage: Chewed to a poultice, and applied to wounds
--- Effect: Treats infections; stops bleeding
Ivy Leaf
--- Usage: Stores other herbs
--- Effect: N/A
Juniper Berries
--- Usage: Chewed and eaten
--- Effect: Soothes bellyaches; gives strength; helps troubled breathing; also used to help calm cats.
Lamb's Ear
--- Usage: Unknown
--- Effect: Gives a cat strength
Lavender
--- 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 fevers and chills; masks the scent of death
Lungwort
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Cures yellowcough
Mallow Leaves
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Soothes bellyaches
Marigold
--- 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
--- Usage: Rubbed on a dead body
--- Effect: Hides the scent of death
Mouse Bile
--- Usage: The liquid is stored in moss and dabbed onto ticks embedded in pelt
--- Effect: Killing ticks
Dried Oak Leaf
--- 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
--- 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 bellyache
Poppy Seeds
--- Usage: Chewed on
--- Effect: They can help a cat sleep; soothe shock or distress; ease pain.Not recommended for nursing queens
Ragwort Leaves
--- Usage: Crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints
--- Effect: Treats aching joints; keeps a cat's strength up
Ragweed
--- Usage: N/A
--- Effect: Gives a cat extra strength and energy
Raspberry Leaves
--- Usage: N/A
--- Effect: Painkiller; stops bleeding during kitting
Rosemary
--- Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead cat
--- Effect: Helps hide the scent of death
Rush
--- Usage: Binds broken bones
--- Effect: Helps hold a broken limbs in place
Snakeroot
--- Usage: Applied to wounds
--- Effect: Said to heal on-contact poison
Sorrel
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Traveling herb; builds up an appetite
Sticks
--- 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
--- Usage: The seeds are eaten by a cat who's swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound; the stems can also be chewed.
--- Effect: Induces vomiting; brings down swelling; can be mixed with comfrey to help heal broken bones; helps with wounds; chewing the stems helps fight against infection
Sweet-Sedge
--- Usage: Swallow sap
--- Effect: Eases infections
Tansy
--- Usage: Consumed only in small doses
--- Effect: Cures coughs; can be used to cure wounds and poisons; stops cats from getting greencough; soothes throats
Tormentil
--- Usage: Chewed and put on the wound
--- Effect: General wound-trating; heals poison
Thyme
--- Usage: Leaves can be chewed on
--- Effect: Calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats in shock
Watermint
--- Usage: Chewed into a pulp, then eaten
--- Effect: Eases bellyache pain
Wild Garlic
--- Usage: One must roll in
--- Effect: Prevents infection, especially rat bites
Willow Bark
--- Usage: Unknown
--- Effect: Eases pain
Willow Leaves
--- Usage: Eaten
--- Effect: Stops vomiting
Wintergreen
--- Usage: Unknown
--- Effect: Treats wounds and some poisons
Yarrow
--- Usage: Chewed into a poultice and applied to the wound
--- Effect: Extracts poison from wounds; will make a cat vomit up toxins; the ointment will soften and help heal cracked pads
Deathberries
--- Usage: Cosumed
--- Effect: Kills within minutes
Foxglove
--- Usage: Used to treat heart and heart attacks
--- Effect: Can easily cause paralysis or heart failure
Holly Berries
--- Usage: Unknown
--- Effect: Unknown
Deadly Nightshade
--- Usage: Kill a cat who cannot be saved quickly
--- Effect: Death
Water Hemlock
--- Usage: Unknown
--- Effect: Causes writhing, pain, and foaming at the mouth[/spoiler]
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