Herbs, Part One (Unfinished) Flashcards
Knaw on it to relieve tooth pain.
Alder Bark
Used to carry other herbs and attract prey.
Beech Leaves
Fasten its vines around sticks in a splint for broken bones.
Bindweed
Dig your claws into the tree and drink it to (maybe) cure yellowcough.
Birch Sap
Chew into a pulp or poultice and apply to bee stings to bring down swelling.
Blackberry Leaves
Mix with lovage to cure coughs and minor chests infections (Possibly)
Bright-Eye
Eat or trickle the juice into the mouth to help nursing queens produce healthier milk in greater quantity, as well as help to relieve fevers, stomachaches, and tight chests.
Borage Leaves
Crush into a poultice and apply to the body to help with broken legs and wounds.
Broom
Chew into a pulp or poultice and apply to scratches and rat bites to ease infection, soreness and pain.
Burdock Root
Eat to gain strength. Feed to queens about to give birth and cats heading out on a journey. (TRAVELING HERB)
Burnet
Apply the burrs on poultices to prevent them from rubbing off.
Catchweed
Eat or shred into fine pieces to be inhaled. The best remedy for Greencough and Whitecough.
Catmint
Crush its bulbs to release juice which you trickle into eyes to act as a painkiller. Soothe damaged eyes.
Celandine
Eat to soothe and strengthen the mental and physical body. (TRAVELING HERB)
Chamomile
Chew on its leaves or roots to extract juices which you then apply on wounds to treat infection. Eat the leaves to help with stomachaches and nausea during kitting.
Chervil
Eat as a secondary cure for Greencough. (Starts with ‘C’)
Chickweed
Crush them and mix into ointments to thicken them.
Cobnuts/Hazelnuts
Press or wrap around a wound to absorb blood and keep herb mixtures in place. Also used in splints.
Cobwebs
Chew the leaves into a pulp and eat to help with troubled breathing and kittencough. Chew into a poultice and apply to cracked or sore pads, as well as minor scratches to soothe them.
Coltsfoot
Chew into a paste and eat to help cough attacks and relieve inflammation. Mix with tansy as a (temporary) soothing remedy for asthma
Comfrey Leaves
Chew into a poultice to eat or apply to the body. Repairs broken bones,soothes wounds, helps wrenched claws, itching, soothes inflammation, soothes muscle stiffness, soothes burns
Comfrey Root
Chew into a paste and fasten with cobweb to help ease joint pains, eat to soothe sprains, and eat it mixed with tansy as a backache remedy. (TRAVELING HERB)
Daisy Leaf
Apply the liquid to bee stings to soothe and heal them, chew the leaves as a painkiller, mix with borage and eat as a fever remedy, eat the roots to cure meadow saffron poisoning
Dandelions
Chew and apply to scratches and wounds to soothe them. Known to sting. The leaves are quite big, great for storing other herbs or as a safe place to vomit.
Dock
Crush it (WITH YOUR PAWS) into a poultice and apply to sprains. Never consume!
Elder Leaves
Break the stalks and squeeze the juice into the patient’s mouth to ease hip pain, especially in kitting, as well as soothe stomachaches, hunger pains, and Whitecough
Fennel
Used to cover other herbs to keep them fresh
Fern Fronds
Eat it to reduce body temperature and treat common cold symptoms. Also used for aches and pains. The best remedy for headaches.
Feverfew
Eat to clam anxiety and grief. Use daily.
Goat Weed
Apply as a poultice to heal wounds and sprains. To numb the pain of a wound, extract the juice and apply directly to the wound.
Goldenrod
Eaten as a lesser substitute for catmint. Starts with an ‘H’.
Hawkweed
Add the juices from the flower to herb mixtures to sweeten them.
Heather
Eaten to strengthen the immune system and cure sore throats and smoke-damaged throats. Place on burns and external infections. Sweetens herbs and holds poultices together.
Honey
Apply the sap from the stems to prevent infection or chew to a poultice to stop minor bleeding.
Horsetail
Use to carry other herbs or keep them fresh by wrapping them.
Ivy Leaf
Eaten in small doses to soothe stomachaches, give strength, aid heavy breathing, and calm a cat in shock or distress. Apply the juice to infected flea bites.
Juniper Berries
Eat to gain strength. Found in the mountains.
Lambs Ear
Rub on a dead body to hide the scent. Have the patient inhale the herb constantly to treat fevers, chills, and headaches. Mix in with bee sting pulp to soothe the pain.
Lavender
Chew into a pulp with bright-eye and feed to your patient to cure coughs and minor chest infections.
Lovage
Eat the leaves as the best cure for yellowcough.
Lungwort
Eaten to calm stomachaches.
Mallow Leaves
Chew the whole plant into a poultice and apply to minor scratches, inflamed and stiff joints, broken bones, and flea bites. The poultice can also help with stopping bleeding and infection.
Marigold
Rubbed on a dead body to hide the scent of death. Rubbed on the pelt or place d8n a nest to deter fleas.
Mint
Use moss to dab it onto ticks and fleas to kill them.
Mouse Bile
When the leaves are wilted they can be chewed to a poultice and applied to infected wounds. As a last resort they, when wilted, can be placed inside big wounds to stop bleeding.
Oak Leaves
Eat one whole stem each day to stop from producing milk after kits have died. Eat to soothe stomachaches (but nursing queens cannot eat.)
Parsley
Eat or chew on two seeds as a painkiller or sedative. It can soothe shock, distress, anxiety, and insomnia. Do not feed to nursing queens, a queen who is giving birth, or newborn kits. Elders with severe/chronic pain may take up to five.
Poppy Seeds
Ragwort Leaves
