Post by ginger on Jan 20, 2020 20:05:14 GMT
Alphabetical list of everything that you might find in a medicine cat den
Alder BarkAppearance:Dark gray bark, fissured. Younger trees can also have greenish bark. Branches can sometimes be sticky
Location: Alder Trees. Forests
Usage: Chewed
Effect: Eases toothaches
Other: Grows well in the snowy season
Aloe Vera
Appearance: Plump leaves
Location: Sandy Soil
Usage: Leaves are broken and sap squeezed out
Effect: soothes burns
Bentonite Clay
Appearance: Pale, dusty clay
Location: Forms from old volcanic ash
Usage: Placed on wounds
Effect: Draws out infection
Blackberry leaves
Appearance: Fuzzy, spiked, found on a plant with pale pink flowers and dark berries
Location: Almost anywhere, common underbrush
Usage: Chewed into a pulp and made into poultice
Effect: Eases pain of stings
Bones
Appearance: Varied
Location: Often found in Vulture’s landing. GladeClan has a Bone pile in their camp
Usage: Splints
Effect: Ironically aids in broken bones healing.
Other notes: Although bones of almost any animal will serve the same purpose, there are some that are deemed more socially acceptable to use than others.
Borage
Appearance: Star shaped flower, fuzzy green leaves
Location:
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Increases Milk Flow. Eases fevers. Soothes sour belly
Broom
Description: Shrub with small yellow leaves
Location: Wooded areas. Grows even in snow, so is common in PeakClan
Usage: Ground into poultice
Effect: Speeds up wound recovery
Burdock roots
Appearance: Tall thistle with sharp scent
Location: Underground
Usage: Ground into pulp
Effect: Eases infection from Rat btes,
Burnet
Appearance: Medium green-colored basal leaves. Can occasionally have spikes of purple flowers
Location: Sunny, grassy areas. Common in GladeClan territory, and parts of ShellClan’s island
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Strength
Catchweed
Appearance: Plant with fuzzy green balls on long stems
Location: Undergrowth
Usage: placed over poultice
Effect: holds on poultices
Catmint
Appearance: Grey-green leaves
Location: Near twoleg places. Near the cabins, the ranger’s station, and the ski-lodge.
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Cures greencough
Other notes: dies easily in frost
Chamomile
Appearance: Small wite flowers with yellow center
Location: Sandy Soil, Common in ShellClan
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Soothing
Chervil
Appearance: Large fern-like leaves
Location: Rocky terrain
Usage: Chewed for juices
Effect: Fights infection
Chickweed
Appearance: tall stem, almond-shaped leaves
Location: Sunny, Grassy areas
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Substitute for Catmint
Cinnamon
Appearance: Orange Bark
Location: In and around ValeClan’s Jacob trees
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Sweetener
Clay
Appearance: Varied
Location: Underground, some variants found along riverbanks
Usage: Pasted over poultices or wounds
Effect: Keeps things in place
Cobwebs
Appearance: thin, silver strands
Location: anywhere
Usage: placed on wounds
Effect: soaks up blood
Coconuts
Appearance: Brown or Green husks
Location: Beaches
Usage: Broken open and eaten
Effect: the milk can soothe sore throats
Other: Husks could be later used for storage
Coltsfoot
Appearance: Yellow flower
Location: Near water
Usage: Leaves chewed into pulp
Effect: Eases breathing
Comfrey Root
Appearance: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, brown roots
Location: Damp, grassy areas
Usage: Chewed into poultice
Effect: Helps broken bones, wounds, wrenched claws, stiffness. If placed in one’s nest it is supposed to help with inflammation
Daisy leaf
Appearance: White flowers with a yellow center, Thick, green, oval shaped leaves
Location: Grassy areas
Usage: Chewed
Effect: Soothes joints
Dandelion
Appearance: Yellow flower, Jagged leaves
Location: Grassy areas
Usage: The white liquid from inside the stem is squeezed out, leaves or roots are chewed
Effect: soothes bee-stings, painkiller
Deadly Nightshade
Appearance: A small shrub with faintly scented, bell-shaped flowers that are purple tinged with green in colour. Berries are shiny and black when ripe
Location: Shade
Usage: Poison
Effect: killed a cat who cannot e samved
Deathberries
Appearance: plump pink berries
Location: anywhere
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Death or great illness
Dock
Appearance: Green, leafy plant
Location: Does not do well in mountains, best in leafy areas
Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches.
Effect: soothes scratches
Egg
Appearance: It’s an egg
Location: Nests
Usage: Storage for herbs
Effect: None
Elder leaves
Appearance: Leaf
Location: Elder Tree
Usage: Poultice
Effect: Soothes sprains
Fennel
Appearance: Spiky leaves
Location: Dry, sandy soil, Very common in ShellClan, or along riverbanks
Usage: Stalks broken and juiced
Effect: Soothes aches and pains
Feverfew
Appearance: resembles daisies
Location: Near water
Usage: Eaten
Effect: reduces headache, fever, aches and pains
Foxglove seeds
Appearance: Tiny, black seeds from the bell-shaped flower of the foxglove plan
Location: anywhere
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Used to treat the heart. However, if one is not careful, the heart may rupture.
Garlic
Appearance: Grows in clumps with a white bulb at the base
Location: Varied
Usage: One rolls in it
Effect: fights infection
Ginger
Appearance: Tan root
Location: Humid areas
Usage: Eaten or added to herbal mixtures
Effect: Eases Nausea, adds taste to mixtures
Goldenrod
Appearance: Gold Flower
Location: Open plains
Usage: Chewed into a poultice
Effect: Good for healing wounds
Heather nectar
Appearance: Bell-shaped Flowers
Location: Shady Areas
Usage: Nectar is added to other herbs
Effect: Sweetener
Holly
Appearance: Plant with spiny leaves that produces red berries with no medicinal value
Location: forest
All else unknown
Honey
Appearance: Golden nectar
Location: Hives, hollow trees
Usage: Eaten, applied to other herbs
Effect: Soothes throat, sweetener
Horsetail
Appearance: Thin, spiky plant
Location: Marshy areas
Usage: Made into poultice
Effect: Treats infection, stops bleeding
Ivy leaf
Appearance: Leaf from ivy vine
Location: Anywhere Ivy can grow
Usage: Storage
Effect: None
Juniper berry
Appearance: Blueish grey berries from the juniper bush
Location: Dry areas
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Soothes bellyache, calms breathing
Kelp
Appearance: Flat grassy looking leaves
Location: Shallow sea water. (Other variants could appear near the freshwater rivers)
Usage:
Wet- Wrapped around wounds
Dried out and eaten whole or ground
Effects: Keeps splints in place, anti-inflammatory
Lambs Ear
Appearance: Soft, fluffy leaf
Location: Grows well in mountains
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Gives strength
Lavender
Appearance: Purple flower
Location: Twoleg gardens, sandy or gravelly soil, common in ShellClan and the edges of ValeClan
Usage: Placed in nest or smelt
Effects: Calming, can be used to ide death-scent
Lungwort
Appearance: Dark green, speckled leaves
Location: Moors
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Cures Yellowcough
Mallow Leaves
Appearance: Three-nubbed fuzzy leaves from shrub
Location: SHoreline
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Soothes Bellyache
Marigold
Appearance: Golden flower with spiky leaves
Location: Near water
Usage: Made into poultice or juiced
Effect: Heals infection
Meadow Saffron
Appearance: Plant with purple flowers
Location: Anywhere
USage: Unknown
Effect: Poisonous
Mint
Appearance: Downy, serrated leaves ranging from green to purple and yellow in color. Flowers are small and white or purple in color.
Location: Forest
Usage: rubbed on body
Effect: hides scent
Moss
Appearance: Green, spongey
Location: Forest, marsh
Usage: Soaked in liquid
Effect: Soaks up liquids
Oak leaf
Appearance: rounded, lobed leaf
Location: forest floor
Usage: chewed into poultice
Effect: Stops infection
Other: should be stored in dry place, best collected in Leaf-fall
Palm fronds
Location: Beaches, All over ShellClan territory
Usage: Placed fully over wound
Effect: Can be placed over a wound to stop some bleeding if cobwebs cannot be found. Can keep poultices in place. Secure a splint
Other: only dried palm branches typically break off the trees (usually during winter) and are incredible stiff and heavy, so they will often be used to help supplement shell clan dens and require upwards of 3-5 matured cats to move in one piece. Any fronds from these branches would likely require 1-2 cats to break them off, but stray stripped ones could be sturdy enough to splint a small cat's limbs, and 2 could splint a larger cat's limbs.
Parsely
Appearance: ruffled plant
Location: Sunny areas with well-drained soil
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Stop or decreases milk flow, soothes joints
Poppy seeds
Appearance: tiny black seeds
Location: Anywhere a poppy grows, abundant in ValeClan’s Poppy Fields
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Soothes
Other: Not recommended for nursing queens
Porcupine Needles
Appearance: Long, sharp needles, usually black and white
Location: Wherever a porcupine is found
Usage: Acupuncture
Effect: Clearing Energy channels
Other: This is a case-by-case idea of whether or not it can be useful
Ragwort
Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers
Location: Cool areas with high rainfall
Usage: Crushed and Chewed
Effect: Soothes joints
Raspberry leaves
Description: Jagged, fuzzy leaves
Location: Raspberry bush
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Painkiller
Rosemary
Description: Tall flower with sharp leaves
Location: Forest
Usage: rubbed on plet
Effect: Hides Death-scent
Rush
Appearance: tall stems
Location: Wet soil
Usage: Binding
Effect: Binds broken limbs
Seashells
Appearance: Varied
Location: Beach
Usage: Carry Herbs
Effect: None
Other: some cats roll them under paws for massages
Sea Water
Appearance: Water
Location: Ocean
Usage: Drank, Gargled, poured on wounds
Effect: Gargled to help sore throats, poured on wounds for disinfectant
Other: There is risk of infection if one is not careful about where they are getting the water
Sorrel
Appearance: Round leaves
Location: Near two legs
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Builds appetite
Stick
Appearance:...it's a stick
Location: trees
Usage: Bitten, Bound to leg
Effect: Bitten to avoid biting tongue, keeps leg in place during healing
Stinging nettle
Appearance: Spiky plant
Location: Anywhere
Usage: Seeds are eaten, Stems and leaves are eaten or made into a poultice
Effect: Induces vomiting, reduces swelling
Sweet Sedge
Appearance: Thick Green Stems with yellow buds at the top
Location: Most common in wet areas
Usage: Swallowed
Effect: Eases infection
Other: Grows through Leaf-bare
Tansy
Appearance: Round, yellow leaves,
Location: sunny areas
Usage: Eaten in small doses
Effect: Cures coughs, soothes throats, cures wounds
Other: Very dangerous for pregnant she-cats
Tormentil
Appearance: small yellow flowers
Location: Cool or cold areas
Usage: Chewed and placed in wound
Effect: Extracting poison
Thyme
Appearance: Small, delicate, thick, sticky leaves with a fresh tan
Location: Sunny areas
Usage: Leaves are chewed
Effect: Calming
Urchin Spines
Appearance: Sharp black needles
Location: Sea Urchins
Usage: Acupuncture
Effect: Energy Clearing
Other: Be very careful! Some sea urchins have toxins
!POISON! Water Hemlock
Appearance: Green or white flowers in umbrella-shaped clusters
Location: Near water
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Cases Writing pain and foaming at the mouth
Watermint
Appearance: Green leafy plant with purple flowers
Location: Streams or damp earth
Usage: Chewed into paste then eaten
Effect: Eases bellyache
Willow
Description: Leaves are oval shaped
Location: forest
Usage: chewed and or eaten
Effect: bark eases pain, leaves fight infection
Yarrow
Appeared: A flowering plant with green, jagged leaves, a tangy scent and a bitter taste
Location: rocky areas
Usage: Chewed into poultice or eaten
Effect: makes a cat vomit, fights infections
