List of Herbs & Uses

Herbs

Alder bark:
Eases toothaches when chewed.

Beech nuts:
Good for attracting prey.

Bindweed:
Helps to bind sticks together for splints.

Birch sap:
Helpful for curing yellowcough.

Blackberry:
Eases the pain of bee stings when chewed into a pulp.

Borage:
When the leaves are eaten, it can help queens to produce more milk. It can also be used to bring down fevers or soothe a stomachache.

Bright-eye:
When crushed into a poultice with lovage, it can cure coughs.

Broom:
When crushed into a poultice, it can help with broken bones.

Burdock:
The roots can help to soothe rat bites, especially if they are infected. Can also be used for other sores.

Burnet:
The leaves are eaten to give strength. Good for queens or as a traveling herb.

Catchweed:
The burrs are used to prevent poultices from being rubbed off.

Catmint:
The leaves are eaten to cure greencough and whitecough. High dosages can be dangerous. It is easily killed by frost, and thrives in dry conditions.

Celandine:
When crushed into juice, it can soothe damaged or weakened eyes.

Chamomile:
When eaten, it is soothing and strengthening. Used as a traveling herb.

Chervil:
The juice of the leaves is used for infected wounds, and the juice of the root is used for bellyache or during kitting.

Chickweed:
When eaten, can be an alternative to catmint for treating greencough.

Cobwebs:
Used to stop or slow bleeding, or to bind broken bones.

Coltsfoot:
When the leaves are chewed into a pulp, it eases breathing or kitten-cough, or sore pawpads.

Comfrey root:
When chewed into a poultice, it can soothe wounds. It can also be used for inflammation or itching, and can soothe joints when lined in a nest. Can also be used for burns.

Daisy leaf:
Chewed into a paste and used to ease joint pain. Also used as a traveling herb.

Dandelion:
The leaves can be a painkiller, and the roots can cure meadow saffron poisoning.

Dock leaf:
Soothes and disinfects scratches and small wounds, so can sting when first applied.

Elder leaves:
Soothes sprains as a poultice.

Fennel:
Stalks are broken to extract the juice, which helps with pain in the hips.  

Feverfew:
When eaten, it can reduce fevers and help with headaches.

Goatweed:
When eaten, it can ease grief.

Goldenrod:
As a poultice, it is helpful for most wounds.

Hawkweed:
Similar to catmint, but not as effective.

Heather nectar:
Sweetens and makes it easier to swallow bitter herbs.

Honey:
Soothes infections, sore throats, and helps with swallowing herbs.

Horsetail:
Treats infections and stops bleeding as a poultice.

Juniper berries:
Soothes bellyaches and gives strength, and helps with troubled breathing. Can be used to calm cats.

Lamb’s ear:
Gives strength, used as a traveling herb.

Laurel leaf:
Used to wrap herbs.

Lavender:
Used to ease fevers, or hide the scent of death.

Lovage:
Can help cure coughs when mixed with bright-eye.

Lungwort:
Cures yellowcough when eaten.

Mallow leaves:
Soothes bellyache when eaten.

Marigold:
Stops infection, bleeding, and soothes joints. Any part of the plant can be used as a poultice.

Moss:
Used to soak up fluid.

Mouse bile:
Used to kill ticks.

Oak leaf:
Helps to prevent infection. Dried leaves are made into a thick poultice.

Parsley:
Can cure bellyache, or stop a queen from producing milk.

Poppy seeds:
Can help a cat sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens.

Ragwort leaves:
Gives strength or soothes joints when crushed and chewed.

Raspberry leaves:
Helps with pain.

Rush:
Used to bind broken bones.

Sorrel:
Eaten as a traveling herb.

Sticks:
Distracts from pain, or can be used to bind broken bones.

Stinging nettle:
The seeds induce vomiting, or the leaves bring down swelling.

Sweet-sedge:
The sap eases infection.

Tansy:
When eaten in small doses, it can cure coughs or infections. Extremely dangerous to pregnant cats.

Tormentil:
The root is good for all wounds and extracting poison.

Thyme:
Good for calming cats.

Wild garlic:
Prevents infection, and draws out the poison in rat bites. One must roll in it.

Willow leaves:
Stops vomiting.

Yarrow:
When eaten, induces vomiting. Poultices extract poison from wounds, and ointment will soften and heal cracked pawpads.

Poisons

Deathberries:
Kills a cat within minutes when consumed.

Foxglove seeds:
Causes paralysis and heart failure.

Holly berries
Dangerous to kits.

Meadow saffron:
Not dangerous to prey, but when prey that has eaten it is consumed by cats, it can make them very sick.

Deadly nightshade:
Very poisonous.

Water hemlock:
Causes a cat to writhe with pain and foam at the mouth.