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Borage Leaves

They are to be chewed and eaten. This plant can be distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers. It is good for nursing queens to help their milk supply and it also helps bring down fevers.

Burdock Root

It is a tall-stemmed thistle with dark leaves. A medicine cat must dig up the roots. Then they must wash off the dirt and chew into a pulp. It helps with rat bites and cures infection.

Catmint (also know as Catnip)

A delicious-smelling, leafy plant that is hard to find growing in the wild. It is often found growing around twoleg gardens. It is the best cure for greencough.

Chirvil

A plant that has a sweet smell to it, it has large fernlike leaves with small white flowers. Juice from the leaves can help infected wounds. To help with a bellyache a medicen cat must chew up the roots.

Cobweb

These can be found all over the forest, medicine cats wrap it around an injury to help soak the blood up, stop it from bleeding more, and keep it clean.

Coltsfoot

It looks a bit like a dandelion with no yellow flowers. The leaves of this plant can be chewed into a pulp that is eaten to help with shortness of breath.

Comfrey

It has large leaves and a small bell shaped flower. The flowers can be pink, white, or purple. The black roots of the plant can be used to mend broken bones or soothe wounds.

Dock

This plant is similar to sorrel, the leaf is chewed to soothe scratches.

Dried oak leaf

It is collected in the autumn, it helps stop infections.

Feverfew

It is a small bush with lots of flowers like daisies. The leaves are eaten to cool down body temperature.

Goldenrod

This is a tall plant with yellow flowers on it. It is very good when used to heal wounds.

Honey

This sweet liquid is difficult to collect without getting stung. It is very good to use to sooth infections or throats of cats that have breathed in smoke.

Horsetail

This tall bristly plant grows in the marshy areas. Leaves of this plant can treat infected wounds.

Juniper Berries

THis bush has spiky dark green leaves with purple berries. These berries help with bellyaches and cats that are having trouble breathing.

Lavender

This plant has small purple flowers that are used to cure fevers.

Marigold

This orange flower grows low to the ground, the leaves help stop infections.

Mouse Bile

A very bad smelling liquid that is a remedy for ticks. Wash paws thoroughly in running water afterward.

Poppy seed

Black seeds that are shaken from a dried poppy flower. The seeds are good to help cats sleep and helps cats that are suffering from shock.

Stinging Nettle

This spiny green seeds are given to a cat that has swallowed poison. The leaves can help bring down swelling.

Tansy

This strong smelling plant has yellow flowers and is good for curing coughs.

Thyme

A herb that when eatenwill calm frayed nerves.

Watermint

This plant is found in streams, it is fed to cats that are suffering from a bellyache.

Wild Garlic

Rolling in garlic will prevent infection, especially for rat bite wounds.

Yarrow

This flowering plant can be applied to scratches to expel poison.

DeathBerries

Red berries that are fatally poisonous to elders and kits. They are not used as a medicine, cats should beware of these berries.

Herbs where found in the book Warriors field guide secrets of the clans it is copyrighted by Erin Hunter.