Poppy Seeds
Small black seeds shaken from a dried poppy flower, these are fed to cats to help them sleep. Also, soothes cats suffering from shock and distress. Not recommended for nursing queens.

Cobwebs
(Known to Twolegs as spider webs) can be found all over the forest; be careful not to bring along the spider when you take the web! Medicine cats wrap it around an injury to soak up the blood and keep the wound clean, stops bleeding.

Feverfew
A small bush with flowers like daisies, the leaves can be eaten to cool down body temperature, particularly cats with fevers or chills.

Borage Leaves
To be chewed and eaten. The plant can be distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves. Great for nursing queens as it helps increase their supply of milk. Also brings down fever.

Marigold
A bright orange or yellow flower that grows low to the ground. The petals or leaves can be chewed into a pulp and applied as a poultice to wounds. It also stops infections.

Horsetail
A tall plant with bristly stems that grows in marshy areas. The leaves can be used to treat infected wounds. Usually chewed up and applied as a poultice.

Burdock Root
Cures infection. A tall-stemmed, sharp smelling thistle with dark leaves. A medicine cat must dig up the roots, wash off the dirt, and chew them into a pulp, which can be applied to rat bites.

Parsley
Stops a queen from producing milk if her kits die or don’t need milk anymore.

Chervil Root
A sweet smelling plant with large, spreading, fernlike leaves and small white flowers. The juice of the leaves can be used for infected wound, and chewing the roots helps with bellyache.

Wild Garlic
Rolling in a patch of wild garlic can help prevent infection, especially dangerous wounds like rat bites. n.

Coltsfoot
A flowering plant, a bit like a dandelion, with yellow or white flowers. The leaves can be chewed into a pulp, which is eaten to help shortness of breath.

Catmint
(Known to Twolegs as catnip) A delicious smelling, leafy plant that’s hard to find in the wild; often found in growing Twoleg gardens. The best remedy for greencough.

Chickweed
Like catmint, it can be used to cure greencough.

Tansy
A strong-smelling plant with round yellow flowers. Good for curing coughs, but must be eaten in small doses.

Thyme
This herb can be eaten to calm anxiety and frayed nerves.

Chamomile
This herb strengthens the heart and calms the mind.

Dandelion
The white liquid inside the stem is used for bee stings. Its roots can also be chewed to act like poppy seeds.

Juniper Berries
A bush with spiky dark green leaves and purple berries. The berries soothe bellyaches and help cats who have trouble breathing.

Watermint
A leafy green plant found in streams or damp earth. Usually chewed into a pulp and then feed to a cat suffering bellyache.

Daisy Leaves
Thick, dark green and oval shaped. When chewed into a paste, it can help aching joints.

Goldenrod
A tall plant with bright yellow flowers. A poultice of this is terrific for healing wounds.

Ragwort Leaves
Crushed and mixed into a poultice with juniper berries, it can help aching joints.

Comfrey
Identifiable by its large leaves and small bell-shaped flowers, which can be pink, white, or purple. The fat black roots of this plant can be chewed into a poultice to mend broken bones or sooth wounds.

Stinging Nettle
The spiny green seeds can be administered to a cat that’s swallowed poison, while the leaves can be applied to a wound to bring down swelling.

Celandine
This herb can be used to soothe the eyes.

Snakeroot
The best remedy for poison, especially snake bites.

Honey
A sweet, golden liquid created by bees. difficult to collect without getting stung, but great for soothing infections or the throats of cats who have breathed smoke.

Mouse Bile
A bad-smelling liquid that is the only remedy for ticks. Dab a little moss soaked in bile on a tick and it'll fall right off. Wash paws thoroughly in moving water afterward.

Yarrow
A flowering plant whose leaves can be made into a poultice and applied to wounds or scratches to expel poison.

Dock
A plant similar to sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied (usually to pads) to soothe scratches, can make a cat's coat slippery.

Lavender
A small purple flowering plant. Used to cure fever.

Mallow
The leaves are best collected at sunhigh, when the leaves are dry. It soothes a cat’s stomach.

Poisonous Herbs:

Deathberries
Red berries that can be fatally poisonous to kits and elders. They are NOT a medicine; known to Twolegs as yew berries.

Nightshade
Of no medicinal value; is extremely poisonous, easily noticeable because of its bright purple flowers.

Holly Berries
Of no medicinal value; is very dangerous. Looks tasty, but is extremely poisonous. It has blood-red berries and funny shaped leaves.