Post by Alpha Almandine (Admin) on Jan 9, 2017 13:38:58 GMT -6
A major job of a Healing Branch is to heal packmates with the powers of nature. No, it's not magic - it's the science of medicine. The following is a comprehensive list of herbs and their uses. Anyone in the healing branch needs to know this.
(Yes, this is taken directly from the Warriors Wiki.)
Alder Bark
Bark of the alder tree.
Marsh
Any Season
Gently gnaw on the bark and let the juices ease your toothache.
Beech Leaves
Large, broad leaves that can be serrated, entire or sparsely toothed.
All regions except Marsh
All seasons except Winter
Useful for transporting other herbs.
Bindweed
Arrow-head shaped leaves with pale white or pink trumpet shaped flowers.
All regions
All seasons except Winter
Fastens sticks to broken limbs to splint them or cobwebs to a wound to help with bleeding.
Blackberry Leaves
Prickly leaves from the blackberry bush.
All regions
All seasons except Winter
When applied in a poultice, they ease the swelling of bee stings.
Borage
It is easily distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves.
Forest
All seasons except Winter
When the leaves are eaten by nursing bearers, it helps more and better milk.
Reduces fever.
When eaten, calms down very severe respiratory infections when mixed with coltsfoot and tansy.
Broom
Shrubs with small leaves and small yellow flowers.
Forest
All seasons except Winter
When applied in a poultice, it quickens healing of broken limbs and wounds.
Burdock
Tall-stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves.
Plains
All seasons except Winter
When applied in a poultice, it lessens the pain of, heals, and prevents infection of animal bites.
Burnet
Has oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges. Stems grow 50-200cm tall, with large clusters of small flower buds on top.
Plains
All seasons except Winter
Keeps strength up when eaten. (Traveling Herb)
Stops minor bleeding when applied in a poultice.
Catchweed
A plant with fuzzy green balls on long stems.
Forest (edge) and Village
All seasons except Winter
When placed on a pelt over a poultice, it prevents the poultice from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.
Catmint/nip
A leafy plant with a strong smell.
Village
Any season except Winter
Attracts cats.
Deters mosquitos and flies.
When eaten, it may help respiratory infections.
Helps with chills when eaten with a recipe of lavender and feverfew.
RREU)) Can be placed on a corpse to repel insects and smell nice.
Celandine
Yellow flower with four petals.
Forest and near rivers.
All seasons except Winter
Juice is trickled into the eye to sooth damaged eyes.
Chamomile
A small white flower with a large, yellow center.
Village
Keeps one's strength up when eaten. (Traveling Herb)
Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind.
Chervil
A sweet-smelling plant with large, leafy, fern-like leaves, small white flowers, and knobby brown roots.
Cliffs
When used in a poultice, treats infected wounds.
When the roots are chewed to extract the juice, soothes bellyache, and lessens the pain of a bearing.
Chickweed
Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
Where the forest meets the river.
Eaten to soothe respiratory infections when catmint is not readily available.
Cob Nut
A smooth brown nut with a hard outside shell. A type of hazelnut.
Forest, from a hazel tree in a sunny spot or an animal's stash.
UNKNOWN USAGE
Cobwebs
Spiderwebs
All regions
Bandage padding to stop/slow bleeding.
Binding broken bones.
Coltsfoot
A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions.
Rivers and Marsh
Eaten to sooth minor respiratory infections. Calms down very severe resperatory infections when mixed with borage and tansy.
When used in a poultice, it can sooth cracked or sore pads or nose.
Comfrey
It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots. Tangy smell.
Where the plains meet the river.
When the roots are used in a poultice, it helps heal and soothe broken bones (often mixed with stinging nettle), wounds, broken claws, itching, burns, and inflammation on stiff joints.
When the roots are lined in bedding, it eases stiffness.
Daisy
Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves with white flowers with yellow centers.
All regions
When used in a poultice, the leaves ease the pain of aching joints.
Keeps one's strength up. (Traveling Herb)
Dandelion
Common, yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems. After flowering is finished, the flower transforms a sphere made out of hundreds of smaller white florets with seed heads at the bottom that connect to the flower head.
All regions
White liquid found in the stem soothes and heals bee stings.
Leaves can be chewed to act as a painkiller.
Dock
Common, large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste.
Forest edge
When used in a poultice, the leaves soothe scratches (stings when applied) and sore pads.
When lined in bedding, eases the pain of wounds.
Fennel
Thin, spiky leaves.
Dry soils near riverbanks
Juice from the stalks squeezed into a patient's mouth to ease pelvic pain. (Useful during bearing)
Feverfew
Small bush with flowers resembling daisies. Has a sharp tangy smell and small soft leaves.
River and Marsh
When eaten, regulates body temperature for fever or chills, soothes aches and pains, useful for headaches.
Helps with chills when eaten with a recipe of catmint and lavender.
Garlic
Strong-smelling shrub.
Forest
Rolling in it can disguise one's scent.
Placing the stalks on a wound can prevent infection, especially from animal bites.
Goatweed
Plants with ovate leaves
River
Eaten daily to calm the mind of anxiety and grief.
Goldenrod
A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
Plains
When used in a poultice, heals wounds.
Hawkweed
Small green plant with yellow and orange flowers.
Plains
Eaten to soothe respiratory infections when catmint or chickweed is not readily available.
Heather
Bell-shaped magenta flowers.
Forest edge and Plains
Nectar extracted from flowers and combined with herbal mixtures to sweeten them and make them easier to swallow.
Honey
Sweet golden liquid made by bees and collected from their hives.
Forest
Eaten to soothe infection, sore or smoke-damaged throats, coughing, gives energy, and helps to swallow and sweetens other mixtures.
Horsetail
A tall, bristly-stemmed plant, referred to with fleshy stalks.
Marshes
When used in a poultice, treats infections and stops bleeding.
Ivy
Vine that climbs on rocks and human buildings.
Occasionally grows on rocks and dens.
Leaves can be used to store things in the ground and keep them clean by lining storage compartments with the ivy and wrapping objects in them.
Juniper
Dark leaved, spiky green bush with purple-blue berries.
All regions except river and marsh.
Berries eaten to soothe bellyache, give strength, help troubled breathing, and calm.
Mixed with Ragwort leaves in a poultice can help aching joints.
Lamb's Ear
Soft, fuzzy green plant.
Mountains
Gives strength.
Lavender
A small purple flowering plant.
Village, Plains
When placed under one's nose to be inhaled constantly, cures fever and chills.
Helps with chills when eaten with a recipe of catmint and feverfew.
Rubbed/Placed on a pelt to hide the scent of death.
Lungwort
An herb with dark green leaves speckled with gray.
Plains
Only cure for a certain (very severe) form of resperatory infection.
Mallow
Flowering shrub with large fuzzy three-nubbed leaves and a sweet rose scent.
Shore
Eaten to soothe bellyache
Marigold
A low-growing flower; yellow to bright orange.
River
When leaves or petals are used in a poultice or juice extracted from the stem, stops infection, bleeding, and inflammation of stiff joints.
Mint
Downy, serrated leaves ranging from green to purple and yellow in color. Flowers are small and white or purple in color.
Village and Forest
Rubbed on a pelt to hide the scent of death.
Oak
Large tree with round ruffled leaves that grows acorns.
Forest
Collected in Fall and dried the leaves are used in a thick poultice and spread on a wound to prevent infection.
Parsley
A long-stemmed plant with ragged-edged crinkly leaves, Sharp scent, tastes cold and fresh, tastes the same fresh or dried.
Forest edge and Village
Lessens or stops milk production when eaten by Bearers if her pups die, don't need milk anymore, or the Bearer is producing too much milk.
Eaten to help with bellyache.
Poppy
Red flower with tiny, round black seeds that are shaken out of a dried flowerhead.
Forest
Seeds are eaten to help one sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Do not give to nursing bearers.
Ragwort
Tall shrub with yellow flowers. Tastes foul.
All regions
In a poultice, the leaves with juniper berries, can help aching joints, and keep's one's strength up.
Ragweed
Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern.
Mountains
Gives one extra strength and energy.
Raspberry
Leaves soft to the touch, but with jagged edges. Sweet red fruit.
Forest
Eaten, the leaves ease pain and lessen bleeding during bearing.
Rosemary
Tall with needle-like leaves and purple flowers.
Forest
Placed or rubbed on a pelt to hide the scent of death.
Rush
It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks.
Marsh
Binds broken bones.
Snakeroot
Broad leafed plant with white flowers.
All regions
The single best remedy for extracting poison, especially in snakebites. Placed on the wound.
Sorrel
Small plant.
Village
Eaten as a traveling herb.
Builds up appetite.
Twigs
Twigs grow on trees. (Wow!)
Forest
When in pain, one can bite on a large stick to distract themselves, such as during bearing.
Splints broken limbs.
Stinging Nettle
Bushy plant with green, spiny seeds.
Forest
When eaten, the seeds induce vomiting in canidae who may have ingested poison.
When used in a poultice, brings down swelling, or, when mixed with comfrey, helps to heal broken bones.
Chewing the stems helps cure infection.
Sweet-Sedge
Thick green stem with long buds at the top.
River, grows all year long.
Swallowing the sap can bring down infection.
Tansy
Has round, yellow leaves, and has a very sweet and strong scent, making it good for disguising one's scent.
Forest, Village
Consumed in small doses, can cure wounds, poisons, soothes throats, helps with fever, and prevents respiratory infection.
Tormentil
It has a strong, aromatic scent to it and a sharp taste, and small yellow flowers.
All regions.
When used in a poultice, the root is good for healing any wounds or extracting poisons.
Thyme
Small, delicate, thick, sticky leaves with a fresh tang.
Plains and Village
Chewing on the leaves can calm nervousness, anxiety, and shock.
Watermint
A green, leafy plant with lavender flowers.
River and Marsh
Chewed carefully and then eaten to ease a bellyache.
Hides the scent of death
Willow
Droopy-looking tree.
Village, River, Marsh
Chewing the bark can ease pain.
Leaves can be eaten to stop vomiting.
Wintergreen
Red berries and rounded leaves.
Mountains and Forest
When used in a poultice, it treats wounds and some poisons.
Yarrow
Flowering plant.
Forest, Cliff.
Ingesting the leaves induces vomiting.
When used in a poultice, extracts poison from wounds and soften and heals cracked pads.
POISONS
A healer should know their diagnosis. And who knows? Poisons are useful for other things too.
Most cause bellyache in very small amounts, vomiting in larger amounts, uncontiousness in severe amounts, and death in fatal amounts.
In order of deadlines from least to most.
Holly
Plant with spiny leaves that produces red berries with no medicinal value.
Forest
Holly berries, while not as dangerous as Yew, are still a danger to young canidae.
Deadly Nightshade
A small shrub with faintly scented, bell-shaped flowers that are purple tinged with green in colour. Berries are shiny and black when ripe.
Marsh and River
Foxglove
Pink bell-shaped flower with tiny black seeds, very similar to poppy seeds.
All regions
In very small doses, the seeds can be used to treat heart problems.
The seeds can also easily cause heart failure and paralysis.
Water Hemlock
Green or white flowers with petals in umbrella-shaped clusters.
Marsh
Causes writhing, pain, and foaming at the mouth up until death. Trainees can mistake it for parsley surprisingly easily.
Yew
Red berries from the dark-leaved, evergreen yew bush. The seeds stick out the bottom of the berry.
Forest
A few berries kills in mere minutes. Most powerful poison.
Collecting herbs late in the day is best, since they won't rot in store as quickly when the dew has burned off.
Most herbs grow best in the Spring, so get plenty of stock then, and once again in the fall get as many herbs as you can before winter sets in.
Traveling Herbs are given to Canidae for long journeys and general times when their strength and stamina must be kept high, like long battles. Most also keep one from going hungry quickly, unless otherwise specified. The basic recipe is sorrel, daisy, chamomile, and burnet, but any herbs marked to keep one's strength up may also be useful.
Not all herbs are crucial for constant storage. For example, mountainous herbs are very far from Tanisawa and would only be used if one was already in that area.
(Yes, this is taken directly from the Warriors Wiki.)
Alder Bark
Bark of the alder tree.
Marsh
Any Season
Gently gnaw on the bark and let the juices ease your toothache.
Beech Leaves
Large, broad leaves that can be serrated, entire or sparsely toothed.
All regions except Marsh
All seasons except Winter
Useful for transporting other herbs.
Bindweed
Arrow-head shaped leaves with pale white or pink trumpet shaped flowers.
All regions
All seasons except Winter
Fastens sticks to broken limbs to splint them or cobwebs to a wound to help with bleeding.
Blackberry Leaves
Prickly leaves from the blackberry bush.
All regions
All seasons except Winter
When applied in a poultice, they ease the swelling of bee stings.
Borage
It is easily distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves.
Forest
All seasons except Winter
When the leaves are eaten by nursing bearers, it helps more and better milk.
Reduces fever.
When eaten, calms down very severe respiratory infections when mixed with coltsfoot and tansy.
Broom
Shrubs with small leaves and small yellow flowers.
Forest
All seasons except Winter
When applied in a poultice, it quickens healing of broken limbs and wounds.
Burdock
Tall-stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves.
Plains
All seasons except Winter
When applied in a poultice, it lessens the pain of, heals, and prevents infection of animal bites.
Burnet
Has oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges. Stems grow 50-200cm tall, with large clusters of small flower buds on top.
Plains
All seasons except Winter
Keeps strength up when eaten. (Traveling Herb)
Stops minor bleeding when applied in a poultice.
Catchweed
A plant with fuzzy green balls on long stems.
Forest (edge) and Village
All seasons except Winter
When placed on a pelt over a poultice, it prevents the poultice from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.
Catmint/nip
A leafy plant with a strong smell.
Village
Any season except Winter
Attracts cats.
Deters mosquitos and flies.
When eaten, it may help respiratory infections.
Helps with chills when eaten with a recipe of lavender and feverfew.
RREU)) Can be placed on a corpse to repel insects and smell nice.
Celandine
Yellow flower with four petals.
Forest and near rivers.
All seasons except Winter
Juice is trickled into the eye to sooth damaged eyes.
Chamomile
A small white flower with a large, yellow center.
Village
Keeps one's strength up when eaten. (Traveling Herb)
Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind.
Chervil
A sweet-smelling plant with large, leafy, fern-like leaves, small white flowers, and knobby brown roots.
Cliffs
When used in a poultice, treats infected wounds.
When the roots are chewed to extract the juice, soothes bellyache, and lessens the pain of a bearing.
Chickweed
Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
Where the forest meets the river.
Eaten to soothe respiratory infections when catmint is not readily available.
Cob Nut
Cobwebs
Spiderwebs
All regions
Bandage padding to stop/slow bleeding.
Binding broken bones.
Coltsfoot
A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions.
Rivers and Marsh
Eaten to sooth minor respiratory infections. Calms down very severe resperatory infections when mixed with borage and tansy.
When used in a poultice, it can sooth cracked or sore pads or nose.
Comfrey
It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots. Tangy smell.
Where the plains meet the river.
When the roots are used in a poultice, it helps heal and soothe broken bones (often mixed with stinging nettle), wounds, broken claws, itching, burns, and inflammation on stiff joints.
When the roots are lined in bedding, it eases stiffness.
Daisy
Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves with white flowers with yellow centers.
All regions
When used in a poultice, the leaves ease the pain of aching joints.
Keeps one's strength up. (Traveling Herb)
Dandelion
Common, yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems. After flowering is finished, the flower transforms a sphere made out of hundreds of smaller white florets with seed heads at the bottom that connect to the flower head.
All regions
White liquid found in the stem soothes and heals bee stings.
Leaves can be chewed to act as a painkiller.
Dock
Common, large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste.
Forest edge
When used in a poultice, the leaves soothe scratches (stings when applied) and sore pads.
When lined in bedding, eases the pain of wounds.
Fennel
Thin, spiky leaves.
Dry soils near riverbanks
Juice from the stalks squeezed into a patient's mouth to ease pelvic pain. (Useful during bearing)
Feverfew
Small bush with flowers resembling daisies. Has a sharp tangy smell and small soft leaves.
River and Marsh
When eaten, regulates body temperature for fever or chills, soothes aches and pains, useful for headaches.
Helps with chills when eaten with a recipe of catmint and lavender.
Garlic
Strong-smelling shrub.
Forest
Rolling in it can disguise one's scent.
Placing the stalks on a wound can prevent infection, especially from animal bites.
Goatweed
Plants with ovate leaves
River
Eaten daily to calm the mind of anxiety and grief.
Goldenrod
A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
Plains
When used in a poultice, heals wounds.
Hawkweed
Small green plant with yellow and orange flowers.
Plains
Eaten to soothe respiratory infections when catmint or chickweed is not readily available.
Heather
Bell-shaped magenta flowers.
Forest edge and Plains
Nectar extracted from flowers and combined with herbal mixtures to sweeten them and make them easier to swallow.
Honey
Sweet golden liquid made by bees and collected from their hives.
Forest
Eaten to soothe infection, sore or smoke-damaged throats, coughing, gives energy, and helps to swallow and sweetens other mixtures.
Horsetail
A tall, bristly-stemmed plant, referred to with fleshy stalks.
Marshes
When used in a poultice, treats infections and stops bleeding.
Ivy
Vine that climbs on rocks and human buildings.
Occasionally grows on rocks and dens.
Leaves can be used to store things in the ground and keep them clean by lining storage compartments with the ivy and wrapping objects in them.
Juniper
Dark leaved, spiky green bush with purple-blue berries.
All regions except river and marsh.
Berries eaten to soothe bellyache, give strength, help troubled breathing, and calm.
Mixed with Ragwort leaves in a poultice can help aching joints.
Lamb's Ear
Soft, fuzzy green plant.
Mountains
Gives strength.
Lavender
A small purple flowering plant.
Village, Plains
When placed under one's nose to be inhaled constantly, cures fever and chills.
Helps with chills when eaten with a recipe of catmint and feverfew.
Rubbed/Placed on a pelt to hide the scent of death.
Lungwort
An herb with dark green leaves speckled with gray.
Plains
Only cure for a certain (very severe) form of resperatory infection.
Mallow
Flowering shrub with large fuzzy three-nubbed leaves and a sweet rose scent.
Shore
Eaten to soothe bellyache
Marigold
A low-growing flower; yellow to bright orange.
River
When leaves or petals are used in a poultice or juice extracted from the stem, stops infection, bleeding, and inflammation of stiff joints.
Mint
Downy, serrated leaves ranging from green to purple and yellow in color. Flowers are small and white or purple in color.
Village and Forest
Rubbed on a pelt to hide the scent of death.
Oak
Large tree with round ruffled leaves that grows acorns.
Forest
Collected in Fall and dried the leaves are used in a thick poultice and spread on a wound to prevent infection.
Parsley
A long-stemmed plant with ragged-edged crinkly leaves, Sharp scent, tastes cold and fresh, tastes the same fresh or dried.
Forest edge and Village
Lessens or stops milk production when eaten by Bearers if her pups die, don't need milk anymore, or the Bearer is producing too much milk.
Eaten to help with bellyache.
Poppy
Red flower with tiny, round black seeds that are shaken out of a dried flowerhead.
Forest
Seeds are eaten to help one sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Do not give to nursing bearers.
Ragwort
Tall shrub with yellow flowers. Tastes foul.
All regions
In a poultice, the leaves with juniper berries, can help aching joints, and keep's one's strength up.
Ragweed
Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern.
Mountains
Gives one extra strength and energy.
Raspberry
Leaves soft to the touch, but with jagged edges. Sweet red fruit.
Forest
Eaten, the leaves ease pain and lessen bleeding during bearing.
Rosemary
Tall with needle-like leaves and purple flowers.
Forest
Placed or rubbed on a pelt to hide the scent of death.
Rush
It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks.
Marsh
Binds broken bones.
Snakeroot
Broad leafed plant with white flowers.
All regions
The single best remedy for extracting poison, especially in snakebites. Placed on the wound.
Sorrel
Small plant.
Village
Eaten as a traveling herb.
Builds up appetite.
Twigs
Twigs grow on trees. (Wow!)
Forest
When in pain, one can bite on a large stick to distract themselves, such as during bearing.
Splints broken limbs.
Stinging Nettle
Bushy plant with green, spiny seeds.
Forest
When eaten, the seeds induce vomiting in canidae who may have ingested poison.
When used in a poultice, brings down swelling, or, when mixed with comfrey, helps to heal broken bones.
Chewing the stems helps cure infection.
Sweet-Sedge
Thick green stem with long buds at the top.
River, grows all year long.
Swallowing the sap can bring down infection.
Tansy
Has round, yellow leaves, and has a very sweet and strong scent, making it good for disguising one's scent.
Forest, Village
Consumed in small doses, can cure wounds, poisons, soothes throats, helps with fever, and prevents respiratory infection.
Tormentil
It has a strong, aromatic scent to it and a sharp taste, and small yellow flowers.
All regions.
When used in a poultice, the root is good for healing any wounds or extracting poisons.
Thyme
Small, delicate, thick, sticky leaves with a fresh tang.
Plains and Village
Chewing on the leaves can calm nervousness, anxiety, and shock.
Watermint
A green, leafy plant with lavender flowers.
River and Marsh
Chewed carefully and then eaten to ease a bellyache.
Hides the scent of death
Willow
Droopy-looking tree.
Village, River, Marsh
Chewing the bark can ease pain.
Leaves can be eaten to stop vomiting.
Wintergreen
Red berries and rounded leaves.
Mountains and Forest
When used in a poultice, it treats wounds and some poisons.
Yarrow
Flowering plant.
Forest, Cliff.
Ingesting the leaves induces vomiting.
When used in a poultice, extracts poison from wounds and soften and heals cracked pads.
POISONS
A healer should know their diagnosis. And who knows? Poisons are useful for other things too.
Most cause bellyache in very small amounts, vomiting in larger amounts, uncontiousness in severe amounts, and death in fatal amounts.
In order of deadlines from least to most.
Holly
Plant with spiny leaves that produces red berries with no medicinal value.
Forest
Holly berries, while not as dangerous as Yew, are still a danger to young canidae.
Deadly Nightshade
A small shrub with faintly scented, bell-shaped flowers that are purple tinged with green in colour. Berries are shiny and black when ripe.
Marsh and River
Foxglove
Pink bell-shaped flower with tiny black seeds, very similar to poppy seeds.
All regions
In very small doses, the seeds can be used to treat heart problems.
The seeds can also easily cause heart failure and paralysis.
Water Hemlock
Green or white flowers with petals in umbrella-shaped clusters.
Marsh
Causes writhing, pain, and foaming at the mouth up until death. Trainees can mistake it for parsley surprisingly easily.
Yew
Red berries from the dark-leaved, evergreen yew bush. The seeds stick out the bottom of the berry.
Forest
A few berries kills in mere minutes. Most powerful poison.
Collecting herbs late in the day is best, since they won't rot in store as quickly when the dew has burned off.
Most herbs grow best in the Spring, so get plenty of stock then, and once again in the fall get as many herbs as you can before winter sets in.
Traveling Herbs are given to Canidae for long journeys and general times when their strength and stamina must be kept high, like long battles. Most also keep one from going hungry quickly, unless otherwise specified. The basic recipe is sorrel, daisy, chamomile, and burnet, but any herbs marked to keep one's strength up may also be useful.
Not all herbs are crucial for constant storage. For example, mountainous herbs are very far from Tanisawa and would only be used if one was already in that area.