River Dancers

Alder Bark

Description: Bark of the alder tree.

Location: Grows mainly in boggy, wet terrain.

Usage: For tooth pain.

Effect: Eases toothaches.

Beech Leaves

Description: Large, broad leaves that can be serrated, entire or sparsely toothed.

Location: Grows in almost any soil that is not waterlogged.

Usage: for carrying other herbs.

Effect: None.

Bindweed

Description: Arrow-head shaped leaves with pale white or pink trumpet shaped flowers.

Location: Grows almost anywhere.

Usage: Fastens sticks to broken legs to keep them in place.

Effect: Unknown.

Blackberry Leaves

Description: Leaves from the prickly blackberry bush.

Location: Almost anywhere; they are very hardy plants.

Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp.

Effect: Eases the swelling of bee stings.

Borage Leaves

Description: It is easily distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves.

Location: Grows best in forests.

Usage: It is chewed and eaten by nursing mothers.

Effect: It produces more and better milk. It also brings down fevers.

Broom

Description: Shrubs with small leaves and small yellow flowers.

Location: In the forest.

Usage: It is used to make poultices for broken legs and wounds.

Effect: Unknown

Burdock Root

Description: Tall-stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves.

Location: Best in dry areas.

Usage: The root is dug up, the soil is washed off, and then it is chewed into a pulp.

Effect: Lessens and heals the pain of infected rat bites; used to prevent infection of rat bites.

Burnet

Description: Has oval-shaped leaves with serrated edges. Stems grow 50-200cm tall, with large clusters of small flower buds on top.

Location: Usually found in dry, grassy meadows.

Usage: A traveling herb.

Effect: Is said to help stop minor bleeding on humans. Keeps a cat's strength up.

Catchweed

Description: A plant with fuzzy green balls on long stems.

Location: It is common in hedges and other low, shrubby vegetation.

Usage: The burrs are put on the pelt where poultices are.

Effect: Stops poultices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.

Celandine

Description: Yellow flower with four petals.

Location: In the forest.

Usage: Juice is trickled into the eye.

Effect: Soothes damaged eyes.

Chamomile

Description: A small, white flower with a large, yellow center.

Location: In the forest.

Usage: Eaten.

Effect: Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind. Also given to traveling cats for strength.

Chervil

Description: A sweet-smelling plant with large, leafy, fern-like leaves and small white flowers. The roots are described as being knobby and brown.

Location: In the Forest Territories, it was found at Snakerocks.

Usage: Chewed to extract the juice of the leaves or the root.

Effect: For infected wounds and bellyache, respectively. Can also be used for canine giving birth.

Chickweed

Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.

Location: In the Forest Territories, it grew near Sunningrocks.

Usage: Eaten.

Effect: Treats greencough.

Cob Nuts

Description: A smooth brown nut with a hard outside shell. A type of hazelnut.

Location: In, under or near hazel trees that grow in sunny spots.

Usage: Made into ointments.

Effect: Unknown

Cobwebs

Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very common.

Location: All around the forest.

Usage: Press over wound.

Effect: To soak up and stop (or slow) the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.

Coltsfoot

Description: A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions. Grows best in newleaf.

Location: In the Forest.

Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp.

Effect: Eases breathing, as well as cracked or sore pads.

Comfrey Root

Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots. Tangy smell.

Location: Damp, grassy places.

Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultice.

Effect: Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds. Also used for wrenched claws. Can be used for itching or for inflammation on stiff joints.

Daisy Leaf

Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves.

Location: Almost everywhere.

Usage: Chewed into a paste.

Effect: Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a travelling herb.

Dandelion

Description: 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.

Location: Almost everywhere.

Usage: The white liquid is thought to be applied to bee stings. Leaves can be chewed.

Effect: Thought to soothe and heal bee stings. Its leaves can also be chewed to act like a painkiller.

Dock

Description: Common, large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste.

Location: Doesn't grow well in mountains, best in leafy areas.

Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches. Similar to sorrel.

Effect: Soothes scratches, though can sting when being applied. Soothes sore pads.

Fennel

Description: Thin, spiky leaves.

Location: Found in numerous places, especially on dry soils near the sea/coast and on riverbanks.

Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth.

Effect: Helps pain in the hips.

Feverfew

Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies. Has a sharp tangy smell and small soft leaves.

Location: Grows best along the water.

Usage: Eaten.

Effect: Reduces body temperature for canines with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, especially good for headaches.

Goldenrod

Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.

Location: In the forest.

Usage: Chewed into a poultice.

Effect: Good for healing wounds.

Heather Nectar

Description: Nectar found in bell-shaped flowers.

Location: Best grown in shady areas.

Usage: Included in herbal mixtures.

Effect: Makes swallowing easier and sweetens mixtures.

Honey

Description: A sweet, golden-coloured liquid made by bees.

Location: In honeycombs or bees nests up in trees.

Usage: Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it.

Effect: Soothes infections, smoke-damaged or sore throats, helps canines swallow other concoctions, helps soothe coughing, and gives energy.

Horsetail

Description: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant, referred to with fleshy stalks.

Location: Any marshy area.

Usage: Chewed to a poultice, and applied to wounds.

Effect: Treats infections and stops bleeding.

Ivy Leaf

Description: Leaves from the ivy vine.

Location: In the Forest.

Usage: to store other herbs.

Effect: None.

Juniper Berries

Description: Purple-blue berries from the dark green, spiky-leaved juniper bush.

Location: Grows in places that are not wet.

Usage: Chewed and eaten.

Effect: Soothes bellyaches, gives strength, and helps troubled breathing. It is also used to help calm canines.

Lamb's Ear

Description: Soft, fuzzy green plant.

Location: Commonly found in the mountains.

Usage: Unknown

Effect: Gives a canine strength.

Lavender

Description: A small purple flowering plant.

Location: Can be found in sunny spots with sandy or gravelly soil.

Usage: Placed under a canins nose and is to be inhaled constantly. Or rubbed/placed on an animals body to hide the scent of death.

Effect: Cures fever and chills. Also a herb used to hide the scent of death.

Mallow Leaves

Description: Large fuzzy three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub; sweet rose scent.

Location: Grows best near shore, but best collected at sunhigh, when they are dry.

Usage: Eaten.

Effect: Soothes bellyache.

Marigold

Description: A low-growing flower; yellow to bright orange.

Location: Near water.

Usage: Petals or leaves chewed in a poultice. Juice can be used as well.

Effect: Stops infection. Stops bleeding. Used for inflammation of stiff joints.

Mint

Description: Downy, serrated leaves ranging from green to purple and yellow in color. Flowers are small and white or purple in color.

Location: In the Forest.

Usage: Rubbed on a dead body.

Effect: Hides the scent of death.

Dried Oak Leaf

Description: Round, cartoon-like ruffled leaves.

Location: All over the forest floor and collected in leaf-fall.

Usage: The dried leaves are to be stored in a dry location until the time of usage, when they are chewed into a thick poultice and spread on a wound.

Effect: Stops infection from setting in.

Parsley

Description: A long-stemmed plant with ragged-edged crinkly leaves, Sharp scent, tastes cold and fresh, tastes the same fresh or dried.

Location: Grows best in moist, well drained soil, with full sun.

Usage: Eaten.

Effect: Stops a mother from producing milk if her pupps die, don't need milk anymore, or are producing too much milk.Also used to cure bellyache.

Poppy Seeds

Description: Tiny, round black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead.

Location: All over forest.

Usage: Chewed on.

Effect: They can help a canine sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing mothers.

Ragwort Leaves

Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers. Tastes foul to canines.

Location: Almost everywhere, especially in cool areas with high rainfall.

Usage: Crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints.

Effect: Treats aching joints and keeps a canine’s strength up.

Ragweed

Description: Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern.

Location: Thought to be commonly found in the mountains.

Usage: Thought to give canines extra strength.

Effect: Like lamb's ear, ragweed gives a canine extra strength and energy.

Raspberry Leaves

Description: Soft to the touch, but with jagged edges.

Location: Found on raspberry bushes.

Usage: It could be a painkiller, or help stop bleeding during birth.

Effect: Could possibly ease pain, or stop bleeding.

Rosemary

Description: Tall with needle-like leaves and purple flowers.

Location: In the forest.

Usage: Put on the pelt of a dead canine to prepare for burial.

Effect: Hides the scent of death.

Rush

Description: It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks.

Location: Often grows in infertile soils in a wide range of moisture conditions.

Usage: Used to bind broken bones.

Effect: Helps hold a broken limb in place,

Snakeroot

Description: The best remedy for poison, especially snake bites.

Location: Grows mainly in warmer areas, however some grow in cooler areas.

Usage: Thought to be applied to wounds.

Effect: Thought to heal poison.

Sorrel

Description: Similar to dock, sorrel is used as a traveling herb.

Location: In the Forest.

Usage: Eaten.

Effect: Traveling herb.

Stick

Description: Thin wooden protrusions that grow on and fall from trees.

Location: Can be found anywhere there are trees.

Usage: Canines in pain bite it when other medicine is either unavailable or not recommended. Also used to help broken legs heal.

Effect: Distracts canines from pain. Recommended for mothers giving birth.

Stinging Nettle

Description: It has green, spiny seeds.

Location: All over the forest.

Usage: The seeds are eaten by a canine who's swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound.

Effect: Induces vomiting, or brings down swelling, respectively. Can be mixed with comfrey to help heal broken bones. Helps with wounds.

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