Post by silentthought on May 31, 2011 15:30:59 GMT -5
SilentThought
Previous Names: Dreadkit, Dreadpaw, Silentpaw
Current Name: SilentThought
Gender: Female
Clan: Dawnclan
Position: Medicine Cat
Apprentice: HopePaw & BreezePaw
Age: 17 moons
Heritage: Foxclan
Mentor: RaspberryPelt [Female]
Parents: QuickTemper[Father] & ClearSight[Mother]
Siblings: SimpleMemory
Past Love Interests: BlizzardClaw[Rainclan], Sunpelt[Dawnclan]
Love Interests: Snowpelt[Dawnclan]
Mate: None
Kits: None
Previous Names: Dreadkit, Dreadpaw, Silentpaw
Current Name: SilentThought
Gender: Female
Clan: Dawnclan
Position: Medicine Cat
Apprentice: HopePaw & BreezePaw
Age: 17 moons
Heritage: Foxclan
Mentor: RaspberryPelt [Female]
Parents: QuickTemper[Father] & ClearSight[Mother]
Siblings: SimpleMemory
Past Love Interests: BlizzardClaw[Rainclan], Sunpelt[Dawnclan]
Love Interests: Snowpelt[Dawnclan]
Mate: None
Kits: None
Short History:
The cliche story of a misunderstood being. From the day she was born, this tiny little she-cat was prophised to bring young whom would cause destruction to a clan. Foxclan, the first clan she had been raised in, took action of this rather quickly. First naming her Dreadkit, SilentThought lived a life of being cooped up in a den by herself and only allowed to let out once there were none of the other kits about to form any relations with. The little kit thought nothing of it. She had taken the pleasure of being set aside alone. Once she was allowed to wander out of the nursery anytime she had wanted, the kits were already taught to stay clear of her.
For a few moons in Foxclan she stood alone and just a month after given her apprentice name, she was abandoned. Her sister had tricked her into wandering into the forest, leaving her stranded and alone in a land she wasn't allowed to grow used to. [working]
SilentThought's Current Knowlege of Herbs
Alder Bark
Description: Bark of the alder tree.
Location: Unknown.
Usage: For tooth pain
Effect: Eases toothaches
Blackberry Leaves
Blackberry Leaves
Description: Leaves from the prickly blackberry bush.
Location: Unknown
Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Eases the swelling of beestings.
Borage Leaves
Borage Leaves
Description: It is easily distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves.
Location: Unknown
Usage: It is chewed and eaten by nursing queens.
Effect: It produces more, better milk. It also brings down fevers.
Burdock Root
Burdock Root
Description: Tall-stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves.
Location: Unknown
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.
Burnet
Burnet
Description: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Usage: A travelling herb
Effect: Unknown
Catmint/Catnip
Catmint
Description: A leafy and delicious-smelling plant.
Location: Rarely found in the wild; mostly in Twoleg gardens.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Best remedy for the deadly greencough, which kits and elders usually catch in the season of leaf-bare.
Also used for whitecough.
Celandine
Celandine
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Soothes damaged eyes.
Chamomile
Chamomile
Description: A small, white flower with a large, yellow center
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind. Also given to travelling cats for strength.
Chervil
Chervil
Description: A sweet-smelling plant with large, leafy, fern-like leaves and small white flowers.
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.
Chickweed
Chickweed
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
Location: In the Forest Territories, it grew near Sunningrocks.
Usage: To treat greencough, though catmint is often preferred.
Effect: Unknown
Cobwebs
Cobwebs
Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very common.
Location: All around the forest
Usage: Apply over wound.
Effect: To soak up and stop (or slow) the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.
Coltsfoot
Coltsfoot
Description: A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling to dandelions.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed into a pulp
Effect: Eases breathing or kitten-cough, as well as cracked or sore pads.
Comfrey Root
Comfrey Root
Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultice
Effect: Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds.
Daisy Leaf
Daisy Leaf
Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed into a paste
Effect: Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a travelling herb.[4]
Dandelion
Dandelion
Description: Common yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems.
Location: Unknown
Usage: The white liquid is applied to bee stings
Effect: Soothes and heals bee stings. Its roots can also be chewed to act like a painkiller.[source?]
Dock
Dock
Description: Common, large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches. Similar to sorrel.
Effect: Soothes scratches, though can sting when being applied.[source?]
Feverfew
Feverfew
Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Reduces body temperature for cats with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, such as headaches.[8]
Goldenrod
Goldenrod
Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed into a poultice.[9]
Effect: Good for healing wounds.[9]
Heather Flower
Heather Flower
Description: Small, bell-shaped flowers.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Included in herbal mixtures.
Effect: Makes swallowing easier.[10]
Honey
Honey
Description: A tasteless,[11] golden-coloured liquid made by bees.
Location: In honeycombs or bees nests up in trees.
Usage: Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it.[12]
Effect: Soothes infections,[source?] smoke-damaged[12] or sore throats, and helps cats swallow other concoctions.[source?]
Horsetail
Horsetail
Description: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant
Location: Any marshy area.
Usage: Chewed to a poultice, and applied to wounds[8]
Effect: Treats infections[8]
Juniper Berries
Juniper Berries
Description: Purply-blue berries from the dark green, spiky-leaved juniper bush.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Soothes bellyaches[14], gives strength, and helps troubled breathing.[15] It is also used to help calm cats.[16]
Lamb's Ear
Lamb's Ear
Description: Soft, fuzzy green plant.
Location: Commonly found in the mountains[source?]
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Gives a cat strength.[source?]
This herb was discovered first by the Tribe cats, and then when the Clans were resting in their territory, Stoneteller told Leafpaw about this herb.
Lavender
Lavender
Description: A small, purple, flowering plant.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Cures fever and chills.[17]
Mallow Leaves
Mallow Leaves
Description: Three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub.
Location: Unknown, but best collected at sunhigh, when they are dry.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Soothes bellyache.[source?]
Marigold
Marigold
Description: A low-growing flower, yellow to bright orange
Location: Unknown
Usage: Petals or leaves chewed in a poultice[8]
Effect: Stops infection.[18]
Mouse Bile
Extracted from the mouse. The only remedy for ticks, mouse bile is foul smelling, and is stored in moss. W
hen dabbed on a tick, the tick falls off. Smell can be masked by wild garlic, or by washing paws in running water.
If accidentally swallowed, can leave a horrible taste in mouth for days. Medicine cats always have to remember to
wash their paws in a body of water, such as a creek or stream, after using mouse bile.[8]
Oak Leaf
Dried Oak Leaf
Description: Round, cartoony ruffled leaves.
Location: Unknown, but collected in leaf-fall.[8]
Usage: Unknown, but stored in a dry place.[8]
Effect: Stops infection from setting in.[8]
Parsley
Parsley
Description: A long-stemmed plant with ragged-edged leaves.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Stops a queen from producing milk if her kits die, don't need milk anymore, or are producing too much milk.[19]
Poppy Seeds
Poppy Seeds
Description: Small black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Eaten
Effect: They can put a cat to sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain.[9]Not recommended for nursing queens.
Ragwort Leaves
Ragwort Leaves
Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Crushed and mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints.
Effect: Treats aching joints and keeps a cat's strength up
It was used in The Fourth Apprentice when Jayfeather gave it to the elders to help them during the drought.[20]
Ragweed
Ragweed
Description: Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern.
Location: Commonly found in the mountains
Usage: Used to give cats extra strength
Effect: Like lamb's ear, ragweed gives a cat extra strength and energy
Ragweed was first discovered by the Tribe cats, later being told to Leafpool by Stoneteller when the Clans were resting in their territory.
Raspberry Leaves
Raspberry Leaves
Description: An herb used in kittings, Featherwhisker used it at Leopardfoot's kitting in Bluestar's Prophecy.
Location: Unknown
Usage: It could be a painkiller, or to help stop bleeding during the kitting
Effect: Could possibly ease pain, or to stop the bleeding
Rush
Rush
Description: It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks
Location: Unknown
Usage: Used to bind broken bones
Effect: Unknown
Snakeroot
Snakeroot
Description: The best remedy for poison, especially snake bites
Location: Unknown
Usage: Apply to wound
Effect: Heals poison
Stinging Nettle
Stinging Nettle
Description: It has green, spiny seeds.
Location: Unknown
Usage: The seeds are eaten by a cat who's swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound.[21]
Effect: Induces vomiting, or brings down swelling, respectively.[21]
Tansy
Tansy
Description: The tansy plant has round, yellow leaves, and has a very sweet and strong scent, making it good for disguising a cat's scent
Location: Unknown
Usage: To be consumed, but only in small doses.[21]
Effect: Cures coughs
Tormentil
Tormentil
Description: It has a strong, romantic scent to it and a sharp taste
Location: Unknown
Usage: Used to treat all wounds and expelling poison
Effect: Its root is good for treating all wounds annd extracting poison
It's used in the Tribe of Rushing Water, and is mentioned by Stoneteller to Jaypaw when he is taking care of Gray.
Thyme
Thyme
Description: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Usage: Can be eaten
Effect: Calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats who are in shock.[21]
Traveling Herbs
Traveling Herbs consists of sorrel, daisy, chamomile and burnet.[4]
Watermint
Watermint
Description: A green, leafy plant
Location: Usually found in streams or damp earth
Usage: It is usually chewed into a pulp, and then eaten
Effect: Eases the suffering that originates from a bellyache
Wild Garlic
Wild Garlic
Description: Due to its strong smell, it is good for hiding the scent of a certain Clan, and disguising cats on raids.
Location: Unknown
Usage: One must roll in it.
Effect: Prevents infection, especially rat bites.
Willow Bark
Willow Bark
Description: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Eases pain
Wintergreen
Wintergreen
Description: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown (possibly to treat wounds)
Effect: Unknown
Stoneteller mentioned to Jaypaw while treating Gray's wound, wondering if the Clans used it.
Yarrow
Yarrow
Description: A flowering plant
Location: Snakerocks[22]
Usage: Its leaves are chewed into a poultice.
Effect: Extracts poison from wounds, but will also make a cat vomit. The ointment will soften and help heal cracked pads.
PoisonsNightshade
Nightshade
Description: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Poisonous
Deathberries
Description: Red berries from the dark-leaved, poisonous yew bush.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Sometimes used to murder other cats.
Effect: Kills a cat within minutes when consumed.
Holly Berries
Holly Berries
Description: Red berries from the spiky, emerald-leaved holly bush.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Unknown
Holly berries, while not as dangerous as deathberries, but are still a danger to kits.
Foxglove Seeds
Foxglove Seeds
Description: Tiny, black seeds from the bell-shaped flower of the foxglove plant.
Location: Unknown
Usage: They are used to treat the heart
Effect: They can easily cause paralysis and heart failure
Alder Bark
Description: Bark of the alder tree.
Location: Unknown.
Usage: For tooth pain
Effect: Eases toothaches
Blackberry Leaves
Blackberry Leaves
Description: Leaves from the prickly blackberry bush.
Location: Unknown
Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp.
Effect: Eases the swelling of beestings.
Borage Leaves
Borage Leaves
Description: It is easily distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves.
Location: Unknown
Usage: It is chewed and eaten by nursing queens.
Effect: It produces more, better milk. It also brings down fevers.
Burdock Root
Burdock Root
Description: Tall-stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves.
Location: Unknown
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.
Burnet
Burnet
Description: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Usage: A travelling herb
Effect: Unknown
Catmint/Catnip
Catmint
Description: A leafy and delicious-smelling plant.
Location: Rarely found in the wild; mostly in Twoleg gardens.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Best remedy for the deadly greencough, which kits and elders usually catch in the season of leaf-bare.
Also used for whitecough.
Celandine
Celandine
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Soothes damaged eyes.
Chamomile
Chamomile
Description: A small, white flower with a large, yellow center
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind. Also given to travelling cats for strength.
Chervil
Chervil
Description: A sweet-smelling plant with large, leafy, fern-like leaves and small white flowers.
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.
Chickweed
Chickweed
Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves.
Location: In the Forest Territories, it grew near Sunningrocks.
Usage: To treat greencough, though catmint is often preferred.
Effect: Unknown
Cobwebs
Cobwebs
Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Very common.
Location: All around the forest
Usage: Apply over wound.
Effect: To soak up and stop (or slow) the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones.
Coltsfoot
Coltsfoot
Description: A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling to dandelions.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed into a pulp
Effect: Eases breathing or kitten-cough, as well as cracked or sore pads.
Comfrey Root
Comfrey Root
Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultice
Effect: Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds.
Daisy Leaf
Daisy Leaf
Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed into a paste
Effect: Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a travelling herb.[4]
Dandelion
Dandelion
Description: Common yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems.
Location: Unknown
Usage: The white liquid is applied to bee stings
Effect: Soothes and heals bee stings. Its roots can also be chewed to act like a painkiller.[source?]
Dock
Dock
Description: Common, large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches. Similar to sorrel.
Effect: Soothes scratches, though can sting when being applied.[source?]
Feverfew
Feverfew
Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Reduces body temperature for cats with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, such as headaches.[8]
Goldenrod
Goldenrod
Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Chewed into a poultice.[9]
Effect: Good for healing wounds.[9]
Heather Flower
Heather Flower
Description: Small, bell-shaped flowers.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Included in herbal mixtures.
Effect: Makes swallowing easier.[10]
Honey
Honey
Description: A tasteless,[11] golden-coloured liquid made by bees.
Location: In honeycombs or bees nests up in trees.
Usage: Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it.[12]
Effect: Soothes infections,[source?] smoke-damaged[12] or sore throats, and helps cats swallow other concoctions.[source?]
Horsetail
Horsetail
Description: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant
Location: Any marshy area.
Usage: Chewed to a poultice, and applied to wounds[8]
Effect: Treats infections[8]
Juniper Berries
Juniper Berries
Description: Purply-blue berries from the dark green, spiky-leaved juniper bush.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Soothes bellyaches[14], gives strength, and helps troubled breathing.[15] It is also used to help calm cats.[16]
Lamb's Ear
Lamb's Ear
Description: Soft, fuzzy green plant.
Location: Commonly found in the mountains[source?]
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Gives a cat strength.[source?]
This herb was discovered first by the Tribe cats, and then when the Clans were resting in their territory, Stoneteller told Leafpaw about this herb.
Lavender
Lavender
Description: A small, purple, flowering plant.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Cures fever and chills.[17]
Mallow Leaves
Mallow Leaves
Description: Three-nubbed leaves from a flowering shrub.
Location: Unknown, but best collected at sunhigh, when they are dry.
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Soothes bellyache.[source?]
Marigold
Marigold
Description: A low-growing flower, yellow to bright orange
Location: Unknown
Usage: Petals or leaves chewed in a poultice[8]
Effect: Stops infection.[18]
Mouse Bile
Extracted from the mouse. The only remedy for ticks, mouse bile is foul smelling, and is stored in moss. W
hen dabbed on a tick, the tick falls off. Smell can be masked by wild garlic, or by washing paws in running water.
If accidentally swallowed, can leave a horrible taste in mouth for days. Medicine cats always have to remember to
wash their paws in a body of water, such as a creek or stream, after using mouse bile.[8]
Oak Leaf
Dried Oak Leaf
Description: Round, cartoony ruffled leaves.
Location: Unknown, but collected in leaf-fall.[8]
Usage: Unknown, but stored in a dry place.[8]
Effect: Stops infection from setting in.[8]
Parsley
Parsley
Description: A long-stemmed plant with ragged-edged leaves.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Eaten
Effect: Stops a queen from producing milk if her kits die, don't need milk anymore, or are producing too much milk.[19]
Poppy Seeds
Poppy Seeds
Description: Small black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Eaten
Effect: They can put a cat to sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain.[9]Not recommended for nursing queens.
Ragwort Leaves
Ragwort Leaves
Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Crushed and mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints.
Effect: Treats aching joints and keeps a cat's strength up
It was used in The Fourth Apprentice when Jayfeather gave it to the elders to help them during the drought.[20]
Ragweed
Ragweed
Description: Ragged-leaved plant resembling a fern.
Location: Commonly found in the mountains
Usage: Used to give cats extra strength
Effect: Like lamb's ear, ragweed gives a cat extra strength and energy
Ragweed was first discovered by the Tribe cats, later being told to Leafpool by Stoneteller when the Clans were resting in their territory.
Raspberry Leaves
Raspberry Leaves
Description: An herb used in kittings, Featherwhisker used it at Leopardfoot's kitting in Bluestar's Prophecy.
Location: Unknown
Usage: It could be a painkiller, or to help stop bleeding during the kitting
Effect: Could possibly ease pain, or to stop the bleeding
Rush
Rush
Description: It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks
Location: Unknown
Usage: Used to bind broken bones
Effect: Unknown
Snakeroot
Snakeroot
Description: The best remedy for poison, especially snake bites
Location: Unknown
Usage: Apply to wound
Effect: Heals poison
Stinging Nettle
Stinging Nettle
Description: It has green, spiny seeds.
Location: Unknown
Usage: The seeds are eaten by a cat who's swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound.[21]
Effect: Induces vomiting, or brings down swelling, respectively.[21]
Tansy
Tansy
Description: The tansy plant has round, yellow leaves, and has a very sweet and strong scent, making it good for disguising a cat's scent
Location: Unknown
Usage: To be consumed, but only in small doses.[21]
Effect: Cures coughs
Tormentil
Tormentil
Description: It has a strong, romantic scent to it and a sharp taste
Location: Unknown
Usage: Used to treat all wounds and expelling poison
Effect: Its root is good for treating all wounds annd extracting poison
It's used in the Tribe of Rushing Water, and is mentioned by Stoneteller to Jaypaw when he is taking care of Gray.
Thyme
Thyme
Description: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Usage: Can be eaten
Effect: Calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats who are in shock.[21]
Traveling Herbs
Traveling Herbs consists of sorrel, daisy, chamomile and burnet.[4]
Watermint
Watermint
Description: A green, leafy plant
Location: Usually found in streams or damp earth
Usage: It is usually chewed into a pulp, and then eaten
Effect: Eases the suffering that originates from a bellyache
Wild Garlic
Wild Garlic
Description: Due to its strong smell, it is good for hiding the scent of a certain Clan, and disguising cats on raids.
Location: Unknown
Usage: One must roll in it.
Effect: Prevents infection, especially rat bites.
Willow Bark
Willow Bark
Description: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Eases pain
Wintergreen
Wintergreen
Description: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown (possibly to treat wounds)
Effect: Unknown
Stoneteller mentioned to Jaypaw while treating Gray's wound, wondering if the Clans used it.
Yarrow
Yarrow
Description: A flowering plant
Location: Snakerocks[22]
Usage: Its leaves are chewed into a poultice.
Effect: Extracts poison from wounds, but will also make a cat vomit. The ointment will soften and help heal cracked pads.
PoisonsNightshade
Nightshade
Description: Unknown
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Poisonous
Deathberries
Description: Red berries from the dark-leaved, poisonous yew bush.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Sometimes used to murder other cats.
Effect: Kills a cat within minutes when consumed.
Holly Berries
Holly Berries
Description: Red berries from the spiky, emerald-leaved holly bush.
Location: Unknown
Usage: Unknown
Effect: Unknown
Holly berries, while not as dangerous as deathberries, but are still a danger to kits.
Foxglove Seeds
Foxglove Seeds
Description: Tiny, black seeds from the bell-shaped flower of the foxglove plant.
Location: Unknown
Usage: They are used to treat the heart
Effect: They can easily cause paralysis and heart failure
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