Herb Handbook [WIP]
Wingbeats has their very own Herb Handbook for the various fauna found throughout the world. Looking for a specific use? Use Ctrl + F to find an herb or keywords.
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This list is in alphabetical order and will provide name, description of appearance, taste, smell, effects, where to find it, and how to prepare it.
Agrimony
Description: Tall, slender stems adorned with spikes of small, yellow, or occasionally white, five-petaled flowers. You may find that it lacks any particularly noticeable smell. It has an astringent and mildly bitter taste.
Preparation: The roots, flower and leaves can be eaten by the patient or the leaves can be applied as an poultice to wounds.
Usages: The roots are eaten to treat diarrhea and fever. The flowers can be helpful at treating urinary tract infections.The leaves make an incredible poultice to help reduce bleeding. Additionally, the leaves can be eaten to reduce anxiety and stress, if it is mild.
Growth Information: It can be found growing in sunny meadows and along woodland edges. It blooms in late newleaf and early greenleaf.
Alder
Description: Dark gray bark, fissured. Younger trees can also have greenish bark. Branches can sometimes be sticky. Has a bitter taste. It typically has a mild woody or earthy scent, but this aroma is not very pronounced. The tree's male flowers are long and have a yellow-greenish color, while females are tiny and reddish. The flowers have a mild taste and fragrance.
Preparation: The bark is chewed and spit out by the patient. The male flower is eaten. The flowers can be made into a poultice.
Usages: Chewing the bark eases toothaches. The male flower can be consumed to ease constipation. The flowers can also be made into a poultice to relieve infection.
Growth Information: Found in woodland territory. It can typically be found year-round, though best harvested in early greenleaf or late leaf-fall due to low sap flow. The tree flowers in early newleaf.
Angelica
Description: Tall, fragrant herb with hollow stems, serrated leaves, and greenish-white flowers. Has a herbal, earthy, and slightly musky scent. Is described as offering a sweet, earthy flavor. Can look different based on the growth cycle, where in its first year it produces a rosette of large, deeply divided, and serrated leaves close to the ground. Biennial.
Preparation: The roots are mixed into a poultice and applied.
Usages: The poultice is rubbed into swollen joints and tissue to relieve swelling and pain. The potency of the poultice depends on the freshness of the root.
Growth Information: Thrives in moist lowlands. Often found in damp, cool, and shaded areas, such as meadows, stream banks, and forests. Flowers late newleaf to early greenleaf.
Barberry
Description: A thorny shrub whose height can reach up to eight feet. It has clusters of leaves that appear to have teeth on the edges. It produces yellow flowers that appear at the branch tips, turning scarlet as they develop. The berries are often slightly elongated and may resemble tiny, oblong tomatoes in shape. The berries have a tart and tangy flavor and the flowers hold no fragnance. The bark has an unpleasant taste.
Preparation: The bark is chewed and spit out by the patient. The berry can be eaten, and the leaves and flowers are made into a poultice and applied.
Usages: Extracting the juice of the bark relieves fever, helps sore throats and relieves trapped wind. Good for mouth sores. The berries have a similar effect, but more potent. The leaves and flowers can be made into a poultice and applied to wounds to mildly relieve infection.
Growth Information: Barberry shrubs are rarely found in woodlands, along forest edges, and in open clearings. They typically bloom in newleaf to early greenleaf. They produce berries late greenleaf to early leaf-fall.
Bearberry
Description: A short shrub with smooth, thick leaves that remain green year-round. It flowers small, tiny flowers that are pinkish-white with no fragrance near the top of the stem. The berries, which could be considered bland, are red with three seeds inside.
Preparation: The leaves are mixed into a poultice and applied. The berries can be eaten.
Usages: The leaves can be added into a poultice to inhibit light bleeding. The berries can be eaten to act as a mild pain killer.
Growth Information: Bearberry grows in cold regions with rocky soil and lots of sun. It flowers in newleaf and produces berries in greenleaf.
Beech
Description: Has broad, shiny leaves. Can have a variety of leaf colors, but typically are green, yellow, or golden, and can also be smaller or short. Can produce nuts with spiky husks. Leaves have a mild, slightly earthy, and fresh green aroma. Beech bark has a bitter and astringent flavor.
Preparation: The leaves are generally used as a wrap. The nuts are used whole, as bait. The bark is chewed and spit out by the patient.
Usages: Leaves are used as wraps as they have a cooling and binding effect - best used for swelling. Nuts are good for attracting prey. The bark can be used as an antacid and can also reduce fever. It can help suppress coughs. The bark can be used as a good alternative to alder bark for toothaches.
Growth Information: Found in woodland territory. Produces nuts late greenleaf to early leaf-fall. Best time to harvest bark is late newleaf to early greenleaf due to the high sap flow and active growth.
Bindweed
Description: Blue petals with white throat and yellow center. Typically blooms in warmer weather. Stems contain green leaves. Grows in long, thick tendrils. It doesn't have a particularly notable or pleasant smell, but when crushed it releases a faint, slightly vegetal or green odor.
Preparation: The tendrils are generally used as a wrap.
Usages: When used with a stick, it can be used to mend a broken leg and keep it in place thanks to the long tendrils.
Growth Information: Rarely found in the forest territories, and if found - most commonly near twolegs. This is an annual plant and only blooms late newleaf.
Blackberry
Description: Plant itself carries pinkish-white flowers, each flower has five petals and produces one fruit crop a year. Carries a sharp scent. Blackberry leaves have a mild, slightly earthy taste.The roots have a woody texture and tend to have a bitter, earthy flavor. The leaves are more potent when it is not in flower or fruiting.
Preparation: The leaves are mixed into a poultice and applied to the wound. The roots are eaten.
Usages: The leaf poultice is used to ease the pain of bee stings. The roots can be consumed as a mild treatment for diarrhea and can help oral issues - such as bleeding gums.
Growth Information: Found near forests, grows in sunny areas. The bushes bloom in late newleaf to early greenleaf, and produce berries from late greenleaf to early leaf-fall.
Borage
Description: Purplish blue, star-shaped flowers with soft and fuzzy dark green leaves. Has a distinguished smell.The best leaves are typically halfway up the stem, and has a zesty scent to them.The leaves are chewy and have a mild, cucumber-like flavor and are extremely bitter tasting.
Preparation: The leaves are chewed and eaten by the patient.
Usages: Upon being thoroughly chewed and eaten, it produces more milk for queens, brings down fevers, soothes bad bellies, and relieves asthmatic symptoms and tight chests.
Growth Information: Forestland and near streambeds territory. Particularly in sunny and well-drained locations. Typically blooms late newleaf to early greenleaf.
Broom
Description: A tall shrub with slender branches, small green leaves, and bright yellow flowers that can grow in bunches. The flowers typically have a faint, sweet fragrance that is mildly floral and pleasant. It produces small, brown seed pods that contain seeds. These pods can persist on the plant for some time.
Preparation: The leaves and flowers can be mixed into a poultice.
Usages: The juice from the leaves and flowers help mend broken legs and wounds by preventing infection. Can be toxic in large amounts if consumed during preparation and can provoke strong vomiting.
Growth Information: Grows near the thunderpath and within Windclan's camp. It likes to grow in sunny areas with poor soil. It is found in areas such as fields, roadsides, and disturbed habitats. Blooms in late newleaf to early greenleaf. Seeds in late greenleaf to early leaf-fall.
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