Post by takumi on Dec 31, 2007 15:15:43 GMT -5
Since this is japanese based, not all of the herbs present in the Warriors are available. I've done some research, and have come up with a list of herbs available to the local healers here. Enjoy!
Anutsaba (Japanese Angelica) Grows in sandy beaches. Used for milk flow for queens, increase appetite, cure and preventative of infectious diseases, and the sticky yellow juice (taken from broken stems or roots) is good for boils, cysts, and pustules to speed healing and repel insects and to speed healing and prevent infection in insect bites and infections. Is one of the herbs used for traveling/strength herbs. Bitter taste.
Interesting facts: It's name means Tomorrow's Leaf or Earth Growth, which is from the vitality of the plant that allows removed leaves to grow back by the next day.
Biwa (Japanese Loguat) Found in mountains and fields of the countryside. They are anti-emetic, relieve thirst, and treat lung diseases, skin diseases, poor stomach function, fever, heat stroke, and even beriberi. To treat cuts, burns and insect bites. Wherever the leaf is applied, healing occurs!
Interesting facts: It bears small white flowers in winter and light orange oval fruits in early summer.
Dokudami (Fish Mint) Found in hilly areas. Dokudami translates to "the poison blocking plant". Thus used to counteract poison. Applied externally it is used for abscesses, anal prolapse, hemorrhoids, snakebite, swellings, boils, injuries, and to stimulate bone growth.
Interesting facts: When pressed it emits an unpleasant odor.
Gennoshouko (Japanese Geranium) Can be found anywhere. It is used for a host of digestive illness including constipation, stomachache, dysentery, stomach and duodenal ulcer, and catarrh of colon.
Interesting facts: The name in Japanese means "immediately effective". Gathered only in the late summer, once it's bloomed.
Hamaboufuu Found in dunes off the coastline. Grows real well in the Tribe of Sunken Ship's territory. Hamaboufuu is used to improve circulation, warm the body, and to remedy osteo-arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, stiff shoulders and headache.
Interesting facts: Flowers in early summer. On the day of (equal to the Japanese New Year), water saturated with this herb is drunk to insure good health in the coming year. Roots are gathered only in mid-summer.
Hatomugi Found on the farm. Mainly this herb is used as a last ditch effort to avoid starvation.
Ikarisou (Japanese Goat Wort) Found in the bushes seperating Glistening Sands Tribe with Thick Jungles. Used mostly for the health of the elders. It is said to improve memory in the elderly, remedy paralysis caused by stroke, strengthen the lumber spine and knees, improve numbness of limbs, resolve insomnia, cure chronic bronchitis, and remedy a host of nervous conditions. Is the main herb used to improve infertility in she-cats.
Interesting facts: In Japanese, Ikari means anchor and sou means herb. Gathered in late spring to early summer.
Kaki (Japanese Persimmon) Found only in the forests of the Thick Jungle's territory. Used to stop bleeding, dry secretions of all sorts, and reduce inflammation. Healers use the still green fruits, for tannin. Kaki tannin is prepared by pressing the unripe fruits and then fermenting the resulting juice. This unusual substance is always made from sour Kaki fruit, because they are richer in tannins than the sweet varieties.
Karin Found only in the forests of the Thick Jungle's territory. A deciduous tree, growing up to eight meters in height, it produces pale pink flowers the size of a pencil head in the spring. Apple-like yellow fruits follow in the fall. The fall landscape, filled with the trees heavy laden with fruits is a marvelous sight. The raw fruits are hard, bitter and sour - far too bitter to eat out of hand. The ripe fruit is harvested in autumn and dried in the sun. It helps coughs and colds.
Interesting facts: Is a favorite name for daughters.
Kihada Grows in the mountains. The cortex is used mostly for dye, which is bug resistant, but it also used in combination with Aucuba japonica and Gentiana scabra. The concoction was called Daranisuke. Used to help cure stomachache and food poisoning.
Interesting facts: n Japanese, Ki means yellow and hada means skin, which indicates one of the interesting features of the tree. If you peel the buff outer bark, a bright yellow inner cortex is revealed. It is this inner cortex that is used for medicinal purposes.
Kudzu Found in all territories everywhere. Used to make rope and very simple baskets.
Kuko Found in wastelands and embankments. In summer, it bears pale purple flowers similar to those of a tomato or eggplant. These small flowers are followed by orange coloured round fruits in autumn. It has the capacity to nourish "life force" and rejuvenate a person. According to this book, the fruits nourish the liver and kidney and make an excellent tonic in fatigue, lumbago, dullness, vertigo, anemia, and failing eyesight. The root bark is recommended to reduce fevers. Highly prized by the upper class. It is encouraged for the lower class to preserve this plant for use for all cats. From ancient times forward, legendary figures were reported to have lived longer then any normal cat, which is why this is so highly prized.
Kumazasa Grows in the northern mountains. The leaves of this plant are used to preserve freshkill, because the oils in the leaves helps prevent food from spoiling. When it comes to feeding 100+ cats a day, this is a must! Otherwise they'd run out of prey long before winter. The plant is a disinfectant and can be used to prevent infection and clear up infections once present. It also stimulates healing.
Interesting facts: They bloom and bear fruits only once in their lifetime and then die. When the bloom occurs, it occurs across a vast area, and it occurs infrequently. Some say it occurs every sixty years, others say only once in one hundred years. This much is certain, the blooming of Kumazasa is a very rare occasion! Sometimes this is foreseen as a bad omen.
Matatabi Found in the mountains. Matatabi is a deciduous, tree-like vine. It bears small white flowers in summer and small fruits in summer. It is the tribal version of catnip. Therefore the cure of greencough. Sometimes used as a sort of steriod before a battle because of the energy it gives. Only used in desperation, for it can be seen as dishonorable. Heart tonic, circulatory stimulant. They are used to treat cold extremities, abdominal pain, beriberi, hypertension, arthritic pain, kidney disease, and cancer. The fruits are stronger then the leaves in potency.
Megusurinoki (Japanese Maple) Found in the mountains. It is a handsome tree that can grow up to twenty meters and is often depicted in Tribal art. It's names literally means 'eye wash tree', for it has been used to treat eye conditions for a very long time. An infusion is made between the bark, twigs, and leaves for external use, but internal use helps speed up the healing. It is believed by the tribe healers that it helps with liver disorders. Since it's nearly impossible to tell if one is suffering from a liver disorder, often water soaked, upon occasion, from the bark and twigs is just what to drink.
Interesting facts: The water fusion is bitter tasting. And, to help the liver, it must be taken internally.
Mishima-saiko Found growing in the mountains, and in the grasslands. It bears yellow umbelliferous flowers from the end of summer, to the end of fall. The root is used to treat deafness, diarrhea, fever, vertigo (equilibrium), difficult breathing, congestion, alternating chills and fever, respiratory ailments, poor liver function, stomach ache, and vomiting. Mishima-saiko is seen as an adaptogen tonic - generally strengthening the body and fortifying vitality.
Interesting facts: Is one of the herbs used for the strengthening herbs.
Oninoyagara coming...
Peony coming...
Senburi coming...
Shiso coming...
Soyo (Japanese Mulberry)
Ukogi coming...
Ume (Japanese Plum)
Yakumosou (Siberian Motherwort)
Yomogi (Japanese Artemisia)
WIP
Anutsaba (Japanese Angelica) Grows in sandy beaches. Used for milk flow for queens, increase appetite, cure and preventative of infectious diseases, and the sticky yellow juice (taken from broken stems or roots) is good for boils, cysts, and pustules to speed healing and repel insects and to speed healing and prevent infection in insect bites and infections. Is one of the herbs used for traveling/strength herbs. Bitter taste.
Interesting facts: It's name means Tomorrow's Leaf or Earth Growth, which is from the vitality of the plant that allows removed leaves to grow back by the next day.
Biwa (Japanese Loguat) Found in mountains and fields of the countryside. They are anti-emetic, relieve thirst, and treat lung diseases, skin diseases, poor stomach function, fever, heat stroke, and even beriberi. To treat cuts, burns and insect bites. Wherever the leaf is applied, healing occurs!
Interesting facts: It bears small white flowers in winter and light orange oval fruits in early summer.
Dokudami (Fish Mint) Found in hilly areas. Dokudami translates to "the poison blocking plant". Thus used to counteract poison. Applied externally it is used for abscesses, anal prolapse, hemorrhoids, snakebite, swellings, boils, injuries, and to stimulate bone growth.
Interesting facts: When pressed it emits an unpleasant odor.
Gennoshouko (Japanese Geranium) Can be found anywhere. It is used for a host of digestive illness including constipation, stomachache, dysentery, stomach and duodenal ulcer, and catarrh of colon.
Interesting facts: The name in Japanese means "immediately effective". Gathered only in the late summer, once it's bloomed.
Hamaboufuu Found in dunes off the coastline. Grows real well in the Tribe of Sunken Ship's territory. Hamaboufuu is used to improve circulation, warm the body, and to remedy osteo-arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, stiff shoulders and headache.
Interesting facts: Flowers in early summer. On the day of (equal to the Japanese New Year), water saturated with this herb is drunk to insure good health in the coming year. Roots are gathered only in mid-summer.
Hatomugi Found on the farm. Mainly this herb is used as a last ditch effort to avoid starvation.
Ikarisou (Japanese Goat Wort) Found in the bushes seperating Glistening Sands Tribe with Thick Jungles. Used mostly for the health of the elders. It is said to improve memory in the elderly, remedy paralysis caused by stroke, strengthen the lumber spine and knees, improve numbness of limbs, resolve insomnia, cure chronic bronchitis, and remedy a host of nervous conditions. Is the main herb used to improve infertility in she-cats.
Interesting facts: In Japanese, Ikari means anchor and sou means herb. Gathered in late spring to early summer.
Kaki (Japanese Persimmon) Found only in the forests of the Thick Jungle's territory. Used to stop bleeding, dry secretions of all sorts, and reduce inflammation. Healers use the still green fruits, for tannin. Kaki tannin is prepared by pressing the unripe fruits and then fermenting the resulting juice. This unusual substance is always made from sour Kaki fruit, because they are richer in tannins than the sweet varieties.
Karin Found only in the forests of the Thick Jungle's territory. A deciduous tree, growing up to eight meters in height, it produces pale pink flowers the size of a pencil head in the spring. Apple-like yellow fruits follow in the fall. The fall landscape, filled with the trees heavy laden with fruits is a marvelous sight. The raw fruits are hard, bitter and sour - far too bitter to eat out of hand. The ripe fruit is harvested in autumn and dried in the sun. It helps coughs and colds.
Interesting facts: Is a favorite name for daughters.
Kihada Grows in the mountains. The cortex is used mostly for dye, which is bug resistant, but it also used in combination with Aucuba japonica and Gentiana scabra. The concoction was called Daranisuke. Used to help cure stomachache and food poisoning.
Interesting facts: n Japanese, Ki means yellow and hada means skin, which indicates one of the interesting features of the tree. If you peel the buff outer bark, a bright yellow inner cortex is revealed. It is this inner cortex that is used for medicinal purposes.
Kudzu Found in all territories everywhere. Used to make rope and very simple baskets.
Kuko Found in wastelands and embankments. In summer, it bears pale purple flowers similar to those of a tomato or eggplant. These small flowers are followed by orange coloured round fruits in autumn. It has the capacity to nourish "life force" and rejuvenate a person. According to this book, the fruits nourish the liver and kidney and make an excellent tonic in fatigue, lumbago, dullness, vertigo, anemia, and failing eyesight. The root bark is recommended to reduce fevers. Highly prized by the upper class. It is encouraged for the lower class to preserve this plant for use for all cats. From ancient times forward, legendary figures were reported to have lived longer then any normal cat, which is why this is so highly prized.
Kumazasa Grows in the northern mountains. The leaves of this plant are used to preserve freshkill, because the oils in the leaves helps prevent food from spoiling. When it comes to feeding 100+ cats a day, this is a must! Otherwise they'd run out of prey long before winter. The plant is a disinfectant and can be used to prevent infection and clear up infections once present. It also stimulates healing.
Interesting facts: They bloom and bear fruits only once in their lifetime and then die. When the bloom occurs, it occurs across a vast area, and it occurs infrequently. Some say it occurs every sixty years, others say only once in one hundred years. This much is certain, the blooming of Kumazasa is a very rare occasion! Sometimes this is foreseen as a bad omen.
Matatabi Found in the mountains. Matatabi is a deciduous, tree-like vine. It bears small white flowers in summer and small fruits in summer. It is the tribal version of catnip. Therefore the cure of greencough. Sometimes used as a sort of steriod before a battle because of the energy it gives. Only used in desperation, for it can be seen as dishonorable. Heart tonic, circulatory stimulant. They are used to treat cold extremities, abdominal pain, beriberi, hypertension, arthritic pain, kidney disease, and cancer. The fruits are stronger then the leaves in potency.
Megusurinoki (Japanese Maple) Found in the mountains. It is a handsome tree that can grow up to twenty meters and is often depicted in Tribal art. It's names literally means 'eye wash tree', for it has been used to treat eye conditions for a very long time. An infusion is made between the bark, twigs, and leaves for external use, but internal use helps speed up the healing. It is believed by the tribe healers that it helps with liver disorders. Since it's nearly impossible to tell if one is suffering from a liver disorder, often water soaked, upon occasion, from the bark and twigs is just what to drink.
Interesting facts: The water fusion is bitter tasting. And, to help the liver, it must be taken internally.
Mishima-saiko Found growing in the mountains, and in the grasslands. It bears yellow umbelliferous flowers from the end of summer, to the end of fall. The root is used to treat deafness, diarrhea, fever, vertigo (equilibrium), difficult breathing, congestion, alternating chills and fever, respiratory ailments, poor liver function, stomach ache, and vomiting. Mishima-saiko is seen as an adaptogen tonic - generally strengthening the body and fortifying vitality.
Interesting facts: Is one of the herbs used for the strengthening herbs.
Oninoyagara coming...
Peony coming...
Senburi coming...
Shiso coming...
Soyo (Japanese Mulberry)
Ukogi coming...
Ume (Japanese Plum)
Yakumosou (Siberian Motherwort)
Yomogi (Japanese Artemisia)
WIP