Uses for Catnip?

I know, I know, but my cat doesn't like it. I have tons of this stuff growing in a big pot on my porch. It isn't exactly a becoming plant, and doesn't provide me with a visual appeal, so could anyone recommend a use for the dried leaves?

Catsup?

It makes a nice tea to drink before bed. It is a sedative in humans.

Neighbors Cat??????

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Originally posted by vinelady

It makes a nice tea to drink before bed. It is a sedative in humans.

After drinking it, you could take a cat-nap

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Originally posted by hatteras04

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Originally posted by vinelady

It makes a nice tea to drink before bed. It is a sedative in humans.

After drinking it, you could take a cat-nap

Are you sure it isn't "wacky tobacky" that's growing there? Why not smoke it?

More than you need to know:

Catnip (Nepeta Cataria)
Catnip is in the mint family. To many people's surprise, it is an edible herb for humans as well as a fragrant herb for cats. Have a cup of tea to relax and unwind when you come home from work, and while your at it, throw some to your cat.

Medicinal ValueFor Humans:
Catnip is known to be a relaxing herb to take in a tea. Tea made from Catnip also helps to calm ailments associated with the digestive system. Included in these are upset stomachs, flatulancy, stomach acid, and stomach spasums. Use Catnip as a sleeping aid if you have insomnia. It is an antispasmodic, astringent, aromatic, carminative, diaphoretic, and an anodyne. Use it to help promote mensturation and to lessen menstural cramps. Catnip is good for those with an anema, and can also help with diarrhea and chronic broncitus. A weak tea can be given to babies to treat infant colic.

Use the catnip for mulch and plant some good hot peppers in that pot?

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Originally posted by oneiron339

Are you sure it isn't "wacky tobacky" that's growing there? Why not smoke it?

you're freaking me out!

thats my cat on catnip..im surprised they dont get the munchies

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Originally posted by Grampy

More than you need to know:

Catnip (Nepeta Cataria)
Catnip is in the mint family. To many people's surprise, it is an edible herb for humans as well as a fragrant herb for cats. Have a cup of tea to relax and unwind when you come home from work, and while your at it, throw some to your cat.

Medicinal ValueFor Humans:
Catnip is known to be a relaxing herb to take in a tea. Tea made from Catnip also helps to calm ailments associated with the digestive system. Included in these are upset stomachs, flatulancy, stomach acid, and stomach spasums. Use Catnip as a sleeping aid if you have insomnia. It is an antispasmodic, astringent, aromatic, carminative, diaphoretic, and an anodyne. Use it to help promote mensturation and to lessen menstural cramps. Catnip is good for those with an anema, and can also help with diarrhea and chronic broncitus. A weak tea can be given to babies to treat infant colic.

And it will take the rust off of paint or the paint off of rust if you'd like.

After seeing Sushi Girl's cat, I would not be surprised to learn that it could accomplish most anything. Our cat loves the stuff, and I have yet to see any rust or paint on him. A local Northampton store sells catnip cookies for kitties. Our kitty perfers it straight, like a good single malt.

Harvest it, it should spring more back up.....dry and crumble it...then put it in small baggies or else sew up some cat play toys stuffed with it and sell it at yard sales, church sales etc, or barter with a local pet store for them to sell them on consignment. Use the hook of it being"locally grown and made" and you have a cheap little cottage industry going for ya there.

Up here in Alaska we have this really loooooong growing season in the summer when the sun never sets. So.....they grow this unbelievable catnip (amongst other things) which they call Matanuska Thunder Struck. One hit of this and kitty will be stoned all day. Mine rolls in it, inhales it, sneezes, bites the carpet and halfway down the hall, collapses. While we laugh our heads off.

I have a personal problem with my neighbors cat hanging around my bird feeder. We have a animal thng in our neighborhood and the county about animal control. I really have a problem with my neighbor's cat hanging around my feeder trying to be a predator on my birds. I realize that this is a natural thing

I took the Mayors advice and bought some bottle rockets. If you recall, the Mayor shot one off and hit a deer, bounced off and exploded in the air. This idea sounded pretty good to me. I bought a gross of these and when i got home, I was setting on the deck when my neighbor's bisquit colored male cat came calling. I was quiet and watched the cat come stalking. I alighned the bottle rocket and aimed it the best I could and fired it off. I missed the cat but it came close and actually alighted just a few feet to the right of the predatory animal. It exploded and the cat actually did a 180 degree back flip and it as amazing how the animal left the premises.

I will have no catnip at my feeder.

Paul E.Smith
Knoxville, TN

Paul, It just ocurred to me, but a few bags of dry catnip around the feeder area could work wonders in saving the birds. The cats will get high on the catnip and forget all about the birds...

I used to know a bass player who smoked it...not that I'm recommending that sort of thing.

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Originally posted by lleechef

Up here in Alaska we have this really loooooong growing season in the summer when the sun never sets. So.....they grow this unbelievable catnip (amongst other things) which they call Matanuska Thunder Struck. One hit of this and kitty will be stoned all day. Mine rolls in it, inhales it, sneezes, bites the carpet and halfway down the hall, collapses. While we laugh our heads off.

Jellybeans <= laughing her head off early on a Weds morning during her 'Week in Last-minute Job Application hell'.

Thanks Lisa!

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Originally posted by Jellybeans

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Originally posted by lleechef

Up here in Alaska we have this really loooooong growing season in the summer when the sun never sets. So.....they grow this unbelievable catnip (amongst other things) which they call Matanuska Thunder Struck. One hit of this and kitty will be stoned all day. Mine rolls in it, inhales it, sneezes, bites the carpet and halfway down the hall, collapses. While we laugh our heads off.

Jellybeans <= laughing her head off early on a Weds morning during her 'Week in Last-minute Job Application hell'.

Thanks Lisa!

You're welcome! Nothing funnier than a stoned kitty!!

Now this is a good use for catnip!
http://heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040308/NEWS/403080585/1060

Go & check out this "kitty". He needs some catnip.


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"Catnip".......I always thought thats the place where the Cats Milk came from.......Silly Me!