Rubbing against catnip and silver vine transfers plant chemicals that researchers have now shown protect cats from mosquitoes. The results also demonstrate that engaging with nepetalactol, which ...

Silver vine sticks are less likely to cause the ‘catnip effect’, causing only one in five to respond in the study, likely because they have lower amounts of the necessary chemicals.

Cat lovers know that cats really like catnip (Nepeta cataria) and silver vine (Actinidia polygama) plants. Given toys containing these plant leaves or just the leaves themselves, cats show a ...

Police in Fairfield, N.J., seized 61 bottles of Catnip Cocktail during a raid on a nutrition store Thursday. The liquid is marketed as an anti-anxiety supplement for cats and dogs, and contains no ...

Catnip leaves and flowers can trigger chemicals in a cat’s brain that lead to bouts of energetic euphoria or laid-back laziness. In some cats it can trigger paranoia or hallucinogenic effects.

Nepeta cataria L., the catnip plant, is important in the pet industry for cats and as an herbal medicinal treatment for the fevers, diarrhea, insomnia, and lacking menstruation of humans. A natural ...