Herbs & Sicknesses

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_{- - -Xx- - - h e r b s

- - -Xx- - - Regular Herbs

• Alder bark - Bark may treat tooth aches.

• Alfalfa - Used to prevent tooth decay.

• Aloe Vera - Bulky pant whose sap can be used to heal burns.

• Borage leaves - Plant with pink or blue flowers and hairy leaves. Eaten by queens to help produce milk. Treats fevers.

• Bramble Twigs - Chew this to a fine syrup. It helps to sleep.

• Broom - Helps treat broken bones and wounds when mixed in poultice.

• Burdock Root - Stemmed thistle with shark smell and dark leaves. After it's been dug up and washed off, it may be chewed into a pulp. Apply to rat wounds to prevent infection. Also may lessen pain on infected rat bites.

• Burrs - Can be used to keep a poultice from crumbling off.

• Catchweed - A tall plant with fuzzy green burrs hanging off the ends. Attatching these to a cat's pelt after applying a poultice will keep it from licking the ointment off.

• Catmint - Leafy and delicious-smelling plant. Is used for whitecough, greencough, and blackcough.

• Celandine - Soothes eyes.

• Chamomlie - Strengthens the heart and clams the mind.

• Chervil - Sweet smelling plant. Large leaves resembling ferns with small white flowers. Chewed leaves provide juices to be applied to wounds to prevent and heal infections.

• Chickweed - Used to treat greencough as well.

• Cobwebs - Very common. Soaks up and stops or slows bleeding of wounds. May be used to bind broken bones.

• Coltsfoot - Dandelion-like with yellow or white flowers. Leaves when chewed into a pulp will assit a cat with difficulty breathing or cough. Treats kitten-cough and sore/cracked paw pads.

• Comfrey - Small bell-shaped flowers which may be pink, white, or purple. Black roots, when in a poultice, may repair broken bones or soothe wounds.

• Culver's Root - Helps waterlogged cats keep from chilling.

• Daisy Leaf - Chewed into a paste, may help aching joints.

• Dandelions - White liquid inside stem is good for bee stings. Roots can also have same effect as poppy seeds.

• Dock - Leaves can be chewed and applied to soothe scratches. Chew into pulp and lick juice into wound. Spit out leaf remains. Great for sore pads and nettle stings.

• Dried Oak Leaf - Found commonly in Leaf-fall. Stops infections.

• Echinacia - Used to ease infection.

• Elder Berries - Berries that help fight whitecough and greencough.

• Elder Leaves - A poultice of these helps cure sprains and back pain.

• Feverfew - Small bush that has flowers resembling daises. Leaves may be eaten to reduce body temperature. Good for fevered or chilled cats. Great for aches and headaches.

• Ginger - Root that cures belly ache when chewed.

• Goldenrod - Tall yellow-flowered plant. Chewed into poultice which is good for healing wounds.

• Heather Flower - When mixed with poultices, it makes them sweeter and easier to swallow.

• Honey - Golden-colored liquid made by bees. Great for soothing infections, sore throats, and cat who've breathed smoke. Makes medicine easier to swallow.

• Horsetail - Bristly stemmed plant that grows well in marshy areas and near water. Leaves are chewed into poultices and applied to infected wounds to treat them.

• Juniper Berries - The berries grow on a bush. They are purple and soothe bellyaches, give strength, and help troubled breathing.

• Lamb's Ear - Commonly found in mountains. It gives cats strength.

• Lavender - Small, flowering purple plant that cures fever and chills.

• Mallow - Fragrant leaves best gathered at sunhigh when they are dry. Soothes bellyaches.

• Marigold - Low-growing flower recognized by bright orange or yellow color. Petals and leaves may be chewed into a pulp and applied to wounds as a poultice to prevent infections. Could be used on rate bites but isn't strong enough.

• Mouse Bile - Extracted from a mouse. Stored in moss and stench may be masked by wild garlic. Best remedy for ticks. Wash paws in running water or suffer a gross taste in mouth.

• Parsely - Stops flow of milk for queens with no need to nurse kits.

• Poke - To be taken in small amounts. Excellent for infections.

• Poppy - Flower heads should be consumed together to relive continuous coughs. Petals and leaves should be chewed to aid in sleep and improve resting.

• Poppy seeds - Black seeds soothe shock and distress, not recommended for nursing queens. Soothe pain and cause drowsiness.

• Ragwort Leaves - Crushed into poultice and mixed with juniper berries, may help aching joints. Also keeps strength up.

• Raspberry Leaves - Herb used in kittings. Believed to stop bleeding and is a painkiller.

• Rush - Used to bind broken bones.

• Snakeroot - Best remedy for snake bite and poison.

• Stinging Nettle - When leaves are applied to wounds, can bring down swelling. The black spiny seeds can be administrated to a cat who has swallowed poison.

• Tansy - Round, yellow leaves and sweet, strong smell. Good for curing coughs. Must be eaten in small doses.

• Thistle - Helps a cat's circulation of blood.

• Thyme - Calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats who are in shock.

• Tormentil - A herb found in the mountains. Medicine cats chew it up and use it on wounds and to expel poison.

• Watermint - Leafy, green plant found in streams and damp earth. Chewed into pulp to soothe bellyaches.

• Wild Garlic - Prevents infection when rolled in. Great for rat bites. Good for disguising scents due to strong smell.

• Willow - Water from beneath the bark of the flowering willow may be dripped into the eyes to help clear blurriness of vision. It may also be applied to dry patches of skin to soothe itches. Small amounts of willow bark may be consumed to ease pain, act against inflammation and fevers.

• Wintergreen - A plant found in the mountains. Reduces swelling and fever.

• Yarrow - Leaves may be chewed into poultice and applied to wounds to extract any poison. Makes cats vomit when consumed which is great for expelling consumed poisons. Ointment of yarrow is great for softening and healing cracked paw pads.

- - -Xx- - - Poisonous Herbs

• Nightshade - Poisonious berries.

• Deathberries - Red berries that are extremely poisonous and can easily kill a strong warrior. Remove all traces of deathberries from mouth before giving yarrow to expel rest of berries.

• Holly berries - Not as bad as death berries but still dangerous.

• Foxglove Seeds - Could help the heart but may cause paralysis and heart failure. May be mistaken for poppy seeds.

- - -Xx- - - Sickness and Injury

• Cough - A sickness that is like a human cold. Symptoms are just coughs and sneezes, though it can be dangerous to kits or young cats.
Best Treatment: Tansy.

• Greencough - A sickness similar to pneumonia that is often rampant among the Clans in leaf-bare. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, pus excreted from the eyes, sneezing, fever, and green phlegm streaming from the nose.
Best Treatment: Catmint, feverfew, and lavender.

• Whitecough - A mild sickness like a cold. More common than greencough, but can become greencough or even the fatal blackcough. Symptoms include sneezing, coughing, white phlegm streaming from the nose, and a slightly high temperature. This is similar to kittencough, which is the least harmful of all coughs and is mostly caught by kits.
Best Treatment: Catmint.

• Blackcough - A fatal sickness that spells certain death for any cat who catches it. Symptoms are unknown, but the "black" might be blood.
Best Treatment: None.

• Chill - A very mild ailment usually caused by very cold weather or falling into icy water. Much like whitecough, but with cold chills instead of fever.
Best Treament: Catmint, feverfew, and lavender.

• Cracked pads - A painful ailment usually seen in elderly cats. The pawpads crack from cold or dryness, and if untreated can lead to infection. Symptoms include swelling of the paws and pain.
Best Treatment: Marigold, and poppy seed if there is pain.

• Aching joints - Basically arthritis in cats. Caused by age or damp weather. Symptoms include pain and stiffness.
Best Treatment: Anything that cures pain other than poppy seeds.

• Bleeding - Blood loss due to injury, such as a wound sustained in battle. Severity depends on injury.
Best Treatment: Cobwebs pressed onto the wound.

• Poisoning - The case of eating deathberries, poisoned fresh-kill, or other kinds of harmful things.
Best treatment: Yarrow and stinging nettle.

• Freezing - A case where a cat is too cold and might die.
Best Treatment: Grooming fur the wrong way to get the blood flowing.

• Starvation - A case where a cat is too hungry.
Best treatment: Fresh kill or queen's milk.

• Weakness - A case where a cat is exhausted.
Best treatment: Rest}