MEDICAL HERBS
These herbs are used by Medicine Cats to treat wounded or sick cats. Most clan members don't know their uses unless they, for whatever reason, helped the medice cat at some time or are apprentices/would be apprentices. Unless you are a medicince cat, don't try treating other cats, it could end up bad. Also, before you choose to be a medice cat apprentice remember, Medicine Cats are
forbbiden from taking mates.
Borage Leaves Eaten. It can be located by its small blue or pink starlike flowers and hairy leaves. Good for nursing queens to increase their supply of milk. it also brings down fever.
Burdock Root A tall stemmed sharp smelling thisle with dark leaves. When you dig it up and wash off the dirt, you can chew it into a pulp that can be applied to rat bites. It also cures infection.
Cantmint or Catnip It smell delicious to cats. It is leafy and is hard to find in the wild. It is often found growning in Twoleg gardens. Also the best cure to greencough.
Chervil A sweet smelling plant with large spreding fern like leaves and white flowers. the juice of the leaves can be used for infected wounds. Chewing the roots helps with bellyaches.
Cobwebs/ Spiderwebs can be found everywhere. You must be careful when colecting to see that you dont bring back spiders. Wrap wounds in cobwebs to stop it from bleeding and also to keep it clean.
Coltsfoot A flower like a dandilion,with yellow or white flowers. the leaves are chewed up into a pulp which you eat to help shortnes of breath.
Comfrey Identifiable by its large leaves and small bell shaped flowers that are pink, white, or purple. The fat black roots can be chewed into a poultice to mend broken bones or soothe wounds.
Dock A plant like sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied to sooth scratches
Dried Oak Leaf Collected in the autumn and stored in a dry place. Stops infection
Feverfew A small bush with white flowers like daisies. the leaves can be eaten to cool down body temperature, particularly for cats with feaver of chills.
Goldnerod A tall plant with bright yellow flowers. A poultice of this s terrific for healing wounds.
Honey A sweet, golden liquid created by bees. Difficult to collect without getting stug, but great for soothng infections or the throats of cats who have breathed smoke.
Horsetail A tall plant with bristly stems that grow in marshy areas. The leaves can be chewed up and used to treat infected wounds
Juniper Berries A bush with spiky dark green leaves and purple berries. The berries soothe bellyaches and help cats who are having trouble breathing.
Lavender A small purple flowering plant. Cures fever.
Marigold A bright orange or yellow flower that grows low to the ground. The petals or leaves can bechewed into a pulp and applied as a poulice to wounds. Stops infection
Mouse-Bile A bad smelling liquid that is the only remedy for ticks. Dap a little bile soaked moss to a tick and it will fall right off. Wash paws thoroughly in running water after.
Poppy Seed Small black seeds shaken from a dried poppy flower, these are fed to cats to help them sleep. Soothes cats suffering from shock and distress. Not recommended for nursing queens.
Stinging Nettle The spiny green seeds can be adminstered to a cat who's swallowed poison while the leaves can be applied to a wound to bring down swelling.
Tansy A strong smellign plant with round yellow flowers. Good for curing coughs ut must be eaten in small doses.
Thyme Can be eaten to calm anxiety and frayed nerves.
Watermint A leafy green plant found in streams or damp earth. Chew into a pulp and then fed to a cat with a bellyache.
Wild Garlic Rolling in a patch will help pervent infection, especially for dangerous wounds like rat bites.
Yarrow A flowering plant whose leaves can be made into a poulice and applied to wounds or scratches to expell poison. Also to eat to extract. WARNING: May make cat throw up.
WARNINGDeathberries Red berries that can be fatally poisonous to kits and elders. They are NOT a medicine! Twoleges know them as Yew!
