Sickness and Herbs

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Sicknesses and Herbs


HERBS

Poppy seeds - used to make a cat very sleepy and to ease pain

Cobwebs - used to stop bleeding

Feverfew - used to cool feverish cats and treat head pain

Borage leaves - used to treat fevers and helps nursing mothers
with their milk supply

Dock leaves - used to sooth scratches; can also make a cat's coat slippery; can be used as a surface for vomiting.

Marigold - leaves used to treat infection and heal wounds and sores

Horsetail - used to treat infected wounds

Burdock root - used to treat infections, especially rat bites

Chervil root - used to treat infections

Wild garlic - rolling in this can help to keep out infection

Coltsfoot - used to treat kittencough

Dried Oak Leaf - Collected in the autumn, and stored in a dry place. Stops infections.

Lavender - A small purple flowering plang. Cures fever.

Catnip (also called catmint) - used to treat whitecough and greencough; can help to relax a cat

Chickweed - used to help treat greencough

Stinging nettle - The spiny green seeds are given to a cat that's swallowed poison, and the leaves can be applied to a wound to bring down swelling.

Tansy - used to treat coughs

Thyme - used to calm a cat

Chamomile - used to calm a cat

Dandelion (leaves) - used to calm a cat

Juniper berries - used to treat bellyache, and give strength to recovering cats

Chervil - used to treat bellyache

Watermint - used to treat bellyache

Daisy leaves - used to treat aching joints

Goldenrod - used in a poultice to treat aching joints and stiffness; can also be used for severe injuries.

Ragwort leaves - used alongside juniper berries in a poultice to treat aching joints, sores, or most other hide or muscle retinas, such as scratches, bruises, and broken bones

Comfrey - used to treat broken bones

Nettle (leaves) - used to treat swelling

Wild Basil - used to treat paw problems

Poison Ivy (leaves) - used on cracked paw pads

Celandine - used to treat ailments of the eyes

Snakeroot - used to counter poison

Nettle (seeds) - used to counter poison

Honey - used to treat sore throats,can also be used in poultices to sooth injuries.

Mouse bile - used to remove ticks from a cat's coat

Yarrow - used to make a cat vomit and expel poisons from the body, used mostly when cats have eaten something poisonous.

Broom - used in poultices for broken legs.

Catchweed - used to help protect freshly-applied poultices by sticking them over the area. Green and fluffy seeds.

OTHER PLANTS

Deathberries (yew berry) - of no medicinal value; bright scarlet berries that, when ingested, can easily kill a cat if they are not quickly enough expelled from the cat's body; called night-seeds by the Tribe.

Nightshade - of no medicinal value; is poisonous.

Holly berries - of no medicinal value; poisonous like deathberries.

SICKNESSES AND AILMENTS

Cough - a sickness that is like a human cold. Just coughs and sneezes; can be dangerous to kits or young cats.

Greencough - a sickness similar to pneumonia that is often rampant among the Clans in leaf-bare. Symptoms include wheezing, pus excreted from the eyes, fever, and green phlegm streaming from the nose and mouth.

Whitecough - a mild sickness like a cold. More common than greencough, but can become greencough or even the fatal blackcough. Symptoms include sneezing and white phlem 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.

Blackcough - a fatal sickness that spells certain death for any cat who catches it. Symptoms are unknown, but the "black" might be blood.

Chill - a very mild ailment usually caused by very cold weather or falling into icy water. Much like whitecough, but with cold chills.

Cracked pads - a painful ailment usually seen in elderly cats. The paw pads crack from cold or dryness, and if untreated can lead to infection. Symptoms include swelling of the paws and pain.

Aching joints - basically arthritis in cats. Caused by age or damp weather. Symptoms include pain and stiffness.

Bleeding - When injured cats lose blood quickly, for example, during a battle.[/center]