Herbs and sickness

Herbs
Alder:
Reduces swelling and prevents infection when chewed and applied to a wound. May also be chewed by a cat with a toothache to reduce pain, swelling, and aid in preventing complications.

Alfalfa:
Used to prevent tooth decay.

Aloe Vera:
Use the gel inside of leaves to cure skin problems or any type of burns.

Borage:
Leaves and roots should be consumed to stave off fevers.
Seeds and leaves should be consumed by the nursing queen to increase available milk.

Burdock:
Leaves may be chewed and applied to wounds that are clear of infection to speed healing.
Roots may be chewed applied to a wound to draw infection from it.

Snag Weed:
Burrs can be used to help hold treatment onto a cat.

Catmint:
Leaves and flowers can be used to relieve congestion and coughs. Used to counter greencough and whitecough.

Celadine:
Used to strengthen weak eyes.

Chamomile:
Leaves and flowers may be consumed to sooth a cat and add to their physical strength.

Chervil:
The juice of the leaves are used for infected wounds.
Chewing the roots helps with bellyache.

Challace:
Good herb to counter greencough. Not as strong as Catmint.

Cobwebs:
Gathered and pressed into wounds to stop bleeding. Generally only used with wounds that risk bleeding heavily as they can cause increased risk of infection.


Coltsfoot:
Leaves are eaten to reduce shortness of breath.

Comfrey:
Used when healing broken bones.

Daisy Leaves:
If chewed into a paste, they can be a useful remedy for aching joints.

Deathberry [Yew Berries]:
Berries, or any other part of the plant, when consumed will kill the cat who swallows them if the cat is not given immediate help, and even then, they may not always be saved.

Dock:
The leaf is chewed and applied to scratches to soothe them.

Dried Oak Leaf:
Used to stop infections.

Echinacea:
Used to ease infection.

Feverfew:
Leaves can be used to reduce fever, in addition to being consumed to aid against colds and stomach ailments.

Goldenrod:
The poultice of this is for healing wounds.

Honey:
Used to sooth the throat. Particularly good for smoke inhalation.

Horsetail:
Leaves are chewed up and applied to infected wounds or to prevent infection.

Juniper:
Berries ease the stomach and can serve as a counter poison.
Leaves are used to ease coughs and other respiratory problems.

Lavender:
Leaves and flowers are particularly good when eaten for easing pains in the head and throat and also for curing fever.
Inhaling the sent of fresh flowers can calm the nerves.


Marigold:
Leaves and flowers should be consumed to relieve chills.
Leaves and petals can be chewed and placed on wounds to prevent infection.

Mousebile:
Bile from the liver of the common mouse may be harvested and used to kill stubborn fleas and ticks.

Parsley:
Used to stop the flow of a queen's milk.

Poppy:
Seeds can be consumed to remove pain and aid in sleep.
Flower heads should be consumed together to relieve coughing.
Petals and leaves should be chewed to aid in sleep and improve resting.

Stinging Nettle:
Leaves are applied to reduce swelling.
Seeds are ingested by those who have swallowed poison.

Snakeroot:
Used to counter poison.

Tansy:
Leaves, flowers, and stems should be eaten together to remove worms.
Leaves may be chewed to relieve aches.
Flowers should be consumed to remove coughs.
Pregnant queens should NEVER be given tansy, for it causes miscarriages.

Thyme:
Should be consumed to calm the anxious cat, or to aid in brining restful sleep.

Traveling Herbs:
A mixture of Chamomile, Daisy, Burnet, and Sorrel.

Water Mint:
Used to help cure bellyaches.

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

Wild Garlic:
Rolling in a patch helps prevent infection, particularly for rat bites.

Yarrow:
Should be consumed to induce vomiting.
Plant should be chewed and applied to wounds to relieve pain and prevent infection.

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Sickness
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 and feverfew.

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.
Best Treatment: Catmint.

Blackcough:
A fatal, fairly rare sickness that spells certain death for any cat who catches it. Symptoms are intense chest pain, wheezing, and coughing.
Best Treatment: Catmint.

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 Treatment: Catmint, feverfew, and lavender .

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.
Best Treatment: Marigold, Dock, and poppy seed if there is pain.

Stiff or Aching Joints/Muscles:
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. If scratch or bite, use marigold or other herbs like it to prevent infection.

Poisoning:
The case of eating deathberries, poisoned fresh-kill, or a snakebite.
Best treatment: Yarrow, stinging nettle, and in the case of getting bite by a snake root.

Aching Joints - ragwort leaves, juniper berries, goldenrod, daisy leaves
Bee Stings - use blackberry leaves
Broken Bones - wrap in cobwebs, put on comfrey pulp, use poppy seeds to dull pain
Bellyache - trip to dirtplace, chervil, watermint, juniper berries
Blindness - water from beneath a willow tree may help recover sight
Cracked Pads - coltsfoot
Cuts in Eye - trickle celandine juice in to ease the pain
Deep Wounds - cobwebs, marigold, horsetail
Displaced Bones - wait for poppy seed to dull pain and then bone back into place
Dull Pain - poppy seed
Fever - feverfew, borage, lavender
Greencough - catmint or tansy
Hurting Throat - honey, water
Poison - if poison is in stomach, give cat yarrow leaves so they vomit
Prevent Infection and Soothe Pain for Burns - comfrey, honey
Rat Bites - a poultice of burdock root with cobwebs on top, and horsetail if it is available
Scratches - marigold, horsetail
Shock - thyme, chamomile, lick fur, give water and poppy seeds
Stiffness - crushed poppy seeds, marigold, comfrey
Strengthening Herbs - tansy, watermint, feverfew
Smoke Inhalation - honey
Toothache - alder bark
Traveling and Strengthening Herbs - chamomile, burnet, daisy leaves, sorrel
Wrenched Muscles - comfrey, nettle, water therapy
Whitecough - catmint or tansy

-*Other Treatments*-

Gently Nip Spine or Poke with Claw - tests to see if backbone is broken, if they don't feel it, then it is broken
Lick Fur - clean wounds, bring down shock, and warm a cold cat (lick fur the wrong way)
Moss Soaked in Water - sick or injured or weak cats can drink, and can be used to cool feverish cats
Rosemary, Mint - used to lighten the death-scent of a dead cat before burial
Sweeten Herbs - use nectar, honey or mouse blood
Water Soaking - hold swelling wound in cold water, takes down swelling, also soothes scraped pads
Water Therapy - have cat with weak or hurting muscles or bone wade in water, eventually they'll get stronger
Wailing, Yowling - keeps lungs and chest clear