Post by | Çhërnôbÿl | on Oct 25, 2008 17:01:04 GMT -5
A helpful guide for Medicine Cats
Ilnesses:
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, pus excreted from the eyes, fever, and green phlegm streaming from the nose and mouth.
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 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.
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, but rare algae+marigold+lavender+wild garlic seem to weaken the virus...
Chill - a very mild ailment usually caused by very cold weather or falling into icy water. Much like whitecough, but with cold chills.
Best Treament: Catmint
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 yarrow, 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
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 or other kinds of harmful things.
Best treatment: Yarrow; makes them throw up the harmful things they have eaten.
Rat Bite - Dangerous bite from a rat or rat-like creature, when infected, it can cause severe damage to muscles affected and can cause death.
Best Treatment: Burdock root.
Herbs and Plants
Borage Leaves
To be chewed and eaten. The plant can be distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves. Great for nursing queens as it helps increase their supply of milk. Also brings down fever.
Burdock Root
A tall stemmed, sharp-smelling thistle with dark leaves. A medicine cat must dig up the roots, wash off the dirt, and chew them into a pulp, which can be applied to rat bites. Cures infection.
Catmint (also known as catnip)
A delicious, smelling, leafy plan that's hard to find in the wild; often found growing in twoleg gardens. The best remedy for greencouch.
Chervil
a sweet-smelling plant with large, spreading fernlike leaves and small white flowers. The juice of the leaves can be used for infected wounds, and chewing the roots helps with bellyache.
Cobwebs-Spiderwebs
can be found all over the forest; careful not to bring along the spider when you take the web! Medicine cats wrap it around an injury to soak up the blood and keep the wound clean. Stops bleeding.
Coltsfoot
A flowering plant, a bit like a dandelion, with yellow or white flowers. The leaves can be chewed into a pulp, which is eaten to help shortness of breath.
Comfrey
Identifiable by its large leaves and small bell-shaped flowers, which can be pink, white, or purple. The fat black roots of this plant can be chewed into a poultice to mend broken bones or soothe wounds.
Dock
a plant similar to sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied to soothe scratches.
Dried Oak Leaf
Collected in the autumn and stowed in a dry place. Stops infections.
Feverfew
A small bush with flowers like daisies. The leaves can be eaten to cool down body temperature, particularly for cats with fever or chills.
Goldenrod
a tall plant with bright yellow flowers. A poultice of this is terrific for healing wounds.
Honey
a sweet, golden liquid created by bees. Difficult to collect without getting stung, but great for soothing infections or the throat of cats who have breath smoke.
Horsetail
a tall plant with bristly stems that grows in marshy areas. The leaves can be used to treat infected wounds. Usually chewed up and applied as a poultice.
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, and when smushed until juice comes, can serve as a breath mint or a deodorant that when placed in dens, makes it smell very nice and makes you go to sleep faster and smoother.
Marigold
A bright orange or yellow flower that grows low to the ground, the peals or leaves can be chewed into a pulp and applied as a poultice to wounds. Stops infection.
Mouse Bile
a bad-smelling liquid that is the only remedy for ticks. Dab a little moss soaked in bile on a tick and it'll fall right off. Wash paws thoroughly in running water afterward.
Poppy Seed
Small black seeds shaken from a dried poppy flower, these are fed to help them sleep. Soothes cats suffering from shock or distress. Not recommended for nursing queens.
Stinging Nettle
the spiny green seeds can be administered to a cat whose swallowed poison, while the leaves can be applied to a wound to bring down swelling.
Tansy
a strong-smelling plant with round yellow flowers. Good for curing coughs, but must be eaten in small doses.
Thyme
This herb can be eaten to calm anxiety and frayed nerves, and also when mixed with lavender serves as breath mint/perfume for den (see lavender)
Watermint
a leafy green plant found in streams or damp earth. Usually chewed into a pulp and then fed to a cat suffering bellyache.
Wild Garlic
rolling in a patch of wild garlic can help prevent infection, especially for dangerous wounds like rat bites.
Yarrow
A flowering plant whose leaves can be made into a poultice, and applied to wounds. Or scratches to expel poison.
Chamomile
Helps with depression, fatigue, and soothes a broken heart.
Cedar bark
Can cure painful bird pecks
Poultices and Mixtures
Chewed up Ragwort leaves + juniper berries
Helps aching joints for elderly cats
Dried Berries + Marigold + Lots of Poppy seeds
Helps relieve a dying cat’s pain and may put him to sleep until he is gone to Starclan
Marigold + Honey
Soothes infections
Yarrow Ointment
Made out of yarrow leaves, ragweed, and ivy. Dress paw with ointment, then swath in cobwebs; used for scraped paws.
Ilnesses:
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, pus excreted from the eyes, fever, and green phlegm streaming from the nose and mouth.
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 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.
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, but rare algae+marigold+lavender+wild garlic seem to weaken the virus...
Chill - a very mild ailment usually caused by very cold weather or falling into icy water. Much like whitecough, but with cold chills.
Best Treament: Catmint
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 yarrow, 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
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 or other kinds of harmful things.
Best treatment: Yarrow; makes them throw up the harmful things they have eaten.
Rat Bite - Dangerous bite from a rat or rat-like creature, when infected, it can cause severe damage to muscles affected and can cause death.
Best Treatment: Burdock root.
Herbs and Plants
Borage Leaves
To be chewed and eaten. The plant can be distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves. Great for nursing queens as it helps increase their supply of milk. Also brings down fever.
Burdock Root
A tall stemmed, sharp-smelling thistle with dark leaves. A medicine cat must dig up the roots, wash off the dirt, and chew them into a pulp, which can be applied to rat bites. Cures infection.
Catmint (also known as catnip)
A delicious, smelling, leafy plan that's hard to find in the wild; often found growing in twoleg gardens. The best remedy for greencouch.
Chervil
a sweet-smelling plant with large, spreading fernlike leaves and small white flowers. The juice of the leaves can be used for infected wounds, and chewing the roots helps with bellyache.
Cobwebs-Spiderwebs
can be found all over the forest; careful not to bring along the spider when you take the web! Medicine cats wrap it around an injury to soak up the blood and keep the wound clean. Stops bleeding.
Coltsfoot
A flowering plant, a bit like a dandelion, with yellow or white flowers. The leaves can be chewed into a pulp, which is eaten to help shortness of breath.
Comfrey
Identifiable by its large leaves and small bell-shaped flowers, which can be pink, white, or purple. The fat black roots of this plant can be chewed into a poultice to mend broken bones or soothe wounds.
Dock
a plant similar to sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied to soothe scratches.
Dried Oak Leaf
Collected in the autumn and stowed in a dry place. Stops infections.
Feverfew
A small bush with flowers like daisies. The leaves can be eaten to cool down body temperature, particularly for cats with fever or chills.
Goldenrod
a tall plant with bright yellow flowers. A poultice of this is terrific for healing wounds.
Honey
a sweet, golden liquid created by bees. Difficult to collect without getting stung, but great for soothing infections or the throat of cats who have breath smoke.
Horsetail
a tall plant with bristly stems that grows in marshy areas. The leaves can be used to treat infected wounds. Usually chewed up and applied as a poultice.
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, and when smushed until juice comes, can serve as a breath mint or a deodorant that when placed in dens, makes it smell very nice and makes you go to sleep faster and smoother.
Marigold
A bright orange or yellow flower that grows low to the ground, the peals or leaves can be chewed into a pulp and applied as a poultice to wounds. Stops infection.
Mouse Bile
a bad-smelling liquid that is the only remedy for ticks. Dab a little moss soaked in bile on a tick and it'll fall right off. Wash paws thoroughly in running water afterward.
Poppy Seed
Small black seeds shaken from a dried poppy flower, these are fed to help them sleep. Soothes cats suffering from shock or distress. Not recommended for nursing queens.
Stinging Nettle
the spiny green seeds can be administered to a cat whose swallowed poison, while the leaves can be applied to a wound to bring down swelling.
Tansy
a strong-smelling plant with round yellow flowers. Good for curing coughs, but must be eaten in small doses.
Thyme
This herb can be eaten to calm anxiety and frayed nerves, and also when mixed with lavender serves as breath mint/perfume for den (see lavender)
Watermint
a leafy green plant found in streams or damp earth. Usually chewed into a pulp and then fed to a cat suffering bellyache.
Wild Garlic
rolling in a patch of wild garlic can help prevent infection, especially for dangerous wounds like rat bites.
Yarrow
A flowering plant whose leaves can be made into a poultice, and applied to wounds. Or scratches to expel poison.
Chamomile
Helps with depression, fatigue, and soothes a broken heart.
Cedar bark
Can cure painful bird pecks
Poultices and Mixtures
Chewed up Ragwort leaves + juniper berries
Helps aching joints for elderly cats
Dried Berries + Marigold + Lots of Poppy seeds
Helps relieve a dying cat’s pain and may put him to sleep until he is gone to Starclan
Marigold + Honey
Soothes infections
Yarrow Ointment
Made out of yarrow leaves, ragweed, and ivy. Dress paw with ointment, then swath in cobwebs; used for scraped paws.
