Medicine.

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A useful guide for the medicine cat or healer that happens to forget, this guide describes the uses as well as helpful tips for medicine cats in training! (or forgetful ones)

Alder Bark

Bark which can be harvested from any alder tree.
The bark is used for toothaches.

Blackberry Leaves

The leaves from blackberry bushes.
The leaves are used for bee stings.

Borage Leaves

The leaves harvested from the blue (or pink) borage plant.
Herb is used to treat fevers, but commonly used for helping nursing queens bring up their milk supply.

Burdock Root

Harvested from the burdock plant, roots must be dug up.
Used for treating infections and rat bites.

Catmint

Commonly found in Twoleg nests that have kittypets.
Used for treating greencough and whitecough.

Celandine

The yellow flower must be harvested and chewed for proper use.
Mainly used for eye injuries, the juices must be placed in the eyes. Cannot cure blindness, only eases pain.

Chamomile

The white flower must be digested for proper use.
Used for calming down cats going through intense shock, or a nervous breakdown.

Chervile & Roots

The chervile and roots have different purposes.
Chervile is used to treat bellyaches, while the roots are used to help with infections.

Chickweed

Not as popular as catmint, last resort.
Alternate treatment for greencough.

Coltsfoot

Another alternate for catmint.
Alternate treatment for whitecough, and can be used to ease an ill cat's breathing.

Comfrey

The bell like flowers must be chewed up for proper use.
Comfrey is applied to broken bones to aid in mending, however it will not 100% heal all bones.

Daisy Leaves

Harvested from the daisy.
Used to soothe aching joints.

Dandelion Leaves

Even weeds are useful!
An alternate method for calming down cats suffering from a nervous breakdown or severe shock.

Dock Leaves

The leaves must be harvested from dock, and chewed for proper use.
Applied to nettle stings, also quite useful for sore paw pads.

Elder Leaves

Grandpa wishes to help, must be chewed.
Mostly only used for healing sprains.

Feverfew

The flower must be ingested by the ill cat.
Used for cooling down feverish cat's heads and treating headaches.

Goldenrod

This herb is used to make useful poultices, it must be chewed and applied to the wound or area.
Used to treat stiffness and aching joints, also used for severe injuries.

Goosegrass

The entire plant must be chewed up and applied onto the wound.
Used for treating bleeding wounds.

Horsetail

Must be chewed up and applied.
Used for treating infected wounds.

Juniper Berries

The berries must be harvested only. It must be ingested by the ill cat.
Used to treat bellyaches, and an alternative to calming down a cat going through intensive shock or a nervous breakdown.

Lavender

The flower must be eaten by the ill cat.
An alternate use for treating cats going through intensive shock or a nervous breakdown. Also useful for masking the smell of the dead.

Mallow

 Flower must be chewed up and applied to injured area.
Fights infection, but also used for bee and wasp stings. [/blockquote]

Marigold

The flower must be chewed and applied to the wound.
Commonly used for trying to ward of infections, can also be used for sores.

Nettle Leaves

Must be harvested with great care to prevent nettle stings, chewed and applied to injured cat.
Used for keeping a wound from swelling.

Nettle Seeds

Again, harvested with great care to prevent nettle stings. Poisoned cat must eat.
Used to counter the effects of weak poison.

Oak Leaves

Must climb up oak tree and harvest from, must be chewed if used to to fight infection.
Used as an alternate to cobwebs, and can fight off infection.

Parsley

Often harvested from twolegs, but can be found in the wild.
Used to stop the mother producing milk, it is used to dry up her milk flow and can be saved for later.

Poppy Seeds

Harvested from a poppy. Be careful with dosage you are giving to patient to eat, they can die of overdose or have their health negatively affected.
Numbs the pain, and or helps sleep. NEVER give a kitting queen this.

Ragwort Leaves

The leaves must be harvested only.
Used to treat aching joints.

Raspberry Leaves

The leaves of the raspberry bush must be harvested only.
Used to soothe a queen's pain during kitting.

Snake Root

The root must be eaten by the ill cat.
Used to counter the effects of poison.

Tansy

Must be eaten, or chewed depending on use.
Can be used to stop coughing, must be chewed if using to heal wounds.

Thyme

Must be eaten.
Another alternate use to helping a cat going through shock, or a nervous breakdown.

Tormentil

Must be chewed, or eaten. Depending on how it is used.
Used to counter the effects of poison, or treat wounds.

Watermint

Must be eaten by the cat that is suffering from illness.
Another herb used to treat stomach aches.

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NON HERBAL MEDICINE
Honey

Harvested carefully, often involves destroying the entire hive. Will result in bee stings.
Used to soothe sore throats.

Cobwebs

Collected around the forest from spiders.
Used to stop bleeding. A popular favorite among healers.

Mouse Bile

Never to be eaten, unless you like the gross taste of this stuff.
Used to loosen the grip ticks have on a cat's coat. Often used for elders.

Wild Garlic

NEVER consume. Only to be rolled in.
Roll in the wild garlic to help fight off infection and rat bites.

OTHER NON-HERBAL TREATMENTS

If a cat is believed to have a broken spine, the medicine cat will often nip and dig a rough claw into their backbone. If they do not feel pain, their spine is broken.

Soaking moss in water and bringing it back to sick cats, elders, and kits makes it easier for them to drink. The wet moss can also be used to cool down foreheads of cats suffering a fever.

Using honey, nectar or blood from prey can make bitter herbs easier to take. Often used for kits and young apprentices, since it sweetens the taste of the sour herbs.

Flowers such as lavender, rosemary, and mint are suggested to be used to mask the scent of a dead cat. It also lightens up the burial, making them pretty.

Licking a cat's fur to clean wounds, comfort cats suffering from shock or a nervous breakdown.
Licking a cats fur the wrong way also provides warmth, and this method is also used on newborn kits.

Holding your paws in cold, flowing water. This soothes any injuries the paw pads may be suffering, it will also decrease the swelling on wounds.

Having a sick cat yowl and wail to keep mucus out of their lungs and chest.

Cats with weak bones, hurting muscles can take part in water therapy. Having them wad in shallow water will help them improve over time.