Medicine Cat Reference

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herbs & medicine

Key: Pain Relief Fever Eye Problems Infections

Breathing Problems Calming Cramps/Aches Poisons Other

[/center]PAIN-KILLERS

Poppy Seeds
Used to numb pain and make a cat drowsy. To use these you have to only chew up and swallow a few seeds. Eating any other part of the plant could, in fact, be hazardous to your health. Not recommended for nursing queens.
This can be found in various earthy places. The small black seeds are shaken from a dried poppy flower.

Willow Bark
This bark will serve as a painkiller.

Daisy Leaves
Used to treat aching joints.
A small flower with all-white or pink-tinged-white petals and a yellow center.

FOR FEVER

Feverfew
Used to cool cats with fever or chills and treat head pain.
You can find this white-and-yellow flower in various climates. A small bush with flowers like daisies. The leaves can be eaten to cool down body temperature.

Lavender
If the oil is extracted it can be used as an antiseptic, and can prevent insect bites. The pleasant smell can also help to soothe. Cures fever and chills.
A small purple flowering plant.

Borage Leaves
One of the best things to give to a cat with a fever; to be chewed and eaten. Great for nursing queens as it helps with the supply of milk.
The plant can be distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves.

EYE TROUBLE

Broken Rosemary Blossoms
Used to heal eye infection or to cover up wounds around the eyes or eyelids.

Celandine
Used to treat ailments of the eyes.

INFECTION

Marigold
Used to treat infection and heal wounds and sores. Good for dressing wounds. You can find it around almost any patch of flowers near or around a forest-surrounding.
A bright orange or yellow flower that grows low to the ground. The petals or leaves can be chewed into a pulp and applied as a poultice to wounds.

Horsetail
Leaves of this plant can be used to treat infected wounds. Used to help induce healing and stop infection.
A tall plant with bristly stems; grows in marshy areas. Usually chewed up and applied as a poultice.

Burdock Root
Used to treat infections, especially rat bites. You must chew this up before feeding it to a feline. It can be used to prevent infections from things such as rat bites.
You can find this around many shrubs and bushes. A tall-stemmed, sharp-smelling thistle with dark leaves. The roots are to be dug up, the dirt washed off, and chewed into a pulp.

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

Chervil
The root is chewed or mixed with other herbs to counter a bellyache. The juice of the leaves can be used for infected wounds.
This sweet-smelling plant can be found near some trees. It has spreading, fern-like leaves and small white flowers.

Wild Garlic
If you roll in this garlic it will keep out infections of bites and scratches fairly well.
You can find various patches around each Clan, but are most plentiful in rich-soiled areas.

FOR BREATHING

Crushed Iris Petals
Used to stimulate breathing during the birthing process. This can also be used for kit's sore throats.

Coltsfoot
Used to treat kittencough or shortness of breath. Leaves used for cats having problems breathing.
A flowering plant, a bit like a dandelion, with yellow or white flowers. Leaves can be chewed into a pulp, which is eaten.

Used to help a kit with kitten-cough. Will help to clear clogged throats and nasal passages.

Catnip (also called catmint)
The most common herb for treating whitecough and greencough; can help to relax a cat. It is especially helpful against greencough and cures some mild sicknesses. However, too much of it can do a cat badly, so only ever feed a small amount. It can also provide a burst of energy and clear the head.
It can be found in random patches, sometimes growing in Twoleg gardens.

Chickweed
Used to help treat greencough. Given to a cat to help calm the mind or soothe the stomach.

Mallow

The leaves are best collected at sunhigh, when they are dry. It soothes a cat's belly.

Tansy
Used to treat coughs, but must be eaten in small doses. It also has a strong, sweet scent, so rolling in a patch of it can help to disguise your clan's scent.
A strong-smelling plant with round yellow flowers.

CALMING

Thyme
Used to calm a cat. Chew this up and feed it to cats to ease their anxieties of everyday life; also given to a cat to cure shock.

Chamomile
Used to calm a cat. A special herb mixture of dried chamomile mixed with water (or just the plain leaves) relaxes the patient and their conscience. It can also be used as a sleep aid for those restless little ones!
This is found near trees.

STOMACH PAINS & OTHER ACHES

Juniper Berries
These berries, unlike that of yew trees, are used to cure stomach pains and sometimes mild coughs.
They can be found in bushes and shrubs. A bush with spiky dark green leaves and purple berries.

Windflower Shoots
Used for stomach cramps.

Watermint
This herb is used to cure a bellyache. Usually chewed into a pulp, then administered.
Found near fresh water. A leafy green plant found in streams or damp earth.

Goldenrod
Used in a poultice to treat aching joints and stiffness. Excellent for healing wounds in a poultice.
A tall plant with bright yellow flowers.

Ragwort
The leaves are used alongside juniper berries in a poultice to treat aching joints. Can be fed to increase strength.

Comfrey
This thick-leaved plant is used to ease the pain of broken bones. Keep a poultice made from the roots on the wound and eventually you may see an improvement, although it isn't always certain.
Find these in sandy regions and forest places. Identifiable by its large leaves and small bell-shaped flowers, which can be pink, white, or purple. Large leaves and small, bell-shaped flowers, which range in color from pink, to white, and purple. The fat black roots can be chewed into a poultice.

POISON & SWELLING CURES

Snakeroot
This white bud is used to counter poison.
Found in various places.

Nettle
This can be administered to a cat who's swallowed poison, while the leaves can be applied to a wound to bring down swelling. The leaves of this plant are used for rash and fever care of the cats.
A spiky plant: be careful when collecting, as the leaves will sting. Found in most forested regions.

OTHER

Honey
Whenever a cat has a sore throat, honey will soothe it. Good for any sore throat or a cat who has breathed smoke. Tasteless to cats, who cannot taste sweet things.
This can be obtained in a Twoleg nest. You can try to fetch it in the wild from a beehive, but it would be quicker and require less medical assistance if you went into a Twoleg's yard or house and snatched some.

Mouse Bile
Used to remove ticks from a cat's coat. To use this you should put it upon a moss leaf or some other form to soak it up with. You put it over a tick or parasite, or whatever the case, and it will cause the insect to not be able to breathe. It will recoil and leave its victim; it will be dying from lack of oxygen. Wash paws thoroughly afterwards.
To obtain this you need to get the stomach bile from a mouse. It is an extremely foul subject to deal with, so never put it into your mouth unless you want bad taste for a few weeks and possibly some illness as well!

Yarrow
When digested, this can be used to vomit back up poison or other deadly toxins that were ingested by a feline. It should be chewed and swallowed only, as it will come back up with whatever is disturbing the feline. The leaves can also be made into a poultice to extract poisons.
This can be found in any region. A flowering plant.

Dock Leaves
Used to make a cat's coat slippery. Mix then and apply it to fur to make the pelt of a cat very slippery. This will help them get out of tight places.
They can be found in various places. A plant similar to sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied to soothe scratches.

Thinned-Out Heather Down
Used to help with the indigestion of a kit.
Snapdragon Seeds
Used to clear up ringworm and to help rid the body of fleas.

Sage (root)
The roots are used for cracked pads.

Cobwebs
Used to soak blood and clean wounds. To use this you must press the webs firmly into the wound to cease the bleeding. Applying horsetail sap will stop the bleeding faster.
This can be found near trees and small shrubs and bushes.
Raspberry Leaves
An herb used in kittings. It could be a painkiller, or to help stop bleeding during the kitting.
Rush
This herb is used to bind broken bones.
It has long narrow leaves and lavender-coloured head stalks.
Parsley
Stops a queen from producing milk, should her kits die or no longer require milk.
A small, green herb with an almost fluffy sprig of leaves atop a thin stalk.
Dandelions
Inside the stem there is a white fluid that can ease the pain of bee-stings. When chewed the roots also provide a similar effect to poppy seeds.
A fluffy, yellow flower with a thick stem. Rough leaves with jagged edges. Generally found in clumps in sunny, grassy areas.


POISONS

Deathberries (Yew)
Bright scarlet berries that can kill a cat if they are not expelled quickly enough. They afflicted will roll over in spasm and writhe until either cared for with yarrow or their death.

Nightshade

Holly (berries)



DISEASES and CURES
Greencough
A deadly cough in which occurs mostly during winter and cold months. Without proper care the victim could die very quickly.
Symptoms: coughing, lack of energy, lack of appetite, fever.

Whitecough
Although not as bad as Greencough, this cough experiences the same symptoms but in all seasons. It is easily treated though.
Symptoms: coughing, lack of energy, lack of appetite.

Ringfur
A deadly illness. Based on the ‘ringworm’ in our language, ringfur is just that. The cat loses fur along where the fungus is, since it lives on the hair, and the only way to 'get better' is to isolate the feline from the others. The cat will be exiled or else will go under protective care from the medicine cat, including spreading mouse bile along the lost fur. Another method is to leave the cat in a Twoleg nest for them to take care of it. Not all cats are returned though.
Symptoms: Loss of hair in spots, red wounds, scratching, possibly fever.

Fly Strike
Known to some as 'maggots', whenever a cat does not stay groomed it will get this disease. The only way a medicine cat can assist them is by using mouse bile and various washings in a stream. Symptoms: grungy pelt, lack of wanting to groom, lack of appetite, scratching.

Greencough
A deadly cough in which occurs mostly during winter and cold months. Without proper care the victim could die very quickly.
Symptoms: coughing, lack of energy, lack of appetite, fever.

Whitecough
Although not as bad as Greencough, this cough experiences the same symptoms but in all seasons. It is easily treated though.
Symptoms: coughing, lack of energy, lack of appetite.

Ringfur
A deadly illness. Based on the ‘ringworm’ in our language, ringfur is just that. The cat loses fur along where the fungus is, since it lives on the hair, and the only way to 'get better' is to isolate the feline from the others. The cat will be exiled or else will go under protective care from the medicine cat, including spreading mouse bile along the lost fur. Another method is to leave the cat in a Twoleg nest for them to take care of it. Not all cats are returned though.
Symptoms: Loss of hair in spots, red wounds, scratching, possibly fever.

Fly Strike
Known to some as 'maggots', whenever a cat does not stay groomed it will get this disease. The only way a medicine cat can assist them is by using mouse bile and various washings in a stream. Symptoms: grungy pelt, lack of wanting to groom, lack of appetite, scratching.


~ Sourced from The Medicine Cat Source and other unknown sources.

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