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Post by Havic on Feb 26, 2011 15:54:04 GMT -5
Medicine Cat 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
-Lavender - cures fever
-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
-Dried Oak Leaves - collected during leaf-fall; stops infection
-Coltsfoot - used to treat kittencough
-Catnip (also called catmint) - used to treat whitecough and greencough; can help to relax a cat
-Chickweed - used to help treat greencough
-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) - 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.
NOTE: Deathberries are also known as deadly nightshade.
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