Medicine Cat 101

[Lemon]

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All your cat needs to know!

Medicines & Herbs

Adder Bark:: Used to ease toothaches.

Blackberry Leaves:: Eases the swelling of bee stings.

Borage Leaves:: To be chewed and eaten by nursing queens. It helps to produce more milk and bring down fevers.

Burdock Root:: Heals infected rat bites.

Catchweed:: Stops poultices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin.

Catmint:: The best remedy for greencough. Can also be used for whitecough.

Celandine:: Soothes damaged eyes.

Chervil:: For infected wounds and bellyaches.

Chickweed:: Can treat greencough, though catmint is preferred.

Cobwebs:: To soak up or stop bleeding. It can also be used to bind broken bones.

Coltsfoot:: Eases breathing and kitten-cough, as well as sore or cracked paws.

Comfrey Root:: Repairs broken bones, soothes wounds. Can also be used for wrenched claws, itching, and inflammation on stiff joints.

Daisy Leaf:: Eases the pain of aching joints.

Dandelion:: Is thought to soothe and heal bee stings. Its leaves can be chewed to act like a painkiller.

Dock:: Soothes scratches and sore pads.

Fennel:: Helps pain in the hips.

Feverfew:: Reduces body temperature on cats that have a fever or chills. Can heal aches and pains; especially headaches.

Goldenrod:: Good for healing wounds.

Heather Nectar:: Sweetens mixtures and makes swallowing easier.

Honey:: Soothes infections, smoke-damaged and sore throats, and helps cats swallow herbs.

Horsetail:: Treats infections.

Juniper Berries:: Soothes stomachaches, gives strength, helps troubled breathing, and can be used to calm cats.

Lamb's Ear:: Gives cats strength.

Lavender:: Cures fevers and chills.

Mallow Leaves:: Soothes stomachaches.

Marigold:: Stops infection and bleeding. Also used for inflammation on stiff joints.


Mouse Bile:: "Extracted from the mouse. The only remedy for ticks, mouse bile is foul smelling, and is stored in moss. When dabbed on a tick, the tick falls off. Smell can be masked by wild garlic, or by washing paws in running water. If accidentally swallowed, can leave a horrible taste in mouth for days. Medicine cats always have to remember to wash their paws in a body of water, such as a creek or stream, after using mouse bile."

Oak Leaf:: Stops infection from setting in.

Parsley:: Stops a queen from producing milk if her kits die, don't need milk anymore, or are producing too much milk. Also used for stomachaches.

Poppy Seeds:: Puts a cat to sleep, soothes shock or distress, and eases pain. Should not be used on nursing queens.

Ragwort Leaves:: Keeps a cat's strength up and treats aching joints.

Ragweed:: Same uses as lamb's ear.

Raspberry Leaves:: Possibly used to ease pain or to stop bleeding.

Rush:: Helps hold a broken limb in place.

Snakeroot:: Thought to heal poison.

Stinging Nettle:: Can induce vomiting or bring down swelling. Mixed with comfrey, it can be used to heal broken bones.

Tansy:: Cures coughs, wounds, and poison. Eaten to prevent cats from getting greencough. Soothes throats.

Tormentil:: The root is good for all wounds, as well as extracting poisons.

Thyme:: Calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats who are in shock.

Watermint:: Eases suffering that is caused by a stomachache.

Wild Garlic:: Prevents infection, especially from rat bites.

Willow Bark:: Eases pain.

Wintergreen:: Treats wounds and some poisons.

Yarrow:: Used to extract poisons, cause a cat to vomit up toxins, heal and soften cracked paw pads.

Traveling Herbs

Burnet:: Keeps a cat's strength up. Is said to help stop minor bleeding on humans.

Chamomile:: Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind. Also keeps a cat's strength up.

Daisy:: Traveling herb.

Sorrel:: Similar to dock. A traveling herb.

Burial Herbs

Herbs placed on a dead cat's body before it is buried include:

Lavender:: Hides the scent of death.

Mint:: Hides the scent of death.

Rosemary:: Hides the scent of death.

Watermint:: Can be used to smooth the pelt and hide the scent of death.

Poisons

Deathberries:: Kills a cat within minutes after being consumed.
"ShadowClan medicine cats use them to end a cat's life to prevent unnecessary suffering."


Foxglove Seeds:: Often mistaken for poppy seeds, these can inflict paralysis and heart failure.

Holly Berries:: Not as deadly as deathberries, these are still dangerous to kits.

Nightshade:: Deadly.

Water Hemlock:: Causes writhing and foaming at the mouth. Yarrow can help if Water Hemlock is accidentally consumed.


More information on herbs and poisons can be found here: warriors.wikia.com/wiki/Medicine

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[shapeshifter99]

This is a great help for the people who are roleplaying medicine cats! Thanks a lot! If it helps, I can put descriptions of some of the plants below:

Borage: A tall, leafy plant with small blue or pink start-shaped flowers and fuzzy leaves.

Burdock root: A sharp-smelling thistle with dark leaves and tall stems.

Catmint: Delicious smelling to any cat, Catmint is very leafy, it's leaves a soft green with jagged, but soft edges. It is most commonly found in twoleg gardens.

Chervil: A plant with large, spreading fern-like leaves and small white flowers.

Cobwebs: Obviously spiderwebs. WARNING; Be sure not to take the spider with you when gathering cobwebs, as it could infect the wound unintentionally. Plus, noone likes eight-legged hairy things crawling on you.

Coltsfoot: Similar to a dandelion, this plant has yellow or white flowers.

Comfrey: Is easy to identify thanks to its large leaves and bell-shaped flowers that can be pink, white or purple. Its roots are fat and black.

Dock: This plant is similar to sorrel, being very leafy and close to the ground. The plant itself tastes bitter.

Oak leaf: Oak leaves are found underneath oak trees (duh!) and can be collected in autumn before being stored in a dry place. Depending on the tree, the leaves can either be very round with smooth edges, or spiky and wide.

Feverfew: A small bush with flowers that are almost identical to daisies, except for the fact they are in a bush.

I'll add more later!

[Lemon]

I just put their uses because the link has descriptions and such but it's fine if you want to do that :3
And I'm glad it's helpful!

[spiritcat]

This is great, thanks for posting :3

[Lemon]

I'm glad it's useful!

[holiday]

It's a great help when I rp as a medicine cat, thanks for the info!.3.