Post by amara on Jun 15, 2010 20:57:04 GMT -5
FOR YOU MEDICINE CATS AND JUST EVERYONE. SOME DOUBLES.. OOPSIES. C:
Crushed Marigold Petals - Used to protect against infection of serious wounds, avoid around eyes, for it can be irritating.
Peacock Flower Petals - Used to help a kit with kitten cough. Will help to clear clogged throats and nasal passages.
Windflower Shoots - Used for stomach cramps, such as cramps that came when a she-cat becomes pregnant.
Crushed Iris Petals - Used to stimulate breathing during the birthing process. This can also be used for kit’s sore throats.
Snapdragon Seeds - Used to clear up ringworm and to help rid the body of fleas.
Thinned Out Heather Down - Used to help with the indigestion for kits. It will help to line a kit’s stomach, and absorb the juices that produce the uncomfortable feeling.
Broken Rosemary Blossoms - Used to heal eye infection or to cover up wounds around the eyes or eyelids.
Yarrow Berries (also called deathberries) - Used to kill a cat if they are suffering. If death is near and they are in pain, ease their passage with these berries, and end their suffering.
Crushed Pawpaw Roots - Used for kitten cough, which threatens only kittens.
Buttonbush Down - Used to help urine problems, and constipation.
Chewed Gumweed - Used to help seal wounds from infection. It will slightly sting, and helps to collect the skin together and close quicker.
Sage Roots - Used for cracked pads, especially on elder cats. Use with Poppy seeds.
Rosinweed - Used to clean out the system when poisons have been digested. (Will happen during “relieving yourself”)
Goldenrod Juice - Dripped into wounds to relieve the tingling or pain sensation. It does nothing to heal, but numbs the pain.
Garlic Juice - Dripped into wounds to prevent infection. Will cause slight stinging sensation when used.
Feverfew - Used when kits, or any cat for that matter, has a fever.
Culver’s Root - Used when a cat takes a dip in some sort of water. Use with Feverfew.
Milkweed Juice - Used for sores or burns. Do not use around eyes or ears. Poisonous if ingested.
Foxglove Cloves - Used to purge toxins from the body. Will force you to throw up the toxins.
Poppy Seeds - Used to help cats or kittens sleep, and also to dull pain.
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 Roots - 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 {AKA Catnip} - A delicious-smelling, leafy plant that's hard to find in the wild; often found growing in Twoleg gardens. The best remedy for greencough.
Chervil - A sweet-smelling plant with large, spreading fern like leaves and small white flowers. The juice of the leaves can be used for infected wounds, and chewing the roots helps with bellyache.
Cobweb - Spiderwebs can be found all over the forest; be careful not to bring the spider along 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 stored 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 throats of cats who have breathed smoke.
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.
Marigold - 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. Stops infections.
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 throughly in running water afterward.
Poppy Seed - Small black seeds shaken from a dried poppy flower, theese are fed to cats 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 who's 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 may be eaten to calm anxiety and frayed nerves.
Watermint - A leafy green plant found in streams or damp earth. Usuall 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 dangerious wounds like rat bites.
Yarrow - Flowering plant whoes leaves can be made into a poultice and applied to wound sor scratches to expel poison.
Windflower Shoots - Used for stomach cramps, such as cramps that came when a she-cat becomes pregnant.
Narcissus Flower Petals - Used when a she-cat has contractions. Helps soothe their minds.
Broom Poultices - Helps broken legs and other serious wounds.
Broom Malice Poultices - Heals open wounds.
Ginger (Poultice) - Used for asthma and coughs.
Sacred bark - Used for an upset stomach.
Yarrow Ointment - Lotion heals scraped paws and cuts. Aka, minor injuries.
Milkweed Juice - Used for sores or burns. Do not use around eyes or ears. Poisonous if ingested.
Aloe Vera - Use the gel inside of leaves; treats burns and skin problems. (insect bites, etc.)
Blessed Thistle - Helps strengthen the heart & lungs; increases circulation.
Crushed Lotus Roots - Used to help keep you awake, so that you will not fall asleep. Energizer.
Sage Roots + Poppy Seeds - Used for cracked pads, especially on elder cats.
Feverfew + Culver’s Root - Used when a cat takes a dip in some sort of water; Feverfew decreases risk of chills/fevers.
Chewed Ragweed Leaves + Crushed Juniper berries - Eases stiff joints (given to cat by mouth).
Huckleberry + Goldenrod - A muscle pain reliever (given by mouth).
Ivy or thyme - Calming aid for frightened or roused up cats.
Buttonbush Down - Used to help urine problems, and constipation.
Alder bark - Soothes toothache (makes a paste that's applied to tooth).
Bramble twigs (chewed to a fine syrup) - Helps to sleep.
Ferns - Helps to clean out wounds by just the inside part after “crunching” off the outer “shells”.
Alfalfa - Used to prevent tooth decay
Chaparral - Helps clean faces (helps with cat acne [yes, they can get acne – around their faces]).
Note:
Deathberries - Red berries that can be fatally poisonous to kits and elders. They are NOT a medicine. Known to Twolegs as yew berries. BEWARE!
Traveling Herbs:
Poppy Seeds - Used to help dull the hunger, or pain in your paws.
Tansy Leaves - Used to keep your hunger at bay
Crushed Lotus Roots - Used to help keep you awake, so that you will not fall asleep. (Energizer)
Skullcap Seeds- Used to give you extra strength. (Acts like a steroid)
*Credit to Erin Hunter: Field Guide - Warriors: Secrets of the Clans*