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| Subject: List of Medicines and Ailments Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:48 pm | |
| These are the herbs used to cure and wounds or ailments in the Clans, as well as the known ailments and injuries. If you are looking for a cure to a certain illness, press Control + F (Command + F on a Mac) on your computer keyboard to search for a keyword. For example, if I were looking for a cure to venom, I would search "poison," and medicines used to fight poison would be highlighted.
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Medicines and Cures - Alderbark: Eaten to cure toothache
- Alfalfa: Used to prevent tooth decay
- Aloe: Relieves burning and skin problems
- Ash (tree): New shoots are chewed and applied to the bite of an adder or viper to stave off the poison effects; seeds may be eaten to fight the pain of a stitch in the side
- Blessed Thistle: Helps strengthen the heart and lungs and increases circulation
- Borage Leaves: Used to treat fevers and bring milk to queens
- Bramble Twigs: Helps bring sleep when chewed into syrup
- Broom: Helps broken legs and wounds, chew into poultice and spit into wound
- Burdock root: Chew and place onto wound to help heal rat bites and joint pain
- Celadine: Used to help the eyes; it will not prevent or cure blindness, but can postpone it
- Catchweed (burrs): Can be used to stick a treatment to the wound
- Catmint: Can be used to ease pain and help cure whitecough, greencough and blackcough by gathering and pressing into wounds (this also stops bleeding)
- Chamomile: Can be eaten to calm and strengthen a cat
- Chapparal: Can be used to clear "acne"
- Chervile leaves: Chew into to paste and press onto wound to help prevent or cure infections
- Chervile root: Helps cure bellyache
- Chickweed: Used to treat greencough
- Cobwebs: Used to stop bleeding
- Coltsfoot: Used to treat kittencough; helps with breathing
- Comfrey: Stems help strengthen bones; used for broken bones
- Daisy leaves: Used to treat bellyache and aching joints
- Dandelion leaves: For shock and calming
- Deathberries (yew): Kills a cat almost instantly; sometimes used as an act of mercy
- Dock leaves: Can sooth the pads of a cat, also make a cat's body slippery if they get stuck in a small place
- Echinacia: Used to treat infection
- Fern: After "crunching" off the outer "shells," it may be used to help cleanse wounds
- Feverfew: Used to treat fevers and headaches
- Ginger: Used to treat asthma and coughs
- Goldenrod: Used in a poultice to treat joints and stiffness; can also be used for severe injuries
- Hawthorne Berries: Used to treat burns and indigestion
- Honey: Helps sore throats and kittencough; if catnip is not available, it is sometimes used to help fight whitecough, greencough or blackcough but will not get rid of it completely
- Horsetail: Apply juice onto wound to fight infection
- Juniper berries: Chewed with ragwort to help aching joints; helps bellyaches and whitecough--do NOT swallow
- Lavender: Leaves and flowers can be eaten to cute headaches, sore throats and fever; inhaling scent can have a calming effect
- Marigold leaves: Used to treat infection and calm wounds, sores, etc.
- Mouse bile: Can be rubbed onto ticks to remove them; has horrible taste and smell
- Nettle leaves: Used to treat swelling
- Nettle seeds: Used as an antidote to poison
- Oak leaves: Used to fight infections
- Parsley: Used to stop the flow of a queen's milk
- Poppy: Seeds, petals and leaves are eaten to numb pain; they make a cat very sleepy
- Poppy heads: Eaten to stop continuous coughing
- Ragwort leaves: Used in a poultice with juniper to treat aching joints; do NOT swallow
- Snake root: An antidote for poison
- Stinging nettle: Leaves can be applied to reduce swelling; seeds are eaten by those who have swallowed poison
- Tansy: To treat normal coughs
- Thyme: Has a calming effect when eaten
- Traveling herbs: Give you strength and prevent hunger; eat before traveling long distances
- Watermint: Used to treat bellyache
- Wild garlic: Rolling in this may help stop infection
- Flowering willow (tree): Water from beneath the bark may be used as "eyedrops" to help blurry vision, can also be applied to dry skin as a moisturizer; small bits of bark may be eaten to cure pain, inflammation, fever and diarrhea
- Yarrow leaves: Eaten to make cats vomit up poison, also used for scraped paws
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Ailments and Injuries - Aching joints: Arthritis in cats
- Chill: A very mild sickness; like whitecough, but instead of fever, chills
- Cough: A regular cough--what a cold would be to a human; dangerous to elders and young kits
- Cracked pads: The paw of a cat becomes cracked from dryness or cold.
- Greencough: Similar to pneumonia in humans--symptoms include coughing, wheezing, pus dripping from eyes, sneezing, and fever
- Whitecough: A milder version of greencough
- Blackcough: A very severe version of greencough, always fatal
- Poisoning: Poisoning from deathberries, Twoleg junk, etc.
- Of course there's also starvation, freezing, etc., but I shouldn't have to mention those.
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