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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2009 11:26:44 GMT -7
- Alder Bark: Best cure for tooth-aches. To be chewed slowly and in small doses. *Spit right out after!!!
- Borage Leaves: Brings down fever and helps nursing queens with milk supply. To be chewed and eaten. The plant can be recognized by small blue or pink star shaped flowers and fuzzy leaves.
- Burdock Root: Good to cure infection, helps heal rat bites. Must be chewed to pulp by Medicine Cat and then applied to infected area.
- Catmint (Catnip): Best remedy for greencough. Chew and swallow, very simple! Hard to find in the wild; often found in Twoleg gardens.
- Celandine: Treats ailments in eyes. Can be chewed to poultice and applied to eyes or eaten; eating not as effective. Easily distinguished by bright yellow flowers.
- Chamomile: Used to calm cats and restore strength. Also a traveling herb. To be eaten.
- Chervil: Juice can be used for infected wounds, while roots help to cure bellyache. Drink the juice, chew the roots. This plant can be recognized by its sweet smell, large fernlike leaves, and small white flowers.
- Chickweed: If no Catmint is available, this is a good substitute to repel greencough. To be eaten in small, frequent doses.
- Cobwebs: Used to stop bleeding and keep a wound clean. Can be found all over the forest, just beware not to bring the spider along with the web!
- Coltsfoot: Helps counter shortness of breath; also very effective against kittencough. Chewed into pulp and then eaten. Coltsfoot is a flowering plant, a bit like a dandelion, with either yellow or white flowers, more commonly yellow.
- Comfrey: Mends broken bones and soothes wounds. To be chewed into a poultice and eaten. Identifiable by large leaves, small flowers (pink, white, or purple) and fat black roots. *The roots are the only healing parts of the plant!
- Daisy Leaves: Works wonders on aching joints. Leaves and petals are chewed into a poultice and then applied to the joint, or eaten. Either way works well.
- Deathberries (Yew berries): Very poisonous, should NEVER be eaten!! A single berry could kill even the strongest cat. You can recognize them by their cherry-like appearance and sickening scent.
- Dock Leaves: Most commonly used to soothe scratches. It can also make a cat's pelt very slippery when needed (to slip through thorny bushes, etc). Chewed to pulp and applied wherever needed. Dock looks a lot like sorrel.
- Dried Oak Leaf: Stops infections. Must be collected fresh in autumn and stored in a cool, dry place.
- Feverfew: Leaves used to cool down body temperature, particularly for cats with fever or chills. This plant is a small bush with flowers that look like daisies.
- Foxglove: Helps with fatigue, arthritis and rattlesnake bites. Can be eaten or applied. Apply for arthritis and bites, eat for fatigue.
- Ginger Root: Cures upset stomach. Grinded to pulp and eaten in small doses.
- Goldenrod: Terrific for healing most wounds. Chewed into poultice and applied to wound. Tall plant with bright yellow flowers, similar to Celandine.
- Honey: Great for curing infections and soothing the throats of cats who have breathed smoke. Applied to infected area or swallowed to soothe throat. Honey is a sweet smelling golden liquid created by bees. It is difficult collect without getting stung, and must be collected fresh every season.
- Horsetail: Leaves used to treat infected wounds. Usually chewed and applied as a poultice. Horsetail is a tall plant with bristly stems, and it grows in marshy areas.
- Juniper Berries: Soothes bellyache, calms cats, and helps cats who are having trouble breathing. To be eaten in small doses. These purple berries grow on a bush with spiky dark green leaves.
- Lavender: Cures fever. Eat often. Lavender is a very small flowering purple plant.
- Marigold: Best herb to stop infection. Petals or leaves are chewed to pulp and applied to wound. This particular herb is bright orange or yellow, and it grows low to the ground.
- Mouse Bile: Only remedy to remove ticks. A tiny ball of moss soaked in mouse bile will remove tick immediately. Mouse bile is horrible smelling. *Be sure to wash paws thoroughly in running water after touching the bile.
- Nettle (stinging nettle): Seeds help cats who have swallowed poison, while leaves can bring down swelling. Seeds are swallowed whole; leaves are applied to wound. Seeds are very spiny, and leaves look like mint leaves.
- Nightshade: Just as poisonous as Deathberries, and they look similar.
- Pasted Yarrow: Used to soften dry or cracked pads. Leaves are crushed with water into a paste and then spread onto affected area.
- Poison Ivy: Heals paw problems. Must use only the greenest leaves and use a tiny, tiny amount.
- Poppy Seeds: Helps cats sleep, soothes the nerves of cats suffering from shock and distress. To be eaten, anywhere from 1 seed to 3, depending on the level of shock. Small black seeds, shaken from dried poppy flower. *Not recommended for nursing/pregnant queens.
- Ragwort & Lamb's Ears (leaves only): Strengthening herb, used for traveling. Replenishes strength. To be eaten in small doses. Both found in the mountains. Ragwort looks like a tiny coniferous tree, while Lamb's Ears look like soft, pale green ears coming out of a stem. Lamb's Ears also have small pink flowers near the top.
- Rosemary: Helps muscular pain, bronchitis, colds and flu, headaches, and stress related symptoms. To be eaten in large doses.
- Sage: Helps with whitecough. To be swallowed in small, regular doses.
- Snakeroot: Used to counter poison. White flowers and long, thin stems make this herb easy to recognize.
- Tansy: Good for curing coughs. Must be eaten in small doses. Tansy is a very strong-smelling plant with round yellow flowers.
- Thyme: Calms anxiety and frayed nerves of distressed cats. Thyme is very strong-smelling, stick-like, leafy herb.
- Vera: Helps heal burns, scratches, and rashes. For inner relief, chew leaf, swallow liquid, then spit out pulp. For outer relief, make into poultice, then apply to affected area.
- Watermint: One of the best cures for bellyache. Usually chewed into a poultice and fed to a cat with bellyache.
- Wild Basil: Stimulates appetite, improves digestion, and when applied helps with slow-healing sores.
- Wild Garlic: Prevents infection, especially in dangerous wounds like rat bites. Roll in a patch of it to apply to wounds.
- Yarrow: Used to expel poison. Leaves made into a poultice and applied to wounds or scratches to expel poison. Can also be eaten if any poison was swallowed. Yarrow is a leafy, flowering plant.
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