Post by Consuela on Oct 8, 2014 0:00:50 GMT -8
Medicine cats have a long list of herbs to memorize, as well as how to use them. They are always inventing new ways of doing things because as time goes on new properties and uses of herbs are discovered. Below is a list provided for all our medicine cats and their apprentices (: If you need a hand with remembering something or need to double check, just take a look below. This list is by no means complete, and will be tweaked and fixed whenever new information is found.
Herbs for Healing
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❅ - treats wounds
✦ - treats disease
✛ - other
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✛Alder Bark: Chewing on the bark of an Alder tree helps to ease toothaches.
✛Alfalfa: Chew and swallow to help with tooth decay.
❅Aloe Vera: Split leaves open and rub the inside juices on burns to help soothe and heal them.
✛Blessed Thistle: Will aid in increasing circulation.
❅Blackberry Leaves: Helps to lower swelling of bee stings. Chew into a pulp and spread over the stung spot.
✛Borage Leaves: Used to treat fevers, as well as help nursing queens increase and better their milk supply. Chew and swallow.
❅Burdock Root: Used to treat infections, notably rat bites. Chew and place on infected cuts and bites.
✦Catmint: The best remedy for treating Greencough, It can also be used to treat Whitecough. If possible, medicine cats are advised to try and tend to a patch of catmint to make sure you have a ready supply on paw when needed. Collect later in the day when the dew has evaporated or it will rot in the stores.
❅Celandine: Used for scratched or otherwise injured eyes. The flower is chewed up and the juice drizzled into the damaged eye.
✛Chamomile: Helps to strengthen the heart and soothe one's nerves. It is simply eaten.
❅Chervil: Used for infected wounds and to ease bellyache. Sometimes used during kitting. Chew the leaves or roots to extract the juices.
✦Chickweed: Used to treat Greencough when catmint is low or not to be found. Not quite as effective. Simply eat the leaves.
✛Coltsfoot: Eases breathing and kitten-cough, and can be used to help cracked or sore paw pads. Chew leaves into a pulp and either eat or spread on paws.
❅Comfrey: A largely effective herb, it has many uses; helps repair broken bones, ease wounds, helps wrenched claws, ease itching, and eases inflammation on stiff joints. Chew roots and spread pulp onto affected area. Be careful not to swallow as it can be poisonous to the liver.
✛Daisy Leaves: Eases aching joints. Chew to a paste.
❅Dandelion: Sometimes used to treat bee stings. Leaves can be chewed to act like a painkiller.
❅Dock: Soothes scratches and sore paw pads. Chew and apply to scratches, but it does sting a bit.
❅Fennel: Helps pain in the hips. Break the stalks and squeeze the juice into the cat's mouth.
✛Feverfew: Heals aches and pains, lowers fevers and chills, and good for headaches. Eaten.
❅Garlic: Helps to be rid of fleas. The juices can be used to prevent infections of wounds.
✛Ginger: Helps to ease coughing and asthma.
❅Goldenrod: Another herb for healing wounds. Chew and add to poultice.
✦Grass: Consumed to help with upset stomach. Will help a cat to expel what is making it sick.
✦Hawthorne Berries: Eases indigestion. Be careful because they resemble Deathberries; they are just not shiny like the poisonous ones.
✛Honey: Eases coughing, infections, and eases smoke-damaged or otherwise sore throats. Helps to soothe infections. Eaten by itself or given via soaked in moss.
❅Horsetail: Treats infections and stops bleeding. Add to poultice and apply to wounds.
✛Juniper Berries: Chewed and eaten to soothe bellyaches, ease breathing, and calm cats. Sometimes sued to give a cat strength.
✛Lamb's Ear: Can help to give a cat strength.
✦Lavender: Helps with fevers and chills. Place beside cat's head to allow the scent to be inhaled constantly. Used to hide the scent of death.
✛Mallow Leaves: Eaten to ease bellyaches.
❅Marigold: Stops infection, bleeding, and eases inflammation of joints. Petals or leaves are chewed and added to a poultice. Juice may be used as well. Leaves can be used to dress wounds as well.
❅Milkweed Juice: Apply to sores or burns. Avoid contact with eye and ears. This is toxic to cats when ingested.
✛Mint: Eases nausea and headaches. Will lower indigestion and inflammation in the stomach. Helps clear respiratory and nasal congestion via the scent, and will help to wake a cat up.
✛Narcissus Flowers: soothes a she-cat when having contractions.
❅Oak Leaves: Dried and stored. When chewed and spread on a wound, stops infection from setting in.
✛Parsley: Eaten to help a queen stop producing milk if; her kits die, she doesn't need it anymore, or she's producing too much. Can also ease a bellyache.
✛Poppy Seeds: Eaten to help a cat sleep, ease shock/distress and pain. Not to be used for nursing queens.
❅Ragwort Leaves: Crushed and mixed with juniper berries to treat aching joints and give a cat strength.
✛Ragweed: Gives extra strength and energy.
✛Raspberry Leaves: Eases pain and bleeding, often used during kitting. Can act as a mild painkiller. Eaten.
✛Rosinweed: When poisons have been ingested, this plant helps to clean the system out.
✛Sage: Used to stop a queen's milk from being produced. Also used to stop bleeding, treat sores and sprains, stop internal bleeding, and ease swelling. When mixed with water can be used to ease sore throats and coughs.
❅Snakeroot: Applied to wounds to help with poison.
✦Snapdragon Seeds: Helps to rid the body of ringworms and fleas.
❅Stinging Nettle: Induces vomiting when a cat has swallowed poison, and brings swelling down. Seeds are eaten to vomit, and leaves chewed and added to a poultice for a wound. Can be mixed with comfrey to help broken bones.
✦Sweet-Sedge: Swallowing the sap helps to ease infection.
✦Tansy: Heals coughs and wounds, helps to neutralize poisons, soothes throats, and helps prevent Greencough. This herb is eaten, but only in small doses.
❅Tormentil: The root is chewed and placed on wounds to treat them and extract poison.
✛Thyme: Leaves are chewed to calms nerves, anxiety, and shock.
✛Watermint: Chewed to a pulp and eaten to ease bellyache.
❅Wild Garlic: Prevents infection, especially from rat bites.
❅Willow Bark: Chew on the softer bark to ease pain.
✛Willow Leaves: Eaten to help stop vomiting.
✦Windflower Shoots: Helps ease stomach cramps.
✛Wintergreen: Aids in treating wounds and poison.
✛Witch Hazel: Aids in helping one wake up and feeling energized.
✦Yew: Will induce vomiting.
✛Yarrow: Helps extract poisons from wounds, makes a cat vomit toxins, heals cracked pads, stops bleeding, and can sometimes ease toothaches. Leaves and petals are chewed into a poultice for wounds or eaten.
Travelling Herbs
Prepared by medicine cats for cats going on a long journey, such as a leader receiving their nine lives. Allows a cat to travel for a good while without much need to eat or rest.
Burnet: Keeps a cat's strength up on long journeys.
Chamomile: Another herb to aid a cat's strength on journeys.
Daisy Leaves: Eases aching joints.
Sorrel: Eaten for travel strength.
Poisonous Herbs
☠ Deathberries: Red berries found on yew bushes. Kills a cat within minutes after being eaten.
☠ Foxglove Seeds: Tiny black seeds found in the bell like flower of foxglove plants. Can be mistaken for poppy seeds easily, Cause paralysis and heart failure when ingested.
☠ Holly Berries: Small red berries found on the spiny leafed holly bush. Not as dangerous as deathberries, but they still pose a threat to kits.
☠ Deadly Nightshade: The shrub is small with bell shaped flowers that are purple and green in color. When ripe the berries are a shiny black. When ingested, will kill a cat in minutes if they are not helped quickly.
☠ Water Hemlock: Small green or white flowers in umbrella shaped clusters, and found in marshy areas. Next to deathberries, this plant is the second most poisonous plant to cats. Cats who ingest this will be found writhing and convulsing in pain, and foaming at the mouth.
Aids for Healing
Beech Leaves: Large broad leaves that can be used to carry herbs back to camp.
Bindweed: Used to help with fastening sticks to broken limbs.
Broom: Used to make poultices for wounds and broken limbs.
Catchweed: The burrs are used to keep a poultice on a cat's pelt without hurting the skin.
Cob Nuts: Can be made into ointments or used to attract prey out of burrows.
Cobwebs: Pressed onto wounds to help slow and stop bleeding, and to bind wounds.
Gumweed: Used to seal wounds against infection. Stings a tad when applied but will hold skin together.
Heather Nectar: Added to herbal mixes to sweeten them and make swallowing easier.
Ivy Leaves: Can be used to wrap up other herbs for storage.
Lavender: Hides the scent of death.
Mint: Hides the scent of death.
Mouse Bile: Removes ticks. Apply with moss, and always wash paws after. The scent is horrible and the taste even worse.
Rosemary: Hides the scent of death. Blossoms can be used to cover and heal infection around eyes.
Rush: Used to hold broken limbs in place.
Sticks: Placed in a cat's mouth for them to bite on. Distracts a cat from pain. Often used for kitting or setting broken limbs in place.
Wild Garlic: When rolled in, helps to hide one's scent.
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Source1 and 2 for all the information.
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Please don't ever feed any of these to your cats! While they are used in the books, most of these are not meant to actually be used on real cats.
Herbs for Healing
---
❅ - treats wounds
✦ - treats disease
✛ - other
---
✛Alder Bark: Chewing on the bark of an Alder tree helps to ease toothaches.
✛Alfalfa: Chew and swallow to help with tooth decay.
❅Aloe Vera: Split leaves open and rub the inside juices on burns to help soothe and heal them.
✛Blessed Thistle: Will aid in increasing circulation.
❅Blackberry Leaves: Helps to lower swelling of bee stings. Chew into a pulp and spread over the stung spot.
✛Borage Leaves: Used to treat fevers, as well as help nursing queens increase and better their milk supply. Chew and swallow.
❅Burdock Root: Used to treat infections, notably rat bites. Chew and place on infected cuts and bites.
✦Catmint: The best remedy for treating Greencough, It can also be used to treat Whitecough. If possible, medicine cats are advised to try and tend to a patch of catmint to make sure you have a ready supply on paw when needed. Collect later in the day when the dew has evaporated or it will rot in the stores.
❅Celandine: Used for scratched or otherwise injured eyes. The flower is chewed up and the juice drizzled into the damaged eye.
✛Chamomile: Helps to strengthen the heart and soothe one's nerves. It is simply eaten.
❅Chervil: Used for infected wounds and to ease bellyache. Sometimes used during kitting. Chew the leaves or roots to extract the juices.
✦Chickweed: Used to treat Greencough when catmint is low or not to be found. Not quite as effective. Simply eat the leaves.
✛Coltsfoot: Eases breathing and kitten-cough, and can be used to help cracked or sore paw pads. Chew leaves into a pulp and either eat or spread on paws.
❅Comfrey: A largely effective herb, it has many uses; helps repair broken bones, ease wounds, helps wrenched claws, ease itching, and eases inflammation on stiff joints. Chew roots and spread pulp onto affected area. Be careful not to swallow as it can be poisonous to the liver.
✛Daisy Leaves: Eases aching joints. Chew to a paste.
❅Dandelion: Sometimes used to treat bee stings. Leaves can be chewed to act like a painkiller.
❅Dock: Soothes scratches and sore paw pads. Chew and apply to scratches, but it does sting a bit.
❅Fennel: Helps pain in the hips. Break the stalks and squeeze the juice into the cat's mouth.
✛Feverfew: Heals aches and pains, lowers fevers and chills, and good for headaches. Eaten.
❅Garlic: Helps to be rid of fleas. The juices can be used to prevent infections of wounds.
✛Ginger: Helps to ease coughing and asthma.
❅Goldenrod: Another herb for healing wounds. Chew and add to poultice.
✦Grass: Consumed to help with upset stomach. Will help a cat to expel what is making it sick.
✦Hawthorne Berries: Eases indigestion. Be careful because they resemble Deathberries; they are just not shiny like the poisonous ones.
✛Honey: Eases coughing, infections, and eases smoke-damaged or otherwise sore throats. Helps to soothe infections. Eaten by itself or given via soaked in moss.
❅Horsetail: Treats infections and stops bleeding. Add to poultice and apply to wounds.
✛Juniper Berries: Chewed and eaten to soothe bellyaches, ease breathing, and calm cats. Sometimes sued to give a cat strength.
✛Lamb's Ear: Can help to give a cat strength.
✦Lavender: Helps with fevers and chills. Place beside cat's head to allow the scent to be inhaled constantly. Used to hide the scent of death.
✛Mallow Leaves: Eaten to ease bellyaches.
❅Marigold: Stops infection, bleeding, and eases inflammation of joints. Petals or leaves are chewed and added to a poultice. Juice may be used as well. Leaves can be used to dress wounds as well.
❅Milkweed Juice: Apply to sores or burns. Avoid contact with eye and ears. This is toxic to cats when ingested.
✛Mint: Eases nausea and headaches. Will lower indigestion and inflammation in the stomach. Helps clear respiratory and nasal congestion via the scent, and will help to wake a cat up.
✛Narcissus Flowers: soothes a she-cat when having contractions.
❅Oak Leaves: Dried and stored. When chewed and spread on a wound, stops infection from setting in.
✛Parsley: Eaten to help a queen stop producing milk if; her kits die, she doesn't need it anymore, or she's producing too much. Can also ease a bellyache.
✛Poppy Seeds: Eaten to help a cat sleep, ease shock/distress and pain. Not to be used for nursing queens.
❅Ragwort Leaves: Crushed and mixed with juniper berries to treat aching joints and give a cat strength.
✛Ragweed: Gives extra strength and energy.
✛Raspberry Leaves: Eases pain and bleeding, often used during kitting. Can act as a mild painkiller. Eaten.
✛Rosinweed: When poisons have been ingested, this plant helps to clean the system out.
✛Sage: Used to stop a queen's milk from being produced. Also used to stop bleeding, treat sores and sprains, stop internal bleeding, and ease swelling. When mixed with water can be used to ease sore throats and coughs.
❅Snakeroot: Applied to wounds to help with poison.
✦Snapdragon Seeds: Helps to rid the body of ringworms and fleas.
❅Stinging Nettle: Induces vomiting when a cat has swallowed poison, and brings swelling down. Seeds are eaten to vomit, and leaves chewed and added to a poultice for a wound. Can be mixed with comfrey to help broken bones.
✦Sweet-Sedge: Swallowing the sap helps to ease infection.
✦Tansy: Heals coughs and wounds, helps to neutralize poisons, soothes throats, and helps prevent Greencough. This herb is eaten, but only in small doses.
❅Tormentil: The root is chewed and placed on wounds to treat them and extract poison.
✛Thyme: Leaves are chewed to calms nerves, anxiety, and shock.
✛Watermint: Chewed to a pulp and eaten to ease bellyache.
❅Wild Garlic: Prevents infection, especially from rat bites.
❅Willow Bark: Chew on the softer bark to ease pain.
✛Willow Leaves: Eaten to help stop vomiting.
✦Windflower Shoots: Helps ease stomach cramps.
✛Wintergreen: Aids in treating wounds and poison.
✛Witch Hazel: Aids in helping one wake up and feeling energized.
✦Yew: Will induce vomiting.
✛Yarrow: Helps extract poisons from wounds, makes a cat vomit toxins, heals cracked pads, stops bleeding, and can sometimes ease toothaches. Leaves and petals are chewed into a poultice for wounds or eaten.
Travelling Herbs
Prepared by medicine cats for cats going on a long journey, such as a leader receiving their nine lives. Allows a cat to travel for a good while without much need to eat or rest.
Burnet: Keeps a cat's strength up on long journeys.
Chamomile: Another herb to aid a cat's strength on journeys.
Daisy Leaves: Eases aching joints.
Sorrel: Eaten for travel strength.
Poisonous Herbs
☠ Deathberries: Red berries found on yew bushes. Kills a cat within minutes after being eaten.
☠ Foxglove Seeds: Tiny black seeds found in the bell like flower of foxglove plants. Can be mistaken for poppy seeds easily, Cause paralysis and heart failure when ingested.
☠ Holly Berries: Small red berries found on the spiny leafed holly bush. Not as dangerous as deathberries, but they still pose a threat to kits.
☠ Deadly Nightshade: The shrub is small with bell shaped flowers that are purple and green in color. When ripe the berries are a shiny black. When ingested, will kill a cat in minutes if they are not helped quickly.
☠ Water Hemlock: Small green or white flowers in umbrella shaped clusters, and found in marshy areas. Next to deathberries, this plant is the second most poisonous plant to cats. Cats who ingest this will be found writhing and convulsing in pain, and foaming at the mouth.
Aids for Healing
Beech Leaves: Large broad leaves that can be used to carry herbs back to camp.
Bindweed: Used to help with fastening sticks to broken limbs.
Broom: Used to make poultices for wounds and broken limbs.
Catchweed: The burrs are used to keep a poultice on a cat's pelt without hurting the skin.
Cob Nuts: Can be made into ointments or used to attract prey out of burrows.
Cobwebs: Pressed onto wounds to help slow and stop bleeding, and to bind wounds.
Gumweed: Used to seal wounds against infection. Stings a tad when applied but will hold skin together.
Heather Nectar: Added to herbal mixes to sweeten them and make swallowing easier.
Ivy Leaves: Can be used to wrap up other herbs for storage.
Lavender: Hides the scent of death.
Mint: Hides the scent of death.
Mouse Bile: Removes ticks. Apply with moss, and always wash paws after. The scent is horrible and the taste even worse.
Rosemary: Hides the scent of death. Blossoms can be used to cover and heal infection around eyes.
Rush: Used to hold broken limbs in place.
Sticks: Placed in a cat's mouth for them to bite on. Distracts a cat from pain. Often used for kitting or setting broken limbs in place.
Wild Garlic: When rolled in, helps to hide one's scent.
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Source1 and 2 for all the information.
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Please don't ever feed any of these to your cats! While they are used in the books, most of these are not meant to actually be used on real cats.
