Post by {{♠Dahlia✈}} on Mar 23, 2008 22:06:46 GMT -5
Borage leaves: To be chewed and eaten. The plant can be distinguied by itssmall 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 root: 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 applie to rat bites. Cure infection.
Catmint (also known as Catnip): A delicious-smelling, leafy plants that's hard to fing in the wild; often found growing in twoleg garders. The best remedy for greencough.
Chervil: A sweet-smelling plant with large, spreading, fernlike 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 along the spider when you the take webs! Medicine cats wrap it around the 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 shaped flowers, which can be pink, white, or purple. The fat black roots of this plant can be chewed into a poultice to med broken bones or sooth wounds.
Dock: A plant similar to sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied to sooth scracthes.
Dried oak leaf: Collected in the autumn and stored in a dry place. Stops infection.
Feverfew: A small bush with flowers like daisies. The leaves can be eaten to cool down body temperature, particularly for cats with fever of 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.
Horsetail: A tall plant with bristly stems that grows in marshy areas. The leaves can be used to treat infected wounds. Usually chewed up and applied as a poultice.
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 floer 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 itll fall right off. Wash your paws thoroughly in running water afterward.
Poppy seed: Small black seed shaken from a dried puppy flower, these are fed to cats to help them sleep. Soothes cats suffering from shock and distress. Not recommended for nursing queens.
Stinging nettle: The spiny green seeds can be adminstered 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 herb can be eaten to clam anxiety and frayed nerves.
watermint: A leafy green plant found in streams or damp earth. Usually chewed into a pulp and then fed to a cat suffering from a bellyache.
Wild garlic: Rolling in a patch of wild garlic can help prevent infection, especially for dangerous wounds like rat bites.
Yarrow: A flowering plant whose leaves can be made into a poultice and applied to wounds or scratches to expel poison.
[glow=red,2,300]NOTE:[/glow]
Deathberries: Red berries that can be fatally poisonous to kits and elders. They are NOT a medicine. Known to Twolegs as yew berries. BEWARE!
Burdock root: 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 applie to rat bites. Cure infection.
Catmint (also known as Catnip): A delicious-smelling, leafy plants that's hard to fing in the wild; often found growing in twoleg garders. The best remedy for greencough.
Chervil: A sweet-smelling plant with large, spreading, fernlike 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 along the spider when you the take webs! Medicine cats wrap it around the 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 shaped flowers, which can be pink, white, or purple. The fat black roots of this plant can be chewed into a poultice to med broken bones or sooth wounds.
Dock: A plant similar to sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied to sooth scracthes.
Dried oak leaf: Collected in the autumn and stored in a dry place. Stops infection.
Feverfew: A small bush with flowers like daisies. The leaves can be eaten to cool down body temperature, particularly for cats with fever of 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.
Horsetail: A tall plant with bristly stems that grows in marshy areas. The leaves can be used to treat infected wounds. Usually chewed up and applied as a poultice.
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 floer 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 itll fall right off. Wash your paws thoroughly in running water afterward.
Poppy seed: Small black seed shaken from a dried puppy flower, these are fed to cats to help them sleep. Soothes cats suffering from shock and distress. Not recommended for nursing queens.
Stinging nettle: The spiny green seeds can be adminstered 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 herb can be eaten to clam anxiety and frayed nerves.
watermint: A leafy green plant found in streams or damp earth. Usually chewed into a pulp and then fed to a cat suffering from a bellyache.
Wild garlic: Rolling in a patch of wild garlic can help prevent infection, especially for dangerous wounds like rat bites.
Yarrow: A flowering plant whose leaves can be made into a poultice and applied to wounds or scratches to expel poison.
[glow=red,2,300]NOTE:[/glow]
Deathberries: Red berries that can be fatally poisonous to kits and elders. They are NOT a medicine. Known to Twolegs as yew berries. BEWARE!
