Post by Fireyspeckle on Dec 2, 2008 17:28:01 GMT -5
Ok, I have worked really hard on this, It took me about three days (including school, Loyal to sites I already know) so, please don't copy this onto another form!
Herb list
Borage leaves: This is to be chewed and eaten directly.It helps nursing queens gain milk. Can be distinguished by it's small pink or blue shaped flowers and hairy leaves.
Burdock root: A tall-stemmed thistle with dark leaves. A medicine cat can dig up the roots, wash of the dirt, and chew then into a pulp, which can be applied to rat bites. Cures infection made by rat bites.
Catmint: A delicious-smelling, leafy green plant that is hard to find in the wild; often found in two-leg gardens. It is the best remedy for Green-cough.
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 help with bellyaches.
Cobwebs: Spiderwebs can be found all over the forest; be careful not to take the spider when taking the web! Medicine cats wrap it around an injury to soak up the blood and keeps the wound clean. Stops bleeding.
Colt's foot: A flowering plant, a bit like dandelion, with yellow or white flowers. The leaves can be chewed into a pulp, which is eaten to help shortness or breath.
Comfrey: Identifiable by it's large and bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple. The fat black roots can be used to mend broken bones or sooth wounds.
Dock leaves: plant similar to sorrel. The leaves can be chewed and applied to scratches to sooth them.
Dried oak leaf: This herb is collected in the Autumn when it is dry and crispy and stored for later use. It cures infections.
Feverfew: A small bush with flowers like daisies. The leaves can be eaten to cool down body tempter, particularly for cats with fevers or chills.
Goldenrod: A plant with yellow flowers. It is terrific for healing wounds.
Honey: A golden liquid made by bees, it is difficult to get without getting stung though! It is great for soothing scratches and great for soothing 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 sooth bellyaches and help cats who have trouble breathing.
Heather: A tall, grass like golden plant with small pods of seeds or purple flowers at the top. Can be chewed and mixed into a poultice with other herbs to cure Mouse-fire.
Lavender: A small purple flowering plant. Cures fever.
Marigold: A bright yellow or orange flower that grows low to the ground. It also keeps bugs of of other plants and herbs with it's scent. The petals or the leaves can be chewed into a pulp. They cure infections.
Mouse-bile: A bad smelling liquid that is the only remedy for ticks. Soak the liquid into some moss and dab the mouse-bile soaked moss onto the tick and it'll fall right off. Wash paws thoroughly in moving water before licking or grooming with your paws, or else you'll have the taste of Mouse-bile in your mouth for days!
Poppy seed: Small black seeds, shaken from a poppy flower, these are fed to cats who are having trouble sleeping. The seeds can also help sooth cats in pain, misery, shock and distress. Not recommended by nursing queens.
Rubarb leave: large, spreading purple veined plant with fat yellow flowers. Rubarb leaves can be chewed and added to a poultice to make a cure for Mouse-fire.
Stinging nettle: The spiky green nettles can be eaten to cure a cat who has swallowed poison and the leaves can help bring down swelling.
Tansy: A strong-smelling plant with round yellow flowers. Can be eaten for cats who have coughs but must be eaten in small douses.
Thyme: This herb can be used to calm cats with frayed nerves.
Watermint: A dark green plant usually found in streams or damp earth. Usually chewed into a pulp then fed to a cat suffering bellyache.
Wild garlic: A tall steamed, light green plant with long thin green leaves. Can be rolled in to cure bad infections, especially for dangerous wound like rat bites.
Yarrow: A flowering plant whose leaves can be made into a poultice and applied to wounds or scratches to expel poison.
Illness list
Green cough: A sever chest infection; fatle to kits and elders.
Symptoms are runny nose and eyes, fever/cold at same time, and sleeping a lot.
Cure: Catmint
Black cough: A bad chest infection.
Symptoms Same of White cough only a little bit more extreme.
White cough: Mild chest infection.
Symptoms: Fever and runny nose.
Cure: Juniper berries, Feverfew Watermint
Cough: A minor chest infection
Symptoms: Coughing
Cure: Tansy
Mouse-fire: An illness that occurs when two mice of the same sex mate and one or them both bite the cat or cats.
Symptoms: It is a deadly disease that is fatal for all cats. It causes fever, dilutions, sudden sleeping, and sudden heart falters for a period of time.
Cures: Feverfew, Heather, Rubarb, Lavander, Juniper berries, and Colt's foot.
Fever: A fever
Symptoms: Over-heated body.
Cure: Feverfew Lavander
Chills: A cold.
Symptoms: Unusually cold body, shivering.
Cure: Feverfew
The unknown: A illness in which a cat eats an infected rat from the carrion place.
Symptoms:Uncontrollable shivering, cramps, high pain.
Cure: Juniper berries, Watermint, Lavander
Poisen: An illness that is caught when you swallow poisen
Symptoms: Anything unusual
Cure: Yarrow then Watermint then JUniper andf maybe but not usually poppy seeds.
Deathberries: A sickness when you eat deathberries.
Sympotoms: Quickly and suddenly falling to the ground and not being able to feel your paws or tail. Then choking.
Cure: Yarrow, Pawing the rest of the deathberries out then giving juniper.
**Remeber** You have to be fast or else the berries will kill them if not treated soon.
Adder bite: When you are bitten by an adder.
Symptoms: Unknown
Cures: None
Herb list
Borage leaves: This is to be chewed and eaten directly.It helps nursing queens gain milk. Can be distinguished by it's small pink or blue shaped flowers and hairy leaves.
Burdock root: A tall-stemmed thistle with dark leaves. A medicine cat can dig up the roots, wash of the dirt, and chew then into a pulp, which can be applied to rat bites. Cures infection made by rat bites.
Catmint: A delicious-smelling, leafy green plant that is hard to find in the wild; often found in two-leg gardens. It is the best remedy for Green-cough.
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 help with bellyaches.
Cobwebs: Spiderwebs can be found all over the forest; be careful not to take the spider when taking the web! Medicine cats wrap it around an injury to soak up the blood and keeps the wound clean. Stops bleeding.
Colt's foot: A flowering plant, a bit like dandelion, with yellow or white flowers. The leaves can be chewed into a pulp, which is eaten to help shortness or breath.
Comfrey: Identifiable by it's large and bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple. The fat black roots can be used to mend broken bones or sooth wounds.
Dock leaves: plant similar to sorrel. The leaves can be chewed and applied to scratches to sooth them.
Dried oak leaf: This herb is collected in the Autumn when it is dry and crispy and stored for later use. It cures infections.
Feverfew: A small bush with flowers like daisies. The leaves can be eaten to cool down body tempter, particularly for cats with fevers or chills.
Goldenrod: A plant with yellow flowers. It is terrific for healing wounds.
Honey: A golden liquid made by bees, it is difficult to get without getting stung though! It is great for soothing scratches and great for soothing 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 sooth bellyaches and help cats who have trouble breathing.
Heather: A tall, grass like golden plant with small pods of seeds or purple flowers at the top. Can be chewed and mixed into a poultice with other herbs to cure Mouse-fire.
Lavender: A small purple flowering plant. Cures fever.
Marigold: A bright yellow or orange flower that grows low to the ground. It also keeps bugs of of other plants and herbs with it's scent. The petals or the leaves can be chewed into a pulp. They cure infections.
Mouse-bile: A bad smelling liquid that is the only remedy for ticks. Soak the liquid into some moss and dab the mouse-bile soaked moss onto the tick and it'll fall right off. Wash paws thoroughly in moving water before licking or grooming with your paws, or else you'll have the taste of Mouse-bile in your mouth for days!
Poppy seed: Small black seeds, shaken from a poppy flower, these are fed to cats who are having trouble sleeping. The seeds can also help sooth cats in pain, misery, shock and distress. Not recommended by nursing queens.
Rubarb leave: large, spreading purple veined plant with fat yellow flowers. Rubarb leaves can be chewed and added to a poultice to make a cure for Mouse-fire.
Stinging nettle: The spiky green nettles can be eaten to cure a cat who has swallowed poison and the leaves can help bring down swelling.
Tansy: A strong-smelling plant with round yellow flowers. Can be eaten for cats who have coughs but must be eaten in small douses.
Thyme: This herb can be used to calm cats with frayed nerves.
Watermint: A dark green plant usually found in streams or damp earth. Usually chewed into a pulp then fed to a cat suffering bellyache.
Wild garlic: A tall steamed, light green plant with long thin green leaves. Can be rolled in to cure bad infections, especially for dangerous wound like rat bites.
Yarrow: A flowering plant whose leaves can be made into a poultice and applied to wounds or scratches to expel poison.
Illness list
Green cough: A sever chest infection; fatle to kits and elders.
Symptoms are runny nose and eyes, fever/cold at same time, and sleeping a lot.
Cure: Catmint
Black cough: A bad chest infection.
Symptoms Same of White cough only a little bit more extreme.
White cough: Mild chest infection.
Symptoms: Fever and runny nose.
Cure: Juniper berries, Feverfew Watermint
Cough: A minor chest infection
Symptoms: Coughing
Cure: Tansy
Mouse-fire: An illness that occurs when two mice of the same sex mate and one or them both bite the cat or cats.
Symptoms: It is a deadly disease that is fatal for all cats. It causes fever, dilutions, sudden sleeping, and sudden heart falters for a period of time.
Cures: Feverfew, Heather, Rubarb, Lavander, Juniper berries, and Colt's foot.
Fever: A fever
Symptoms: Over-heated body.
Cure: Feverfew Lavander
Chills: A cold.
Symptoms: Unusually cold body, shivering.
Cure: Feverfew
The unknown: A illness in which a cat eats an infected rat from the carrion place.
Symptoms:Uncontrollable shivering, cramps, high pain.
Cure: Juniper berries, Watermint, Lavander
Poisen: An illness that is caught when you swallow poisen
Symptoms: Anything unusual
Cure: Yarrow then Watermint then JUniper andf maybe but not usually poppy seeds.
Deathberries: A sickness when you eat deathberries.
Sympotoms: Quickly and suddenly falling to the ground and not being able to feel your paws or tail. Then choking.
Cure: Yarrow, Pawing the rest of the deathberries out then giving juniper.
**Remeber** You have to be fast or else the berries will kill them if not treated soon.
Adder bite: When you are bitten by an adder.
Symptoms: Unknown
Cures: None
