Important Medicines and their Uses

For a medicine cat, these plants and herbs come in handy every day - You must know them to be a medicine cat.

Borage Leaves To be chewed and eaten. Great for nursing queens as it helps increase their supply of milk. also brings down fever.

Burdock Root Roots must be dug up washed, and chewed into a pulp. Cures infections and perfect for rat bites.

Catmint best remedy for greencough; only grows in Twoleg gardens.

Chervil The juice of the leaves can be used for infected wounds, and cweing the roots helps with bellyache.

Cobweb Wrap around an injury to soak up the blood and keep the wound clean.

Coltsfoot The leaves can be chewed into a pulp, witch is eaten to help shortness of breath.

Comfrey The fat blck roots of this plant can be chewed into a poultice to mend broken bones or soothe wounds.

Dock The leaf can be chewed up and applied to soothe scratches.

Dried Oak Leaf Collected in leaf-fall and stored in a dry place. Stops infections.

Feverfew The leaves can be eaten to cool down body tempature, particulary for cats with fever or chills.

Goldenrod A poultice of this plant is terrific for healing wounds.

Honey Hard to collect without getting stung, but great for soothing infections or the throats of those who have breathed in smoke.

Horsetail The leaves can be used to treat infected wounds. Usually chewed up and applied as a poultice.

Juniper Berries The berries soothe bellyaches and helpscats who are having trouble breathing.

Lavender Cures fever.

Marigold The petals of leaves can be chew up into a pulp and applied as a poultice to wounds. Stops infections.

Mouse Bile Dab a little moss soaked in bile on a tick and it'll fall right off. Make sure to wash your paws good afterward!

Poopy Seed Seeds shaken from a flower, these are fed to cats to help them sleep. Soothes cats suffering from shock and distress. Not racommended for nursing queens.

Stinging Nettle The spiny green seeds can be administered to a cat who's swallowed poison, while the leaves can be applied to a wound to bring down sweeling.

Tansy Good for curing coughs, but must be eaten in small doses.

Term Broom Good for healing broken bones.

Thyme This herb is can be eaten to calm anxiety and frayed nerves.

Watermint Usually chewed into a pulp and then fed to a cat suffering bellyache.

Wild Garlic Rolling in a patch of wild garlic can help prevent infectio, especially for dangerous wounds like rat bites.

Yarrow Leaves can be made into a poultice and applied to wounds or scatches to expel poison.

NOTE -
Deathberries Red berries that can be fatally poisionous to kits and elders. They are NOT a medicine. Knowed to Twolegs as yew berries. BEWARE!