Healer Herbs and Sicknesses

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Healer Herbs

Beneficial Herbs

Butterfly Milkweed: The root is used to help relieve congestion of the lungs, though it must be dried first.

Black-root: The root of the plant is used to help with bowel movement, mostly in older cats. If used in too high of a dose it can cause the cat to vomit. The root must be dried before use.

Yellow Jasmine: The root is used to help with Fevers and Greencough.

Yarrow: The leaves of the plant are used to induce vomiting.

Poppy Seeds: Used to dull pain, or if given enough of, make a cat sleep.

Cat-mint(Catnip): Helps with Whitecough and Greencough, and is exceptionally tasty to cats that aren’t sick.

Cobwebs: Used to stop bleeding.

Marigold: Used to treat infection and sores.

Horsetail: Used to treat infected wounds.

Burdock Root: Used to treat infections, especially Rat Bites.

Chervil Root: Used to treat infections.

Wild Garlic: Can help prevent infection and mask scent, though with a strong scent of garlic afterwards.

Colts-foot: Used to treat Kittencough

Chickweed: Used to help treat Greencough

Thyme: Used to help relax a cat.

Chamomile: Used to help relax a cat.


Juniper Berries: Used to treat a bellyache.


Water-mint: Used to treat infections.


Daisy Leaves: Used to treat aching joints.


Goldenrod: Used in a poultice to treat aching joints and stiffness.

Ragwort Leaves: used alongside juniper berries in a poultice to treat aching joints

Comfrey: Used to treat broken bones.

Nettle (leaves): Used to treat swelling.

Celandine: Used to treat ailments of the eyes.

Snake Root: Used to counter poison.

Nettle (seeds): Used to counter poison.

Honey: Used to treat sore and irritated throats.

Mouse Bile: Used to remove ticks from a cat’s fur.

Hawthorne Berries: Treats heart burns and indigestion.

Huckleberry: Used to relieve muscle pain.

Lavender: Used to treat headaches, sore throat, and chills.

Yarrow Poultice: Used to help scraped paws.

Other Plants

Dock Leaves: Used to make a cat's coat slippery; also can be used as a surface for vomiting.

Deathberries (Yew): No medicinal value; bright scarlet berries that can kill a cat if they are not expelled quickly enough; use yarrow.

Nightshade: No medicinal value; is poisonous.

Holly (Berries): No medicinal value; poisonous like deathberries.

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Sicknesses

Cough
-a sickness that is like a human cold. Symptoms are just coughs and sneezes, though it can be dangerous to kits or young cats.
Best Treatment: Tansy

Greencough
- a sickness similar to pneumonia that is often rampant among the Clans in leaf-bare. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, pus excreted from the eyes, sneezing, fever, and green phlegm streaming from the nose.
Best Treatment: Catmint, feverfew, and lavender

Whitecough
- a mild sickness like a cold. More common than greencough, but can become greencough or even the fatal blackcough. Symptoms include sneezing, coughing, white phlegm streaming from the nose, and a slightly high temperature. This is similar to kittencough, which is the least harmful of all coughs and is mostly caught by kits.
Best Treatment: Catmint

Blackcough
- a fatal sickness that spells certain death for any cat who catches it. Symptoms are unknown, but the "black" might be blood.
Best Treatment: None

Chill
- a very mild ailment usually caused by very cold weather or falling into icy water. Much like whitecough, but with cold chills instead of fever.
Best Treament: Catmint, feverfew, and lavender

Cracked pads
-a painful ailment usually seen in elderly cats. The pawpads crack from cold or dryness, and if untreated can lead to infection. Symptoms include swelling of the paws and pain.
Best Treatment: Marigold, and poppy seed if there is pain

Aching joints
-basically arthritis in cats. Caused by age or damp weather. Symptoms include pain and stiffness.
Best Treatment: Anything that cures pain other than poppy seeds

Bleeding
-blood loss due to injury, such as a wound sustained in battle. Severity depends on injury.
Best Treatment: Cobwebs pressed onto the wound

Poisoning
-the case of eating deathberries, poisoned fresh-kill, or other kinds of harmful things.
Best treatment: Yarrow and stinging nettle

Freezing
-a case where a cat is too cold and might die.
Best Treatment: Grooming fur the wrong way to get the blood flowing.

Starvation
-a case where a cat is too hungry.
Best treatment: Fresh kill or Den-Mother's milk.

Weakness
-a case where a cat is exhausted.
Best treatment: Rest

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