medicine cats

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Medicine Cat Rules

1. They must visit the Moonpool every half-moon.

2. They're not permittedto have a mate or kits.

3. Must share dreams with StarClan at least once.

3. Must have an understanding of medicine.

4.Can give herbs and other medicines to other medicine cats if they need it.


Here are the all the things medicine cats can find in the forest helpful to their Clan:
Herbs

Borage leaves - to be chewed and eaten. The plant can be distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flower and hairy leaves. Great for 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 into a pulp, which can be applied to rat bites. Cures infection.

Catmint(also known as catnip) - A delicious-smelling, leafy plant thats hard to find in the wild; often found growing in Twoleg gardens. The best remedy for greencough.

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 helps with bellyaches.

Cobweb - spiderwebs can be found all over the forest; be careful not to bring the spider when take the webs! Medicine cats wrap it around an injury to soak up the blood and keep the wound clean. Stops bleeding.

Coltsfoot - 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 of breath.

Comfrey - identifiable by its large leaves and small bell-shaped flower, which can be pink, white, or purple. The fat black roots of this plant can be chewed into a poultice to mend broken bones or sooth wounds.

Dock - a plant similar to sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied to soothe scratches.

Dried oak leaves - Collected in leaf-fall and stored in a dry place. Stops infections.

Feverfew - a small bush with flowers like daisies. the leaves can be eaten to cool down body temperature, particularly for cats with fever or chills.

Goldenrod - a tall plant with bright yellow flowers. A poultices of this of this is terrific for healing woulds.

Honey - a sweet, golden liquid created by bees. Difficult to collect with out getting stung, but great for soothing infections or the throats of cats who have breathed smoke.

Horsetail - a tall plat 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 flower that grows low to the ground. The petals or leaves can be chewed into a pulp and applied as a poultice to wounds. Stops infection.

Mouse bile - a bad smelling liquid that is the only remedy for ticks. Dab a little moss soaked in bile on a tick and it'll fall right off. Wash paws thoroughly in running water afterward.

Poppy seed - small black seeds shaken from a dried poppy flower, these are fed to cats to help them sleep. Soothes cats suffering from shock and distress. Not recommend 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 swelling.

Tansy - a strong-smelling plant with round yellow flowers. Good for coughs, but must be eaten in small doses.

Thyme - this herb can be eaten to calm 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 bellyache.

Wild garlic - rolling a patch of wild garlic can held prevent infect, 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.

Broom - used in poultices for broken bones.

Catchweed - used to help protect freshly-applied poultices by sticking them over the area. Green and fluffy seeds.

Jewelweed -a flowering plant which can be used as preventatives and palliatives for poison ivy rash, bee stings, and insect bites, crush entire plant into a ball and rub onto the exposed area.

Other Plants

Deathberries (yew) - red berries that can be fatally poisonous to kits and elders. They are NOT medicine. Known to Twolegs are yew berries. BEWARE!


Sickness and Ailments

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, pus excreted from the eyes, fever, and green phlegm streaming from the nose and mouth.
* Best Treatment: Catmint and feverfew

Whitecough- a mild sickness like a cold. More common than greencough, but can become greencough or even the fatal blackcough. Symptoms include sneezing and white phloem 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.
* Best Treatment: Catmint

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

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