List of Herbs & Illnesses

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Herb List

Poppy seeds- used to numb pain and make a cat very sleepy
Cobwebs - used to stop bleeding
Feverfew - used to cool feverish cats and treat head pain
Borage leaves - used to treat fevers and helps nursing mothers with their milk supply
Marigold - used to treat infection and heal wounds 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 - rolling in this can help to keep out infection
Coltsfoot - used to treat kittencough
Catnip (also called catmint) - used to treat whitecough and greencough; can help to relax a cat
Chickweed - used to help treat greencough
Tansy - used to treat coughs
Thyme - used to calm a cat
Chamomile - used to calm a cat
Dandelion (leaves) - used to calm a cat
Juniper berries - used to treat bellyache
Chervil - used to treat bellyache
Watermint - used to treat bellyache
Daisy leaves - used to treat aching joints
Goldenrod - used in a poultice to treat aching joints and stiffness; can also be used for severe injuries.
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
Snakeroot - used to counter poison
Nettle (seeds) - used to counter poison
Honey - used to treat sore throats
Mouse bile - used to remove ticks from a cat's coat
Yarrow - used to make a cat vomit and expel poisons from the body

Other Plants

Dock leaves - used to make a cat's coat slippery; also can be used as a surface for vomiting.
Deathberries (yew) - of no medicinal value; bright scarlet berries that can kill a cat if they are not expelled quickly enough; use yarrow (called night-seeds by the Tribe)
Nightshade - of no medicinal value; is poisonous
Holly (berries) - of no medicinal value; poisonous like deathberries

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Illnesses

▫ Greencough - a deadly cough in which occurs mostly during winter and cold months. Without proper care the victim could die very quickly. -Symptoms: coughing, lack of energy, lack of appetite, fever.

▫ Whitecough - although not as bad as Greencough, this cough experiences the same symptoms but in all seasons. It is easily treated though. -Symptoms: coughing, lack of energy, lack of appetite.

▫ Ringfur - a deathly illness. Based off of the Ringworm in our language, Ringfur is that. The cat loses fur along where the fungus is, since it lives on the hair, and the only way to 'get better' is to isolate the feline from the others. The cat will be exiled or else will go under protective care from the medicine cat including spreading mouse bile along the lost fur. Another method is to leave the cat to a Twoleg nest for them to take care of it. Not all cats are returned though. -Symptoms: loss of hair in spots, red wounds, scratching, possibly fever.

▫ Fly strike - known to some as 'maggots', whenever a cat does not stay groomed it will get this disease. The only way a MedicineCat can assist them is by using mouse bile and various washings as in a stream. -Symptoms: grungy pelt, lack of wanting to groom, lack of appetite, scratching.


Toxins

▫ Buckeyes
▫ Cherries
▫ Eggplant
▫ Elderberry
▫ Evergreen
▫ Ferns
▫ Henbane
▫ Holly
▫ Honeysuckle
▫ Ivy
▫ Lily
▫ Marigold
▫ Mushrooms
▫ Onion
▫ Peach
▫ Poison Ivy/Oak
▫ Poppy Plant
▫ Water Hemlock
▫ Yew
▫ Poinsettias