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Medicine Cat Handbook
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The Medicine Cat Handbook

Welcome to the Medicine Cat Handbook, this is for all Medicine Cats to use, whether they are young or old.

Chapter 1: Basic Items and Uses

Adder barrack ~ Toothaches
Alfalfa ~ Chewed, then swallowed to help tooth decay
Aloe Vera ~ Leaves are chewed and spit on burns, or skin problems
Blessed Thistle ~ Increases circulation of blood
Borage Leaves ~ Lessens fever
Bramble twig syrup ~ Helps to sleep
Broken Rosemary Blossoms~ Used to heal eye infection or to cover up wounds around the eyes or eyelids.
Broom Poultices ~ Helps broken legs and other serious wounds
Broom Malice Poultices ~ heals open wounds
Burdock Root ~ Helps stop infection from rat bites
Buttonbush Down~ Used to help urine problems, and constipation.
Catnip ~ Helps stop greencough
Celandine~ You rub it on aching eye, and it the aching will go away
Chamomile ~ Helps with depression, fatigue, and soothes heart.
Chaparral ~ helps clean faces (acne)
Chervil~ juice of the leaves for infected wounds and chewing the root is good for bellyache.
Chewed Gumweed~ Used to help seal wounds from infection. It will slightly sting, and helps to collect the skin together and close quicker.
Chickweed~ cures some of green and black cough
Cobwebs ~ Helps cover a wound from infection or from bleeding
Coltsfoot ~ an herb that eases coughing
Comfrey Roots~ Chew and rub on wounds and it deep cleans them
Crushed Iris Petals~ Used to stimulate breathing during the birthing process. This can also be used for kit’s sore throats
Crushed Marigold Petals~ Used to protect against infection of serious wounds, avoid around eyes, for it can be irritating.
Crushed Pawpaw Roots~ Used for kitten cough, which threatens only kittens.
Crushed rose thorns ~ Helps seal the wound
Culver’s Root~ Used when a cat takes a dip in some sort of water. Use with Feverfew.
Daisy Leaves~ Chewed, they help aching joints?
Deathberries ~ Kills a cat
Ferns ~ Cleans out wounds
Feverfew~ Used when a kit, or any cat for that matter, has a fever.
Foxglove Cloves~ Used to purge toxins from the body. Will force you to throw up the toxins.
Foxglove Leaves ~ Used on deep wounds to stop bleeding quickly
Garlic ~ Fleas, and some scratches
Garlic Juice~ Dripped into wounds to prevent infection. Will cause slight stinging sensation when used.
Ginger ~ asthma and coughs
Goldenrod Juice~ Dripped into wounds to relieve the tingling or pain sensation. It does nothing to heal, but numbs the pain.
Grass ~ Used for upset stomach
Hawthorne Berries ~ Indigestion (Very similar looking to death berries, jut without the shininess)
Honey~ Helps herbs go down easier and soothes throats and infections
Horsetail ~ chewed, it stops infections
Huckleberry+Goldenrod ~ muscle reliever
Ivy juices ~ Calms
Juniper Berries ~ Helps with stomach ache
Lavender ~ For a chill
Lavender Stem~ Used to calm a cat in shock
Marigold~ soothes infections
Marigold leaves ~ Dresses wounds
Mouse Bile ~ Helps rid of fleas and ticks; placed in moss
Milkweed Juice~ Used for sores or burns. Do not use around eyes or ears. Poisonous if ingested.
Narcissus Flower Petals~ used when a she-cat has contractions. Helps soothe their minds
Nightshade ~ poisonous plant
Peathingy Flower Petals~ Used to help a kit with kitten cough. Will help to clear clogged throats and nasal passages
Poppy Seeds ~ Helps lessen pain and helps a cat sleep.
Rosinweed~ Used to clean out the system when poisons have been digested. (Will happen during “relieving yourself”.)
Sacred bark ~ used for upset stomach
Sage Roots~ Used for cracked pads, especially on elder cats. Use with Poppy seeds
Shock Roots~ uses to stimulate the nerves system. Use after a cat has been knocked out, poisoned, or head trauma.
Snapdragon Seeds~ Used to clear up ringworm and to help rid the body of fleas
Stinging Nettle: stops swelling
Tansy ~ Helps with coughing
Thinned Out Heather Down~ Used to help with the indigestion of a kit. It will help to line a kit’s stomach, and absorb the juices that produce the uncomfortable feeling.
Thyme~ Good for calming anxieties
//Traveling Herbs:
Poppy Seeds- Used to help dull the hunger, or pain in your paws.
Tansy Leaves- Used to keep your hunger at bay
Crushed Lotus Roots- Used to help keep you awake, so that you will not fall asleep. (Energizer)
Skullcap Seeds- Used to give you extra strength. (Acts like a steroid)
Witch Hazel~ Used when you need an extra "boost". If you're tired, and have to travel, this will wake you up. (Energizer)//
Water Mint ~ Helps with stomach ache
Wild garlic~ helps get rat poison out
Wild onion~ helps get rat poison out
Windflower Shoots~ Used for stomach cramps, such as cramps that came when a she-cat becomes pregnant.
Yew ~ Makes a cat throw-up (It is often used when a cat swallows a death berry)
Yarrow ~ Causes a cat to vomit

Chapter 2: Poultices and Mixtures

Chewed up ragwort leaves mixed with juniper berries ~ Helps aching joints for elderly cats

Yarrow Ointment~ made out of yarrow leaves, ragweed, and ivy. Dress paw with ointment, then swath in cobwebs; used for scraped paws.

Spottedleaf's special mix against White/Green/Black Cough

- crushed Daisy Petals
- two poppy seeds
- six cranberries
- two catnip leaves

Chapter 3: Other Helpful Info

~Medicine cat apprentices must travel to the moonstone with their mentors and be accepted by StarClan to be an official Med. cat apprentice.
~Medicine cats are often treated with less hostility than others when in another clan's territory
~Medicine cats may not have kits
~Medicine cats should always know when another cat gets a sign from StarClan
~Only a medicine cat can determine what a sign from StarClan means
~Medicine cats and apprentices travel to the moonstone every half-moon
~Med. cat apprentices can be a medicine cat even before the original is deceased. The mentor will chose when the apprentice is ready

Chapter 4: Diseases

Green Cough- it gives you a really bad fever and terrible cough. It can only be caught in leaf bare; you can die from it if you get sick enough.

Chill- You get a runny nose and a fever. You can catch it from getting wet in cold weather, You can't die from it.

White cough- It gives you a bad cough and fever, it can turn into green cough. It can't kill you unless it turns into green cough.

Cats Eye- It makes your eye give off a lot of this crust stuff. You can get it any time of the year and it can't kill you but it can make you go blind.

Bug Ears- little black bugs claw around in your ear. They make it itch a lot and give off a lot of wax. (ear mites in our world.)

Rabies- Gives you a fever, foamy mouth, and dizziness. There is no cure for it and if you get it you will die. You can only get it from another animal that has it or getting the rabies foam in a cut or something.

Death disease- It gives you severe pain in every area, it will eventually kill you. you get it from ticks and mosquitoes. (lime disease in our world)

White Paw - Your paw pads turn white, and give off severe pain if you walk on them. You get in leaf bare when your paws get really cold for a long period of time.

Scarlet fever- You get a severe fever. You get it in leaf bare, only kits can get it. They get it from being cold.

Neetle - You get a high fever and you throw up a lot. You can get it any time of the year, there is no known cause for it.

Black Cough- The deadliest form of the 'Coughs'. If you catch it, you are most likely to die. Comes right after Green cough. Can kill if not treated soon.

~*~FIREHEART~*~

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