Post by Ottersplash on Sept 1, 2012 3:47:01 GMT -5
Herb Guide:
Here is a list of herbs that could come in useful for you medicine cats out there! (never treat a person or animal with these in real life)
Borage leaves: this can be identified by its small blue or pink star shaped flowers and hairy leaves. It can be used for nursing queens as it increases the milk supply, it also brings down fever. To be chewed and eaten.
Burdock root: this can be identified as tall stemmed, sharp smelling thistle with dark leaves. It can be used to cure infection. You must dig up the roots, wash off the dirt and chew them into a pulp then apply on the infected area (it's usually used for rat bites)
Cat mint (Cat nip): can be identified by its delicious smell and is very leafy. It can be hard to find in the wild but its often growing in two leg gardens. This is the best remedy for green cough.
Chervil: can be identified by its sweet smell, fern like leaves and small white flowers. The juice be used for infected wounds and chewing the root is good for belly ache.
Cobweb: spiderwebs are found everywhere. Its used to wrap up and injury and soaks up the blood. Stops bleeding.
Coltsfoot:Is a flowering white or yellow plant like a dandelion. Its used to help shortness of breath by chewing the leaves into a pulp and eaten.
Comfry: can be identified by its large leaves and pink, white or purple bell shaped flowers. It can be used for mending broken bones or soothing wounds. The fat black roots are chewed up into a poultice.
Dock:this looks similar to sorrel and is to be chewed up and applied to soothe scratches.
Dried oak leaf:From an oak tree and collect in autumn (leaf-fall) and store in a dry place. It can be used to stop infections.
Feverfew:it's a small bush with flowers like daisies. The leaves are eaten to cool down the body temperature for cats with fevers or chills.
Goldenrod:is a tall plant with bright yellow flowers if made into a poultice, it can be great for healing wounds.
Honey:It's a sweet, golden liquid made by bees. Its difficult to get without being stung but is great for soothing infections or the throats of cats who have breathed in smoke.
Horsetail:is a tall plant with bristly stems and grows in marshy ground. The leaves are to be chewed up and applied as a poultice for infected wounds.
Juniper berries:a bush with spiky dark green leaves and purple berries. The berries help belly aches and cats who have trouble breathing.
Lavender:identified as a small purple flowering plant and cures fever.
Marigold:identified as a bright orange or yellow flower that grows close to the ground. The petals and leaves can be chewed into a pulp and applied to wounds to stop infection.
Mouse bile:this is the only remedy for ticks, it is a foul smelling liquid. You soak some moss in the bile and apply to ticks until they drop off. make sure to wash your paws thoroughly afterwards with running water, if you like them you will have a foul taste in your mouth for days!
Poppy seed:small black seeds from a fried poppy head, they are used to help cats sleep ans soothes shock or distress. They are not recommended for nursing queens.
Stinging nettle:The spiny green seeds can be administered to cats who have swallowed poison and the leaves can be applied to a wound to reduce swelling. These can be found almost anywhere.
Tansy:easily identified by its strong smell and round yellow flowers. It's good for curing coughs but only in small doses.
Thyme:This is eaten to calm anxiety and frayed nerves.
Watermint:identified as a leafy green plant found in streams or damp earth. It's to be chewed into a pulp and fed to a cat if they are suffering from belly ache.
Wild garlic:Rolling in a patch of garlic can prevent infections from wounds such as rat bites. It can also be used to disguise a cats scent.
Yarrow:is a flowering plant and its leaves can be made into a poultice and applied to wounds or scratches to expel poison (makes a cat sick)
WARNING!
Deathberries: red berries that are fatally poisonous to elders and kits (also known as yew berries) Do not touch!