Herbs & Sickness & Cures.

Apple Blossoms: The petals of an apple blossom can be eaten to soothe vomiting, or chewed and applied to eye wounds.

Borage Leaves: To be chewed and eaten. The plan can be distinguished by it's small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves. Great for nursing queens as it helps increase their supply of milk. Also brings down fever.

Burdock Root: A tall steamed, sharp smelling thistle with dark leaves. A medicine cat must dig up the roots, wash off the dirt, and chew them into a pulp, which can be applied to rat bites. Cures the worst of infections.

Catmint/Catnip: A delicious smelling, leafy plant that's hard to find in the wild; often found growing in twoleg gardens. The best remedy for greencougth.

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 help with bellyaches.

Cobweb: Spiderwebs can be found all over the place; be careful not to bring along the spider when you take it's web. 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 a 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 it's large leaves and small bell-shaped flowers, 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 soothe wounds.

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

Dried Oak Leaf: Collected in the autumn and stored in a dry place. Stops infection.

Feverfew: A small bush with flowers like daisies. The leaves can be eaten to cool down body temperature, particularly for cats with fevers or chills.

Goldenrod: A tall plant with bright yellow flowers, A poultice of this is terrific for healing wounds.

Honey: A sweet, golden liquid created by bees. Difficult to collect without getting stung, but great for soothing infections or throats of cats who have breathed smoke.

Horsetail: A tall plant with bristly stems that grows in marshy areas. The leaves can be used to treat an infected wound. Usually chewed up and applied as 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.

Lavander: A small purple flowering plant. Cures fever.

Marigold: A bright orange flowering plant 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.

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

Poppy Seeds: Small black seeds shaken from dried poppy flower, these are fed to cats to help them sleep. Soothes cats suffering from shock and distress. Not recommended 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 curing coughs.

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 Garlix: Rolling in a patch of wild garlic can help prevent infection, 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.



If herbs are wet, leave them out in the sun to dry.


Gather fresh herbs when stock gets short.


Leave enough of the herb on its plant so it can reproduce when in season.


Check herb store often, and throw out old or weak herbs.


Wrap honey in dock leaves, with rhubarb to keep fresh.


Use bark strips to finish the leaf wrap, or keep the herbs together so they can be fresh


Aching Joints - Ragwort leaves, Juniper berries, Goldenrod, or Daisy leaves

Bee Stings - Blackberry leaves

Broken Bones - Wrap in cobwebs, put on comfrey pulp, use poppy seeds to dull pain

Bellyache - Chervil, Watermint, or Juniper berries. Also, try a trip to the dirtplace.

Coughs (whitecough or greencough) - Use either Catmint, Honey, or Tansy, and keep the cat away from other cats.

Cuts in Eye - Trickle Celandine juice into the eye to ease the pain.

Deep Wounds Cobwebs, Marigold, or Horsetail.

Displaced Bones - Give poppy seed, wait for effect, then have cat bite stick while you give the leg a tug and hear it click into place, give them another poppy seed so they sleep.

Dull Pain - Use poppy seed, then when it takes effect perform treatment, give them another to sleep.

Hurting Throat - Honey, or water.

Nettle Stings - Dock leaf pulp, give poppy seed so it dulls the pain and helps cat sleep.

Poison - If poison is in stomach, give cat yarrow leaves so they vomit the poison, have them vomit onto dock leaves

Prevent Infection and Soothe Pain for Burns - Comfrey, honey

Poultice for aching joints - Ragwort leaves and juniper berries.

Poultice for broken bones - Stinging nettle and comfrey.

Rat Bites - A poultice of burdock root with cobwebs on top, and horsetail if it is available

Scratches - Marigold, horsetail

Shock - Thyme or Chamomile. Lick fur to comfort, give water and poppy seeds.

Stiffness - Crushed poppy seeds, marigold or comfrey.

Strengthening Herbs - Tansy, watermint, or feverfew.

Toothache - Use alder bark.

Traveling and Strengthening Herbs - Chamomile, burnet, daisy leaves or sorrel. Lambs ear and ragweed also work.

Wrenched Muscles - Comfrey, nettle and/or water therapy.

Healing Remedies without using herbs:

Gently Nip Spine or Poke with Claw - This tests to see if the backbone is broken, if they don't feel it, then it is broken.

Lick Fur - It clean wounds, brings down shock, and warms a cold cat (lick fur the wrong way).

Moss Soaked in Water - Sick or injured or weak cats can drink, and can be used to cool feverish cats. It is also helpful in kitting.

Rosemary, Mint - This is used to lighten the death-scent of a dead cat before burial. It is also respectful.

Sweeten Herbs - Use necter, honey or mouse blood.

Water Soaking - Hold swelling wound in cold water, it takes down swelling and also soothes scraped pads.

Water Therapy - Have a cat with weak or hurting muscles or bone wade in water, eventually, they'll get stronger.

Wailing, Yowling - If the cat does not have a sore throat, it keeps lungs and chest clear.


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. The best Treatment is 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. The best treatment is 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, coughing, white phlegm streaming from the nose, and a slightly high temperature. The best treatment is Catmint.

Blackcough A fatal sickness that spells certain death for any cat who catches it. Symptoms are intense chest pain, wheezing, and coughing. It is a rare sickness for the cats, and the best treatment is Catmint.

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. The best treatment would be Catmint, feverfew, and lavender.

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. The best treatment is Marigold, Dock, and poppy seed if there is pain.

Aching Joints Basically arthritis in cats. Caused by age or damp weather. Symptoms include pain and stiffness. The best treatment is 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. The best treatment is cobwebs pressed onto the wound.

Poisoning - The case of eating deathberries, poisoned fresh-kill, or a snakebite. The best treatment is yarrow, stinging nettle, and in the case of getting bite by a snake Snake root.

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