Mәdicine Čat Ģuide « Thread Started on Jun 30, 2008, 7:57pm »
Medicine Cat Guide
Borage Leaves Description - A bright blue flower resembling a star. It tastes as sweet as honey. Season - Greenleaf Use - It helps lower fevers
Broom Description - A shrub with dark green stems and yellow flowers Season - Greenleaf Use - Can mend broken bones and toothaches
Burdock Description - A spiked plant with heart shaped leaves. The root is usually large and hidden. Season - Late Greenleaf > Early Leaf-Fall Use - The roots are used to treat infections, especially rat bites
Camomile Description - A short, thin stemmed plant with white petals, with a relaxing odor. Season - Half of Greenleaf Use - It has a calming affect on nervous cats
Catmint Description - A plant with a small purple flower and pale heart shaped leaves. It has a strong alluring scent. Season - Greenleaf > Leafbare Use - Used to treat blackcough, whitecough, and greencough. It has a drug-like effect on cats.
Celandine Description - A bright yellow plant with hairy stalks. Season - Greenleaf Use - Treats ailments of the eyes
Chervil Description - A green clustered plant with small white flowers and jagged leaves. It has a sweet taste when fully bloomed. Season - Newleaf Use - Cures infected wounds and soothes bellyaches
Chickweed Description - A plant that resembles chervil, with much smaller white flowers that blooms at night. It has a bitter taste. Season - Late Newleaf > Early Greenleaf Use - Cures sickness such as greencough
Cobwebs Description - Found everywhere- a thin thread-like substance weaved together to form intricate patterns. Season - Any Use - It can stop bleeding
Coltsfoot Description - It has bright, small clustered yellow flowers with bitter-tasting leaves. Season - Leafbare > Newleaf Use - Regularizes breathing and lessens swelling.
Comfrey Description - It has hairy leaves with small bell-shaped white or purple flowers. It grows in damp areas. Season - Greenleaf Use - Treats broken bones and relieves sharp pains and bruises
Daisy leaves Description - A white flower with a large yellow center. It's stem is leafless but it's root is covered with them. Season - Newleaf Use - It treats aching joints and minor pains
Deathberries Description - A fern-like plant with blade-like leaves. It bears bright red berries with holes. ( Yew ) Season - Greenleaf Use - Of no medicinal value; it can kill a cat if they are not expelled quickly enough
Dock Description - A plant with long roots and thin leaves. It's flowers are a pale yellow, and it has a sour taste and smell. Season - Newleaf > Late Greenleaf Use - Can soothe minor scratches and it leaves a cat's pelt shinny and slippery
Feverfew Description - It has small white petals and a yellow center. It smells citrusy and grows in a small bush. It's bitter tasting. Season - Greenleaf Use - Cools feverish cats and treats headaches.
Goldenrod Description - A yellow flowered plant with slender hairless stems. The flowers are small and clustered, resembling cotton. Season - Greenleaf > Early Lear-Fall Use - A tonic for inflammation and irritation
Hemlock Description - A fern-leaved plant with small white clustered flowers. Season - Greenleaf > Leafbare Use - None- can kill small cats if digested.
Honey Description - Deriving from old bee-hives, it's a thick amber-colored sticky liquid with a sweet taste and smell. Season - Greenleaf > Early Leaf-Fall Use - A treat for well-behaved kits. It can also treat sore throats.
Horsetail Description - A thin, green stemmed plant with a rough texture. They grow about a foot high. Season - Early Newleaf > Late Greenleaf Use - Treats infected wounds. It can also cease bleeding.
Juniper Berries Description - The plant is bright green and prickly, but it's berries are soft and a pale blue color. Season - Berries are ripe in Leaf-Fall Use - It can treat bellyaches and cramps, and can counter snake bites.
Lavender Description - A tall stemmed plant with bright purple flowers. It has a strong scent and a sweet taste. Season - Late Greenleaf Use - It has a calming affect when consumed or smelled.
Mallow Description - A pink or purple flower with heart-shaped leaves. The leaves looked stripped. Season - Greenleaf > Leafbare Use - Soothes broken limbs, and relieves bellyaches. It's roots can expel poison if yarrow isn't available.
Marigold Description - A bright orange flower with yellow highlights on t he edges. The leaves have a sweet, often spicy flavor. Season - Greenleaf > Leafbare Use - Prevents infection and heals wounds and sores.
Mouse Bile Description - A bitter, sour smelling substance that has a horrible taste. Season - Any Use - It remove's parasites from a cat's coat
Nettle leaves Description - A prickly green plant with two large leaves perpendicular to two smaller leafs. It has a bitter taste. Season - Greenleaf > Leaf-Fall Use - Treats swelling of wounds and bites
Nightshade Description - A purple, pink flower with a bright yellow center that shoots out. It is bitter tasting and smelling. Season - Greenleaf Use - Of no medicinal value; much the same as yew.
Poppy Description - A scarlet-colored flower with thin petals. It's stem is straight and pale green. Season - Newleaf > Greenleaf Use - The seeds are extreamly useful. It can calm anxiety. It's used as a pain killer, and can have a numbing effect. It's used for numerous reasons- including relief from pain and even a sleep enduser.
Snakeroot Description - A fluffy red plant grown in clusters. The stems are woody and the leaves give off a bitter musky scent. Season - Greenleaf Use - Used to counter poison
Tansy Description - A yellow cotten-like flower with a smooth green stem. It's leaves are prickly. It has a bitter taste. Season - Greenleaf Use - Treats coughs and toothaches.
Thyme Description - It has round leaves with a spicy flavor and bitter scent. Season - Newleaf > Leaf-Fall Use - It can cause a soothing effect when digested
Water mint Description - A thick-stemmed plant with a rusted color. It's flowers are a pale pink and it has a citrusy scent. Season - Any > Perennial Use - Treats bellyache
Yarrow Description - The white flowers grow in clusters, and it's stems are a thin pallet green. It has a foul scent and bitter taste. Season - Greenleaf Use - When swallowed, it can make a cat vomit. It's used to expel poisons from the body.