Post by TANGO on Jan 5, 2013 23:01:26 GMT -5
| [cs=2][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,10,true] GUIDE TO HEALING | |
[atrb=style, width: 450px; -webkit-border-radius: 25px; -moz-border-radius: 25px; border-radius: 25px;][atrb=style, width: 80px; vertical-align: top;] | treatment of wounds Blackberry Leaves Description: Leaves from the prickly blackberry bush. Location: Almost anywhere; they are very hardy plants. Usage: These leaves are chewed into a pulp. Effect: Eases the swelling of bee stings. Burdock Root Description: Tall-stemmed thistle with a sharp smell and dark leaves. Location: Best in dry areas. Usage: The root is dug up, the soil is washed off, and then it is chewed into a pulp. Effect: Lessens and heals the pain of infected rat bites. Celandine Description: Yellow flower with four petals. Location: Grows better on ThunderClan's territory, though it also grows on RiverClan's territory. Usage: Juice is trickled into the eye. Effect: Soothes damaged eyes. Chervil Description: A sweet-smelling plant with large, leafy, fern-like leaves and small white flowers. The roots are described as being knobby and brown. Location: In the Forest Territories, it was found at Snakerocks. Usage: Chewed to extract the juice of the leaves or the root. Effect: For infected wounds and bellyache, respectively. Can also be used during kitting. Cobwebs Description: Long, thin, shiny strands spun into a web by spiders. Location: All around the forest. Usage: Press over wound. Effect: To soak up and stop (or slow) the bleeding. It may also be used to bind broken bones. Comfrey Root Description: It has large leaves, small bell-shaped flowers, which are pink, white, or purple, and fat, black roots. Tangy smell. Location: Damp, grassy places. Usage: Roots are chewed into a poultice. Effect: Repairs broken bones or soothes wounds. Also used for wrenched claws. Can be used for itching or for inflammation on stiff joints. Dandelion Description: Common yellow-flowered plant with long, hollow stems. After flowering is finished, the flower transforms a sphere made out of hundreds of smaller white florets with seed heads at the bottom that connect to the flower head. Location: Almost everywhere. Usage: The white liquid is thought to be applied to bee stings. Leaves can be chewed. Effect: Thought to soothe and heal bee stings. Its leaves can also be chewed to act like a painkiller. Dock Description: Common, large-leafed plant with a tangy smell and taste. Location: Doesn't grow well in mountains, best in leafy areas. Usage: Chewed up and applied to scratches. Similar to sorrel. Effect: Soothes scratches, though can sting when being applied. Soothes sore pads. Fennel Description: Thin, spiky leaves. Location: Found in numerous places, especially on dry soils near the sea/coast and on riverbanks. Usage: Stalks are broken and juice is squeezed into the receiver's mouth. Effect: Helps pain in the hips. Feverfew Description: Small bush with flowers resembling daisies. Has a sharp tangy smell and small soft leaves. Location: Grows best along the water. Usage: Eaten. Effect: Reduces body temperature for cats with fever or chills. Also heals aches and pains, especially good for headaches Goldenrod Description: A tall plant with bright, yellow flowers. Location: Grows well on the WindClan moors. Usage: Chewed into a poultice. Effect: Good for healing wounds. Horsetail Description: A tall, bristly-stemmed plant, referred to with fleshy stalks. Location: Any marshy area. Usage: Chewed to a poultice, and applied to wounds. Effect: Treats infections and stops bleeding. Marigold Description: A low-growing flower; yellow to bright orange. Location: Near water. Usage: Petals or leaves chewed in a poultice. Juice can be used as well. Effect: Stops infection. Stops bleeding. Used for inflammation of stiff joints. Oak Leaves Description: Round, cartoony ruffled leaves. Location: All over the forest floor and collected in leaf-fall. Usage: Dried. Effect: Stops infection from setting in. Ragwort Leaves Description: Tall shrub with yellow flowers. Tastes foul to cats. Location: Almost everywhere, especially in cool areas with high rainfall. Usage: Crushed and chewed; mixed with juniper berries, it can help aching joints. Effect: Treats aching joints and keeps a cat's strength up. Rush Description: It has long narrow leaves and lavender-colored head stalks. Location: Often grows in infertile soils in a wide range of moisture conditions. Usage: Used to bind broken bones. Effect: Helps hold a broken limb in place, such as casts for Twolegs. Snakeroot Description: The best remedy for poison, especially snake bites. Location: Grows mainly in warmer areas, however some grow in cooler areas. Usage: Thought to be applied to wounds. Effect: Thought to heal poison. Stinging Nettle Description: It has green, spiny seeds. Location: All over the forest. Usage: The seeds are eaten by a cat who's swallowed poison, or the leaves are chewed into a poultice for a wound. Effect: Induces vomiting, or brings down swelling, respectively. Can be mixed with comfrey to help heal broken bones. Helps with wounds. Tormentil Description: It has a strong, aromatic scent to it and a sharp taste. Location: Found in most cool or cold areas, but other types may be found in gardens. Usage: Chewed and put on the wound. Effect: Its root is good for treating all wounds and extracting poison. Wild Garlic Description: Due to its strong smell, it is good for hiding the scent of a certain Clan, and disguising cats on raids. Location: Not far from the forest entrance in the ThunderClan camp. Usage: One must roll in it. Effect: Prevents infection, especially rat bites Willow Bark Description: Bark of the willow tree. Location: Grows near Twoleg places. Usage: Unknown. Effect: Eases pain. |
| [atrb=style, width: 450px; -webkit-border-radius: 25px; -moz-border-radius: 25px; border-radius: 25px;][atrb=style, width: 80px; vertical-align: top;] | treatment of diseases Catmint Description: A leafy and delicious-smelling plant. Location: Rarely found in the wild; mostly found in Twoleg gardens. Usage: Eaten. Effect: Best remedy for the deadly greencough, which kits and elders usually catch in the season of leaf-bare. Can also be used for whitecough. Chickweed Description: Tall-stemmed plant with fat, almond-shaped leaves. Location: Near Sunningrocks. Usage: Unknown. Effect: Treats greencough, though catmint is often preferred. Lavender Description: A small purple flowering plant. Location: Grown in Twoleg gardens. Can also be found in sunny spots with sandy or gravelly soil. Usage: Unknown. Effect: Cures fever and chills. Also a herb used to hide the scent of death. Tansy Description: The tansy plant has round, yellow leaves, and has a very sweet and strong scent, making it good for disguising a cat's scent. Location: Found in the forest and near Twoleg places. Usage: To be consumed, but only in small doses. Effect: Cures coughs. Can be used to cure wounds and poisons. Stops cats from getting greencough. Soothes throats. |
| [atrb=style, width: 450px; -webkit-border-radius: 25px; -moz-border-radius: 25px; border-radius: 25px;][atrb=style, width: 80px; vertical-align: top;] | other healing herbs Alder Bark Description: Bark of the alder tree. Location: Grows mainly in boggy, wet terrain. Usage: For tooth pain. Effect: Eases toothaches. Borage Leaves Description: It is easily distinguished by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves. Location: Grows best in forests. Usage: It is chewed and eaten by nursing queens. Effect: It produces more and better milk. It also brings down fevers. Catchweed Description: A plant with fuzzy green balls on long stems. Location: It is common in hedges and other low, shrubby vegetation. Usage: The burrs are put on the pelt where poultices are. Effect: Stops poultices from being rubbed off without hurting the skin. Camomile Description: A small, white flower with a large, yellow center. Location: Can be found in Twoleg gardens. Usage: Eaten. Effect: Strengthens the heart and soothes the mind. Also given to traveling cats for strength. Coltsfoot Description: A flowering plant with yellow or white flowers resembling dandelions. Grows best in newleaf. Location: Grows by a waterfall in RiverClan's forest territory. Usage: Leaves chewed into a pulp. Effect: Eases breathing or kitten-cough, as well as cracked or sore pads. Daisy Leaf Description: Thick, dark green, oval shaped leaves. Location: Almost everywhere. Usage: Chewed into a paste. Effect: Eases the pain of aching joints. It is also a travelling herb. Honey Description: A sweet, golden-coloured liquid made by bees. Location: In honeycombs or bees nests up in trees. Usage: Eaten, or given by moss soaked in it. Effect: Soothes infections, smoke-damaged or sore throats, helps cats swallow other concoctions, helps soothe coughing, and gives energy. Poppy Seeds Description: Tiny, round black seeds that are shaken out of a dried poppy flowerhead. Location: All over forest. Usage: Chewed on. Effect: They can help a cat sleep, soothe shock or distress, or ease pain. Not recommended for nursing queens. Thyme Description: Small, delicate, thick, sticky leaves with a fresh tang. Location: Best in hot, sunny locations. Usage: Leaves can be chewed on. Effect: Calms nervousness, anxiety, and cats who are in shock. Yarrow Description: A flowering plant. Location: Snakerocks. Usage: Its leaves are chewed into a poultice that can be given to cats or applied to a wound depending on the situation. Effect: Extracts poison from wounds. Will make a cat vomit up toxins. The ointment will soften and help heal cracked pads. |
| [atrb=style, width: 450px; -webkit-border-radius: 25px; -moz-border-radius: 25px; border-radius: 25px;][atrb=style, width: 80px; vertical-align: top;] | poisons Deathberries Description: Red berries from the dark-leaved, poisonous yew bush. Location: The ravine in the ThunderClan forest territory Usage: Sometimes used to kill other cats by making them eat the berry. Effect: Kills a cat within minutes when consumed. Foxglove Seeds Description: Tiny, black seeds from the bell-shaped flower of the foxglove plant. Location: Almost everywhere, especially in temperate regions. Usage: They are used to treat the heart Effect: They can easily cause paralysis and heart failure Deadly Nightshade Description: A small shrub with faintly scented, bell-shaped flowers that are purple tinged with green in colour. Berries are shiny and black when ripe. Location: Moist, shady places. Often grows in places where the soils are rich in limestone. Usage: To kill a cat who cannot be saved quickly. Effect: Poisonous. Water Hemlock Description: Green or white flowers with petals in umbrella-shaped clusters Location: Wet, marshy areas. Usage: Unknown Effect: Causes writhing and foaming at the mouth. |