Herbs and Other Medicine

## Medicine and Medical Lore

All of the factions use essentially the same herbs and treatments, with knowledge shared often between the Clans, and the alt-factions simply learning the same techniques from necessity or contact with Clans. Some herbs are unique to certain territories and thus change the faction's medical system slightly.

 **Usage:** | The bark is chewed as a mild and very safe painkiller for toothache and similar mouth problems. Can also be applied as part of a poultice on injuries where the skin is unbroken, reduces swelling.

 **Usage:** | Leaves and stems can be chewed to prevent tooth decay and aid aches. Cleansing.

 **Usage:** | Leaves are split to access the sap which is soothing on burns, stings and other skin-deep ailments.

 **Usage:** | Bark is chewed and applied as a poultice for snakebite. Leaves can be eaten to alleviate poisoning.

 **Usage:** | Bark is chewed to alleviate stress and anxiety, acts as a very mild sedative. Not suitable for kits under six moons of age.

 **Usage:** | Not so much a medicine as a tool, beech leaves are used to store and transport herbs. They can also be used to cover poultices. The nuts are useful to attract prey in cold weather.

 **Usage:** | forces ticks to drop off.

 **Usage:** | Also a medical tool rather than herb. Used for binding poultices and treatments into place, or binding a splint into place. Can also be used as a primitive tourniquet or to immobilise injuries such as a broken shoulder.

 **Usage:** | Increases general health and immunity. Powerful antibiotic, antiviral, antiseptic and antifungal (ironically) properties. Has been an effective treatment for cats suspected to have tumors but most effective on external tumour cells. Use very sparingly and with caution.

 **Usage:** | helps ease breathing, useful for yellowcough.

 **Usage:** | when ingested, acts as a uterine stimulant thus induces contractions. Toxic in large quantities, unsafe for long-term use - use other solutions first.

 **Usage:** | All parts of the plant are useful. Twigs can be chewed or mashed into a fine syrup to aid sleep, leaves can be chewed and applied as a poultice to aid healing of insect and nettle stings. Fruit can be added to bad-tasting medicines for increased potability.

 **Usage:** | useful for several illnesses including redcough and the wasting sickness, known as the Blazing Star to the Clans

 **Usage:** | can be crushed and ingested to promote circulation. Immune system stimulant.

 **Usage:** | Leaves and flowers are both used equally. Given to queens it can help increase their milkflow and soothe milkfever, to others it is a good remedy for most fevers. Useful for soothing stomachache.

 **Usage:** | sap can be extracted from the twigs or the twigs themselves chewed, acts as a mild sedative when poppy isn't the best option or in short supply.

 **Usage:** | helps to treat coughs, along with other herbs.

 **Usage:** | Flowers, leaves and bark can all be used together. Chewed into a pulp and applied as a poultice they speed healing of broken bones.

 **Usage:** | Taproot is dug up and chewed into a poultice which has powerful antiseptic properties. It is the best remedy when dealing with rat bites.

 **Usage:** | Suppresses appetite, stimulant effect. Given as a traveling herb.

 **Usage:** | flowers and down can be chewed to aid with digestion and urinary problems.

 **Usage:** | leaves and burrs can be used to help poultices stay in thick, long or particularly oily fur.

 **Usage:** | ingested to treat greencough and worse cases of whitecough, best remedy for greencough.

 **Usage:** | juice crushed out and trickled into the eye to treat scratches or damage.

 **Usage:** | eaten, soothes panic and heartache. Strengthening, included in travelling herbs.

 **Usage:** | leaves are chewed and applied as a poultice to infected wounds, root can be chewed and ingested to ease stomach-ache or cramps, including during birth.

 **Usage:** | can be used as a treatment for greencough, though catnip is preferable.

 **Usage:** | Can be used to attract prey in leafbare. Nuts can be chewed up and made into an ointment for sores and scrapes.

 **Usage:** | staunch bleeding wounds.

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 **Usage:** | Seeds or leaves can be used, both serve a similar purpose. General immune system stimulant.

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 **Usage:** | Useful for aching joints and keeps a cat's strength up. Dangerous in large doses.

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