Medicine

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A guide to all the herbs medicine cats have in their stores.

> ***Creator’s Note:** There are numerous wild edible and medicinal plants in British Columbia that are used traditionally by First Nations peoples. These include seaweeds, rhizomes and shoots of flowering plants, berries, and fungi.*
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> *Warriors: The Lost Stories RP borrows these traditional herbs and medicines quite liberally to our cats, sometimes inferring uses and results that are not in-keeping with official research.*
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> *DO NOT use these herbal remedies in place of actual medicine unless you’ve spoken with your doctor.*
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Some herbs grow only in certain clans, or in certain areas within the clan's boundaries. The "grows in" category of the herb list is created with the understanding that herbs grow *primarily* in that clan but that doesn't mean they can't be found in loose clusters in other territories.

## Keys

    = Treatment of wounds

    = Treatment of diseases

    = Poison

    = Other

## Herbs and Medicines

### Alder bark

 **Usage and Effect:** | Biting gently into the resinous warts can help relieve toothaches. The leaves of the alder tree can be chewed by nursing queens to relieve any discomforts caused by suckling.

* Alder trees can be found in snowy areas and colder climates, so it's likely SeaClan has them as well.

### Bitter Root

 **Usage and Effect:** | The herb is used to fight the disease nightcough, a deadly virus that can kill a cat within three days or less. Small dosages of the herb are fed to patients during or before the second stage of the illness.

* More information on bitter root can be found here.

### Blackberries

 **Usage and Effect:** | Berries themselves are perfectly edible and nutritious.Leaves are chewed into a pulp and rubbed onto bee stings to ease swelling.

### Catberries

 **Usage and Effect:** | The leaves can be pressed onto wounds to release their oils as a disinfectant or chewed (without swallowing) to cure stomach cramps . The berries can be “mashed” into a pulpy mixture that can help reduce vomiting and diarrhea.

* The leaves resemble catmint, which is why the cats refer to it as “catberries.”

### Cow parsnip

 **Usage and Effect:** | A poultice prepared from the roots of cow parsnip is used to reduce swellings, especially of the paws. The flowers can be chewed into a poultice that can be rubbed onto the body to repel flies and mosquitoes.

* Not to be confused with *Giant Hogweed*, which has red dots, fuzz clusters, and whose flowers grow in flat but circular clusters.

### Sagebrush

 **Usage and Effect:** | Can be used to treat all kinds of respiratory issues, as well as be used in poultices to help treat wounds, infections, blisters, sprains, sores, swellings and more, like being used to treat rheumatism, arthritis and muscular aches and pains

* Sagebrush grows on both sides of the White Pine River, the border with FieldClan and CaveClan. There are large sagebrush meadows that gradually give way to tall grasses on FieldClan's side and sparse rocky terrain on CaveClan's.

## Poisons

### Red elderberries

 **Usage and Effect:** | The foliage and berries are poisonous but can be used to cause cats to vomit up other toxins. The roots and stems can be chewed into a poultice to treat coughs.

* Not to be confused with *Catberries*, whose leaves are longer and unserrated.

### Snakeroot

 **Usage and Effect:** | The roots of the snakeroot plant are chewed into a pulp and rubbed into a snakebite to draw out the poison. The flowers and leaves are incredibly poisonous and should NEVER be ingested.

* Snakeroot is one of the most dangerous plants in all five Clans (including SeaClan). The plant has MANY toxic effects, and if ingested by a nursing queen the poison will pass through their milk into their offspring, poisoning them as well.
	+ Snakeroot's poison is "fat-soluble" which is why it can do this.

## Notes and References

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