Medicines and Ailments

These are the herbs used to cure and wounds or ailments in the Clans. The Tribes may or may not use these remedies.

Poppy Seeds: Used to numb pain. They make a cat very sleepy.
Catmint: For white- and greencough.
Chickweed: For greencough
Cobwebs: Used to stop any bleeding
Feaverfew: To help fevers and headaches
Borage Leaves: To treat fevers and bring milk to queens
Marigold: Used to treat infection and calm wounds, sores, etc.
Horse tail: Used for infected wounds
Burdock root: Used to treat rat bites
Chervile root: For infections
Wild garlic: Rolling in this may help stop infection
Coltsfoot: Used to treat kittencough
Tansy: To treat normal coughs
Thyme: Helps for shock and calming
Camomile: For shock and calming
Dandelion leaves: For shock and calming
Juniper berries: For bellyache
Chervile: For bellyache
Watermint: Used to treat bellyache
Daisy leaves: Help joint function
Goldenrod: Used in a poultice to treat joints and stiffness; can also be used for severe injuries
Ragwort leaves: Used in a poultice to treat joints
Comfrey: Helps broken bones
Nettle leaves: Used to treat swelling
Celadine: Used to help the eyes
Snake root: An antidote for poison
Nettle seeds: An antidote for poison
Honey: Helps sore throats
Mouse bile: Used to remove ticks
Yarrow: Used to make cats vomit up poison
Dock leaves: Can sooth the paws of a cat
Deathberries (yew): Kills a cat almost instantly; sometimes used as an act of mercy

These are the known ailments or injuries in the Warriors books.

Cough: A regular cough; what a cold would be to a human. Dangerous to elders and newborn kits.
Greencough: Similar to pneumonia. Often deadly; symptoms include coughing, wheezing, pus dripping from eyes, sneezing, and fever.
Whitecough: A milder version of greencough.
Blackcough: A very severe version of greencough, this disease is always deadly.
Chill: A very mild sickness. Like whitecough, but instead of fever, chills.
Cracked pads: The paw of a cat becomes cracked from dryness or cold.
Aching joints: Arthritis in cats
Poisoning: Poisoning from deathberries, Twoleg junk, etc.

Of course there's also the classic starvation, freezing, etc., but I shouldn't have to mention those.