Medicine Cat Techniques Flashcards
How to check for broken bones?
What are some herbs or mixtures of herbs that can treat broken bones?
Gently nipping or poking a cat’s spine, tail, or legs.
Comfrey + stinging nettle, broom poultice, rush, bindweed, and sticks.
How can you clean wounds, calm a cat in shock, and warm a cat? This is also used to warm kits and help them start breathing.
By licking a cat’s fur. For kits, you lick the opposite way.
How do you hide death-scent?
Which herbs do you use?
Herbs with strong smells, such as mint, lavender, and rosemary.
How can you make herbs easier to eat?
Which herbs?
By using honey, plants such as berries, mint, and heather, or prey’s blood.
How can you soothe a swelling wound and scraped pads?
What are some herbs that can treat swellings? Injured pads?
For wounds, holding them in cold water helps to soothe and heal them. Soaking pads in water helps soothe them too.
Adder’s tongue, stinging nettle, yarrow, dock, tansy, witch hazel treats swellings.
Dock also treats injured pads.
How can you cool feverish cats and provide for those that are too weak to get their own water?
What herbs treat fevers?
By soaking moss in water.
Borage, feverfew, and lavender.
How can you get a cat to clear their lungs and chest of mucus.
By telling them to yowl, wail, or yell loudly. This only works with mild mucus problems.
How can you tell if a cat is pregnant, has worms, or is bloated?
By patting a descended belly with your ear pressed up against it. A pregnant belly will be hard and sound like rushing water. A belly full of worms will sound dull and will have a painful give. A bloated belly will sound bubbly.
What can help cats with weak muscles or bones, and can help elders with inflamed joints or muscles?
What are some herbs that can treat muscle issues? Inflamed joints and other joint issues?
Swimming.
Elder and tansy can treat sprains. Marigold can treat inflamed joints. Feverfew, daisy, and ragwort can treat aching joints.
How should you remove a burr or torn claw?
Do not pull directly upwards but instead at an angle. This limits pain and makes it slightly easier to remove.
What should you do with wet herbs, and why are wet herbs bad?
Leave wet herbs in the sun to dry. It’s best not to harvest herbs in the morning or right after a lot of rain; wet herbs will rot.
Should you completely deplete a herb where it grows?
No. This is so more can grow later. Only do this if the clan is truly desperate and/or you’re positive there’s another supply somewhere.
What is the usage for poisonous berries?
What are some poisonous berries?
They can be used to kill predators. They can also be used to kill a suffering cat, but ONLY IF they ask for them and you know there is not much else you can do to treat them.
Some poisonous berries include holly berries, deadly nightshade berries, and deathberries (yew).
What should you do when herb stocks are getting low?
Don’t make it a habit to collect fresh herbs right when stock of one gets low. You don’t want to leave camp too often in search of herbs. Try to plan herb gathering trips when there are three or so piles getting low, but never wait too long.
How many herbs can you give a pregnant cat during their kitting?
Which herb should you never give to a pregnant cat? Why?
Never more than three, and never give them poppy seeds, which may cause them to become too sedated to push. Some herbs may cause them to bleed excessively or prolong kitting. Choose wisely when giving herbs to a kitting queen, or give none if it is not truly necessary.
As stated, poppy seeds should not be given to pregnant cats. It may make them too sedated to push.
