Illnesses and Treatments

Cough:
A sickness that is like a human cold. Symptoms are just coughs and sneezes, though it can be dangerous to kits or young cats.
Best Treatment: Tansy.

Whitecough:
A mild sickness like a cold. More common than greencough, but can become greencough or even the fatal blackcough. Symptoms include sneezing, coughing, white phlegm streaming from the nose, and a slightly high temperature.
Best Treatment: Catmint.

Greencough:
A sickness similar to pneumonia that is often rampant among the Clans in leaf-bare. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, pus excreted from the eyes, sneezing, fever, and green phlegm streaming from the nose.
Best Treatment: Catmint and feverfew.

Blackcough:
A fatal, fairly rare sickness that spells certain death for any cat who catches it. Symptoms are intense chest pain, wheezing, and coughing.
Best Treatment: Catmint.

Kittencough:
An illness that effects the respiratory system that only kittens get. Symptoms are similar to that of Whitecough.
Best Treatment: Coltsfoot, garlic, feverfew/lavender, and nettle.

Chill:
A very mild ailment usually caused by very cold weather or falling into icy water. Much like whitecough, but with cold chills instead of fever.
Best Treatment: Catmint, feverfew, and lavender.

Asthma/Trouble breathing:
When a cat has asthma or trouble breathing this can be life threatening. Their breathing becomes rapid and unsteady. This can also be affected by allergies and kitting. Symptoms are rapid and unsteady breaths, wheezing.
Best Treatment: It is best to give coltsfoot and/or juniper berries. For kitting queens give coltsfoot.

Cracked Pads:
A painful ailment usually seen in elderly cats. The paw pads crack from cold or dryness, and if untreated can lead to infection. Symptoms include swelling of the paws and pain.
Best Treatment: Marigold, Dock, and poppy seed if there is pain.

Stiff or Aching Joints/Muscles:
Caused by age or damp weather. Symptoms include pain and stiffness.
Best Treatment: Anything that cures pain other than poppy seeds.

Bleeding:
Blood loss due to injury, such as a wound sustained in battle. Severity depends on injury.
Best Treatment: Cobwebs pressed onto the wound. If scratch or bite, use marigold or other herbs like it to prevent infection.

Infection:
This happens when a wound has been left untreated. This is most common after being bitten by a rat. This is best to be treated immediately for it can be deadly. Symptoms are bad stench, pus, pain, raw/tender skin, and fever(if bad enough).
Best Treatment: Horsetail & chervil leaf juice or burdock root & marigold.

Swelling:
A common occurrence with injuries, bruises, and infections. Symptoms include inflammation and pain.
Best Treatment: Chewed alder bark & goldenrod(juice), nettle leaves & poppy seeds.

Irritated throat/Smoke Inhalation:
A tender/raw, sore throat can be caused by a number of things. The most common being illness, allergies, or breathing in smoke from a fire. This illness is very mild. Symptoms are swollen or red throat, accompanied by ether dryness, itchiness, soreness, or pain.
Best Treatment: Give them honey and if they breathed in smoke, give coltsfoot or juniper berries too.

Rash:
A rash happens when a cat has scratched too much, has an allergy, or becomes too hot. Symptoms are a red, tender area where the rash is located.
Best Treatment: Nettle leaves & poppy seeds, goldenrod juice & burdock root.

Poisoning:
The case of eating deathberries or other toxic plants, poisoned fresh-kill, or a snakebite.
Best treatment: Yarrow, stinging nettle, and in the case of getting bit by a snake, apply snake root.

Broken Bones:
A injury most common if hit by a monster or falling from an extreme height or a severe beating. Symptoms include swelling in the area, pain, resistance to walk/run/move.
Best Treatment: Put the bone back in place then use the following herbs; poppy seeds & birch bark(moist), broom & horsetail. Apply a splint afterwards.

Hypothermia:
Most common in leaf-bare but it can happen at any time. This illness is caused most commonly when a cat is soaking wet and stays in the cold too long. This ailment happens when the body can't/struggles to keep a steady temperature. There are 4 stages: Impending, mild, moderate, & severe. Symptoms include sluggishness, drowsiness, fatigue, stumbling, thickening of speech, amnesia, irrationality, hallucinations, lack of perceptual in any place, blueness in skin, enlargement of pupils, decrease in heart and respiration rates, state of near unconsciousness, insensibility, shivering, and poor coordination. Severe symptoms are Poor speech, disorientation, decrease in shivering followed by rigidity of muscles, blueness of skin, and weak or irregular pulse.
Best Treatment: Get the cat's body warm at all costs but be careful not to do it too fast. Keep the victim out of the wind and cold and place in a pre-warmed nest and have other cats sleep around him/her to give warmth. The rest is in StarClan's paws.

Shock/Anxiety:
This happens when a cat has been badly injured, has a phobia, or witnessed a stressful/frightening sight. For this the victim must take extra caution not to do more damage if the cat is injured. Symptoms include unresponsiveness or they are very jumpy/timid and fear-scent can be detected sometimes.
Best Treatment: Lavender, thyme leaves, or tansy.

Low milk supply:
This happens only for queens near kitting or that have kits.
Best Treatment: Give the queen borage leaves to increase milk flow.