Illnesses and Cures

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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

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, feverfew, and lavender

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. This is similar to kittencough, which is the least harmful of all coughs and is mostly caught by kits.

Best Treatment: Catmint

Blackcough
- a fatal sickness that spells certain death for any cat who catches it. Symptoms are unknown, but the "black" might be blood.

Best Treatment: None

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 Treament: Catmint, feverfew, and lavender

Cracked pads
- a painful ailment usually seen in elderly cats. The pawpads crack from cold or dryness, and if untreated can lead to infection. Symptoms include swelling of the paws and pain.

Best Treatment: Marigold, and poppy seed if there is pain

Aching joints
- basically arthritis in cats. 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

Poisoning
- the case of eating deathberries, poisoned fresh-kill, or other kinds of harmful things.

Best treatment: Yarrow and stinging nettle

Freezing
- a case where a cat is too cold and might die.

Best Treatment: Grooming fur the wrong way to get the blood flowing.

Starvation:
a case where a cat is too hungry.

Best treatment: Fresh kill or queen's milk.

Weakness
- a case where a cat is exhausted.

Best treatment: Rest