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0menstorm · RainClan Medicine Cat

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0menstorm · RainClan Medicine Cat

Herbs:

- These herbs are not to be used on humans or animals, they are © to Erin Hunter. I will put a selection on real herbs that Shamans or herblists use, you might want to consult someone befoe doing so, just keeping on the safe side!

Poppy seeds- used to numb pain and make a cat very sleepy.
Cobwebs - used to stop bleeding.
Feverfew - used to cool feverish cats and treat head pain.
Borage leaves - used to treat fevers and helps nursing mothers with their milk supply.
Marigold - used to treat infection and heal wounds and sores.
Horsetail - used to treat infected wounds.
Burdock root - used to treat infections, especially rat bites.
Chervil (root) - used to treat infections.
Wild garlic - rolling in this can help to keep out infection.
Coltsfoot - used to treat kittencough.
Catnip - used to treat greencough.
Chickweed - used to help treat greencough.
Tansy - used to treat coughs.
Thyme - used to calm a cat.
Chamomile - used to calm a cat.
Dandelion Leaves - used to calm a cat.
Juniper Berries* - used to treat bellyache.
Chervil - used to treat bellyache.
Watermint - used to treat bellyache.
Daisy Leaves - used to treat aching joints.
Goldenrod - used in a poultice to treat aching joints and stiffness; can also be used for severe injuries.
Ragwort leaves - used alongside juniper berries in a poultice to treat aching joints.
Comfrey - used to treat broken bones.
Nettle Leaves - used to treat swelling.
Celandine - used to treat ailments of the eyes.
Snakeroot - used to counter poison.
Nettle Seeds - used to counter poison.
Honey - used to treat sore throats.
Mouse bile - used to remove ticks from a cat's coat.
Yarrow - used to make a cat vomit and expel poisons from the body.
Dock Leaves - used to make a cat's coat slippery.
Death Berries - of no medicinal value; bright scarlet berries that can kill a cat if they are not expelled quickly enough.
Nightshade - of no medicinal value.
Holly Berries - of no medicinal value.

-- Edited by 0menstorm at 07:41, 2008-04-19

0menstorm · RainClan Medicine Cat

Herbs 2

Most of the herbs listed below are in tea form which means its a herbal tea. You can boil water and put in a herb tea bag, crush leaves of the herbs or get the shakers and you sprinkle it on a tea spoon. Then stir.
Caution: Everyone reacts differently to herbs, they arent as effective a tablets usually takes up to 1-2 hours to effectively work. So I dont want compliants that it didnt work for you!

* Now on a brighter note heres the list::

- Anise: Tea Form- treatment for colic, sedative
- Basil: Tea Form- colds, flu, cramps, bladder
- Bay: do not take internally use as poultice on chest for bronchitis and chest colds
- Black Pepper: take at first sign of any disease
- Bonset: Tea Form- laxative and fever
- Caraway: mild stimulant
- Cayenne: fast recovery, stops internal, external bleeding, said to prevent heart attacks and also helps with depression and headaches
- Cinnamon: ground or taken with milk good balance after a heavy meal or dessert, also used for diarrhea, dysentery or general indigestion
- Cloves: chew for toothache, also good for nausea or vomiting
- Fennel: Tea Form- to expel mucus
- Fenugreek: Tea Form- also to mucus with bad cases of bronchitis
- Garlic: high and low blood pressure; remove parasites and infections
- Ginger: Tea Form- for crampsand nausea, externally for stiffness; add in cooking to detoxift meat, espcially chicken.
- Rosemary: Tea Form- for treating headaches or body aches
- Thyme: Tea Form- to rid of intestinal worms, can also be used as a mouthwash

^ Above list of herbs is © to Silver Ravenwolf from her book To Ride A Silver Broomstick

Omens herbs:
These are herbs i use at home

Honey: a spoonful of honey no more for sore throats (more than one spoonful would be disgusting ewwy!)
Aloe Vera: a common garden herb. After you break it in half a gooy substance you will see, rub it on scars or sunburns. (you can buy bottle of Aloe Vera from shops for sunburns, a good effect)

-- Edited by 0menstorm at 07:46, 2008-04-19

0menstorm · RainClan Medicine Cat

Empathy/Empathic

Empath: One who can use the talent of empathy.
Empath - Controlled: Someone who uses psychometry and/or empathy and/or absorption, occasionally to the point of draining others of their psychic energy.
Empath - Total: One who has trouble controlling their empathic and/or other passive psychic talents, and subsequently gets overloaded with data and power.
Empathy: A type of telepathic reception limited to the perception of emotions; obviously this talent would tie in nicely with absorption.

What is an Empath?

Empathy and Sympathy sound the same, but have to different meanings. Sympathy is when you show sympthy to someone, and are saddened by what they are going through. Let's say a friend's brother died. Empathy is when you feel their pain as if you were the one who lost your own brother. Some people have this part of this ESP (extra sensatory perception).
The feeling of Empathy can be good and can be scary. Feelings of happiness can be good, but dark feelings from another and you pick them up can be scary. To have your own feelings pushed aside and have someone else's take over is a sense of no control over yourself. You can be right next to the person or miles and miles and miles away, only connected by Internet or telephone you can feel their emotion. Emotions are powerful; emotions can have a life of their own. Sometimes as people we must control our emotions and not let them control us.

An Empath also possesses a very sensitive emotional nature that is typically difficult to self-manage. As a result of the interaction between an extremely sensitive neural network and the concurrent emotional nature of a person with this profile, Empaths are highly intuitive.

Empaths are driven by deep intuitive connections that are largely unconscious, as if sitting on top of a vast oil reserve in the ground and being a conduit (oil well) for this massive amount of energy. Most of what an Empath senses or "knows" cannot be verified immediately which creates a terrible psychic conflict for the person. The over abundance of real and imagined stimuli are frequently overwhelming. Sorting out the two is even more so. That is why I am a major advocate of structured training!

Some people's message is verbal; some is non-verbal (tone of voice, facial expression, posture, and very much more). Some of the message is consciously chosen, some comes from the unconscious. You will receive some of it consciously, some of it subliminally. What you have received subliminally will also shape your reactions. If you really listen, and really care, you will inevitably have emotional responses to what you hear.

Links:
1. Book Of Storms: http://mysilentecho.com/dreamtongue1.htm
2. http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/Empathy.html

-- Edited by 0menstorm at 07:49, 2008-04-19

0menstorm · RainClan Medicine Cat

Omens, signs and prophecies

StarClan sends down prophcies for Medince Cats, Leaders or warriors to forfill. Mostly prohecies are riddles that the cat(s) has to solve to prove themselves. Heres a better understanding from the prophecy "Only Fire Can Save Us", if it was "An orange-flamed kittypet will join ThunderClan, become leader and kill TigerClaw" it wouldnt have been much of a quest wouldnt it?

What Is A...

Omen: An Omen is much like a sign, that you can find if you are open minded. It can be in nature or in man-made areas, they can come through dreams, someone might say something & you could interupt it into something else, it could be from your past or something you saw. Im not talking about if you see a black cat is a sign of bad luck or if you walk under a ladder its a bad omen! No, no, no, its something that can alter your future, heres an example: (Im not quite sure which way birds fly in the summer) just say every summer the birds would fly South but this time you saw them fly North, it could mean a change in yourself, your family or something will change.

Prophecy: A Prophecy is something that can have something to do with a past event that no one knows about, foretelling future events, they are sent unknow to the phrophet but in this case Leaders or Medince Cats and in some rare cases Warriors. You can receive prophecies through inspired words, inspired actions, dreams etc

Aurgh! Soo much writing!

-- Edited by 0menstorm at 07:51, 2008-04-19

-- Edited by 0menstorm at 07:53, 2008-04-19

Swallowtail · MossClan Medicine Cat

OHEMGEH! OO Whoa.. yep, I think I'll reference here.. ^^;

How'd you get all this info anyway? confused

Silverstar · RainClan Leader

She's a meddie-cat, they're s'pse to know dis stuff, lol! XD
Um... whatchoo do'in on da RainClan board??? XD

Swallowtail · MossClan Medicine Cat

Hehe, sorry. I ish checking out Omenstorm, mah best buddie, ish that a crime? xD Lollz. ^^
(But I promish, I shall not intrude witout permission again. ^_^;)

0menstorm · RainClan Medicine Cat

0cc: Swallow i do alot of Wicca, Pagan, Spiritual sort of stuff and i have loads of webbies and books on this sort of stuff, i'm going to add a dream page soon.
SilverStone shouldnt she be allowed to come into my den page but not onto our rp sect?

Swallow is there any more infomation you'd like to see up here or anything?

0menstorm · RainClan Medicine Cat

Prophecies - Part 2

Here will be a list of prophecies from different rps and/or different clans. I will only put down what is means after the prophecy is solved.

1.
Rp from 'Medince Cats Hollow' in the HighStones. Its about Three Medince Cats BraveHeart,omenStorm and SwallowTail. They all have different abilites, BraveHeart has powers of Everchanging, OmenStorm has power from the Moon, SwallowTail has the power from the Sun.
PROPHECY:
"Three cats of the fire shall over come hightides--"
"The fires shall arise of the depths and fight their enemies within"

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0menstorm · RainClan Medicine Cat

Dreams

Dreams is defined in Webster's Dictionary as a "sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc., passing through a
sleeping person's mind" . Dreams have been a topic of study dating back to 4000 B.C. One may say that dreams
have been around as long as the first civilization came to be and are just a normal part of human existence.

In our dreams, we can go anywhere, we can be anybody, and we can do anything. When we dream, we are like
passengers on a moving train, unable to control our actions and choose

surroundings. We let our mind take over. Sometimes, dreams can be understood in the the context of repressed
thoughts. Dreaming serves as an outlet for those thoughts and impulses we repress during the day. When we go to
sleep at night and slip into our dream state, we feel liberated and behave and act in a manner that we do not
allow ourselves in our waking life.

Visions and ideas can come from your dreams. Authors, screenwriters and poets turn to their dreams for stories.
Artists and musicians explore dreams for their inspiration. Dreams can help us find solutions to our daily
problems and see things from a different perspective

Different Types Of Dreams

Recurring Dreams

True recurring dreams are noted to have the same scenes or are at least nearly identical. Nightmares are similar to recurring dreams with the exception that nightmares may contain different storylines while maintaining the same theme.

Each of these dream types hold the same function, however.

Recurring dreams attempt to alert each of us to specific "signs" in our lives and continue to do so until we actually receive and understand its purpose. Once we accept what the dream is trying to convey and acknowledge its true meaning, the recurring dreams will cease. Please note that if similar life issues arise, in the future, the recurring dream may replay itself to aid in that instance as well.

Below are some examples of questions one can ask him/herself when faced with a recurring dream.

1. Are my recurring dreams manifesting from a desire in waking life? If so, am I acknowledging the desire or repressing it? Is there a way to bring it to fruition, to obtain results to my wish?

2. Are my dreams linked to emotions such as anxiety or fear? Can I uncover the emotion's source?

3. Do any symbols stick out in my mind? If so, what do I think those symbols mean?

4. Does anything in my dream resemble waking life? If so, what specifically does it seem to mirror?

5. What are my reactions and feelings when I wake up? Why might this be, and is there anything specifically in the dream that may be causing this?

These dreams may appear as frustrating because they do recur, however one must know that it is for the betterment of his/her own well-being. So please heed these statements: Pay close attention to the themes and individual symbols and see how it relates to waking life. Do not look upon the recurring dream lightly for the subconscious is only trying to strengthen the person as a whole. Furthermore, it is best not to ignore these dreams because they will only get worse.

Anxiety Dreams

Anxiety, by definition, is a state of uneasiness or tension caused by apprehension of possible future misfortune, danger, etc.; worry. Anxiety dreams are those dreams that are brought on by real life situations or feelings causing anxiety. These dreams do not ordinarily occur if a person is not overly concerned with something in real life.

Anxiety dreams may be nightmarish in nature, but are not always nightmares. These dreams are easily identified by the strong emotional energy that is always present. It is essential to find the source of the anxiety in our waking lives. Once this is done, the energies of the dream dissipate and can cease altogether.

We can ask ourselves the following questions:

1. Does my dream suggest a practical course of action that could help reduce my anxiety or allow me to cope with it in waking life?

2. Does my dream suggest any people who might help me resolve my anxiety?

3. Does my dream suggest an anxiety that is ill founded and unnecessary? Can I eradicate these fears?

4. If my anxiety dream is leading to an obvious real-life anxiety is there a way I can change my waking life to eliminate this worry?

5. What does my dream say about my personality as a whole?

Because anxiety is a natural response to real or perceived dangers we can unmask symbols in a systematic way to eliminate these anxiety-laden dreams. Answering the above questions, eliminating the anxiety dreams completely also help us learn and grow

Chase Dreams

Chase dreams refer to those dreams that revolve around a pursuit, driving something towards or away from something else (in most cases, you). They could also be referring to a hurried situation. These dreams are usually recurring and display forms of anxiety or fear.

A common example, not being able to run is symbolic that you will soon have to face the problem and won't be allowed to run any longer, because circumstances have come to this point.

Ask yourself the following questions:

1. What is significant to you about this chase? Do you think the chase is meaningful or not?

b Do these chase dreams link with circumstances in your waking life? If so, what?

3. What is the dominant emotion you have in your dream?

4. Are you the chaser, or are you being chased?

5. Are you alone, or are others involved?

6. What is the overall outcome of the chase?

As noted with recurring dreams, anxiety dreams and nightmares, once you take control (and you can by acknowledging the true representation of the symbols) you can rise above the problem. This is what your subconscious is trying to tell you. Handle your real life situation before it grows out of control.

Nightmares

The word "nightmare" has been derived from an Anglo-Saxon word "maere" which is used to describe an evil spirit who descends upon sleeping persons. Its intent is either dark in nature or there to suffocate the sleeper.

More often than not nightmares are a result of a person's anxieties in waking life. These anxieties most likely went without being addressed during a time when that person was having anxiety dreams. If anxiety dreams are left go, they do result in a more severe nightmare form.

Nightmares sometimes feature a chase and pursuit scenario. Here too, if chase dreams are left go, this is how they end up.

Another form of a nightmare, definitely a more drastic and more serious form, is the night terror. Night terrors are nightmares that are accompanied by powerful physiological effects. The content is often shown as suffocating, choking or entrapment.

Nightmares occur during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep while night terrors occur during deep NON REM sleep. If you experience night terrors, you might want to seek out sleep therapists who can help aid in adjusting sleep habits.

Ways to help diminish nightmares:

1. Some nightmares are prophetic in nature. These dreams can aid in avoiding whatever scenario they are depicting.

2. If past waking life experiences are depicted, try to understand why you are dreaming about them by asking yourself if you've truly dealt with these issues.

3. Nightmares can actually help you narrow in on your current real life problems so you can deal with them.

4. Nightmares may be rooted in phobias. If this is the case, these dreams may be pushing you to tackle these phobias in waking life.

5. Specific medications could be a cause to the onset of some nightmares. Speak with a doctor if you think this is happening.

6. Dream catchers are a good item to place above your bed if you have nightmares. Native American in origin, dream catchers feature a large central net representing the world. These nets capture bad dreams before they disturb the sleeper.

Different types of dreams info is (C) to the RiverSide Shadows Wolf Pack
Links:
1. RiverSide Shadows Wolf Pack: http://www.freewebs.com/riverside_shadows_wolf_pack/index.htm
2. Dreams Moods(awsum site if you wanna interupt your dreams) : http://www.dreammoods.com/

-- Edited by 0menstorm at 08:56, 2008-04-19

Braveheart · FogClan Medicine Cat

I really like it, Omen! Keep up the great work!

0menstorm · RainClan Medicine Cat

Thanks *bows*

Swallowtail · MossClan Medicine Cat

xD Thanks to you, of course. ^_^

Silverstar · RainClan Leader

Seriousy, good work Omenstorm! It musta takin foever to get all this stuff! Oo
Swallowtail, here's ur lil kitty penalty. XD *holds up red card*
You know you can make your OWN medicine dens, right? This isn't supposed to be the only one.

~*Gingerheart*~ · Newbie

Omenstorm,not to be nosy,but do you have an apprentice???

Frostheart OF HawkClan · Newbie

Um....I read the board thing and Silverstar is the leader of RainClan? Could I be a member?
I was thinking to be a medicine cat if i could....and i saw the last post was in 2009 so,...