Dave (TAM)Melaleuca/Tea Tree oil and it's related products is wonderful stuff. I have a bottle of tea tree oil handy and use it for almost every cut and skin complaint. It's great for just about everything and can heal small wounds in a lot less time than most other treatments. It takes the itch and heat out of things like cat sctratches etc. As far as I know it started out here in Oz, by a company called Thursday Plantation, but it probably really started as a bush medicine from the Aboriginal/Koori people. I might be wrong about it's origins though, I always thought melaleuca was a native Australian plant, but......
Auxiris, I hope you and the cat are both doing well and that the problem is fixed now.
Helen