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Anti-inflammatory*
Astringent*
Hypotensive*
Vulnerary*
Digestive*
Febrifuge*
Styptic*
Repels Insects*
Expectorant*
Antibacterial*
Nervine*
Antispasmodic*
Antiperspirant/Deodorants*
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aerial parts, essential oil |
| Constituents: | Up to 1.4% volatile oil (composed of up to 51 % azulene; borneol, terpineol, camphor, cineole, isoartemesia ketone, and a trace of thujone), lactones, flavonoids, tannins, coumarins, saponins, sterols, a bitter glyco-alkaloid (achilleine), cyanidin, amino |
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Yarrow was once known as "nosebleed", its feathery leaves making an ideal astringent swab to encourage clotting. It is a well known and versatile herb that is still effective for its historical use of staunching bleeding and disinfecting wounds, but it's uses extend far beyond that. Yarrow is one of the best-known herbal remedies for fevers, a hot cup of yarrow tea induces a therapeutic sweat which cools fevers and helps the body expels toxins. The chemical makeup of yarrow is complex, and it contains many active medicinal compounds in addition to the tannins and volatile oil azulene.
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| Avoid in pregnancy, can cause allergic skin reactions in sensitive people who suffer from allergies related to the Asteraceae family. Moderation is the key to safe use, the thujone content can be toxic over an extended period of time
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Preparation Methods :Dry or fresh herb, oil or water infusions, tincture. The tea is bitter.
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Bilder ur Nordens Flora
- Flowers: Grayish-white, rarely pinkish, in a hard, close, flat-topped, compound cluster. Ray florets 4 to 6, pistillate, fertile; disk florets yellow, afterward brown, perfect, fertile.
- Stem: Erect, from horizontal root-stalk, 1 to 2 ft. high, leafy, sometimes hairy.
- Leaves:Very finely dissected (Millefolium (thousand leaf), narrowly oblong in outline.
- Preferred Habitat:Waste land, dry fields, banks, roadsides.
- Flowering Season:June - November
- Distribution: Naturalized from Europe and Asia through-out North America
Netje Blanchan Wild Flowers worth Knowing(1917)
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 Sharp, woody, herbaceous dark blue essential oil contains azulene and has been used in the past in dilute the most expensive roman chamomile. Yarrow oil has anti-inflammatory properties and may help balance hormones and heal wounds. Also can be helpful as a styptic to stop bleeding. |
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In China, yarrow is used fresh as a poultice for healing wounds. A decoction of the whole plant is prescribed for stomach ulcers, amenorrhoea, and abscesses.
Mabey, Richard ,40 |
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 Everywhere this commonest of common weeds confronts us; the compact, dusty-looking clusters appearing not by
waysides only, around the world, but in the mythology, folk-lore, medicine, and literature of many peoples. Chiron, the centaur, who taught its virtues to Achilles that he might make an ointment to heal his Myrmidons wounded in the siege of Troy, named the plant for this favorite pupil, giving his own to the beautiful Blue CornÂflower (Centaurea Cyanus). As a love-charm, as an herb-tea brewed by crones to cure divers ailments, from loss of hair to the ague; as an inducement to nosebleed for the relief of congestive headache; as an ingredient of an especially intoxicating beer made by the Swedes, it is mentioned in old books. Nowadays we are satisfied merely to admire the feathery masses of lace-like foliage formed by young plants, to whiff the wholesome, nutty, autumnal odor of its flowers, or to wonder at the marvellous scheme it employs to overrun the earth.
Netje Blanchan Wild Flowers worth Knowing(1917) |
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 It is under the influence of Venus. As a medicine it is drying and binding. A decoction of it boiled with white wine, is good to stop the running of the reins in men, and whites in women Nicholas Culpeper |
 Yarrow stalks are still used by the Chinese for casting I Ching predictions. |
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(1) Maud Grieve, "A Modern Herbal, Vol 2"
(1)Tillford, "Herbs for Pets", 230-232 | | |
 For sinusitis, use a foot bath of two cups of yarrow tea or essential oil of eucalyptus. |
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