Yarrow (Achilea millefolium)

Yarrow (Achilea millefolium)

        What is Yarrow? Some of you may be typing in google search right now what is Yarrow. Well Yarrow is a perennial herb with unbranched stem, layered leaves and tiny white and pink flowers arranged in the shape of a shield. It grows 7-70 inches. Rhizome is thin and horizontal. Yarrow can constitute up to 50 cm long roots with sterile shoots. Yarrow leaves are divided in many ways, where he names the name Latin mille - a thousand folie - list. The lower leaves are woody, and the top are sedentary and have increased basal hairs. Yarrow has always been known to have many medicinal properties. Thus the brigands privijali early and deadly, because it speeds up blood clotting and stop bleeding they are called milfoil.

        It usually grows in meadows, pastures, semi-arid steppe, grasslands, rocky areas, forest clearings, as well as the fields and vineyards. In the Alps rising until 1900 m above sea level. Almost cosmopolitan is widespread throughout Europe, only in the Mediterranean area somewhat rarer. Blooms white flowers from June to August. Are harvested during the flowering and the leaves until fall. Botanic name was given to the Greek hero Achilles-Achillea, and it means to give strength. Harvested in July and August, on a dry or windy in the dry place at a temperature of 35 to 50 degrees. It is kept in a bag , protected from light, and the shelf life of dry yarrow is about two years. It has the highest quality ingredients when harvested on sunny days.

Yarrow (Achilea millefolium)

        It is rich in vitamin K, eteric oils, bitter substances ahilein and azulene, from which her medicinal use coimes from. Upper part of the plant in bloom contains up to 1% of essential oils (pharmacopoeia requires a minimum of 0.13%), flavonoids, vitamin K, a bitter substance ahilein, resins, stereological, tannins, etc. The oil milfoil is obtained by steam distillation and contains pinene, cineole, thujone, camphor, limonene, borneol.

         In the old books about plants this plant is designated as the salvation for all difficulties, and can be applied in areas where it seems that every effort is useless. Its strength in purifying the blood from the body can ward off many years of illness. Just to tempt you.

       It's not very well known that Yarrow directly and it works best on the bone marrow, because it stimulates the production of blood. That helps with diseases of the bone marrow, in which does not help anything, even with bone abscess from applied treatments with tea, bath and massaging kunicinom tincture. It is good remedy for bleeding in the lungs and can together with calamus cure lung cancer. Iđirotov root to chew on during the morning and evening by drinking a cup of tea kunicinog, sip by sip.

Yarrow (Achilea millefolium)

        Bleeding in the stomach and severe bleeding hemorrhoids, as well as the pressure in the stomach and severe heartburn, tea helps very quickly. When cold, backache and rheumatic pain should drink as tea hotter from Yarrow. Tea encourages proper kidney function, stimulate the appetite, eliminates flatulence, stomach cramps, liver disorders, inflammation of the stomach and intestinal tract, increase labor intestinal glands, allowing regular chair.

       It is strongly recommended for angina pectoris because they work best for disturbances in the circulation and narrowing of blood vessels. Disease in which the Yarrow is used as cure for cancer in the uterus (daily tea drinking as much as we can), inflammation of the ovaries, whites, wetting the bed (bath of Yarrow), myoma, lack of menstruation (every morning to drink a cup of tea), menopause (regularly drink tea) inflammation of the nerves in the hands and feet (baths for hands and feet with the addition of Yarrow), a painful rush of blood to the head, dizziness, nausea, eye disease with tearing, shooting pains in the eyes, nose bleeds, migraines (hot tea to drink sip by sip . regular use of migraine may disappear).

Yarrow (Achilea millefolium)