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By Chelsie Vandaveer

July 29, 2002

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Common yarrow (Achillea millefolium Linnaeus) [a ki lee' ah mil i fo' lee um] is native to Europe and western Asia. The plant is naturalized over much of North America, Australia, and New Zealand. It is often considered a weedy or nuisance species in cultivated fields.

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When John Gerard wrote The Herbal in 1597, the yarrows were known as Millefolium (thousand leaves). Gerard also listed numerous "bastard names", among them: Panaces Heracleion (Heracles or Hercules heal-all), Supercilium Veneru (Venus' eyebrow), and Militaris (of the military).

The yarrows have been used to treat injuries since the early Greeks. Gerard wrote of its 'vertues', "The leaves of Yarrow doe close up wounds, and keepe them from inflammation, or fiery swelling: it stancheth bloud in any part of the body...it stoppeth the laske (diarrhea), and being drunke it helpeth the bloudy flixe (dysentery). Most men say that the leaves chewed, and especially greene, are a remedy for the tooth-ache."

Although, yarrow was usually used to stop bleeding, it was also used to induce bleeding. Gerard mentions a common English name, Nose-bleed. "The leaves being put into the nose, do cause it to bleed, and ease the paine of the megrim (migraine)."

Matthew Perry of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey has two photographs of common yarrow. To view the photographs, click on the link:

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/history/herbarium/achillea_millefolium.htm

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