White yarrow

Yarrow (Achillea Millefolum) -Yarrow is a common plant that grows wild all over the world. It has feathery leaves, white, yellow, or pink flowers sometimes they look like daisy, some of them grow in heads like dill or queen anne's lace. All parts of the plant is used medicinally.

Some common names are soldier's woundwort, milfoil, nosebleed plant, and old man's pepper. It grows in poor, well drained soil. It improves soil and the leaves make a good addition to compost. Yarrow is a good companion plant. It repels some bad insects and attracts good ones, such as predatory wasps, ladybugs, and hoverflies. It improves the health of sickly plants growing next to it and increases the potency of other herbs around it.

Yarrow flowers are used for allergic mucus problems including hay fever. A tea from yarrow, peppermint, and elderflower will cure colds and flu. An infusion of the flowers can be applied to eczema. Yarrow intensifies the medicinal action of other herbs taken with it.

Yarrow leaves are used to stop bleeding from cuts and nosebleeds. The root, when chewed, will relieve a toothache. The stalks are dried and used by the Chinese to forecast the future.

Yarrow overall promotes good digestion, improves circulation, lowers blood pressure, and in the Middle Ages, was used to flavor beer.