Yarrow

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Common Cold
Hypertension
Minor Cuts and Grazes
Dysmenorrhea
Menorrhagia
Milfoil, Old Man's Pepper, Nosebleed

Tea can be made from both fresh and dried cut leaves and flower heads. The bitter taste can be masked with sweeter herbs and a bit of honey. Fresh leaves also can be used as a poultice to stop bleeding and chewed to relieve a toothache. Yarrow essential oil is used for external application for many of the same purposes. Yarrow can also be taken as an extract.
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

Common Cold
Hypertension
Minor Cuts and Grazes
Dysmenorrhea
Menorrhagia

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