Yarrow!

I'm falling in Love with this wild herb that I now find everywhere. It's especially useful if you spend time outdoors as it can be used fresh or dried and added to any first aid kit.

I'm falling in Love with this wild herb that I now find everywhere. It's especially useful if you spend time outdoors as it can be used fresh or dried and added to any first aid kit.

Made famous by Achilles as he brought it to the battlefield for warriors wounds.

It is used for both medicinal and spiritual purposes. It is a harmomizer to help bring our bodies back to balance. It's complex and gives our bodies what it needs. From bringing fluids to a stop to promoting flow. Warming but also cooling. Can be drying but also help moisten. This herb is a gift!

My favourite use for it is It's ability to stop bleeding and heal Wounds. It is an antiseptic, antimicrobial, astringent, analgesic and anti-inflammatory. Our Liam boy is quite active and when he fell and split his lip I was able to send Logan into our Garden and grab some fresh yarrow that I crushed to place on his gushing lip and the bleeding instantly stopped. Also used on our campsite where I saw wild yarrow growing to help with his cut knew. Yarrow promotes blood clotting and helps pull tissue together, while preventing infection. When combined with St. Johns wort can help heal episiotomies. Help with toothaches or infections in the mouth.

🌿Yarrow Harmonizes the Blood and as it stops flow it also helps with circulation. Helps move stagnant blood as the case with varicose veins and hemorrhoids. Also known as the womens herb can relieve menstrual cramps.

🌿Yarrow soothes cold and flu symptoms.

As it is a diaphoretic it can promote sweating, helping to break fevers or with detoxes. It can also soothe a sore throat and help with coughs as an expectorant.

🌿Supports the Urinary System.

Yarrow can act as a diuretic that promotes flow. Helping with UTI symptoms. 

🌿Supports Digestion.

It is aromatic and bitter which when taken as a tea can support digestion.

🌿Repels Insects 

Can be made into a spray or simply rubbing leaves and flowers on skin and clothes.

So many ways to use yarrow! Fresh, poultices, tinctures, dried, teas. Yarrow has many colorful flowers like red and yellow, make sure to look for white for it's medicinal properties.

Curious if you'll start noticing wild yarrow when out on your nature hikes!

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