(whites). An internal decoction of yarrow boiled with white wine is used to stop the running of the reins
in men and discharge in women. Chewing the leaves when troubled by toothache will frequently ease the
pain.
DOSE: Infusion of 1 teaspoonful to 1 cupful of boiling water is given in wineglassful to cupful amounts,
three or four times a day. The essential oil, 5–20 drops three or four times a day.
EXTERNALLY: Native Americans used the leaves as a poultice for skin rash. It is currently used for
treatment of skin wounds, ulcers, and fistulas in an ointment or poultice application; both are soothing for
hemorrhoids. The oil or decoction will prevent hair from falling out, if taken internally and applied to the
scalp.
RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE: Tisiachelistnik and krovavnik means “one thousand leaves” and “blood plant.”
Achillea millefolium, also translated as “one thousand leaves” in Russia, A. asiatica, and A. setacea are
only three of the species of yarrow to be found there. The leaves, flowers, and unseparated tops are
usually called yarrow, as known in North America. Folk medicine: Since the fifteenth century Russian
herbalists have used and recommended yarrow. As tea, decoction, nastoika (with vodka) for bleeding,
stomach sickness, gastritis, ulcers, dysentery, diarrhea, female bleeding, inflamed processes, cold, cough,
liver, anemia, headache, tuberculosis of the lungs, shortness of breath, nervousness, high blood pressure,
tabes of spinal marrow. Externally: Decoctions and poultice for surface or subcutaneous skin conditions:
Clinically: Recently recognition has been given to extracts and decoctions for stomach sickness,
especially ulcers, and for bleeding and gastritis. Also as an appetizer and externally as styptic (Atlas,
Moscow, 1963).