The yarrow herb is one powerful plant and in many ways. Learn how you can use this amazing plant anywhere from the garden, health, home, and beyond.
Sometimes I love weeds. Well, at least a plant others consider being a weed. I mean they have an insatiable desire to thrive no matter where they are. Unlike some more “well-liked” puny garden annuals, that have to be constantly babied.
So what is better than a weed that not only thrives without help but also is so useful? Take for example yarrow. Known as a weed by most, yarrow uses and benefits are endless, well nearly. Whatever you want to call it, yarrow herb, plant, or weed is one you want around.
The yarrow plant is impressive for many reasons. Be it in the garden for pest control, or to enhance the aromas and flavors or other plants or in the home-grown apothecary (or medicine cabinet for those who don’t dream of being an herbalist). Once you realize what yarrow can do this will be one weed you will encourage!
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The yarrow plant
Yarrow is a champion in the garden, ask my kids I have made sure it’s everywhere. It is so helpful in repelling many pests. Aphids, nematodes bean beetles, cabbage worms and more all hate this plant and the strong smell it produces. So that makes it a win for you and maintaining organic control over your garden.
Yarrow also is known for enhancing aromas in other plants. Lavender, rosemary, and other culinary herbs benefit from sharing garden space with this strong-willed plant.
Yarrow is an annual plant, but one that easily re-seeds itself. So trust me, if you plant it in just a few places and you will likely never need to plant it again. That’s a score.
Yarrows’ medicinal benefits
Yarrow can be used both internally as well as externally and has a history of medicinal uses that vary from relaxing uterine contractions to stopping the bleeding.
Recently my 5-year-old skinned his knee and it was slightly bleeding, and we were outside. As all 5-year-olds believe that a band-aid would cure-all the pain (if you can’t see the blood it no longer hurts). I reached for a yarrow leaf rolled it around in my hand for a few seconds to release some of the plant properties and held it against his knee. Within a few seconds, the bleeding had stopped, and I assure you he was nothing short of amazed.
Yarrow is wonderful for healing wounds with its many anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties. yarrow is often used by midwives to both stop bleeding after birth and heal the new mother’s body with an herbal sitz bath. Yarrow can easily be used in tinctures, teas, powders, salves, and creams.
- quickly stops bleeding
- anti-inflammatory
- antiseptic
- reduce fevers
- relieves cramps (both stomach and menstrual)
- stimulate uterine contractions
Yarrow essential oil
Easily dried for use in a tea for cold and flu season, or made into a tincture to reduce a fever or stop a nosebleed. Yarrow uses are nearly limitless and many that take almost no effort. With yarrow’s happy-to-thrive-anywhere attitude and the fact it will readily self-sow all over the place, you are guaranteed to have all you could ever need. Even if you may not have it in your garden yarrow is very easy to find growing wild all over the place.
In the herbal medicine world, the yarrow herb has the nickname of “cure-all” and rightly so. It has been successfully used for a long period of time for a very wide range of issues. What “weed” has that claim to fame? Yarrow is not picky and will happily grow in your garden or wild in a field. Whether to stop a nosebleed or to heal hemorrhoids, to companion plant or keep pests from the garden the many benefits of the yarrow herb have got your back♡♡♡
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Beth is a mother of 6 living on a handful of acres in an old farmhouse in central Kansas. Beth has a background in the military and health and fitness however her passions come from her homestead life. Beth is an enthusiastic homeschooling mom, avid organic gardener, chicken & goat wrangler, who is obsessed with herbs and natural remedies and maintaining an all-around Do-It-Yourself lifestyle. Beth loves to share all she has learned about and sustainable living. While striving for a healthy, natural life, family-centered life.