Yarrow is a very valuable, traditional medicinal herb, with much scientific evidence of use in alternative medicine as an antiseptic, antispasmodic, astringent, carminative, diaphoretic, digestive, emmenagogue, stimulant, and tonics, vasodilator and vulnerary. The main constituents are volatile oils including linalool, camphor, sabinene, and chamazulene, sesquiterpene lctones, flavanoids, alkaloids including achilleine, polyacetylenes, triterpenes, salicylic acid, coumarins, and tannins which prove these uses in alternative medicine to be effective. Extracts of yarrow exhibit antibiotic activity and may also act as anti-neoplastic drugs. Yarrow is used against colds, cramps, fevers, kidney disorders, toothaches, skin irritations, and hemorrhages, and to regulate menses, stimulate the flow of bile, and purify the blood.

There are two chemicals, achilletin and achilleine, found in Yarrow that both prompt blood coagulation. Yarrow also contains small amounts of a hypnotic chemical, thujone, whose effects are similar to those of marijuana, therefore having a sedative quality. There are eight chemicals, azulene, camphor, chamazulene, eugenol, menthol, quercetin, rutin, and salicylic acid, which all have anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving action. Topical use only for our prducts!