Properties:
Anti-Inflammatory, Antibacterial, Antirheumatic, Antispasmodic, Astringent, Bitter, Cathartic, Depurative, Digestive, Emmenagogue, Febrifuge, Hypotensive, Insect Repellents, Nervine, Styptic, Vulnerary
 
Medicinal Uses:
Chinese, Colds, Cuts and Wounds, Dysmenorrhea, Hypertension, Menorrhagia
 
Description:
Achillea millefolium is a flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. Yarrow is an erect herbaceous perennial plant that has a spreading rhizomatous growth form and it produces one to several stems that grow up to 1 meter (a little over 3 feet) in height. Yarrow's leaves are covered in varying degrees of hairiness (called pubescence) and are evenly distributed along its stem. These almost feathery leaves are 5–20 cm long, bipinnate or tripinnate; they are cauline and are arranged spirally on the stems with the largest leaves being nea