Yarrow
Yarrow has many names, including Nosebleed, Milfoil, Thousand-leaf, Soldier’s Woundwort, Devil’s Nettle, Devil’s Plaything, Bad Man’s Plaything, and Yarroway. The name yarrow is Anglo-Saxon. From Trojan War to American Civil War The sixteenth-century British herbalist John Gerard states that Achilles stopped the bleeding wounds of his soldiers with yarrow in the Trojan War some 3,000 [...]
