I picked up yet another herb book today and while browsing through looked up Yarrow. Then I decided to grab all of my herb books and see what they had to say. Finally I checked by BOS. Heres what my research turned up I wanted to write it all down to add to my BOS and thought Id share.
Love and Laughter
Starpalm / Tammy
Magickal Herbalism by Scott Cunningham
Yarrow makes an excellent marriage charm. On a Friday during the waxing Moon take nine dried yarrow flower heads. Bind the stems together with a copper wire, then tie a small bow over the wire with a green ribbon Present it to the married couple, with the instructions to hang it over their bed, or place it on the headboard. Pg 83
Yarrow (Achillea Millefolium)
Folk Names: Seven Years Love, Sanguinary, Old Mans Mustard, Military Herb, Old Mans Pepper, Soldiers Woundwort, Knights Milfoil, Nosebleed, Thousand Seal, Hundred-Leaved Grass, Millefolium, Milfoil, Arrow Root, Eerie, Ladies Mantle, Knyghten, Would Wort, Stanch Weed, Field Hops, Tansy Gearwe, Noble Yarrow Yarroway, Devils Bit, Devils Plaything, Achillea, Snakes Grass, Death Flower, Stanch Griss.
Gender: Cold
Planet: Venus
Element: Water
Part Used: Flowers
Basic Powers: Love, Clairvoyance, and Exorcism.
Specific Uses: Yarrow is used in love sachets marriage charms as it has the power to keep a couple together happily for seven years. Worn as an amulet, it wards of negativity. The tea drunk prior to divination will enhance ones powers of perception. Held in the hand it stops all fear. It is sometimes added to exorcism incenses. The beautiful flowers are a welcome addition to any magical altar. The yarrow is one of the Witchs favorite herbs. Pg 189
The Power of Healing Herbs by Dr John Heinerman
The many uses of yarrow in folk medicine date back to Achilles, she used the plant to treat the wounds of this soldiers. Yarrow has also been evaluated as a possible alternate source for rubber. In ancient China, yarrow stalks were used by soothsayers for purposes of divination.
A locally published tabloid for senior citizens in Utah called Golden Age Monthly carried this interesting piece in its May, 1991 edition. Which Ive summarized in my own words.
A grandfather had accompanied his married sons family into the mountains near Salt Lake City for a campout. On the second day his kindergarten-age grandson took sick with the flu. He developed chills and fever and said his body ached all over.
The daughter in law moaned, Well, there goes our vacation now that little Joeys sick. Wed better get him to a doctor soon.
But the grandpa spoke up, saying, I saw a patch of yarrow on the way up here. Think Ill go get some and make some tea for him.
He put a big handful of yarrow in a pan of boiling water and brewed it up. His little grandson wasnt much for drinking the tea. He complained that it tasted yucky! So his grandfather hunted around a little more and discovered some mountain peppermint growing close by. He brewed some of it with the yarrow. The child reported that he liked it better that way.
Soon he began sweating all over, but said he didnt feel cold anymore. Later that day he said he felt much better and by the third morning he was up and manifesting all of the exuberance and energy common to kids his age.
Next is a true account of some white mice that overcame their laboratory-induced arthritis with extracts of yarrow blossoms. The arthritis symptoms, swelling and inflammation disappeared within a matter of hours. As fully reported in the August 1969 journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the scientists who conducted the tests attributed this success to the rather interesting protein-carbohydrate complex within the flowers
themselves.
You dont have to be a rat or mouse to enjoy the benefits of this wonderful herb. All you really need are aching, sore muscles or stiff joints or back pain to try it out.
For relief of pain and inflammation, I advise 3 capsules of each of yarrow and peppermint every four to five hours. Or 1 cup of a warm yarrow/peppermint tea blend every four hours or 10 drops each of yarrow and peppermint under the tongue every three hours or so.
However you choose to use it, figure on doing so with peppermint accompanying it. For some unexplained reason that I havent quite figured out as yet, yarrow always works better with peppermint then without it. Pgs 90-91
From Wicca Garden, Gerwina Durwich
As an herb of the magickal arts, yarrow has been worn as a charm against sorcery, demons, negativity, and ghosts; used in love divinations, I Ching divinations, and exorcisms; and hung in houses on Midsummers Eve to protect the inhabitants against sickness throughout the ensuring year. Many modern Witches have used yarrow in rituals and brews to increase psychic powers and the herb is often worn at Pagan handfasting ceremonies to dispel negative influences. Pg 46
The herb yarrow is associated with the ancient Chinese system of oracular divinations known as the I Ching or Book of Changes. Although the modern and most common method of consulting the I Ching is to toss three coins three times to randomly determine hexagrams, the traditional and more complicated method is to toss fifty sticks of yarrow and then interpret the hexagrams produced. Pg 106
Herb Omens and Superstitions
1. Yarrow leaves placed inside the nose eases the pain of a migraine headache.
2. Plucking yarrow from the ground will cause your nose to bleed.
3. Yarrow brings good luck and offers a person protection keeps bad Witches and demons form entering a house when strewn on the doorstep.
4. To ensure true love for at least seven years a newlywed couple should hang a bunch of dried yarrow flowers over their bed.
5. Many folk healers throughout Europe and the US still believe in the old wives take that claims baldness can be prevented by washing your hair with an infusion of yarrow. Pg 171
From my BOS
Yarrow Magickal Properties - Courage, Love, Exorcisms and Psychic Abilities
Peppermint Magickal Properties - Purification and Awareness
From the Herb List:
Peppermint (Mentha piperata) Local Name: Mint a tea of peppermint is excellent for calming upset stomachs, and as a gargle. Even a small stock of peppermint candies (not York's with the chocolate) like candy canes or the similar discs of candy will calm an upset stomach by chomping on a few of them. A helpful thing to have around when the snow is too deep to take a trip to the corner store.
Tammy L. Abreu-Butron
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