Uses for Yarrow

Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium L. )

Time of Year: Flowers bloom in the spring

Location: All of North America

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Nutrient Content

Note much nutrients in it.

Uses

Leaves and flowers

Edibles

• The younger leaves and the flowers a yummy in salads

• The leaves can be used as a hop substitute for flavoring and preserving beer

Medical

• Yarrow is used to help fevers, cold and hay fever.

• You can chew on the leaves to help a toothache

• It can stop bleeding when applied as a mash to a wound (even large ones), it is a blood clotter. 

• It is an anti inflammatory so makes great compress for sprains and even bug bites

• Great in a bath for cramps and lower pains

• Teas made from the leaves and flowers helps with cramps and bloating.

• And this can be dried and have all of the same effects.

• Tea from its flowers and leaves helps produce productive sweating to flush toxins

Other Uses

• Yarrow is used as a facial cleanser. (for greasy skin)

• It is also added to shampoos and soaps

• And it is used in snuffs (not sure I would snuff it)

• Yarrow repels flies, ants and other insects

• Burning it repels mosquitoes

• The seeds a very fragrant and can be used inside the house to make it smell nice

• Make a yellow- green die with the leaves

How to make plants food from Yarrow

Fill a container with leaves. Add some water. Leave it to soak for a week or two and then dilute the smelly dark mix, around 10 - 1 with water. You do not need to be perfect with the messurments. And bam great plant food! 

Uses for Lambs Quarters

Lambs quarters (Chenopodium album –L)

 Lamb's quarter is an erect, annual weed, 1-3 feet high; the stem often mealy, red-streaked. Leaves somewhat diamond-shaped, coarsely toothed; mealy white beneath. Flowers greenish-white, on densely flowered spikes, inconspicuous; in clusters; June to October.

Time of Year:  Spring to fall (seed in oct and nov)

Location:  All of North America

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Nutrient Content

Phosphorus, iron, calcium, vitamins A, B2, Niacin, and C

USES

Flowers, Seeds and Leaves

Editable uses

• This plant a spinach substitute that is why many call it wild spinach (I cook it with a little garlic mustard plant)

• Not a good plant for salads

• But the seeds can be soaked and sprouted for salads

• Cook the whole flower heads and they have a broccoli taste to them

• The seeds can be ground and added to breads (because they are high in carbs and protein it is a good addition to any food) **note but the seeds should be soaked first to pull out the toxins they have.

Medical Uses

I call this the camper’s plant because…..

• Boil the leaves and make a wash for sunstroke or a tea to help with sunstroke. 

• The leaves decrease  pain by reducing inflammation. Tea or mash

• Bug Bites, Burns, aching joints and swollen feet...spread a mash on them

• The seeds are used for

•  The leaves can be eaten raw to help support the healing of anemic blood conditions

• Ever here of Beano well this does the same thing iy help with gas chew on a few leaves (just a few because to many can be toxic)

•  The roots made in a tea make a good  laxative

•   Make a juice form the plant and use it as mouthwash for tightening the gums and eliminating bad breath.

Other Uses

• Makes a great green Dye

• The roots have saponin in them, which makes a natural soapy substance when mashed 

• Many farmers use this plant for their livestock (it grows fast and has nutritional value) mostly Chickens (that is why some call this plant fat hen)

 

Uses for Mullein

Mullein (Verbascum thapsus L.)

A large plant with light green leaves with elongated flower cluster. This cluster is packed with small yellow flowers and rests atop the terminal shoot of a robust wooly stem. The similarly wooly, large, oblong leaves of this wildflower begin at the base of the stem  and alternates up.

Time of Year: Spring to fall

Location: All of North America

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Nutrient Content

Iron, potassium, magnesium, vitamins B2, B5, B12, and D, choline, hesperidin, PABA, sulfur, magnesium, mucilage and saponins.

USES

Flower, Leaves and Roots

Editable uses

• A sweeter tea can be made by infusing the fresh or dried flower

• Leaves and flowers can be used in salads 

Medical Uses

******The seeds are slightly narcotic and also contain saponins

• The leaves and the flowers anti-inflammatory and is great for sprains and pulled muscles in a mash

• Boil the leave in vinegar and water and use like bandage for arthritis, frostbite, gout, or painful skin condition

• The leave make great bandages because they are antiseptic and an astringent  

• It acts by reducing the formation of mucus and stimulating the coughing up of phlegm.

• For nasal congestion, flu, inflammation of nerve tissue, nerve pain, steam a some of the flowers to help reduce inflammation.

• Tea makes good remedy for cough, hoarseness, bronchitis, sinusitis, tuberculosis, bronchial catarrh, mumps, and whooping cough.

• A tincture of the flowers is used for migraine headaches

• Can be used in a compress for hemorrhoids

• The juice of the plant and powder made from the dried roots is said to quickly remove rough warts when rubbed on them

•  Also the root is used to help you urinate if you are having issues in a tea form.  

• A paste of the roots is said to alleviate toothaches and even relive cramps

---The Root..I have found a few places that say the the root is being looked at to help with spine issues. Mashing it and spreading it on the spine and letting it sit. Several times a day for a few weeks. But is still being looked at.

Other Uses

• The leaves are smoked, to soothe the throat and as a substitute for tobacco.

• The flowering stems can be dipped in wax and used as torches

• The leaves can be rolled up tight and make great wicks for candles

• And you can rub the leaves on you to repel insects

• Rub the leaves on your cheeks to get a rosy color (natural makeup)

• Use the flowers when washin your hair to bring out the blonde highlights

• The dried leaves and stems makes a great tinder

• You can line your shoes with the leaves to keep your feet warm

• Can be used for yellow dye. When used with dilute sulphuric acid itproduce a rather permanent green dye. And  becomes brown with the addition of alkalis