Author: Linné, Family: asteraceae (compositae)
One of the most popular healing herbs. It's one of those all-round healers that can be used for
many things. Mainly it acts as a tonic, astringent and vulnerary, stimulates the kidneys (acting as a
so-called blood purifier) and helps with women's pre-menstrual and menstrual troubles.
Some people react allergically to it, they should stop using it.
Photo by Brother Alfred Brousseau, St. Mary's College
More about yarrow in MGMH
Text References: Healing
| CB 25, 417 |
Iza's Tuberculosis
She searched her memory for treatments.
A poultice of the inner bark of balsam, she thought. Yes, and a yarrow
tea. Breathing the steam will help, too. |
| CB 26, 425 |
Iza's Tools
Then she picked the many-petaled, daisylike yarrow used for poultices
and pain. |
| MH 12, 173 |
Hangover
Ayla (...) noticed the leftover yarrow tea she had made for her morning
headache. The dried flower umbel and brittle feathery leaves of the plant
still clung to a stalk that had been growing near the teasel. Spicy and
aromatic when fresh, the yarrow that had grown near the river was sapped
of its potency by rain and sun, but it reminded her of some she had prepared
and dried earlier. |
| MH 12, 174-175 |
Hangover
"Ayla! There you are. What was in that drink you gave me?" he asked (...)
"Yarrow, with some alfalfa, and a little raspberry leaf, and ..." (...)
"Will you tell me how to make it, Ayla?"
"Yes," she said, "I will." //
He looked delighted. "If I'm going to make the bouza, then I ought to know a remedy for the morning after." |
| MH 19, 295 |
Hangover
Still moving carefully, she took several packets from her medicine
bag and mixed up willow bark, yarrow, wood betony, and chamomile in various
proportions. She poured cold water into the cooking basket (...), added
hot rocks until it boiled, then the tea. |
| PP 15, 255 |
Roshario's Arm
But she also added pulverized yarrow, for its external painkilling
and quick-healing properties. |
| PP 16, 264 |
Roshario's Arm
Ayla dipped the strips of chamois skin in the hot water, placed the
spikenard and yarrow on it, wrapped it loosely around the arm, (...) |
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Abbreviations |
Editions |
| CB |
The Clan of the Cave Bear |
The page numbers refer to the hardcover editions by Crown Publishers, Inc, New York 1980, 1982, 1985, 1990.
Book 1-3 are the Special Collector's Edition, I don't know if the page numbers differ from those of the 'normal' hardcover editions. |
| VH |
The Valley of Horses |
| MH |
The Mammoth Hunters |
| PP |
The Plains of Passage |
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Author: Linné, Family: asteraceae (compositae)