Wild medicinal plants of Donbass. Common yarrow.

Common yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.)

Belogolovnik, white-headed kashka, ukr.: svij zvychajnyi, serporiz.

Common yarrow is a perennial from the aster family with a height of 30-70 cm. The stem is erect, densely foliated, branched at the top. Leaves are gray-green pinnately dissected, succulent. The lower leaves are petiolate, large, 20 cm or more long. Flowers are white, less often pink in complex shield-shaped inflorescences. It blooms from June through September.

Common yarrow grows in dry meadows, pastures, steppe, forest belts.

Occurs occasionally in Krasnolimansk, Yasinovatsk and Pershotravnevye districts of Donetsk and Novoaidarsk in Luhansk oblasts. It grows well in culture.

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Common Yarrow

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The foliage of yarrow herb with flowers or flowers alone is used. Yarrow herb contains up to 12 flavonoid compounds, vitamins K, C, carotene, resins, tannins, bitter substance achilein, phytoncides, essential oil of complex composition.

There are 9 species of yarrow in the Donbass, including: Pannonian (A. australis). pannonica Schule) and small-flowered (A. pannonica Schule). micrantha Willd). Yarrow Pannonian grows ubiquitously in many areas, the second in the Seversky Donets valley. Pannonian yarrow has dark green leaves that are shallower than those of common yarrow. Н. А. Kaloshina found that these two species are promising for bioactive flavonoids and should be harvested.

The drugs have styptic, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, astringent, tonic, antispasmodic, expectorant, choleretic, lactogonous, anti-allergic, cancer healing and analgesic effect, as well as increase the number of platelets and their activity, shorten bleeding time and increase blood coagulation. It is established that 0.5% infusion and juice of yarrow herb accelerate blood clotting by 60-80% (E. Mikhailenko, V. Petkov), but never lead to thrombus formation.

It is used in medicine for various internal and external bleeding, gastritis, peptic ulcer, enterocolitis, bronchial asthma, and gynecological diseases.

Е. А. Ladynina and others recommend adding yarrow to collections for hypertension, atherosclerosis, obesity, asthenic conditions, neuroses and hysteria.

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Pannonian yarrow

С. А. Tomilin recommended it for angina pectoris.

Н. И. Solomchenko in the regional hospital named after Solomchenko. М. И. Kalinina (chief physician Yu. Д. Baidalin) studied the effectiveness of treatment with 10% yarrow infusion in 24 patients with peptic ulcer disease of the stomach and duodenum, most of them showed a positive effect of treatment, especially in patients with normal and reduced secretory function. Infusion of yarrow in some patients will increase the acidity of gastric juice, so we do not recommend it in hyperacid gastritis.

Н. И. Solomchenko in most of the 26 patients with hypoacid gastritis noted a positive effect after treatment with the collection: herb yarrow, St. John's wort, zopnik, goldenseal, melon, grass with chicory root and plantain leaves - 50 g each; 2-3 tbsp. spoonfuls of the mixture boiled for 5 minutes in 0.5 liters of water, insist 30 minutes - 100 ml 3 times a day for 30 minutes before meals for 1-2 months.

Н. И. Solomchenko in the regional central clinical hospital (chief physician N. К. Kokin) used in 30 patients with chronic proctosigmoiditis treatment with 20% oil tincture of raw flowers and leaves of yarrow pannonian microclysms according to the previously mentioned method and most of them noted a good wound-healing effect, and in 6 patients even ulcers of the rectum scarred. Apparently, this oil tincture can also be used internally for canker sores.

In India, yarrow is part of the drug LIV-52.

The plant is very popular in folk medicine, moreover, for stomach and intestinal spasms, diarrhea or constipation, anemia, chlorosis, tuberculosis of the lungs and lymph nodes, bronchitis, enuresis, nocturnal pollicitations, hemorrhoids, decreased appetite, worms, rheumatism, headache, dizziness, insomnia, jaundice, liver diseases, kidney, urinary tract, kidney stones, insufficient and painful menstruation, bleeding, chronic furunculosis, skin diseases and externally for bleeding from the gums and nose.

Poultices of yarrow herb, ground fresh leaves, decoction, juice, ointment used for wounds, festering wounds, trophic ulcers, scabs, diathesis, urticaria, eczema, burns, as well as for cosmetic purposes. With scabies and psoriasis make baths in a decoction of yarrow herb. The plant is contraindicated in pregnancy.

Methods of application:

1. Infusion of yarrow herb 5% for gastritis, 10% for peptic ulcer - 100 ml 3 times a day before meals for 2 months.

2. 3% decoction of yarrow herb - 100 ml 4 times a day, or 3% infusion of the herb - 250 ml 3 times a day for bleeding.

3. Juice of yarrow leaves natural - 5-10 ml, better with honey, or juice preserved 40% alcohol 1:1 - 10-20 ml as styptic.

4. Powder of yarrow and nettle leaves - 0.15 g each - 3 times a day as a styptic and anti-inflammatory.

5. 20% tincture of yarrow herb on 40% alcohol - 30 drops (5 ml) 3 times a day with a tendency to angina and intestinal spasms.

6. Included in the anti-hemorrhoidal collection.

7. 3 Art. spoonfuls of yarrow herb insist in 0.5 liters of boiling water - for gargling the throat and other purposes.

8. 20% oil tincture of fresh flowers and leaves of yarrow - 15 ml 3 times a day, for microclysters, tampons and external.

9. Ointment of 1 g of tincture and 4 g of petroleum jelly or a handful of fresh crushed leaves and flowers mixed with an equal volume of unsalted pork fat - external.

10. Yarrow herb, melissa and chamomile flowers 50 g each; 1 tbsp. spoon brewed in 250 ml of boiling water, insist - 1/3 cup 3 times a day for dysmenorrhea (S. А. Tomilin).

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