Herbs That Deal with Injuries by Susun Weed

Herbs That Deal with Injuries by Susun Weed

• Calendula (Calendula officinalis) flower tincture or ointment is everybody’s favorite home remedy for injuries. Apply lavishly as needed.
• Plantain (Plantago species) is a back-yard weed with miraculous abilities to stop itching and hasten healing. Use fresh or as an oil/ointment.
• Slippery elm (Ulmus fulva) bark is nourishing, absorbing, and rebuilding to mucus surfaces of the digestive system. Powder works best.
• St. Joan’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) oil and tincture ease pain.
• Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) heals internal as well as external wounds.

 

YARROW has been used for thousands of years to heal wounds. It became known as “soldier’s wound wort” during the Civil War, when it was used to prevent infection during battleground amputations. Some claim its botanical designation – Achillea millefolium – honors  the Greek hero Achilles.

 

Yarrow is a superior pain reliever. Fresh leaves macerated and applied to an injury stop bleeding in seconds. It is said that the gypsies revere yarrow because it saved the life of a chief whose arm was ripped off by a horse. The tincture is also hemostatic, but not so quickly. Internally, it quixotic, sometimes stopping bleeding, sometimes seeming to encourage it.

 

Yarrow is a superior anti-infective externally. It has been shown to kill hundreds of gram- positive and gram-negative bacteria. Applied as soon as possible, either fresh or in tincture form, yarrow prevents infection perfectly.

 

Yarrow is a superior wound healer. Yarrow contains substances that help a wound close rapidly and without scar tissue. A poultice of the fresh leaves is ideal.

 

Yarrow grows in open fields throughout the temperate regions. Only the white variety is medicinal. Colored cultivars have too much volatile oil for safe use.

 

Yarrow is sold at most health food stores, both as a ready-made tincture and as dried leaves and flowers.

 

Green Blessings, Susun Weed

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Comments

[Rebecca Ross]

Yarrow is one of my favorites:)

[Chrys Countryman]

Thank you so much. I always sensed that yarrow was good but didn't know why.

[Jen Costa]

Works great with posion ivy rash too. Use externally and internally and she will pull the toxins out of the blood. You will see your rash worsen for 24 hours on the trunk of the body as she draws it to the surface. Apply cool infusion compresses or add to the bath for soaks... never use a salve for this. What a great help time and again.