Yarrow: The Ancient Remedy That Calms Your Nerves and Stops Nosebleeds

Yarrow is essentially the herbal equivalent of duct tape.
Yarrow: The Ancient Remedy That Calms Your Nerves and Stops Nosebleeds
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If there were ever a herb with a resume longer than a bureaucrat’s wish-list, it’s yarrow.

Known to its mates as Achillea millefolium and to history as woundwort, devil’s nettle, or “that stuff stuffed up Scottish noses,” this feathery-leaved wonder has been patching up humans, both medically and emotionally, since before the concept of paperwork existed.
Nicole James
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Nicole James is a freelance journalist for The Epoch Times based in Australia. She is an award-winning short story writer, journalist, columnist, and editor. Her work has appeared in newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, Sun-Herald, The Australian, the Sunday Times, and the Sunday Telegraph. She holds a BA Communications majoring in journalism and two post graduate degrees, one in creative writing.