Editing Achillea millefolium (section)

=== Traditional medicine ===
{{see also|List of plants in The English Physitian}}

''A. millefolium'' was used in [[traditional medicine]], in part due to its [[astringent]] properties and the mild [[laxative]] effect of its leaves.<ref name="ModernHerbal">{{cite book |author=Grieve |first=Maud |url=https://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/y/yarrow02.html |title=A Modern Herbal |year=1931 |author-link=Maud Grieve}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Common Yarrow |url=https://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/Plants%20of%20Upper%20Newport%20Bay%20(Robert%20De%20Ruff)/Asteraceae/Achillea%20millefolium.htm#:~:text=A%20tonic%20brew%20for%20loss,conditions%20of%20the%20gastrointestinal%20tract. |access-date=2022-07-21 |website=Natural History of Orange County, California}}</ref> It has been used since ancient times to heal wounds and stop bleeding, and in the sixteenth century the crushed leaves were used to stop nosebleeds.<ref name="auto">{{cite book |last1=Haragan |first1=Patricia Dalton |title=Weeds of Kentucky and Adjacent States |date=1991 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |page=9}}</ref> Yarrow and its North American varieties were traditionally used by many [[Native Americans of the United States|Native American]] nations.<ref name="dearborn">{{Cite web |title=BRIT - Native American Ethnobotany Database |url=http://naeb.brit.org/uses/species/38/ |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=naeb.brit.org}}</ref> The [[Navajo people|Navajo]] historically considered it a "life medicine" and chewed the plant for toothaches and used its infusions for earaches. The [[Miwok]] in California used the plant as an [[analgesic]] and [[head cold]] remedy.<ref name="dearborn" /> Native American nations used the plant for healing cuts and abrasions, relief from earaches and throat infections, as well as for an [[eyewash]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Faran |first1=Mina |title=Medicinal herbs in Modern Medicine (ṣimḥei marpé bir'fū'ah ha-modernīt) |last2=Tcherni |first2=Anna |date=1997 |publisher=Akademon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |isbn=965-350-068-6 |volume=1 |location=Jerusalem |page=242 |language=he |oclc=233179155}}, s.v. ''Achillea millefolium''</ref> Common yarrow was used by [[Plains Indians|Plains indigenous peoples]] to reduce pain or fever and aid sleep.<ref name="dearborn" />

In the early 20th century, some [[Ojibwe]] people used a [[decoction]] of yarrow leaves on hot stones and inhaled it to treat [[headache]]s,<ref>Densmore, Frances, 1928, Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #44:273–379, page 336</ref> or applied decoctions of the root onto skin for its stimulating effect.<ref>Densmore, Frances, 1928, Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #44:273–379, p.&nbsp;350</ref>