Yarrow, Called Nose-Bleed, Milfoil And Thousand-Leal

Achillea millefolium

HRB-0319Entry “YARROW, CALLED NOSE-BLEED, MILFOIL AND THOUSAND-LEAL” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition

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Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.

Substance of concernEFSA: 1,8-cineole, Camphor, alpha-thujone and 1 moreEFSA’s list of substances, not a danger rating. Checked 26 October 2026.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 8, under 8 headings

  1. Bloody FluxCLM-000247
    as also the bloody flux;
    QUO-000213Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. CrampCLM-000649
    and certainly a very profitable herb it is in cramps, and therefore called Militaris.
    QUO-000519Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. FistulasCLM-000797
    the ointment of it is not only good for green wounds, but also for ulcers and fistulas, especially such as abound with moisture.
    QUO-000615Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. InflammationsCLM-000973
    An ointment of them cures wounds, and is most fit for such as have inflammations, it being an herb of Dame Venus;
    QUO-000739Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. StomachCLM-001667
    inwardly taken it helps the retentive faculty of the stomach:
    QUO-001092Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. Tooth-acheCLM-001865
    and the leaves chewed in the mouth eases the tooth-ache, and these virtues being put together, shew the herb to be drying and binding.
    QUO-001191Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  7. UlcersCLM-002023
    the ointment of it is not only good for green wounds, but also for ulcers and fistulas, especially such as abound with moisture.
    QUO-000615Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  8. WoundsCLM-002257
    An ointment of them cures wounds, and is most fit for such as have inflammations, it being an herb of Dame Venus;
    QUO-000739Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance

Source

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850

Quotations are verbatim from the 1850 text, line breaks joined. Modern research and the European regulator’s verdict on each claim are on the Concordance page, kept apart from this historical record.