The Benefits of Yarrow Tea: Find Out How Yarrow Benefits Can Improve Your Health
Yarrow
Yarrow has long been used to treats wounds and stop bleeding. In addition, it can relieve vaginal inflammations, ease menstrual pain and help regulate menstrual flow. It has astringent, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory properties. It helps with stomach complaints, removes toxins from the blood and moves them through the digestive system, stimulates the appetite and eases cramping.
Yarrow Benefits
The yarrow benefits that are derived from drinking yarrow tea are many. To make the basic tea, pour one cup of boiling water over one to two teaspoons of dried yarrow. Cover and let steep for about fifteen minutes. Utilize the yarrow tea benefits for digestive problems, lack of appetite, to reduce stomach irritations, nosebleeds, hemorrhoids, uncomfortable menstrual conditions and chronic gallbladder pain by drinking one cup of unsweetened yarrow tea three times a day before meals.
Yarrow Benefits
Make the tea twice as strong and use it as a compress applied to wounds that aren’t healing well. A towel soaked in this mixture and applied to painful areas such as lower back or strained muscles can be a very relaxing way to get relief. Apply it is warm as you can tolerate.
For coughing, add three fourths ounce yarrow leaf plantain leaves, three fourths ounce thyme leaves and three fourths ounce calendula flowers to the tea blend and drink three to four times a day.
For stomach cramps and pain, add three fourths ounce chamomile blossoms to relax the stomach mucus membranes and prevent inflammation and three fourths ounce fennel seeds to improve the taste and eliminate gas pains.
Add one third ounce of dried licorice root to the basic tea to ease menstrual bleeding on heavy days and this will also relieve chronic sinus congestion.
For colds and the flu, make a tea blend of equal parts yarrow, elder flowers, lemon balm and mint. Drink two cups of this tea for quick relief.
To stimulate circulation and fortify the heart you can make yarrow wine by placing three fourths cup each of dried yarrow, lemon balm leaves and hawthorn flowers or berries plus one cinnamon stick in one quart of red wine. Allow this to steep for three weeks and strain. Drink one glass of wine per day.
To strengthen weak veins, make a tea with equal parts yarrow and either calendula or hawthorn flowers and steep in one cup boiling water. Drink three cups daily.
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