Latin, Achillea alba, A. Millefolium, A. myriophylli, A. setacea ;
English, Milfoil, Nosebleed, Yarrow ;
French, Herbe an charpentier;
German, Schaafgarbe ;
Urdu, Biranjasif.
An evergreen herb having a slender, creeping rhizome, with numerous
filiform rootlets, and long, reddish stolons, with a succulent scale
at each node. The stem, 1 to 2 feet high, is erect, stiff, slightly
striate, branched above, more or less covered with white, shaggy hair.
The leaves are simple, alternate, bi-pinnatifid, with linear divisions,
crowded ; the radical ones are 6 inches long, with wide, lanceolate,
oblong petioles; the cauline are smaller, sessile and oblong. The
flowers appear from June to October in compound, flat topped corymbs,
involucre oblong, imbricate pale-green. The four or five ray florets
are short, white, sometimes rose-colored ; the eight to twelve disk
flowers bi-sexual.
Found in :-
Widely distributed throughout Asia and North America ; found in
dry meadows, waste grounds and roadsides, and in Western Himalayas
from Kashmir to Kumaon named there Momadru Chopandiga (Kashmir).
Introduced into homoeopathic practice:-- |
By Nenning, Hartlaub and Trinks, Annal. d. H. Klinil, IV. 344. in 1833. ( Allen’s Encyc. Mat, Med. VI. 366.)
The whole fresh plant.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Millefolium, moist magma containing solids | 100 gm
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Plant moisture 200 Cc. | = 300
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Distilled water | 200 Cc.
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Strong alcohol | 635 Cc.
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To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.
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(b) Dilutions: 2x 2x to contain one part of tincture,
three parts distilled water,
six parts alcohol ; 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
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