Herb Of The Week - Yarrow - Skin Wash

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Excerpt from Maida Silverman's A City Herbal

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~RECIPE of the MONTH ~

 

 

 

YARROW SKIN WASH

 

 

Yarrow is a good companion plant in the vegetable garden. Its root

secretions are said to be strengthening to other plants and actually

make them more disease resistant. Yarrow is also said to keep ants and

harmful insects away.

 

 

Yarrow makes an excellent skin wash, its astringency making it

particularly beneficial to oily complexions. Pour 2 cups of boiling

water over about 1 cup of crumbled dried flowering Yarrow tops, cool,

and strain. Pat on the skin. This wash soothes chapping and minor

irritations as well.

 

 

To dry Yarrow flowers: Gather freshly opened flowering stalks, breaking

them off at the base. Tie in bunches of three or four and hang upside

down to dry, in an airy place, away from direct sunlight. When they are

thoroughly dry, remove the flower clusters carefully and discard the

rest of the plant. Store the flower clusters in jars with tight-fitting

tops, away from the sun.

 

 

 

- Maida Silverman