Medical plants
Yarrow
- Aloe vera
- Black cohosh
- Black elder
- Blue cohosh
- Chamomile
- Common centaury
- Common horsetail
- Cowslip
- Cyclamen
- Dandelion
- Eucalyptus
- Hop
- Ignatius bean
- Iris
- Ivy
- Lovage
- Marshmallow
- Medicinal paprika
- Monk’s pepper
- Oak
- Pockwood
- Pokeweed
- Rosemary
- Sorrel
- Thyme
- Tiger lily
- Valerian
- Vervain
- Walnut
- Yarrow
- Yellow gentian
Yarrow
Common yarrow (Achillea millefolium) belongs to the Asteraceae family, like chamomile. The herbaceous plant, or subshrub, grows to a height of one metre. There are small, feathered deciduous leaves on its smooth to hairy stem. Numerous small, white or purple flower heads develop from June to September. Lots of small, basket-shaped inflorescences make up individual or composite clusters. Yarrow is native to the subtropical to temperate zones of Eurasia.
The botanical name for yarrow, Achillea, is derived from the Greek hero Achilles, who is purported to have used the plant to treat his wounds. Traditional uses of the medicinal plant range from stemming bleeding to the treatment of stomach ache.
In modern herbal medicine, the extracts are obtained from the herbaceous portion of yarrow. In Imupret®| N, the anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial compounds from yarrow, together with tannins, flavonoids and other active substances, act to enhance the immune system-boosting properties of other medicinal plants contained in the preparation.
