The Names. 
Yarrow is called of the Latine Herbarifls Millefolium: it is Diofcorides his <Y»h>c in Latin e,. 4 cbil. 
/ta, and Achillcajideritis^hich. thing he may very plaihely fee that will compare with tbatdcfcrip- 
tion which Diofcorides hath fet downe : this was found out, faith Pliny in his 25 .booke,chap. 5 . by 
AchtUes, fb’rons difciple, which for that caufe is named Achilleios: of others, Siacriti/.- among vs, m, lie- 
folium .’yet be there other Sidcrittdcs, and alfo another Panaces Heracleicn , whereofwe will intreat 
in another place : 1 ^ipuleites fetteth downe diuers names hereof, fome of which are alfo found a- 
mong the baftard names in Diofcorides ■ in Latine it is called Miliiarisjufercilium f'mw, Reruns, 
or A corum fyluaticum .• of the French- men, Millefueillc : in high Dutch, <Satbm,fd)at(fc;«)3 t in 
low Dutch, <5etUh)c:in Italian, Millefoglio : in Spaniih,M/%^ ycrua , in Englilh, Yarrow, Nofc- 
bleed, common Yarrow, red Yarrow, and Milfoile. 
The Temperature. 
Yarrow,as Galen faith, is not vnlike ia temperature to the Sideritides, or Iron worts, that is to fay, 
clenftng,and meanely cold, but it mod ofall bindeth. 
The Vertices. 
The Ieaues of Yarrow doe clofe vp wounds, and keepe them from inflammation, or fiery fwel- 
Jing ; ic ftancheth blond in any part of the body, and it is Iikewife put into bathes for women to fit 
in : it ftoppeth the laske,and being drunkc it helpeth the bloudy flixe. 
Moftmen fay that the Ieaues chewed, and efpecially greene,are a remedy for the tooth-ache. 
T he Ieaues being put into the nofe,do caufe it to bleed, and eafe the paine of the megrim. 
It cureth the inward excorations of the yard of a man, comming by reafon of pollutions or ex- 
treme flowing of the feed, although the iffue do caufe inflammation and fwelling of thofe fccret 
parts, and though the fpermaticke matter do come downe in great quantity, if the juice be injefted 
with a fyringc,or the deco&ion This hath been prooued by actrtain friend of mine,fometimesa 
Fellow ofKings Colledge in Cambridge, who lightly brufed the Ieaues of common Yarrow, with 
Hogs-greafe,and applied itwarme vnto the priuie parts, and thereby did diuers times helpe him- 
felfe,and others of his fcllowes, when he was a (Indent and a (Ingle man lining in Cambridge. 
One dram in powder of the herbe giuen in wine,prefently taketh away the paines of the colicke. 
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I Millcfoliumlutetim. 
Yellow Yarrow. 
Of yellow Yarrow, or z5\Yi/foile. 
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Achillea, fiueMillefo Hum Mobile. 
AchillesYarrow. 
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