Astrology
highColey assigns yarrow to Saturn among plants such as hemlock, burdock, fern, nightshade moss, plantain, tamarisk, and barley.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Yarrow appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
- Risk
- moderate
- Books
- 18
- Contexts
- 5
- Mentions
- 60
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- yarrow
- Latin name
- Achillea millefolium(candidate)
- Identity note
- Archive references may use green yarrow or milfoil-like historical language.
Safety
moderate
May trigger Asteraceae allergy; pregnancy caution is appropriate for medicinal use.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- EMA HMPC: May trigger Asteraceae allergy; pregnancy caution is appropriate for medicinal use.
Aliases
yarrowAchillea millefoliumgreen yarrow
Yarrow in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine, folk magic, and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Folk magic
highThiselton-Dyer records a yarrow love-charm, calling the plant nosebleed and using its leaves to tickle the nostrils while reciting lines.
Domestic Folk-lore | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer | 1881
CHAPTER VI. THE HUMAN BODY.
Medicine
highBrewer explains Achillea as yarrow, linking its French name 'carpenter's wort' to wound healing and the Achilles-Chiron plant-virtue legend.
Preparations and ritual uses
Love charm
highThiselton-Dyer's yarrow charm uses leaves of the plant called nosebleed to tickle the nostrils while reciting a lover-divination verse.
Domestic Folk-lore | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer | 1881
CHAPTER VI. THE HUMAN BODY.
Yarrow Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Medicine
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable.
Matched as yarrow; high confidence.
Astrology
4 passages across 4 books; strongest source: Genethlialogia.
Matched as yarrow; high confidence.
Folk magic
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: British Goblins.
Matched as yarrow; high confidence.
Preparation
3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Clavis Astrologiae Elimata.
Matched as yarrow; high confidence.
Ritual
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Magic and Religion.
Matched as yarrow; high confidence.
Yarrow Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"...fry the greater, Dandelyon, Ash-tree leaves, Eyebright, Fumitory, Alehoof, or ground Ivy, Horsetail, St. John’s Wort, Yarrow, Moneywort, Restharrow, Solomon’s Seal, Res solis, Rue, Savin, Saxifrage, Hart’s tongue, Scordium, Tamarisk, Mullin, Vervain, Paul’s Bettony, Mead-sweet, Nettles. Of the Flowers of Mayweed, Broom, Cowslips, Butter-bur, Peony, Elder. Of the berries of Broom, Elder. *Culpeper.*] Then the College gives you an admonition concerning these, which being converted into your native language, is as follows. Into the number of these waters ..."
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Preparationalias: yarrowhigh confidence
The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"...ore throats, to be used by way of gargle. There are so many of these gentle astringent plants, common in our fields, as yarrow and the like, that less respect is to be paid to one of less power in the same way. Knapweed may be very properly added to decoctions of the others, but it would not be so well to trust to its effects singly. ### KNOT-GRASS. *Polygonum.* A MOST common wild plant in our fields, pathways, and hedges: there are two or three kinds of it, but they pretty much resemble one another in form, and in virtues: the largest is the best. The stalks ..."
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Preparationalias: yarrowhigh confidence
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...ly employed. Occasionally the root is divided longitudinally into halves or quarters; it is sometimes called Sour dock, yarrow dock, or Curled dock . The term Sour dock has been given to it probably on account of the sourness of the petioles, and which is due to the oxalic acid they contain. As ofl5cially described rumex is "from 20 to 30 Cm. (8 to 12 inches) long, about 10 to 15 Mm. (§ to f inch) thick, somewhat fusiform, fleshy, nearly simple, annulate above, deeply wrinkled below; externally rusty brown, internally whitish, with fine, straight, interrupted,..."
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Archive mentionalias: yarrowmedium confidence
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings
1908
"...ajority of mounds are doubtless mortuary in origin, and thus do not properly come within the scope of architecture (cf. Yarrow, Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs among the North American Indians , Washington, 1880, pp. 17-29). Others, such as the Serpent Mound of the Ohio valley or the pyramid of Cholula in Mexico, were structures designed for purposes of religion, the latter, at least, serving as the base of a temple. Yet it is not impossible that the religious mounds (though not the mortuary) are ultimately identical in origin with those designed..."
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Astrologyalias: yarrowhigh confidence
Clavis Astrologiae Elimata
Henry Coley
1669
"...Bears-foot, Hemlock, Burdock, Fern, Night-shade Moss, Angelica, Parsnip, Vervine, Clowns Wound-wort, Comfrey, Plantain, Yarrow, Tamarisk, Polipody, Beets, Barley, Stinking Gladon, Black-Thorn, Melancholy-Thistle. - To Jupiter is attributed, Bettony, Centory, Marjoram, Violets, Borage, Bugloss, the Gilly-flower Miot, Lung-wort, Wheat, Pyony, Self-heal, Liquorish, Wallwort, the Dazie, Fumitory, Elecompane, Colts-foot, Cinkfoil, Dandelion, Endive, Succory, Blood-wort, Hyssop, Liver-wort, Sage, Scurvy-grass, Bill-berries, Bar-Berries, Mul-berries, Cherries. - To M..."
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Preparationalias: yarrowhigh confidence
Books Mentioning Yarrow
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
yarrow
18 mentionscited
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1908
yarrow
7 mentionscited
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
yarrow
4 mentionscited
Domestic Folk-lore
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer | 1881
yarrowgreen yarrow
4 mentions
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer | 1870
yarrow
3 mentions
Myths and Myth-Makers
John Fiske | 1873
yarrow
3 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1916
yarrow
3 mentions
Witchcraft & Second Sight
John Gregorson Campbell | 1902
yarrow
3 mentions
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
yarrow
2 mentionscited
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1913
yarrow
2 mentions
Genethlialogia
John Gadbury | 1658
yarrow
2 mentions
Magic and Religion
Andrew Lang | 1901
yarrow
2 mentions
Religions of Primitive Peoples
Daniel Garrison Brinton | 1897
yarrow
2 mentions
Clavis Astrologiae Elimata
Henry Coley | 1669
yarrow
1 mentioncited
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
yarrow
1 mention
British Goblins
Wirt Sikes | 1880
yarrow
1 mention
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman | 1820
yarrow
1 mention
History of Religions
Crawford Howell Toy | 1913
yarrow
1 mention