The common sheep sheaf (Achillea millefolium) belongs to the game herbs. It belongs into the family of the basket bloom plants (Asteraceae).

Name origin

The generic name Achillea goes on Achilles, which sayful heroes of the Trojan war back, which is to have discovered and for the Wundheilung use the plant as drug, while the kind name expresses millefolium the many finely divided sheets. Since Dioskurides is the use of Achillea, which "soldier herb with the many sheets", to the Wundheilung documents. The German designation sheep sheaf points out that the plant is eaten gladly by sheep.

Further well-known names are: Achilleskraut, belly pain herb, Blutstillkraut, Gachelkraut, goose tongues, tile, cat tail, sheep rib, sheep tongue, thousand-sheet, pliers flower, field sheaf herb, sheaf herb, cat herb, basic welfare.

Description

Staude of several years and the strongly aromatically smelling becomes high between 15 to 80 cm. The is upright and The sheets are change constant and double fiederteilig with short, linealischen, pointed Zipfeln. The bloom heads stand in close Doldenrispen. The bloom possesses white, rarely pink colored (expresses) tongue blooms, (inside) the tube blooms is yellow-whitish colored. The bloom time extends from June to Octobers.

The common sheep sheaf belongs to the Wurzelkriechern and pioneer plants. It is considered as Bodenfestiger and pointer of nutrient particularly to nitrogenous soils.

Occurrence

Preferred grass fields, field and edges of way as location meadows, (sheep) pastures, halfdrying-race. In the alps it rises to approximately 1,900 m height. It is nearly kosmopolitisch common. Only in the Mediterrangebiet it is rare.

Sheep sheaf in the Phytotherapie

The common sheep sheaf is considered as welfare plant with that the herb and the blooms use finds. Alternative names are Blutstillkraut and Wundkraut as well as carpenter herb which to their blutstillende effect refer. The name Achillea millefolium is derived from the war hero Achilles, which is to have treated the fresh war wounds of a combat companion before Troja with sheep sheaf.

Sheep sheaves contain as therapeutically effective contents materials: ethereal oil, alkaloids, Cumarine, Flavonoide, Gerbstoffe, Polyne, and Triterpene.

The effects of the plant are antimicrobially, anti-inflammatorily, choleretisch, inflammation-adversely and antibacterially, karminativ and cramp-solving.

Thus the sheep sheaf employment finds with allergies, loss of appetite, bronchitis, dyseptischen complaints, fever, flu, striking and mucous membrane illnesses, hot flushes, hay cold, cycle disturbances, stomach intestine complaints, Menstruationsbeschwerden, Parkinson, closing myasthenia, shed lichen and for the support of the Wundheilung with injuries.

As occasional side effects are well-known: Schafgarbendermatitis and other allergische reactions.

Warning: With skin contact in connection with direct sun exposure it can come to skin provoking! Contraindication with

Application forms

Envelope

About 50 gram of the herb are cooked for about 10 minutes in a litre water. Present afterwards a linen cloth. The envelopes help to be supposed with sun fire and open wounds and also against to be good.

Bath

About are called a handful into a tub water. About 10 minutes bathe; not longer because of danger of the overstimulation. Sharp sheaf baths work cramp-solving and are to help women during the rule bleeding.

Dte

About two of the herb are poured over per cup with hot water. 10 minutes to pull let abseien and. To drink recommended with edemas for example these dte three times daily during one period of up to four weeks. Sheep sheaf dte works against loss of appetite and is to help also against abdomen cramps.

Kitchen

The sheep sheaf was used also as food, and was as vegetable in 17. Century likes. It is called pleasant, the young sheets tastes, if they are cooked like spinach or in a soup. Sheep sheaf is sweetly also easily bitter taste.

Botanik

Achillea millefolium is called kind of collecting, which exhibits morphologic, cytogenetic and chemical differences and their kinships are described of the respective editors as subspecies or small kinds. They are usually diploid, partially in addition, tetraploid, hexaploid or octaploid.

Two subspecies exist:

• A. millefolium ssp. millefolium:
  • possesses white tongue blooms and is far common
  • Bloom cladding sheets with light brown edge
  • a max. stature height of 1 m

• A. millefolium ssp. sudetica:
  • possesses reddish violet, repeatedly also pink colored tongue blooms
  • Bloom cladding sheets with brown to black-brown edge
  • a stronger Behaarung of the entire plant
  • a max. stature height of 50 cm
  • Occurrence: particularly within the alpine range of Germany

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