millefolium: "thousand leaved"

millefolium: "thousand leaved"

This plant is the first plant medicinal plant known to be written about, used for divination as early as 4200 years ago in ancient China. These inconspicuous feathery plants have diaphoretic and hemostatic properties: causing a sweat, and stopping blood. Achilles, a renouned Greek general, had large vats of a strong infusion of this plant available to treat battle wounds, to stop bleeding and curb infection.

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