Millefolium appears in 11 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Yarrow. (Compositae.) Ailments: from over-lifting, over-exertion, or a fall. Vertigo; when moving slowly, but not when taking violent exercise. Haemorrhages: painless, without fever; bright red, fluid blood (Acon., Ipec., Sab.); from lungs, bronchi, larynx, mouth, nose, stomach, bladder, rectum, uterus; of mechanical…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Achillea millefolium, L. Natural order , Compositæ. Common names , Yarrow, Milfoil; (G.), Schaafgabe; (Fr.), la mille-feuille. Preparation , Tincture of the plant. Authorities. "O," from Hering, effect of 3 drops of tincture; 8 , Berens, from Hering, effect of 8 drops of tincture; 9 , Linnæus, Flor. Suec., p. 299…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“DISCHARGES, vicarious HEMORRHAGE, bloody discharges”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“CAPILLARIES: LUNGS. Nose. Uterus. Injury. Violent exertion. Bleeding. Discharges. Bruised soreness. Congestion. Profuse, painless, bright red, fluid hæmorrhage; nosebleed, hæmoptysis (Aco. Led.), etc. Spasms after suppressed secretions, menses, etc. .................... Flatulent colic. Oppression of chest, with…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Achillea millefolium. Yarrow. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant. Asthma / Cancer / Chlorosis / Consumption / Dentition / Diarrhœa / Dysmenorrhœa / Enuresis / Epilepsy / Fistula lachrymalis / Hæmatemesis / Hæmaturia / Hæmoptysis / Hæmorrhages / Hypochondriasis / Hysteria / Leucorrhœa of children / Lochia…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Yarrow. Compositæ. A plant known to the ancients, mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, where Chiron instructs Achilles in the art of surgery ; it was named by Linneus, Achillea Millefolium. The plant is common in old fields, along fences, on borders of woods and cultivated grounds, produces a dense corymb of whitish…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Veins: This is a most useful remedy in varicose veins; especially are the capillaries spongy and enlarged. Veins break easily when congested. Wounds bleed easily and much. It favors apoplexy. Ecchymoses of the skin and eyes. It favors local congestions. Hemorrhage from any part, from wounds, from ulcers. Atony of the…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Very excited, with pain in the pit of the stomach. Sighing and groaning of children. Vertigo when moving slowly, walking, but not when taking violent exercise, with nausea when stooping, not when lying down. Sensation as if all the blood ascended to the head. Violent headache, with twitching of the eyelids and muscles…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: yarrow. It stands at the head of the long list of our remedies for hæmorrhages (Bt.). Ailments from over-lifting, over-exertion, or a fall (Arn., Rhus-T., Sulph-Ac.) (A.). Vertigo when moving slowly, but not when taking violent exercise (A.). Hæmorrhage, from the nose, lungs, kidneys, bowels and sexual…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Millefolium is the only one of the three that has seemed to have produced hæmorrhages in its pathogenesis. Hahnemann says of it: “It causes nose-bleed. It causes hæmaturia.” Clinical use has verified it. The blood from the different organs is generally bright red, like that of Aconite, but the anxiety of that remedy…”
