Achillea millefolium, Yarrow. Uses and Exploring Astringents
One of the folk lores about Yarrow, 𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮 is tied to Achilles. Lore has it that when Achilles’s was an infant his mother was told to shield him from harm by submerging him in a tea made of Yarrow, she held him by the heels and dipped him in a bath of yarrow tea, however his heels were not submerged in the tea leaving that part of his body vulnerable, the lore of Achilles has it that he died from an injury at the end of the Trojan War when he