It is known to produce chamazulene, proazulene, L-viburnitol, and azulene (238).
It has been used as a wound medicine which can curtail internal and external bleeding, can serve as an anti-inflammitory; used to treat burns, rheumatism, gout, toothache, insect stings, snakebites, reduce fever, hemorrhoids, ulcers, an antiallergenic, an anti-spasmodic, act as a coagulant, and as a mild tranquilizer (267).
Many Western American Indian Tribes still traditionally use yarrow roots as an effective local anesthetic. This was demonstrated by the two following examples: One involved a Nevada Indian who was suffering acutely from a deep thigh wound in which foreign substances had entered the cut. Fresh, scrubbed yarrow roots were crushed to a soft spongy mass and applied gently to the spot. Within half an hour the anesthetic had so dulled the pain that it was possible to expand and clean the wound. In another example, a deeply sunk splinter that, following soaking the area in a solution of yarrow roots, was similarly opened and removed. Members of his family accomplished this. (6)
May produce as of yet, unknown usefull biochemicals.
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