Make a Yarrow Leaf or Blossom Poultice - PEP BB medicine.sand.poultice.yarrow

Here is my submission for the Natural Medicine Aspect - Sand for Straw - Make a Yarrow Leaf Poultice BB.

I harvested Yarrow leaf and blossom at Wheaton Labs during the PTJ 2021.  Some of it was dried in the solar dehydrator and I started a tincture and made a poultice.  The poultice instructions say to finish it so once I did, I put it in a glass jar in the freezer until I needed it.

To document the completion of the BB, I have provided the following:
 - your yarrow leaves and/or blossoms being harvested
 - your poultice in mid-preparation
 - your completed poultice

Yarrow growing in a polyculure at Wheaton Labs
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my harvest


stripped leaves and one blossom in the mortar with pestle


finished poultice


stored and heading to the freezer for future use

Without a doubt, Yarrow is one of the most powerful healing herbs in my collection. Thankfully, none in my family need it at the moment, but having it on hand will be a blessing in the future.

My yarrow is blooming, and I made a poultice to put on my irritated leg. I used mostly blossoms with a few leaves, and I ground them with my mortar and pestle.

I made a poultice from my yarrow blossoms. My husband had an injury to his toe so I applied it to that.

Had an injured quail so I thought I'd try to see if we can help him with a yarrow poultice.

I wasn't able to bandage it on and keep it on there, but maybe the little bit of time we did get it to stay might have helped.

I needed a poultice for a cold sore. Yarrow with a little lemonbalm added for extra potency (I'll switch to comfrey when the focus switches from "damage control" to "healing")

I got a boo-boo, but I remembered it was an opportunity to get a BB! Now you get to see my dirty feet... I noticed my toe was bleeding though I didn't notice when it happened. Over to the yarrow patch I went and grabbed a few leaves to make a spit poultice. I chewed the leaves up and applied to the wound. Yarrow stops bleeding pretty fast but I tied it on with a turmeric leaf since it was laying nearby. Thanks Yarrow!

This is my first natural medicine BB submission. I've been wanting to learn more about natural medicine but have always been intimidated by how much information there is, how many plants there are, and all the terminology.

I've never made a poultice before and have never used one. I think I knew that they existed but it never occurred to me that I could make one. I was looking out at my field wondering what to do with all the yarrow that was blooming and found this BB. Although I did not need a poultice at the moment, I copied what Bethany did above and put it on gauze and stuck it in a bag in the freezer for later.

Using the mortar and pestle was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. The leaves did not want to mash up and I eventually gave up and used the food processor. I'm wondering if I need to "break in" the mortar because it's brand new. The food processor would only work once I added enough water for the mashed up plant matter to be loose enough to mix around so I ended up with a really wet poultice. The flowers mashed up nicely so next time I might just use the flowers.