Yarrow

• Scientific Name: Achillea milleolium
• Niimiipuutímt:wapalwá·pal

The entire plant can be dried and ground into flour. It is used to remedy run down feelings or for digestion disorders. The leaves are used to stop bleeding and to heal rashes. Tea was made from leaves to help break fevers. A story by Joe Broncheau, a Nez Perce Tribal elder, tells of an incident where his father treated him as a young boy with leaves he had dampened and applied as a poultice to his leg which a horse had fallen on and rolled up the entire leg. He states the bruised leg healed remarkably fast and the pain was relieved immediately.