What's the difference between milfoil and yarrow?

Milfoil


Definition:

  • (n.) A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirty-five patients suffering from mild to moderate osteoarthrosis were treated with Gitadyl (a herbal medicine containing 110 mg fever few, 90 mg American aspen, and 60 mg milfoil) or ibuprofen (Ibumetin) for three plus three weeks in a double-blind, cross-over trial.
  • (2) The treatment included Eleutherococcus, alpha-tocopherol acetate, methyuracil, milfoil, nettle leaves, wort and camomile leaves, oxygen foam cocktails.
  • (3) The aqueous extracts of ledum, motherwort, celandine, black currant, cowberry and bilberry inactivated TBE virus practically completely, and those of St. John's wort, pot marigold, tansy, chamomile, milfoil, and inula only partially.

Yarrow


Definition:

  • (n.) An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
  • (2) Though in the meantime 12 years had passed she suffered occasionally from redness of the pharynx and stomachache after ingestion of tea prepared from yarrow and camomile.
  • (3) Yarrow said the latter was more efficient and had a better aesthetic.
  • (4) In fact, apart from Lithgow's yard in Greenock and Yarrow's (now BAE) at Scotstoun, Scottish shipyards had hardly changed production techniques since the war, but trade unions' intransigence and coverage of their bitter "demarcation" disputes made the workers' guilt easier to believe.
  • (5) Histopathological effects of the chigger, Eutrombicula lipovskyana, on the mite pockets of neonatal, juvenile and adult Yarrow's spiny lizard, Sceloporus jarrovii, were investigated.
  • (6) 1 is responsible for the allergic contact dermatitis caused by yarrow.
  • (7) Researchers – after studying calcified plaque on Neanderthal fossil teeth found in El Sidrón cave in Spain – last year concluded that members of this extinct human species cooked vegetables and consumed bitter-tasting medicinal plants such as chamomile and yarrow.
  • (8) A 5-year follow-up (1985-1990) of Compositae-sensitive patients showed that more than 50% reacted when tested with a short ether extract of yarrow.
  • (9) The EA was unable to provide detail of the Croston scheme but a 2007 EA document states the river Yarrow "would benefit from upstream floodwater storage wetlands … to alleviate the flood risk to downstream Croston".
  • (10) Yarrow, everlastings and birch leaf tea also possessed marked hypoglycemic and glycogen sparing properties.
  • (11) Positive patch test reactions were 2+ for dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), false ragweed (Ambrosia acanthicarpa), giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida), short ragweed (Ambrosia artemisifolia), sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), wild feverfew (Parthenium hysterophorus), yarrow (Achillea millifolium), and tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) and 1+ for Dahlia species and English ivy (Hedera helix).
  • (12) Hanergy also only sold panels through Ikea with thin film technology, which Yarrow said only about 5% of the market had wanted, but under the new deal the company will be selling polycrystalline and monocrystalline panels.
  • (13) Obviously the climate has been changing in the past year in the UK but, nonetheless, our research showed a third of homeowners would really like to invest in solar, and the majority of those are driven by the opportunity to save money,” said Joanna Yarrow, head of sustainability at Ikea UK and Ireland.
  • (14) Cross-reactions were seen to tansy [14], yarrow [11], camomile [10], arnica and sunflower [5].
  • (15) Follow-up information from three groups of older persons (community residents, clinic clients, the institutionalized) confirms and extends data presented by Yolmans and Yarrow [1] indicating that increasing interdependence among different areas of functioning increases with age, possibly resulting in increased vulnerability in time of loss.
  • (16) The gastrointestinal tracts of 167 of 489 (34%) Yarrow's spiny lizards (Sceloporus jarrovii jarrovii) collected in Pima County, Arizona (USA) from October 1967 through January 1970 were infected with Physaloptera retusa.
  • (17) The minor SL also contribute marginally to the sensitizing capacity, while other known yarrow constituents like dehydromatricaria ester and pontica epoxide appear to play no role.
  • (18) Although 10 sesquiterpene lactones (SL) and 3 polyines have previously been identified, the sensitizers of yarrow have escaped detection.
  • (19) In Experiment 1, AVT stimulated (P less than 0.01) IP formation in uterine from late-gravid (150 to 291%) and postpartum (104 to 363%) Yarrow's spiny lizards (Sceloporus jarrovi).
  • (20) Most of the reactions obtained with other Compositae species such as arnica, marguerite, sunflower, tansy and yarrow must be interpreted as cross-reactions due to the fact that cross-reactivity predominates within the sesquiterpene lactone constituents of the various Compositae species.

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