object

Yarrow stalks

Objects

Named milfoil stalks counted and divided in classical Yijing consultation. Not the published yarrow plant alone, not yijing-coins, and not a bare herb dump.

Also known as Milfoil stalks · Achillea stalks

Chinese tradition

  • Yarrow stalks is used in Yijing.

    Wilhelm’s Yijing teaches consultation by counting and dividing milfoil / yarrow stalks to form a hexagram. Named stalk apparatus used in that classic’s method, not the yarrow plant alone and not coin-oracle as a second procedure.

    from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950

    used in · sourced · documented

sources

  • I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)

    The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.