Tansy

CitrusbigaradiaRisso

Tansy, a relative of chamomile and daisy, has many popular names. Each of them was not given by chance: wild mountain ash, button grass, nine-strong, nine-brother, turtledove, glisten.

Tansy is one of the ancient medicines. In Ancient Egypt, Persia, and Greece, tansy was part of the composition used for embalming the dead. Northern peoples covered meat carcasses with fragrant grass to protect them from decomposition.

Central Europe is considered to be its homeland, but the plant has become widespread over time and can be found even in North America.

Tansy was especially popular among the gypsies, who called it a cure for all diseases. The leaves of the plant are sometimes used in cooking to replace cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Tansy is also a source of potassium carbonate (potash) and accumulates manganese in its tissues.

Tansy essential oil was first obtained at the beginning of the 20th century in North America from the aerial part of the plant. Its main components are thujone (up to 70%) and camphor (up to 20%). The oil has a warm spicy-herbal aroma with a camphor undertone. It is rarely used in perfumery, and for aromatherapy purposes - also infrequently due to the high price of oil and the very scarce information from official medicine about this interesting plant.

But, despite all these circumstances, tansy is still very popular in folk medicine.

Medicinal properties

1. Effective for pulmonary tuberculosis.
2. Stimulates appetite, improves digestion, enhances secretion of the gastrointestinal tract, while toning its muscles. Promotes scarring of stomach and duodenal ulcers, has a detrimental effect on roundworms and pinworms.
3. Prescribed for flatulence, diarrhea of ​​a gastrogenic nature, as well as caused by tuberculosis intoxication, gastritis with reduced secretion of gastric juice and slow evacuation, inflammation of the large and small intestines, gastrointestinal diseases developing against the background of anacid gastritis or Achilles.
4. It has a detrimental effect on pyogenic and enteric typhoid microbes.
5. A strong choleretic agent.
6. Effective for diseases of the biliary tract, angiochilitis, cholecystitis, hepatitis.
7. Increases the amplitude of heart contractions and slows down the heart rate. Coronodilator.
8. Regulates blood pressure.
9. Normalizes metabolism.
10. It improves the menstrual cycle and is effective for trichomonas colpitis and leucorrhoea.
11. Helps with sprains, rheumatism, gout.
12. Has a beneficial effect on general weakness.
13. Used for allergic and dry dermatoses, purulent ulcers and wounds, boils, abscesses, bruises, tumors, scabies.
14. In folk medicine it is known as a healing, choleretic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, sedative, antispasmodic, analgesic, diuretic, uterine, antipyretic, antifever agent. Used for roundworms, giardiasis, dysentery, gastritis with low acidity, liver diseases, dropsy, cholelithiasis and kidney stones, cystitis, indigestion and stomach pain, diarrhea, as well as hysteria, heavy menstruation, cardiac asthma, increased nervous excitability, jaundice, aching joints, hemorrhoids.
15. Tones the nervous system, instills self-confidence.
16. Recommended for headaches, dizziness, hypochondria, epilepsy, as well as after nervous affects.
17. Whitens facial skin, gets rid of freckles. Effective for baldness and dandruff.
18. An excellent insecticide. Repels horseflies, flies, fleas, lice. Replaces naphthalene in the fight against moths and bedbugs. Eliminates the consequences of bee stings.

Dosage

Selected individually by an aromatherapist. Take no more than 1 tsp with 1 tsp orally. honey 1-2 times a day.

Contraindications. Individual intolerance, pregnancy, children under 7 years of age.

Note. An overdose can cause poisoning.