Tansy - Treatment Of Common Tansy, Properties Of The Herb

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Tansy

Treatment of common tansy and its properties

Botanical characteristics of common tansy

Tansy belongs to perennial plants of the Asteraceae family. This plant contains useful substances: for example, in the leaves and baskets of tansy, various essential oils, alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids are found. The people called tansy the wild mountain ash. She got this name because of the shape of her inflorescence. As a rule, tansy is used in medicine in the treatment of worms. The powder of this plant is used as a preparation for the destruction of harmful insects. If you try to grind the tansy flowers, you will smell a pleasant spicy aroma. Tansy blooms for a long time: flowering begins at the end of June and ends only in September.

The flowers are bright yellow, they are small, therefore they form a shield at the top of the plant stem. Also, tansy bears fruits in the form of achenes, they ripen approximately in August-October, have an oblong shape and a length of 1.2–1.8 mm. Tansy grows practically throughout the territory of Russia, with the exception of the Far North. As a rule, it grows near roads, dwellings, in meadows, in the steppes, along the banks of rivers. Only recently has tansy been used as a medicinal plant, spice and food.

For medicinal purposes, tansy flowers are used, in rare cases - leaves. For treatment, flowers begin to be harvested at the beginning of flowering, without stalks. They are dried in dryers or under a canopy, while the temperature should not exceed 40 ° C.

Flower baskets of tansy contain various bitter substances: tanacetin, essential oil (0.3%) containing borneol, levorotatory camphor, thujone ketone. The plant also contains organic acids, ascorbic acid, flavonoids, terpenes, tannins, alkaloids.

Treatment of common tansy

If you use tansy for hepatitis, then it is able to reduce the amount of mucus accumulated in the bile. In addition to all this, the plant is able to tone up the muscles of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as enhance its secretion. According to the results of experiments on animals, an infusion of tansy flowers has a positive effect on the work of the heart, namely, it increases the amplitude of heart contractions, increases blood pressure, and slows down the heart rate.

Some authors believe that the treatment with infusion from the baskets of common tansy promotes scarring of duodenal ulcers and stomach. For this, the infusion should be applied 70-100 ml 2-3 times a day.

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Tansy preparations are also used as a choleretic agent. Such properties of the herb are due to the presence of flavonoids in it. Tansy is also widely used in folk medicine. For treatment, the aerial part of the plant is used, while enterobiasis, hypoacid gastritis, hepatitis, colitis, ascariasis, cholecystitis, hypotonic diseases, and nervous excitement are treated. Tansy compresses are used for gout, as well as for festering wounds that do not heal for a long time. As mentioned earlier, tansy is popularly used to get rid of ascaris and pinworms.

The juice obtained from tansy is used for various ailments - such as, for example, intoxication after tuberculosis, fever, as well as in the treatment of epilepsy, headaches, painful or excessive menstruation, ulcers, joint pains, rheumatism, colds. The juice also has a hypnotic effect.

If you want to prepare a decoction from this plant, then this should be done as follows: 2 tablespoons of dry tansy are poured with half a liter of water, then boiled over low heat for about 10 minutes. The resulting broth is infused for about an hour, then consumed 1 / 2-1 / 3 cup 3 times a day half an hour before meals.

In the treatment of rheumatism, tansy wine is usually used, it is prepared as follows: 50 g of plant inflorescences are poured with one bottle of nutmeg wine. It must be infused for 8 days, then consumed 30-40 grams after meals.

To get rid of roundworms and pinworms, use the following recipe: 1 tablespoon of crushed tansy flowers, bitter wormwood and chamomile must be poured with 250 ml of water, brought to a boil, cooled, add a crushed clove of garlic, and infused for three hours. The broth is filtered and used in the form of microclysters. The procedure should be carried out at night, and after the enema, you cannot get up for 40 minutes.

Since tansy has the ability to destroy pests, it is used in the fight against moths, cockroaches, bedbugs and flies. For this procedure, a one stripped off broth is prepared and mixed with sugar or sweet syrup.

Contraindications to the use of tansy

Medicines from tansy should never be used during pregnancy, as they act as abortive drugs! Also, you can not use tansy for young children.

At the same time, tansy is not toxic. In 1974 in Moscow, a dissertation was defended for the degree of candidate of biological sciences on the topic of comparing the toxicity of anthelmintic drugs, T. A. Baturina. In the course of a two-year experiment on cats, it was proved that a tenfold excess of the dose of common tansy (calculated per kg of body weight) does not cause any pathological changes and toxic effect in the body.

The author of the article: Sokolova Nina Vladimirovna | Phytotherapist

Education: Diploma in "General Medicine" and "Therapy" received at the Pirogov University (2005 and 2006). Advanced training at the Department of Phytotherapy at the Peoples' Friendship University of Moscow (2008).