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Video: Common Tansy. Care, Cultivation. Garden, Medicinal Plants. Beneficial Features. Application. Ethnoscience. Treatment. Flowers. A Photo
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Common tansy (wild mountain ash) - Tanacetum vulgare. Family Compositae - Compositae.
Popular names: field mountain ash, worm, gorlyanka, yellow nine-leaf, mother plant, wild tansy, humpback, bireota, lionfish, gvirila.
Description. Perennial rhizomatous odorous plant with an erect, furrowed, branched stem. The leaves are alternate, pinnately dissected, with oblong-lanceolate toothed lobes. The leaves are dark green above, grayish-green below with pinpoint glands. Flower baskets are round, yellow, consisting of tubular flowers, collected in a flat corymbose inflorescence. Height 60-120 cm.
© Bogdan
Flowering time. June. August.
Distribution. Found almost everywhere in Russia
Habitat. It grows in gardens, in shrubs, in sparse mixed birch forests and groves, along their edges, in meadows, along river banks, in fields along roads and ditches, near buildings.
Applicable part. Flower baskets ("flowers"), leaves, grass (stems, leaves, flower baskets).
Collection time. June August.
Chemical composition. Flowers contain tanacetic, gallic and other organic acids, the bitter substance tanacetin, tannin, resin, sugar, gum, fatty and essential oils, dyes and extractives. The essential oil contains thujone, chum, 1-camphor, thujol, borneol and pinene. The plant is poisonous.
© Walter Siegmund
Application. Tansy was known as a medicinal plant in the Middle Ages. The plant is widely used in Russian folk medicine and folk medicine in various countries.
The water infusion of flower baskets stimulates the appetite, enhances the secretion of the glands of the gastrointestinal tract and tones up its muscles, improves digestion, increases the secretion of bile and sweat, slows down the heart rate and increases blood pressure. The infusion also has antipyretic, anti-spasmodic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antimicrobial, wound-healing, antihelminthic and insecticidal effects.
Infusion of flower baskets is used for jaundice, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, gastrointestinal diseases, especially with low acidity, as an antihelminthic agent for roundworms (roundworms, pinworms) and to regulate irregular menstruation.
In folk medicine of the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region, a decoction of herbs is taken for headaches and externally in the form of a poultice is used for rheumatism, and a decoction of flower baskets is used for skin cancer.
In the folk medicine of Belgium and Finland, flower baskets are also used against round worms. Infusion of flower baskets is taken for headaches, rheumatism, aches, rush of blood to the heart and is used as an anti-febrile remedy, as well as to reduce and stop menstruation.
In German folk medicine, infusions of flower baskets and leaves are used for various diseases of the digestive organs, bloody diarrhea (dysentery), stomach cramps, constipation, and gas retention.
In scientific medicine, a decoction of tansy flower baskets is used for ascariasis and pinworms, for liver diseases (hepatitis, angiocholitis), gall bladder and for acute gastrointestinal diseases. Research has shown that an aqueous infusion of flower baskets is a valuable treatment for enterocolitis and some other intestinal diseases.
Outwardly, infusion of flower baskets and infusion of leaves in the form of warm baths and compresses are used as an anesthetic for gout, rheumatism, joint pain, dislocations, bruises, and as a wound healing agent for wounds. Local warm foot baths of tansy infusion are used for leg cramps.
Crushed dry leaves and especially crushed dry flower baskets are a good insecticidal agent, but it is weaker than pyrethrum on insects.
The internal use of tansy as a poisonous plant requires great care. The plant should not be used for a long time. Infusion of tansy is contraindicated in pregnant women.
© Lienhard Schulz
Method of application.
- Insist 1 tablespoon of tansy flower baskets for 4 hours in 2 glasses of cooled boiled water in a closed vessel, drain. Take half a glass 2-3 times a day 20 minutes before meals.
- 5 g of flower baskets to insist for 2-3 hours in 1 glass of boiling water, drain. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day 20 minutes before meals for enterocolitis and other gastrointestinal diseases. The infusion can also be used for baths and washing.
- Mix 1 tablespoon of crushed tansy "seeds" with two medium crushed heads of garlic. Boil the mixture in a closed vessel for 10 minutes (counting from boiling) in 2 glasses of milk. Strain the broth, squeeze and use warm for enemas with pinworms. Repeat enemas for several days (M. Nosal).
© Walter Siegmund
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