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What is tansy
It is a common herb, a perennial. The medicinal raw material is yellow flowers, which must be picked at the beginning of flowering. Outwardly, it resembles mimosa. Popular names for tansy:
- worm;
- nine-piece;
- love spell;
- wild mountain ash;
- field mountain ash;
- magpies.
Occurs on roads, in fields, on forest edges, in meadow steppes, orchards and vegetable gardens. In ancient times, the Egyptians and Greeks used the plant for embalming. Northern peoples covered meat carcasses with tansy twigs to prevent decomposition.
What tansy heals
Infusions and decoctions can increase blood pressure, slow heart rate, increase bile secretion and gastric acid secretion. In official medicine, tansy is used for helminthiasis. Preparations from this plant are able to expel pinworms and ascaris from the human body.
Helps with liver diseases (hepatitis), enterocolitis and gastritis with low acidity. With a slow, untimely evacuation of food masses. This medicinal plant can be bought at a pharmacy or ordered online. In folk medicine, infusions, decoctions and powder from dried flowers are used for:
- headaches;
- pulmonary tuberculosis;
- rheumatism;
- nervous diseases;
- disorders of the digestive tract;
- hemorrhoids;
- as a diaphoretic;
- choleretic;
- anthelmintic;
- in giardiasis;
- antipyretic.
Also, tansy flowers can be brewed as tea. At the same time, preventing vapors (pouring boiling water over the medicinal raw materials), you need to cover the container with a lid. The powder, since it is bitter, should be eaten with honey.
Harm of tansy
Contraindications for the use of drugs and products made from this plant are:
- stones in the gallbladder, since the plant has a strong choleretic effect.
- care must be taken when applied internally and consult a doctor;
- in addition, its use must be treated carefully, the plant in large doses is poisonous (especially the inflorescences).
The use of tansy in everyday life
Fresh and dried tansy is popularly used to fight insects (flies and fleas). Sprinkling tansy powder on fresh meat can prevent flies from appearing on it.
This is a wonderful remedy for mosquitoes! If you rub fresh leaves in your palms, then rub open parts of your body with your palms, the mosquitoes will leave you. Place dry inflorescences in a wardrobe – the moth will not stand it!
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