Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare)

Slightly Toxic

Effect:

worm driving, digestive, menstruation stimulating, appetite stimulating, pain relieving

Areas of application:

Weak stomach, gout and rheumatism, nerve problems, worms, dizzy spells, hysteria, fever attacks, bladder stones, bad breath, varicose veins, tumors, dislocations, lice

Plant parts used:

Leaves

Collection time:

in summer, before flowering

To find:

Often grows in moist meadows, near hedges, on forest edges, on rubble sites or near streams.

Ingredients:

Bitter substances, essential oils with thujone, enolin, alkaloids, resins, glycoside, vitamins

Other:

1 teaspoon of herb is poured with 1/4 liter of boiling water and left to steep for about 5 minutes. Drink warm and in sips. 1 cup spread throughout the day.

🛑 The plant is poisonous and therefore not suitable for self-use!!!

Tansy comes in different species and is difficult to distinguish from one another. Some of them have higher tujone content than others. Therefore use only under the supervision of a doctor! Do not use for internal inflammation.

At Incense tansy flowers are used to smoke out evil or a witch.

Hildegard von Bingen: If you have a cold, eat tansy Soups or cakes. He suppresses the juices so that they don't take over. But whoever has a dry cough, let him prepare soups of fine flour and tansy and eat them often. And whoever cannot urinate because he is oppressed by a stone, let him crush tansy and make juice out of it and drink it in wine.

    00
    0