Any plant with detailed study opens up a lot of useful and beneficial properties. But each of them often and contraindications for use. Many interesting things can tell a careful study of this unassuming plant like tansy.
The content of the article:
- 1 Tansy: description of the plant
- 2 The chemical composition of plants
- 3 Medicinal properties of men, women and children
- 4 Contraindications to receiving
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5 Recipes with tansy folk remedies, the dosage regimen
- 5.1 Infusion of parasites
- 5.2 Infusion for the stomach
- 5.3 Infusion for liver
- 5.4 Infusion of hemorrhoids
- 5.5 Infusion delay at monthly
- 5.6 Remedy for nervous exhaustion
- 5.7 Tansy in skin diseases
- 5.8 Use for the treatment of wounds tansy
- 5.9 The recipe for the treatment of diseases of the joints
- 5.10 Recipes from the tansy to scalp and hair
- 5.11 Tansy infertility
- 6 Video of tansy
Tansy: description of the plant
Tansy (Latin Tanacetum vulgare) - This is common in the temperate zone of the planet's plant. It can be seen in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine, and more - in Asia, Europe and North America over the place, but the most northern and southern tropical land areas.
The favorite place of growth of tansy:
- close to the road;
- in the woods;
- in the fields;
- on vacant lots;
- in railway embankments;
- y riverbanks;
- near the property.
Tansy loves the sun and not very shaded places. It often grows as a bush. Blooming it begins in June and ends in September.
Common Tansy is a perennial. It belongs to the order of the Asteraceae. Tansy grows from half a meter to one and a half meters. Stems its erect, ribbed, brown, upward branch. When grinding in the leaves and flowers of tansy hands arises a characteristic smell of wormwood.
Tansy flowers in yellow, they are composed of tubular flowers that form inflorescence basket. The flowers resemble a daisy without petals. Baskets are made up into a compact single plates. The fruit from the tansy - achene elongated.
The leaves grow up to 20 cm, is shaped like an ellipse, pinnate, shares look like oblong-lanceolate. The root is fibrous in tansy extending from creeping rhizomes.
There are many informal names tansy created inexhaustible popular imagination:
- Field mountain ash;
- herringbone;
- wild pock;
- glistnik;
- pugovichnik;
- mullein;
- devyatisilnik;
- paradise-color;
- gourd;
- magpie paws and others.
Collect tansy need for dry, sunny weather, when it was dry, and the morning dew has not yet had the evening dew. When harvesting their inflorescences are cut, then separated from their flower baskets. Raw material is spread netolstym layer to stir less during drying, otherwise the flowers will be scattered.
Dried plant material so that it did not get the sun's rays. The room where the drying, should be well ventilated. Tansy can be dried in special dryers, the temperature therein does not exceed 40 degrees.
If you want to prepare herb tansy, the plants are cut, tie them in bundles and hung to dry in shaded areas where good ventilation. The shelf life of grass - 2 years.
The chemical composition of plants
Tansy useful properties and contraindications for its use which is caused by special chemical composition comprises:
- The essential oil, which has in its composition:
- thujone;
- camphor;
- tuyol;
- borenol;
- pinene.
- Flavonoids.
- Tannins.
- Alkaloids.
- Bitter substances. The bitterness caused by tanatsetinom, from this word and was the Latin name of tansy.
- Gum.
- Vitamins C, B complex, vitamin A provitamin carotene.
Here it is necessary to talk about the details of thujone. This component found in essential oils, in addition tansy:
- Tui (hence the word thujone);
- wormwood;
- cypress;
- juniper;
- sage.
Thujone different specific flavor similar to menthol odor. The substance has a toxic effect. When abuse drugs containing thujone, a person may develop seizures and hallucinations.
Medicinal properties of men, women and children
Tansy, useful properties and contraindications to the use which allow wide use of it in official and folk medicine, is often used in herbal medicine.
What only the disease is not treated with this nondescript weed! The following table lists the therapeutic properties of tansy, and diseases in which men, women and children can help this amazing herb.
Use of medicinal properties tansy:
MEDICAL PROPERTIES | Under no pathologies helps |
Anti-inflammatory | Drugs of tansy use with inflammation of the bladder, large and small intestines, liver, bile ducts, gall bladder; herb used for the treatment of peptic ulcer: gastric and duodenal ulcers |
antiseptic | External used for rinsing solutions with inflammation of tonsils, oral mucosa; is used in the form of lotions, or washes with a decoction or infusion of purulent wounds and ulcers, long healing |
antimicrobial | Heals sores, ulcers, is a part of herbal mixtures to treat tuberculosis |
antivermicular | Tansy disabling impact on round worms - ascarids, pinworms, and it is effective to expel tapeworms - bovine and porcine tapeworms |
Protivolyamblioznoe | Raw material detrimental effect on Giardia |
insecticidal | All the upper parts of the plants repel insects (flies, bedbugs, cockroaches). Earlier in the Russian tansy grass obkladyvali meat carcasses to prevent decay |
boosts immunity | Macro- and microelements herbal preparation to help boost immunity |
pyretic | Contributes to lowering the temperature when feverish conditions |
antimalarial | It helps recovery from malaria thanks to the antimicrobial action and antifebrific |
antirheumatic | Efficient use of lotions, compresses with leaves and flowers of tansy to alleviate the symptoms of rheumatism, gout, joint pain, sprains |
sweatshop | It contributes to lower elevated temperature with a diaphoretic action |
astringent | Washings are dried for a long time is not fused wounds and ulcers |
antispasmodic | Relieves spasms when passing stones during bouts of kidney stones, relieves during painful menstruation |
choleretic | Use in chronic inflammation of the gallbladder and bile ducts, hepatic inflammation |
Stimulates appetite, improves digestion | Increases muscle tone of the gastrointestinal tract, increases the secretion of its glands, improves the condition of gastritis with low acidity, sluggish bowel motility, poor digestion |
soothing | It is used for epilepsy, fears, hysteria |
Hearty, koronarorasshiryayuschee | Increases the amplitude of heart contractions, it helps to slow down the heart rate, raises blood pressure. Applied with angina, palpitations, cardiac asthma |
Contraindications to receiving
Tansy, despite the many benefiting medicinal properties, like almost all the plants, is a contraindication to receiving.
Tansy contains a strong bitterness. The use of this herb as part of a multicomponent fees does not involve her more than 1/10 of the amount of the total collection of medicinal herbs.
The plant has an abortifacient effect, so the preparations of tansy in any case can not be applied to women in anticipation of the baby.
Moreover, this plant comprising a thujone causes toxic effects at dosages exceeded, and when it is used must be very careful. Young children, under the age of 7 years, to use drugs with tansy should not be.
Probably and occurrence of allergic reactions to the plant. Of course, in this case, accept it is contraindicated.
Due to the choleretic effect of the preparations of this herb is not shown in its application for people suffering from gallstone disease, as stones can begin to move and block the bile duct. When this emergency hospitalization is shown.
Infusions and decoctions of tansy can cause increased blood pressure, so people suffering from hypertension, should be cautious to use these drugs.
Augmentation and slows the heart rate, tansy is not shown to people suffering from bradycardia (when the pulse below 60 beats per minute).
In nature there are herbs, appearance is very reminiscent of tansy. Person who is not versed in herbal medicine, it is not recommended to collect this plant because tansy twins are in their composition very toxic and may cause serious poisoning. This herb is necessary to buy in pharmacies.
Recipes with tansy folk remedies, the dosage regimen
Tansy useful properties and contraindications to the use as described above, is used in various dosage forms. The choice of a drug form depends on the disease that is expected to treat.
Infusion of parasites
Parasitic diseases affect people at different ages, but they are particularly susceptible children, often do not comply with the rules of hygiene.
To bring the parasites from the body, it is possible to apply such recipes:
- 1 tbsp. l. dry fine herbs to pour 200 ml hot water, the mixture was left to stand under a cover for 4 hours, after which its drain. The resulting infusion is necessary to drink for 1 st. l. 3-4 times during the day;
- one cup of hot boiled water is needed to fill in 1 h. l. tansy inflorescences and infuse the mixture under cover 10 min, after which the infusion to drain. Drinking medicine relies on 1 glass 2 times a day - morning and evening, the entire course of treatment is 3 days;
- 6 g inflorescences laid pour into 200 g of boiling water; followed by keep preparing infusion, tightly closing it with a lid, for 20 minutes, after a remedy is necessary filtered. Eat-derived drugs is appointed 1 st. l. three times a day for a total of 4 days. After treatment it is necessary to take laxatives;
- ascariasis pinworm infection and used inflorescence tansy pulverized. They should be mixed with honey or sugar, then it is recommended to use obtained by means of half or one gram of 2 or 3 times a day during 2 may be 3 days. After a course of treatment is necessary to drink a laxative;
- to expel pinworms from the gut, and do an enema infusion of: It is recommended to take 1 hour. l. inflorescences with slide plants make them 150 ml of boiling water, let chasa means 3; resulting infusion is necessary to filter. After the pre-cleaning enema formulation made with tansy enema before bedtime. said treatment lasts from 3 to 5 days.
Infusion for the stomach
Tansy drugs used to treat hypoacid gastritis - inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach, accompanied by a reduced secretion of gastric juice. In this painful condition is poorly digested food, not enough to absorb nutrients. Developing atrophy of the gastric mucosa.
The phytotherapeutic references recommended treatment in this case, such means:
- take 1 tbsp. l. baskets tansy flowers, pour 400 ml of boiled water, the mixture was left in a tightly closed form for 4 hours, the resulting infusion filter. Drink herbal medicine necessary for 100 ml of 2 or 3 times a day 30 minutes before meal. The same method can be treated and jaundice.
Infusion for liver
Tansy has beneficial effects on the liver, increasing due to its bitter taste of bile outflow.
It is useful to use the infusion of tansy:
- We must take 5g inflorescences, make them 200 ml boiling water;
- then should leave the future of medicine to infuse in a warm place for 20 minutes;
- Strain resulting infusion, it can be drunk 1 tbsp. l. 5 or 6 times during the day.
This also means it is recommended to treat stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer, only use already at half or a third cup 2-3 times a day.
Infusion of hemorrhoids
Tansy is used in hemorrhoids because of its anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, astringent effect. It kills bacteria, thus obezzarazhivaya damaged rectal mucosa, promotes healing of wounds. Besides tansy eliminates stagnation of blood in the veins of the gut, preventing it form hemorrhoidal nodes.
When hemorrhoids can use tansy both internally and externally.
Infusion for oral administration may be used as follows:
- should be placed 10 g of tansy in 1 cup boiling water;
- infuse the mixture for 15 minutes;
- ready to take the infusion is necessary before a meal 3 or 4 times a day for 20 g (1 tbsp. l.).
For external use with hemorrhoids effectively use compresses tansy.
For this:
- you need to make 1 tbsp. l. grass 200 ml boiling water;
- provide a means to infuse for 15 minutes;
- after it should drain and cool.
Infusion relies impregnate gauze folded in several layers, and then attach a compress to the painful area, covering layer on top of a gauze material does not get wet (oil-cloth, cellophane).
With this compress it is necessary to lie down for at least half an hour. After removing the compress should wet the affected area with a cloth dampened with boiled water.
Use this infusion in the form of baths, lotions. One can also freeze agent, receiving ice cubes therefrom. Cold ice will help reduce pain, eliminate itching, to stop the bleeding.
Infusion delay at monthly
Tansy has abortive effect. It is caused by the properties of herbs to increase uterine tone and contribute to its muscle contraction. When pregnancy is contraindicated tansy, and when the delay menstruation is not caused by pregnancy, such action can do a good job.
Muscle contractions cause the rejection of the endometrium and begin menstruating.
Therefore, for the regulation of the menstrual cycle can be used herb tansy as follows:
- to pour 25 g herb 1 liter of boiling water, then leave to infuse means being prepared for 60 min. Followed strain resulting infusion. Apply it relies three times a day for 1/3 cup. More than three days means you can not use.
Remedy for nervous exhaustion
The properties of tansy benefit for nervous exhaustion. It is noted that the plant is able to help a person who has problems with the nervous system, suffering from hysteria, anxiety, epilepsy.
condition improvement is also achieved if a person is experiencing headaches, dizziness. Contraindicated excess dose plant material, as contained in the plant thujone can cause hallucinations and seizures.
Under the above pathological conditions of the nervous system can be applied tincture of tansy flowers white wine.
For the preparation of a medicament to put in the flowers of tansy container, pour on top of white wine in a ratio of 1:10. Then, the resulting mixture should persist for 8-10 days, after which it must be filtered. Drink resulting tincture shows 1 st. l. every 2 hours until you feel better, but not more than a week.
Tansy in skin diseases
Decoction of tansy was used in folk medicine of the North Caucasus in the treatment of skin cancer. It helps remedy and getting rid of scabies.
To prepare the broth should:
- Pour 1 tbsp. l. dry plant raw materials in 1 cup boiling water;
- withstand this mixture on low heat for 5 min .;
- then the drug strain.
Shall be applied soaked Get broth gauze cloth, folded in several layers to the skin as a lotion.
Use for the treatment of wounds tansy
For washing festering for a long time healing wounds prepare a decoction of tansy following:
- 200 ml of boiling water is necessary to pour into a container of 1 tbsp. l. grass;
- withstand future broth in a water bath for 5 min;
- then the resulting solution was filter.
Use this remedy should rinsing purulent long healing wounds and ulcers.
The recipe for the treatment of diseases of the joints
Preparations from plant material tansy widely used to treat various joint diseases - rheumatism, gout, sprains, contusions joint. Apply them as the inside-for the relief of pain and fever accompanied by inflammation of the joints, as well as externally - in the form of compresses and baths.
For internal use, you can prepare a tincture of the plant. 50 g inflorescences relies of tansy insist about 8 days a muscat wine. Take the resulting infusion is recommended to 30 or 40 g after the two main meals.
For outdoor use traditional medicine suggests applying compresses and warm baths:
- to pour 5 g flower baskets one cup of boiling water;
- leave a container of grass in a closed form for 2 hours;
- strain mixture;
- followed impregnate gauze folded in several layers to receive infusion;
- applied to painful joints;
- the top cover is waterproof fabric layer (cellophane, oil cloth) larger perimeter than the gauze;
- These top layers wrap warm cloth;
- lie at rest for several hours.
Recipes from the tansy to scalp and hair
Tansy, useful properties and contraindications to the use of which may help to address many of the problems will be an ally in the fight against such unpleasant disease as seborrhea.
Seborrhea occurs an accelerated accumulation on the scalp qualitatively altered sebum. The hair becomes greasy, often joins dandruff and acne. To cope with this condition, in addition to medication, to help grass, in this case, tansy.
The infusion is prepared as follows:
- supposed to take 2 tbsp. l. dried flowers of tansy, pound them into powder;
- make it 200 ml of boiling water;
- followed insist forthcoming tool half hour;
- After this composition should be applied to the scalp with light massage movements;
- Next you need to cover your head with cellophane, wrap a towel and so wait 40 minutes;
- wash away the herbal mixture with warm water and rinse your hair thoroughly.
You can use the decoction of tansy to eliminate dandruff, using it as a balm-conditioner. It is necessary to take half a cup of dry grass tansy, crushed, milled plant pour three liters of boiling hot water to withstand a means to simmer for 10 minutes.
After relies closed container with a lid and leave the decoction to stand overnight, the drug need to be filtered in the morning. It is recommended to rinse the hair with this decoction to the completion of each shampooing.
Eliminate the oiliness of hair, accelerate their growth will help the other method of using broth. Part of the solution must be rubbed into the scalp prior to washing, stand 10-15 minutes. Then you need to wash your hair as usual, then the rest of the broth rinse clean hair.
Tansy infertility
Infertility - a very difficult diagnosis, has many causes and treatment options, respectively. Contribute to the elimination of this unpleasant diagnosis as a supplement to the basic therapy and medicinal herbs. Tansy sometimes used as a component of charges from infertility.
For example, such:
- It is poured into a container for 1 hour. l. upland grass of the uterus, tansy, chamomile and celandine. Then pour into the recommended 2 cups of boiling water, then at low heat for 10 minutes, infuse 60 minutes and filter. Prepared means you need to douche. Pouring the solution into useful to raise the legs up to hold the medicine in the body, and lie so 10 minutes. To conduct such a procedure is necessary in the morning and evening for 10 days. This means may facilitate disposal of infertility caused by inflammation of the fallopian tubes and ovaries;
- We are joined tansy 50 g, 75 g herb rosemary and 100 g of grass Veronica officinalis. Then supposed to pour into this collection of herbs 3 cups of boiling water, close the container and leave to infuse grass at night. Followed by infusion of filtered and used for douching.
A lot of useful can bring a common field grass tansy, does not particularly stands out among other herbs. Its medicinal properties are very broad, and contraindications to the use of a bit.
Never should not exceed the dosage posited in the pursuit of more the result of their own and extend the course of treatment. Yet tansy unsound and toxic and thoughtless use could be harmful to health.
Author: Larisa Krechetova
Registration of the article: Mila Friedan
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