Tansy is a bright and beautiful plant with a strong effect. Witch doctors have long used it in the treatment of many diseases.
Let's consider the medicinal properties of tansy and contraindications, how useful it is and whether there is a danger when using it.
Description
Tansy is a herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family. This perennial plant has more than 70 varieties, 27 of which grow in Russia. The most common species that interests us is called common tansy. The name of the plant comes from the Greek tanaos and aceomai, which means "long" and "live".
At first it seems that tansy can be planted along with other flowers for beauty. After all, such beautiful bright yellow dense inflorescences will decorate any garden. But this plant has strong medicinal properties, so strong that you need to be careful with it, because it also releases poison and toxins.
The smell is tart and resinous. But if a bouquet of tansykeep indoors, no flies and mosquitoes will fly there. Cockroaches also hate grass.
The plant is unpretentious, so it can grow where there is not enough sun. The flowering period is at the end of July. It is at this time that it is collected. The raw materials are dried, spreading out on paper in a thin layer. It can be dried, but at a temperature not exceeding 40 degrees.
Composition
The healing properties of tansy and contraindications are revealed due to the composition. So, the plant has a large number of alkaloids, essential oils, flavonoids, tannins, tanacetin and many other equally useful components.
The highest concentration is observed during the flowering period. The alkaloids released at this time have an intoxicating effect on a person. In dry form, in addition to the substances mentioned above, the plant contains glycosides, polysaccharides, proteins, vitamins A and C.
Raw material harvested during the flowering period is good for essential oil. It has a yellow-greenish color. Contains camphor, pinene, borneol and thujone.
Useful properties
Herb tansy has different medicinal properties and contraindications. Of the useful ones, the following actions stand out:
- astringent;
- choleretic;
- antispasmodic;
- anti-inflammatory;
- bactericidal;
- diuretic action.
Such has tansy medicinal properties. And contraindications will be considered as well. But first, we will study in what cases it will be usefulapply.
Healing properties of tansy, use and contraindications
Folk healers appreciate this plant for a reason.
Tanacetin, which is part of it, increases the secretion of the gastrointestinal tract, and also enhances intestinal motility. Taking tansy will help with indigestion and anacid gastritis.
Essential oils have an antimicrobial and anthelmintic effect, due to which all parasites in the body are destroyed: both adults and developing ones. Therefore, it is often used for giardiasis and infection with tapeworms and pinworms.
Tansy has a wound-healing effect and relieves itching from scabies.
Influenza, SARS and colds disappear, and immunity is restored.
The flowers of the plant have a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system.
Cardiac activity normalizes, arrhythmia and flickering pulse go away.
Contraindications
After we became aware of the healing properties of tansy, and contraindications need to be studied.
First thing to keep in mind: the plant is poisonous!
It is strictly forbidden to be taken by pregnant women and children under the age of seven.
Overdose in any person can lead to impaired kidney function, deterioration of nervous activity, depression and apathy, as well as an increase in blood pressure.
But the most dangerous consequence of the plant threatens pregnant women. Tansy can provokefetal loss.
Abortive properties
Some of the fairer sex who want to terminate a pregnancy, tansy is specially taken. Medicinal properties and contraindications for women, announced by doctors, nevertheless contain information about the threat of miscarriage in the paragraph related to contraindications.
Doctors are categorically against this method of abortion. In addition to the fact that the fetus will die, it can lead to very negative consequences, namely:
- poisoning the body;
- uterine bleeding;
- decomposition of the fetus inside, causing the uterus to be removed;
- infection fatal to a woman.
For joint and skin lesions
Since ancient times, this plant was used to embalm the dead in Greece and Egypt. But the peoples of the north wrapped meat in its leaves so that it would not spoil.
Tansy can cure festering wounds, ulcers and scabies. The infusion will remove pus from the body, stop the development of inflammation, eliminate infection and prevent microbes from penetrating inside.
Tansy (flowers) are successfully used to treat gout, rheumatism and joint pain. Medicinal properties, contraindications are especially pronounced through this part of the plant. A decoction, and even more effective fresh juice or tincture of alcohol from flowers, have a very pronounced effect. Therefore, the decoction can be taken in different ways. But from juice and tincture it is better to makecompresses on a sore spot rather than ingestion.
For diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as the liver, can be gently and little by little treated with tansy. It is taken in small doses. Then the healing effect is achieved by removing toxins and parasites from the body. In addition, the patient's slagging will decrease, and the body will begin to heal.
From worms
When used correctly and carefully, the healing properties of tansy will manifest, and contraindications, when taken into account, will not lead to negative consequences from taking.
So, tansy will help get rid of worms. Reception is carried out inside, in the form of a powder or infusion. Crushed wormwood leaves will help enhance the effect.
You can achieve a positive result and thanks to the infusion with the addition of wormwood, chamomile and garlic, which is used for microclysters.
But do not forget: the use of tansy for this purpose is unacceptable for children!
How to apply
The recipe for making the infusion is as follows. Flowers should be poured with boiling water (20 g of grass per 200 ml of water), cover and hold on low heat for 15 minutes. After that, cool it, strain and squeeze. The remedy is taken for 3 days, 150 grams in the afternoon and evening. Then they drink a laxative to get the worms out of the body.
Another recipe for removing parasites is this. Dried flowers are carefully crushed, and then take one third of a teaspoon 30 minutes before meals. The course lasts3 days. The next day, they drink a laxative.
To get rid of protozoan parasites, the powder is used for 2-3 months. Moreover, the initial dose should be at the tip of the knife. Gradually bring it to a teaspoon by the middle of the course. Then also gradually reduce the dose.
Conclusion
All those that tansy has medicinal properties and contraindications, reviews of people who have tried it, are disclosed in their comments. Among them, there are also those when people have a discharge or an incomprehensible taste in their mouths. There were no reviews describing a negative result after use.
However, it should be remembered that this medicinal plant has a strong effect. Therefore, it is best to consult a phytotherapist before taking it.
