Tansy: useful properties and contraindications

Tansy is a perennial plant belonging to the family of the Astroids or the Complexaceae.At us among the people it has received the name «a wild rowan» owing to the specific form of inflorescences.Other synonyms are "button-nose" and "helminth".The word "tansy" in Western Slavic languages ​​means "musk"( all parts of the plant really emit a strong characteristic flavor).

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Short description

The medicinal plant used in both folk and official medicine grows mainly on clay soils of meadows and forests.Tansy is unpretentious and has a high resistance to frost.The distribution area of ​​wild mountain ash is the temperate zones of the entire Northern Hemisphere.In our country it can not be found only in the regions of the Far North.

The height of numerous straight, bare or slightly pubescent stems reaches one and a half meters.Dark-green fragrant leaves Tansy have oblong-ovate or oblong-lanceolate shape.The long rhizome is woody, creeping.Small flowers of bright yellow color are collected in inflorescences-baskets, and those - in corymbose inflorescences.This plant blooms for a long time - from the end of June to September.The time of ripening of fruits-achenes - from the end of summer to the middle of autumn.Inflorescences Tansy is considered poisonous!

Vegetable raw material is harvested in the period of active flowering, i.e. in July-August.The substrate for the preparation of medicinal products are inflorescences and flower baskets, less often the leaves of .They are cut at a distance of 5-10 cm from the edge, and dry out in closed attics with good circulation of air masses.Dryers can be used, but the temperature in them should not exceed + 40 ° C.

Do not leave the collected raw materials in the open during rain, as the flowers have the property of absorbing all kinds of harmful impurities .For the same reason, you can not collect Pizhma along highways and in close proximity to industrial facilities.This plant is cultivated for medical and culinary purposes.The sowing is carried out in the spring or autumn( winter crops).Active flowering and fruiting begins with the second year of life, and in the first season shoots are relatively weak and require the introduction of mineral fertilizers into the soil.

Important: highest possible concentration of medicinal substances - in flowers without peduncles, collected at the very beginning of flowering.

Active substances

The following biologically active compounds are present in the inflorescences and leaves of the plant:

• tanning agents;
• bitterness;
• bioflavonoids;
• alkaloids;
• terpenes;
• glycosides;
• organic acids( tanacetal, gallus, etc.);
• vitamin C;
• essential oils( with camphor).

Useful properties of tansy

The plant is useful for people suffering from liver pathologies.Its drugs can improve the flow of bile.Cholagogue effect is caused by a high content of bioflavonoids.Funds based on wild ashberry exert a tonic effect on the musculature of the digestive tract organs and improve secretion in the digestive tract.

During in vivo clinical studies( in animals), it was found that Tansy common ingredients relax the heart rate, reduce the amplitude of myocardial contractions and increase blood pressure, and generally have a positive effect on heart function.

According to folk healers, infusion of flowers contributes to the cure of gastric ulcer.To make the ulcers heal, a medicinal drink is recommended to take 100 ml 2-3 times a day.

Diseases that folk medicine offers to treat with medications Tansy:

• gastritis( hypoacid);
• non-infectious hepatitis;
• cholecystitis;
• colitis;
• Enterobiosis.

Phytopreparations based on helminths are recommended for parasitic diseases - helminthiases.They help get rid of pinworms and ascarids, as well as lamblia.

External compresses with decoctions of the button are shown with long healing wounds and suppuration, as well as to reduce pain in gouty arthritis.

It is believed that the juice from the grass( stems and leaves) Tansy promotes the treatment of epilepsy, headaches of various origins, rheumatism, colds, intoxications and joint pain.It is recommended also to drink to women with algodismenosis( painful menstruation) or large blood loss during menstruation.Juice has a hypnotic effect.

Recipe for decoction of

Take 2 tbsp.L.Dry vegetable substrate, pour 500 ml of water and put on fire.Bring to a boil, and cook over low heat 10 minutes.Insist under a tight lid for an hour, cool and strain.Drink 70-100 ml 3 times a day.

Recipe for wine from Tansy

Take 700 ml of Muscat wine and fill it with 50 g of inflorescences.Keep the drink 8 days in places protected from sunlight.Drink with rheumatism for 30-40 ml after eating.

Prescription of the present against helminths

Mix in equal shares the flowers of Tansy, wormwood and chamomile pharmacy.1 tbsp.L of this mixture pour a glass of water, bring to a boil, cool and add crushed garlic( 1 small denticle).Insist for 3 hours, strain, and use liquid to prepare microclysters.The procedures are carried out at night, and after setting the enema, you should stay in the horizontal position for about 30-40 minutes, so that the phytopreparation will adequately affect the parasites.

Wild mountain ash is used not only to treat a number of diseases.It makes spicy drinks, and the leaves are added when preserving meat, fish and vegetables to give the products a special flavor.

Note: dried peeled Pizhma( mostly flowers) is used for disinsection treatment of premises, i.e., the destruction of harmful insects.The evaporated broth, mixed with sugar, perfectly helps against flies and cockroaches.

Contraindications to use Tansy

Women who are preparing to become mothers should never be taken into phytopreparations, which include Pizhma.They can lead to spontaneous abortion( miscarriage)!

Means based on this plant are categorically contraindicated also for young children( up to 7 years), since inflorescences are weakly toxic.

As for the toxicity of wild mountain ash, there are different opinions.Experiments on laboratory animals, put in the mid-1970s, showed that even a 10-fold excess of therapeutic doses of phytopreparations did not lead to the development of pathological changes.

Maximum allowable daily dose of water tangerine Tansy - 0,5 l.The compounds present in the plant( thujone and ketone) are capable of provoking convulsions.

Signs of overdose( poisoning) can be a depressed mood( depression due to the depression of the nervous system), indigestion and even kidney failure.Cases of visual impairment are recorded.With severe poisoning, death can not be ruled out.In case of accidental overdosage, it is advisable to immediately wash the stomach with a slightly diluted( pale pink) potassium permanganate.

Plisov Vladimir, phyto-therapeutist