Tansy is a bright and beautiful plant with a powerful effect. Healers have long used it in the treatment of many diseases.
Consider the medicinal properties of tansy and contraindications, how useful it is and whether there is a danger in use.
Description
Tansy is a herbaceous plant in the Astrov family. This perennial plant has more than 70 varieties, 27 of them grow in Russia. The most common species that interests us is called 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. Indeed, 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 tarry. But if you keep a bunch of tansy in the room, no flies and mosquitoes will fly there. Cockroaches also do not tolerate grass.
The plant is unpretentious, therefore it can grow where there is not enough sun. The flowering period falls at the end of July. It was at this time that it was being harvested. The raw materials are dried by spreading them on a thin layer of paper. It can be dried, but at a temperature of no higher than 40 degrees.
Composition
The healing properties of tansy and contraindications are disclosed due to the composition. So, the plant has a large number of alkaloids, essential oils, flavonoids, tannins, tanacetin and many other, no less useful, components.
The highest concentration is observed during the flowering period. The alkaloids released at this time have a stupefying 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 materials collected during the flowering period are useful for essential oil. It has a yellowish greenish color. The composition includes camphor, pinene, borneol and thujone.
Beneficial features
Herb tansy healing properties and contraindications are different. Of the useful, the following actions are distinguished:
- astringent;
- choleretic;
- antispasmodic;
- anti-inflammatory;
- bactericidal;
- diuretic effect.
Such has tansy healing properties. And contraindications will be considered as well. But first, we will examine in what cases it will be useful to apply it.
The medicinal properties of tansy, use and contraindications
It is not for nothing that folk healers value this plant so much.
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 with scabies.
Influenza, acute respiratory viral infections and colds disappear, and immunity is restored.
The flowers of the plant have a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system.
Cardiac activity is normalized, arrhythmia and a flickering pulse go away.
Contraindications
After we became aware of the healing properties of tansy, and contraindications need to be studied.
The first thing to keep in mind: the plant is poisonous!
It is strictly forbidden to take pregnant women and children under the age of seven.
An overdose in any person can lead to impaired renal function, deterioration of nervous activity, depressive and apathetic state, as well as to an increase in blood pressure.
But the most dangerous consequence of the plant threatens the pregnant. Tansy can cause fetal loss.
Abortive properties
Some of the fairer sex, wishing to terminate the pregnancy, specially adopted tansy. The therapeutic properties and contraindications for women, announced by doctors, nevertheless contain information about the threat of miscarriage in the paragraph relating to contraindications.
Doctors strongly oppose 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, because of which the uterus will have to be removed;
fatal infection of a woman.
With joint and skin lesions
Since ancient times, this plant embalmed the dead in Greece and Egypt. But the peoples of the north wrapped meat in its leaves so that it does not deteriorate.
Tansy can cure purulent wounds, ulcers and scabies. The infusion will remove pus from the body, stop the development of inflammation, eliminate infection and prevent microbes from entering.
For the treatment of gout, rheumatism and joint pain, tansy (flowers.) Has been successfully used. Medicinal properties, contraindications are especially pronounced through this part of the plant. Broth, and even more effective fresh juice or tincture of alcohol from flowers, have a very pronounced effect. Therefore, the broth can be taken in different ways. But from juice and tincture it is better to make compresses on a sore spot than to use inside.
With gastrointestinal diseases
Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as the liver, can be carefully and gradually 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 will decrease slagging, and the body will begin to recover.
From worms
With proper and careful use, the medicinal properties of tansy will appear, and contraindications, when taken into account, will not lead to negative consequences from admission.
So, tansy will perfectly help get rid of worms. Reception is carried out orally, in the form of a powder or infusion. Shredded wormwood leaves will help to enhance the effect.
A positive result can also be achieved 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 the infusion is as follows. The 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 tool is taken 3 days at 150 grams day and evening. Then they drink a laxative so that the worms leave the body.
Another recipe for removing parasites is this. The dried flowers are carefully chopped, and then one-third of a teaspoon is taken 30 minutes before meals. The course lasts 3 days. The next day they drink a laxative.
To get rid of the simplest parasites, the powder is consumed for 2-3 months. Moreover, the initial dose should be at the tip of the knife. Gradually, it is brought to a teaspoon by the middle of the course. Then also gradually reduce the dose.
Conclusion
All those that have tansy healing properties and contraindications, reviews of people who have tested it, disclose in their comments. Among them there are also those when people have a discharge or an incomprehensible aftertaste in the mouth. Reviews, which described a negative result after drinking, were not found.
However, it should be remembered that this medicinal plant has a strong effect. Therefore, it is best to consult a phytotherapist before taking it.