Tansy (photo) - how it looks, how to grow and what is useful
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Tansy properties and cultivation
Tansy is a rhizome perennial that grows everywhere. It can be found in Europe. Asia, Africa and North America. Only in our country there are about 30 species of this plant.
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Tansy has long been known for its medicinal properties and was grown in pharmacies. The name "tansy" in some languages of Slavic origin means "odorous" because of the special smell that is characteristic of all its parts.
This smell contributed to the fact that tansy was used as a spicy-aromatic plant. In many countries it is used for the production of bitter tinctures and kvass, aromatic seasonings.
Tansy is indispensable for the conservation of products due to the content of aspirin, and in cosmetics and perfumes - due to the content of essential oils.
In the garden, this wild plant can decorate the lawn or alpine hill, and fill the empty space between the buildings and the fence.
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Find and recognize tansy
In our country, tansy is common. In the wild, it can be found on the forest edges, on the bridges, in the steppes, along river banks and e ravines. You can find it and next to human housing - in parks, squares, on roadsides, in wastelands.
In height, tansy reaches an average of 50 cm to one and a half meters. The leaves of this plant are pubescent, cirrus, strongly dissected, from a distance slightly similar to the strongly reduced leaves of mountain ash. Apparently, therefore, one of the folk names for tansy is “wild mountain ash”. Bright yellow tansy flowers form an inflorescence basket similar to a button. They have a bitter smell and appear in early June. The leaves and stems of the plant also have a specific smell and bitter taste. Fruitlets ripen in late August - early September.
Planting and caring for tansy
Tansy propagates as part of the bush, as well as in seeds in spring or autumn. It is suitable for both solar and shaded space, neutral soil, preferably well drained. When planting in a pit, you can add phosphorus and potash fertilizers.
After planting, tansy needs regular watering. After the plant has taken root, it can not be watered. Seed-pickled tansy flowers for the second year.
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Tansy - benefits and properties
In folk medicine, inflorescences of tansy are used when baking catarrhal diseases. Infusion of flowers as an external remedy is used to rinse the mouth with inflammatory processes and throat with angina. In general tansy is known for antibacterial, analgesic, soothing, anti-inflammatory, choleretic and astringent properties.
Tansy - folk recipes
- Tea made from colored tansy helps under reduced pressure.
- Broth of tansy can be driven out worms.
- When insomnia, put the dried flowers of tansy under the pillow.
- With excessive sweating of your feet, make a bath with a decoction of tansy.
- Leaves and tansy flowers are used as a spice for soups and salads.
- Infusion, decoction and powder of dried tansy is used to control insect pests in the garden and garden.
- Washing your head with a decoction of tansy helps against dandruff.
- Bitter tincture tansy increases appetite, disinfects and has astringent effect, so it is used for problems with the intestines.
- Compresses from tansy juice help with radiculitis.
- To keep the caught fish fresh, it can be tanned with tansy.
- Teas from tansy flowers help to relieve fever for colds.
- Tincture of tansy flowers can be washed wounds and gargle.
CAUTION! All types of treatment with this plant should be carried out under the supervision of the attending physician, as juice and decoctions can cause allergic reactions. The plant is slightly toxic and contraindicated for the treatment of children and pregnant women.
Flowers tansy are well suited for cutting, they can be added to field bouquets.
In the dried form, tansy, retains a bright yellow color, and does not change its shape, so it is used to compose winter bouquets and floral compositions. And since its bitterish smell does not disappear for a long time, it is indispensable in the manufacture of sachets.
What tansy looks like: benefits and properties - video
© Author: Natalya STEPANOVA, Associate Professor, Department of Methodology of Teaching Biology and Ecology, Russian State Pedagogical University named after AL Herzen.
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Stock up on tansy for a sore throat.
For a long time my son suffered from chronic tonsillitis, which made itself felt both in summer and in winter. The tonsils of the child were constantly “decorated” with purulent corks that could not be rinsed out.
I began to think about alternative options for getting rid of purulent traffic jams and remembered how a relative was praising the extract of tansy flowers. With the help of lotions from it, she got rid of any inflammations on the skin and admired the unique properties of the plant to quickly draw pus.
In the literature, I did not find any mention of whether it is possible to use tansy flowers for our ailment. However, she learned about the powerful anti-inflammatory and bactericidal properties of this plant and decided that gargling with such an infusion would not harm the child and, possibly, help to clear the tonsils from purulent plugs.
Infusion prepared from 2 Art. l dry flowers of tansy, which steamed a glass of boiling water and kept 30-40 minutes in a thermos. With the filtered liquid, the baby rinsed the throat of the 4-5 once a day for 2 weeks. With breaks at half a month, we conducted an 3 course of such daily rinses. The son patiently performed the procedures, considering such a bitter therapy (the infusion is very bitter) a more benign remedy in comparison with washing the tonsils in the ENT doctor's office.
I have not lost. During the course of therapy, the son rinsed out a huge amount of purulent congestion, which began to “ask” outside through the 2 day of daily procedures. Tonsils completely cleared and significantly decreased in size. During the six months that have passed after the end of treatment, the purulent congestion no longer made itself felt, and the son finally stopped complaining of pain in his throat.
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If in summer I meet thickets of blooming tansy, then immediately I collect a bunch. It not only looks beautiful in fresh and dried bouquets, but also very useful. First, decoctions of tansy help with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, gout and rheumatism: 2 st.l. dry flowers pour 0,5 l water, cook over low heat for about 10 minutes. The resulting composition to insist for about an hour, drink on 1 / 3-1 / 2 st. 3 times a day for half an hour before meals.
Secondly, its broths and infusions can be sprayed with vegetables from leaf-eating pests. 700 g dried or 2 kg fresh tansy (the entire aboveground part)
pour 10 l of water, I insist 2 days, boil 30 minutes, filter, dilute with cold water 1: 2, add 50 g household soap. I process vegetables and trees before the beginning of fruiting 3-4 times per season with an interval of 5-6 days.
Thirdly, in autumn and spring, dried flowers tansy fumigate the greenhouse from pests and diseases: I set them on fire and immediately close all doors and windows. A day later the greenhouse is ventilated.
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One of my friends, seeing me struggling with flies in the house with the help of dichlorvos, advised me to pick a bunch of tansy and put it in a vase. Really - it helped! Since then, I not only began to use tansy, but also planted it on my site. Insects try to avoid meeting with tansy, but because tansy twigs can be hung in the house or put a bouquet in a vase (beautiful also!). to scare away mosquitoes and flies. And if you want to protect yourself from mosquitoes on the street, rub your skin with fresh tansy juice - the insects will not touch you.
The sharp smell of tansy is also disliked by the Colorado beetle, the copperfish, the onion fly, the cabbage whiting, the ants. Decoction of tansy is good for aphids. Take 2-2.5 kg of fresh grass (700-800 g dry) and pour a bucket (10 L) of water. Leave it under the closed lid for 2-3 days. Then infusion directly into the bucket put on the fire and boil 20-30 min. Strain and dilute with water in the ratio of 1: 2. Treat affected plants 3-4 times every 2-3 days.
How to grow tans at the cottage?
The plant is very unpretentious. She is comfortable on any soil, freezing is not terrible. Propagates both seeds and vegetatively. I dug out the rhizome of the plant, divided it and planted it on my plot. Tansy is almost not sick and is not affected by pests.
Collected mainly inflorescences from the plant - it is best to do this at the beginning of flowering. I dry it the same way as the rest of the plants - in the shade (under a canopy), store it in a well-closed container (in glass jars) and be sure to sign so that no one mixes it up.