Homœopathic Materia Medica

Tanacetum Vulgare tanac.

Boericke, 9th edition (1927)In every bookSave

Common name

Tansy

General

Abnormal lassitude. Nervous and tired feeling. "Half dead, half alive feeling" all over. Of use in chorea and reflex spasms (worms). Said to be a specific against effects of poison ivy.

Head

Heavy, dull, confused. Headache with least exertion.

Mental

Irritable, sensitive to noise. Mental fatigue, nausea and vertigo, worse in a closed room.

Ears

Roaring and ringing; voice sounds strange; ears seem to close up suddenly.

Abdomen

Pain in bowels; relieved by stool. Desire for stool immediately after eating. Dysentery.

Female

Dysmenorrhœa, with bearing-down pains, tenderness, drawing in groins. Menses suppressed; later, profuse.

Respiratory

Hurried, labored, stertorous respiration. Frothy mucus obstructs the air-passages.

Relationship

Compare: Cimicif; Cina; Absinth. Nux follows well.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.