Tanacetum Vulgare tanac.

Tansy

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.

Heavy, dull, confused. Headache with least exertion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tincture, to third potency.

Great mobility ; extraordinary motion, and strange gesticulations. St. Vitus's dance.

Tanacetum vulgare. Tansy. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of the fresh plant in flower. Attenuations of the oil.

Abortion. Amenorrhœa. Chorea. Dysmenorrhœa. Epilepsy. Eyes, sclerotica inflamed. Hydrophobia. Labia, abscess of. Paralysis. Strabismus (right inward). Worms.

The common Tansy (the word is derived from αθανασια, immortality), with its deep -yellow button-like flowers, a close companion of the Rag-wort ( Senecio Jacobea ) on our commons and in our hedgerows, takes a not unimportant part in giving colour to the landscape. In olden times puddings were made containing Tansy leaves, and these puddings were called "tansies" also. "In the springtime are made with the leaves hereof newly sprung up, and with eggs, cakes or tansies , which be pleasant in taste and good for the stomach. For if any bad humours cleave thereunto, it doth perfectly concoct them and scour them downwards" (Gerarde). Gerarde also says that the seeds kill and expel worms of every sort; the root is good in gout; and being drunk with wine Tan . relieves pain in the bladder, and dysuria when a man is only able to urinate by, drops. Like Senec., Tan . has an action on the female generative organs, and a large proportion of the observations with it have been on women who have taken it to procure abortion. Other effects are from its use as a vermifuge, and in addition to these are provings by Burt and others. In Russia Tan . has a reputation as a remedy for hydrophobia. M. Peyraud ( C. D. P .) has even used Tan . as a substitute for Pasteurian "vaccinations," and reports success. Experiments on animals show that Tan . induces all the cardinal features of rabies: convulsions, frothy, bloody mucus in the air passages, hallucinations, convulsions without loss of consciousness, opisthotonos, spasms of pharynx, larynx, and thorax, abundant salivation, sensual excitability, tendency to bite, hoarse cry, diminished sensibility and mobility, momentary paralysis, sub-pleural ecchymoses, infarctions of the liver — rabies tanacetica, simili-rabies being the name suggested by Peyraud for this drug-disease. Whether the convulsions of Tan . be rabic or epileptic, they are sufficiently similar to render the drug useful in either condition. W. H. Pierson ( H. W ., xxx. 488, quoting N. A. J. H .) observed a woman who took two drachms of the oil to procure abortion. The attempt failed, but throughout her pregnancy she suffered from mixed tonic and clonic convulsions, frothing at the mouth, clenched hands, thumbs turned in, followed by exhaustion and a short coma. Since then Pierson treated every case of epilepsy which came to him with drop doses of the fluid extract of Tan . four times a day, and with marked success. Hale mentions as having been cured with Tan .: Amenorrhœa, dysmenorrhœa, menorrhagia, uterine cramps, and metritis. In one instance it caused a large abscess of the labium majus. Hale says a crystallisable acid identical with Santonin has been isolated from it. Suddenness is a characteristic of a number of the symptoms. Peculiar Sensations are: As if something closed the ears very suddenly . His own voice sounds strange in his ears. As though arms and legs suddenly swollen. Sensation like a thrill all through body. The symptoms were < at night, and at 4 a.m.

Compare: In uterine symptoms, Sabi., Tereb., Hedeo., Ruta. In convulsions, Stram., Cicut., Cupr. Worm symptoms, convulsions, paralysis, Sant., Cin., Chenop. Abscess on labium majus (Strych., abscess of scrotum).

Exhilaration. — Nervousness. — Confusion. — Mind fatigued after least mental exertion. — Indifference and incoherence. — Unable to fix attention on anything; it seemed next instant my reason would leave me. — Uttered a shriek and fell senseless to the floor; continued in comatose state over an hour, when she vomited again and recovered consciousness.

Dizziness. — Weariness in head. — Strange fulness and pressure in head amounting to pain. — Dull, frontal headache with cutting in temples. — Occipito-frontal headache, backache, and pains in limbs.

Sclerotic congested, dark purple glassy-looking, swollen so that cornea appeared sunk. — Eyes open, very brilliant, pupils equal, widely dilated, immovable; sclerotics injected. — Pupils contracted. — Slight inward squint; r. eye. — Occasionally slow, lateral, rolling motion of eyeballs. — Lids agglutinated in morning. — Dull aching in eyeballs.

Stitches in internal ears. — Sensation as if something closed ears very suddenly. — Her own voice sounds strange in her ears. — Roaring; ringing in ears.

Profuse secretion of mucus in nose with fluent coryza. — Dryness of nostrils.

Features seemed fixed, giving an expression of deep solemnity. — Fulness of head and face. — Face: dusky; flushed, cheeks bright red. — Mouth and nose drawn a little to r.

Tongue white coated, feels rough. — Mouth, blood-stained; frothy. — Flat, insipid taste.

Roughness of throat. — Feeling in throat as if I would cough all the time, without being able to cough through the whole proving. — Unable to swallow.

Thirst. — Constant eructations tasting of the oil. — Eructations of sour air at night. — Nausea; and vomiting. — Faint and sick at stomach. — In stomach: slight glow, burning; great heat (immediate), and in bowels; weight. — Drawing cutting pains in epigastrium many times.

Dull pains in r. hypochondrium; sharp in l. — Sharp sticking pains in whole umbilical region; esp. 4 a.m. — Bowels feel as if full of fluid from taking a cathartic. — Frequent spells of sharp, cutting, colicky pains < night, esp. after midnight. — L. — side pain extending from ribs to hip.

Stools: soft, papescent, preceded by colic; two loose, with feeling he would have more. — Constipation (secondary).

Urine caused slight scalding. — Constant desire. — Marked diuresis, must rise in night to urinate. — First suppression, then profuse flow. — Urine: very fetid; high-coloured; increased, smelling of the drug.

Heat and fulness through hips, increasing as the drug is persisted in until a "show" appears. — Inflammation of vaginal walls, of internal and external labia, which resulted in an enormous abscess in one labium. — (Dysmenorrhœa, bearing-down pains, tenderness, drawing in groins.). — Abortion in early months of pregnancy. — Brought back menses after suppression of several days, not naturally but very profusely, with severe labour-like pains. — At full term a child was born not larger than a cat; the child lived three weeks.

Collection of much (frothy) mucus in larynx and fauces impeding respiration. — Tickling in larynx and fauces causing desire to cough, but no coughing. — My voice had a strange sound in my ears. — Breathing laborious. — [Frothy, sanguineous mucus in trachea and bronchi as in rabies; all other symptoms of rabies also (in poisoned animals)].

Feeble heart-action and all signs of impending dissolution. — Pulse: increased in force and frequency; feeble, frequent; extinct.

Severe attack of lumbago all one evening. — Constant dull ache in loins.

Numbness and sensation as though arms and legs were suddenly swelling. — Cold numbness over limbs, going on to paralysis. — Prickling, coming and going, over limbs and along spine; with flashes of heat.

L. wrist very lame and sore in morning.

Great weakness of legs with general prostration of strength. — Unsteadiness of step with an indescribable feeling far worse than pain.

Trembling. — Convulsions. — Clonic spasms; not convulsive, coming instantaneously and lasting a minute; slight tremor of arms, they were thrown forward, and at right angles to the body, forearm supinated, hands bent at right angles, fingers straight, slightly bent on hands, points of fingers nearly in contact; respiratory muscles strongly affected, air forced from chest slowly but steadily making a hissing noise at lips; in the intervals muscles relaxed, except the jaws. — Great irritability, makes extraordinary movements and curious gestures, stretches himself, draws up his legs, stands on his head; when remonstrated with says, "Leave me alone, it does me good; I can't help doing it;" when he draws up his legs and the muscles will not go farther he pulls them up with his hands and then suddenly stretches them out again; all the time has no pain; lasts half an hour and occurs with each repetition of the medicine (boy, 12, took one and a half ounces of extract for worms). — Bites tongue in convulsions. — Sensation like a throb through whole frame.

Drowsy.

Surface cool and moist. — Feeling of warmth diffused over whole abdomen. — Cold, clammy sweat.

A tincture is made of the fresh leaves and flowers of the tansy.

▶ Compare other composite, Cina and Absinth.

Trembling. ▶ Remarkable gestures, stretched, drew up the feet, stood on his head, said, "Let me do as I wish, I cannot do anything else," so he drew up his legs and when the muscles would draw them no farther he pulled them up with his hands and then suddenly stretched them.

Convulsions; during pregnancy; with frothing at mouth labored respiration and irregular pulse; with features horribly distorted, unconsciousness and inability to swallow; then vomiting, then catalepsy; every five or then minutes, head thrown back, respiration suspended, arms raised and rigidly extended fingers contracted, in about half a minute a tremulous motion, sometimes shaking the room, with faint and imperfect attempts at inspiration, the times from the beginning of the convulsion to the first full inspiration varied from a minute to a minute and a half occasionally the tongue was wounded by the teeth, after a convulsion face applied and livid, pulse slow and weak, often after a convulsion the head was drawn slowly backward and eyelids opened wide, between the confusions the limbs were mostly relaxed but jaws were clenched; supposed to be epileptic, in which the shoulder was dislocated; tonic contrition of flexors, forearms drawn forcibly against chest face congested and livid, foamy saliva, ejected from mouth, eyes wide open; clonic; sudden, clonic, with trembling of arms, which were thrown forward of and at right angles with the body, wrists bent at right angles, forearms supinated, tips of fingers nearly in contact, fingers straight and slightly bent at metacarpal joints, muscles of respiration strongly affected air forced from chest slowly but steadily and hissed as it escaped from the lips, between the spasms muscles were flexible except jaws, which were rigidly closed the first hour, but afterwards rigid during the spasms and relaxed between them, the spasms more frequent as the patient grew weaker.

Rheumatic symptoms. ▶ Sensation approaching a thrill through the whole body. ▶ Weariness. ▶ Numbness, with sensation as if arms and legs were suddenly swelling. ▶ Paralysis of all voluntary motion including muscles of deglutition.

Chorea, with strange gesticulations. ▶ Affections from worms, with twitching in sleep and wakening from fright.

Many cases of dysentery.

Dysmenorrhœa, with bearing-down pains, tenderness, drawing in the groins.

Exhilaration. ▶ Shrieked and feel senseless to the ground, amel. vomiting. ▶ Nervous. ▶ Indifference to my questions and incoherence in her replies. ▶ Dullness of all senses. ▶ Impossible to fix my attention and it seemed as if my reason would leave me. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Mind fatigued after least mental exertion. ▶ Intellect feeble, with tendency to stupor. ▶ Coma. ▶ Unconsciousness; partial.

Agonizing pain. ▶ Fulness; and pain; with frontal pain; and in face. ▶ Heavy aching. ▶ Condition similar to apoplexy. ▶ Vertigo. ▶ Frontal pain, with cutting in temples. ▶ Occipito-frontal pain.

Inward strabismus of right. ▶ Sclerotics injected, eyes open and brilliant, pupils dilated and immovable. ▶ Sclerotic coat so congested that it was dark purple, glassy, and so swollen that the cornea seemed depressed. ▶ Slow lateral motion of balls. ▶ Aching in balls. ▶ Pupils dilated; contracted; contracted, then dilated. ▶ Lids agglutinated in morning.

Stitches in middle. ▶ Sensation as if something eyes; closed them suddenly. ▶ Ringing. ▶ Roaring.

Coryza. ▶ Nostrils dry. ▶ Face red; and eyes; cheeks bright red. ▶ Face dusky. ▶ Features fixed giving an expression of deep solemnity. ▶ Lips and nose drawn to right side.

Tongue feels rough and is coated white. ▶ Frothing at mouth. ▶ Mouth bloodstained. ▶ Taste flat, insipid. ▶ Mucus in fauces and larynx, disturbing respiration. ▶ Feeling in throat as if I would cough, without ability to cough. ▶ Tickling in fauces and larynx causing constant inclination to cough, but no cough. ▶ Throat rough. ▶ Inability to swallow.

Thirst. ▶ Eructations tasting of the oil; flatulent, tasting of tansy; of sour air at night. ▶ Nausea; with faintness. ▶ Vomiting. ▶ Drawing cutting in epigastrium. ▶ Weight. ▶ Burning; and in abdomen.

Rumbling. ▶ Pain; mostly in region of small intestines, from small doses it is cutting stitching, from large doses heavy pains, with frequent cutting, agg. night and especially after midnight. ▶ In morning feeling as if full of limpid secretions from taking a cathartic. ▶ Warmth over it. ▶ Dull pain in right hypochondrium sharp in left. ▶ Umbilical region, sticking; frequent pains through the day, 4 A.M. ▶ Cutting at umbilicus, then papescent stools. ▶ Drawing pain in left groin.

Diarrhœa then constipation; D. twice; twice and sensation as if he would have more. ▶ Stool omitted. ▶ Constant desire to urinate; with heavy pain in small of back (secondary). ▶ Frequent micturition. ▶ Obliged to rise to urinate, urine smelled of tansy. ▶ Urine scalding; U. fetid; high-colored, afterwards light-colored; copious, high-colored, smelling of the drug; suppressed, then copious.

Inflammation of vaginal walls of labia, ending in abscess of one labia. ▶ Menses profuse (after a suppression of several days), with labor-like pains. ▶ Abortion in the early months of pregnancy; A. prevented. ▶ At full term a child was born, not larger than a rat, and lived three weeks.

Voice sounded strange to his own ears. ▶ Breathing oppressed; and hurried, stertorous, obstructed by frothy mucus in air-passages and blown from between lips in expiration breath smelled of tansy; but not stertorous, blowing mucus and saliva from fauces and mouth, this respiration most marked after each spasm, but sometimes not unlike that of sound sleep. ▶ Moaning and distressed appearance. ▶ Desire to draw a full breath, which did not relieve the oppression of chest. ▶ Pain in left side.

Feeble action of heart and all the signs of impending dissolution. ▶ Pulse rapid; and forcible; and full, forcible; and feeble; and small, feeble. ▶ Pulse slow; 60, with a peculiar measured beat. ▶ Pulse full and incompressible. ▶ P. irregular. ▶ Pulseless.

Backache; in lumbar region. ▶ Lumbago in evening. ▶ Extremities, prickling with flashes of heat; intermittent pricking, and along spine; pain; cold numbness creeping over them, increasing almost to paralysis. ▶ Lameness of left wrist in morning, with soreness. ▶ Weakness of legs, with general prostration. ▶ Unsteadiness of step, with indescribable feeling worse than pain.

Eruption like variola. ▶ Drowsy. ▶ Chill, then heat. ▶ Skin cold and moist; cold, agg. towards extremities. ▶ Heat; of skin. ▶ Cold clammy sweat.

Convulsions of the most violent character; epileptiform.
Paralysis of voluntary muscles, with numbness and sensation as if the limbs were enormously swollen.

Profuse menstruation, with labor-like pains.
During pregnancy it either produces miscarriage or the fœtus is not developed.