Materia Medica (Boericke)

Tanacetum vulgare

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Natural History.

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.

 

Mind.

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.

Dysmenorrhoea, 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.

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