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 In the second half of the summer, on hot days over the meadows, clearings and glades in the botanical gardens and parks you can often catch a scent of camphor ... It blooms tansy.
Perhaps someone will call her dazzlingly beautiful, but the plant is undoubtedly useful.
Tansy or gourd -
Tanacetum vulgare L.
- A perennial herb with a strong smell of the Asteraceae family.
In tansy horizontal rhizome with many off of it thin threadlike roots. Straight, grooved, branched stalk of the plant reaches 50-120 cm. Oblong pinnately dissected leaves are divided into jagged slices. Top leaves bright green or dark green, and below grayish-green, covered with punctate glands.
Tubular bright yellow flowers are collected in many-flowered racemes - round-flat baskets. They are located at the ends of stems and branches. Tansy blossoms in July and August.
 Distributed almost throughout Russia, with the exception of the permafrost. It can be found not only in the country but also among shrubs, along roads and ditches, vacant lots, near fences and gardens. Tansy grows usually small thickets.
With the drug, cosmetic and household purpose, use flower baskets plants that are collected during the full flowering plants, usually in late July - August.
Baskets are assembled without peduncles and dried outdoors in the shade, making sure that the flowers did not crumble. Properly dried flowers should be dark yellow in color and exude a bitter-spicy scent when crushed.
No problem tansy flowers can be purchased at any pharmacy. Tansy flowers comprises: camphor, and essential fatty oils, flavonoids, alkaloids, resins, sugars, tannins and bitter substances. All these substances contain and grass tansy.
Some nations, especially the nomadic believe tansy almost no medicine for all ills.
Traditional medicine uses preparations of tansy in intestinal diseases, the expulsion of intestinal worms, hepatitis, reduced pressure, nervous disorders, liver disease, to reduce and slow the heart rate.
Flowers of tansy to get rid of worms mixed with honey and eat before a meal, or brewed as a tea and take ¼ cup 3 times a day.
Infusions of tansy have a choleretic and antimicrobial action.
Outwardly decoction wash wounds.
But tansy can be treated only under the guidance of a doctor or an experienced herbalist, because tansy enough poisonous plant if its uncontrolled use inside.
For cosmetic purposes
tansy used safely.
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Whitening facial mask
1 teaspoon dried crushed tansy flowers brew 1 cup of boiling water, leave for half an hour, cool, strain. Moisten with broth in cheesecloth, folded in several layers and apply on face for 20 minutes. From time to time it is desirable gauze moistened again. Wash with water at room temperature.
- The broth can be frozen and wipe the face with ice cubes. This procedure also whiten the face.
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Mask, nourishing and smoothing wrinkles
1 tbsp. spoon tansy flowers brew 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes, drain. Take 4 tbsp. tablespoons of broth, add 1 teaspoon honey, 1 teaspoon of heavy cream and soft cheese so as to obtain a creamy mass. Apply to face, neck, chest for 15 minutes, remove the swab dipped in warm water, then wash first warm, then cool water.
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For oily seborrhea
1 tbsp. spoon of dried flowers of tansy brew 1 cup of boiling water, bring to a boil, turn the heat off, insist 20 minutes, drain. To rub in the head in front by hook. Wash your hair with shampoo and rinse the remaining broth. Water then do not rinse. Course - tansy washing head 2 times a week for 1, 5 months. One month course for fixing can be repeated.
Flowers of tansy, poured into the cabinet, deter mole. The smell of tansy not like flies and other insects.
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