Tanacetum vulgare
HRB-0288Entry “GARDEN TANSY” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition
Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.
Historical correspondence. Ruled by Venus, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
It is also very profitable to dissolve and expel wind in the stomach, belly, or bowels, to procure women’s courses, and expel windiness in the matrix, if it be bruised and often smelled unto, as also applied to the lower part of the belly.
Being boiled in oil, it is good for the sinews shrunk by cramps, or pained with colds, if thereto applied.
Being boiled in oil, it is good for the sinews shrunk by cramps, or pained with colds, if thereto applied.
Listed in the 1850 index; the herbal entry has no sentence naming this complaint. No quotation is recorded.
This herb bruised and applied to the navel, stays miscarriages;
It is also very profitable to dissolve and expel wind in the stomach, belly, or bowels, to procure women’s courses, and expel windiness in the matrix, if it be bruised and often smelled unto, as also applied to the lower part of the belly.
It is used also against the stone in the reins, especially to men.
It is also very profitable to dissolve and expel wind in the stomach, belly, or bowels, to procure women’s courses, and expel windiness in the matrix, if it be bruised and often smelled unto, as also applied to the lower part of the belly.
The seed is very profitably given to children for the worms, and the juice in drink is as effectual.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850
Quotations are verbatim from the 1850 text, line breaks joined. Modern research and the European regulator’s verdict on each claim are on the Concordance page, kept apart from this historical record.