Materia Medica de A a Z

TANACETUM VULGARE (tanac)

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

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: Cimic; Cina; Absinth (Absin). Nux-v follows well.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.