Tanacetum Vulgare

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Tanacetum Vulgare Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
GENERAL
  • Hale noted it for amenorrheaAbsence of menstrual periodsAn abnormal absence of menstruation., dysmenorrheaPainful menstruation with abdominal crampsPainful menstruation, typically involving abdominal cramps., menorrhagiaAbnormally heavy or prolonged menstrual bleedingMenstrual periods with abnormally heavy or prolonged bleeding., uterine cramps and metritis.
  • In one instance it caused a large abscessCollection of pus inside body tissuesA swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus, typically caused by bacterial infection. of the labia majora.
  • Hale said acrystalline acid identical with Santonin has been isolated from it.
  • Abnormal lassitude, a nervous and tired feeling.
  • “Half dead, half alive feeling” all over.
  • It is o f use in chorea and reflex spasms due to worms.
  • Tanac is said to be a specific against effects of poison ivy.
  • Tanac induces all the cardinal features of rabies, including abundant salivation, excitability, tendency to bite.
  • Hoarse cry.
  • Hallucinations.
  • Diminished sensibility and mobility, momentary paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body..
  • Frothy, bloody mucus in the air passages.
  • Convulsions, without loss of consciousness.
  • Opisthotonos.
  • Spasms of pharynx, larynx and the thorax
MODALITIES ETC
  • Worse at night, at 4 a.m.
  • Suddenness is a characteristic of a number of the symptoms
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) In uterine symptoms, Sabin., Tereb., Hedeo., Ruta. (2) In convulsions, Stram.,
Cic., Cupr. (3) Worm symptoms, convulsions, paralysis, Sant., Cina, Chen -a. (4) Abscess on labium majus,
Stry., abscess of scrotum. Follows well: Cimic., Cina, Absin., Nux-v.

MIND
  • Mental fatigue, nausea and vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., worse in a closed room.
  • Inability to think coherently.
  • Confusion of thought.
  • Dullness of all the senses.
  • Fatigue of the mind after the least exertion.
  • Ambitious.
  • Wants to stand on his head, stretches and draws up his feet, and says, “it does me good.” Sadness, with desire to be let entirely alone.
  • Irritable, sensitive to noise.
  • Irritable and lazy.
  • Very nervous and low spirited, annoyed by trifles; noise of the children almost unbearable.
  • Extremely sensitive to noise.
  • Coma and violent convulsions.
HEAD
  • Weariness in head.
  • Heavy, dull, confused.
  • Dull, frontal headache with cutting in temples.
  • Headache with least exertion.
EYES
  • Eyes open, very brilliant, pupils equal, widely dilated, immovable.
  • Pupils contracted.
  • Sclerotic congested, dark purple, glassy -looking.
  • Dull aching in eyeballs.
  • Slight inward squi nt, right eye.
  • Lids agglutinated in morning
EARS
  • Stitches in internal ear.
  • Ears seem to close up suddenly.
  • Roaring, ringing in ears.
  • Her own voice sounds strange in her ears
FACE
  • Features seemed fixed, giving an expression of deep solemnity.
  • Face dusky, flushed, cheeks bright red.
  • Fullness of head and face
MOUTH
  • Flat insipid taste.
  • Tongue white coated, feels rough.
  • Mouth, blood-stained, frothy.
  • Nose - Profuse secretion of mucus in nose with fluent coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge..
  • Dryness of nostrils
THROAT
  • Roughness of throat.
  • Feeling in throat as if one could cough all the time.
  • Unable to swallow.
  • COMMENTS - Like Senec., Tanac 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, Tanac has a reputation as a remedy for hydrophobia.
  • M.
  • Peyraud even used Tanac as a substitute for Pasteurian “vaccinations,” and reported success.
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  • H.
  • Pierson 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 epilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions. which came to him with drop doses of the fluid extract of Tanac four times a day, with marked success
CHEST
  • Feeble heart-action and all signs of impending dissolution.
  • Pulse increased in force and frequency, feeble.
  • Kidneys - Constant desire.
  • First suppression, then profuse flow.
  • Marked diuresis, must rise in night to urinate.
  • Urine is very fetid, high-colored increased.
  • Urine caused slight scalding.
  • Breathing laborious.
  • Hurried, stertorous respiration.
  • Frothy mucus obstructs the air-passages
ABDOMEN
  • Thirst.
  • Drawing, cutting pains in epigastrium.
  • Faint and sick at stomach.
  • Constant belchings, tasting of the oil.
  • Belchings of sour air at night.
  • Nausea and vomiting.
  • Temperature - Surface cool and moist.
  • Cold, clammy sweat.
  • Feeling of warmth diffused over whole abdomen.
  • Dull pains in the right hypochondrium, sharp in left.
  • Sharp, sticking pains in whole umbilical region
GENITALS ETC
  • Menses suppressed, later, profuse.
  • Dysmenorrhea with bearing-down pains, tenderness, drawing in groins.
  • Miscarriage in the early months of pregnancy
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Numbness and sensation as though arms and legs were suddenly swelling.
  • Prickling, coming and going, over limbs and along spine with flashes of heat.
  • Cold numbness over limbs, going on to paralysis
BACK AND NECK
  • Severe attack of lumbagoPain in the lower back regionA general term for acute or chronic pain in the lower back or lumbar region..
  • Constant dull ache in loins
GENERALITIES
  • As if something closed the ears very suddenly.
  • His own voice s ounds strange in his ears.
  • Sensation like a thrill all through body.
  • As though arms and legs suddenly swollen

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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