# Tanacetum Vulgare

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Hale noted it for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, uterine cramps and metritis. In 
one instance it caused a large abscess 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 paralysis. Frothy, bloody mucus in 
the air passages. Convulsions, without loss of consciousness. Opisthotonos. Spasms of pharynx, larynx and 
 
 
the thorax.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse at night, at 4 a.m. Suddenness is a characteristic of a number of the symptoms.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Mental fatigue, nausea and vertigo, 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.
- Mental fatigue, nausea and vertigo, 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.
- 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 coryza.
- 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.
- W.
- 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 epilepsy 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.

### Stomach & 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.

### Urinary & Genital
- Menses suppressed, later, profuse.
- Dysmenorrhea with bearing-down pains, tenderness, drawing in 
groins.
- Miscarriage in the early months of pregnancy.

### Extremities
- 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.

### Neck & Back
- Severe attack of lumbago.
- 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.