Common name: Tanacetum

Latin name: Tanacetum vulgare L. 

Description: Tanacetum is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Compositae family with a short horizontal rhizome branched into thick roots. It is spread throughout Bulgaria from scrubland, rocky places and forests at an altitude of up to 1800 m. The stem is up to 1 m. tall, slightly ridged, often reddish. The leaves are pinnate, alternate, dark green above, lighter below. The leaves are long. The flower baskets are golden yellow, with a flat convex bottom, with only tubular flowers collected in inflorescences. The plant blooms in summer. This plant has a strong camphor-like unpleasant odor.

Part of herb used: the upper herbal parts - herb (Herba Tanaceti) and flower baskets (Flores Tanaceti).

Harvest time: The herbs and flower baskets are harvested in June - August. The herbs are harvested by cutting off the upper leafy part of the stems during flowering. Flower baskets are harvested at the beginning of flowering by cutting them off at their branches. A properly dried herb has a yellow color, a characteristic smell and a bitter-sweet taste.

Chemical Composition/Contents and Properties: The herb contains flavonoids, tannins, and carotenoids, and the whole plant contains gallic acid, resins, the bitter substance tanacetin, and a foul-smelling essential oil that contains camphor, borneol, and thujone (thujone).

Medicinal effect and application: Tanacetum has an antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and antispasmodic effect. In small doses, it is used for lack of appetite, flatulence, constipation, stomach colic and bloody diaries, pain-relieving effects in rheumatism and joint pain, etc. The essential oil enhances the secretion of bile juice, it can be used as a natural repellent due to its insecticidal effect. It is also used in veterinary medicine because of its pronounced anthelmintic effect. The plant is poisonous and should be used carefully, dosed in small amounts and under medical supervision.

Possibilities to offer at the customer's request:

Vesselino Ltd. offers their customers the plant in the following varieties:

• herb (Herba Tanaceti) - dried whole, crushed, cut to size as desired by the customer, ground into powder/flour

• Flower (Flores Tanaceti) - dried whole, crushed, cut to size as desired by the customer, ground into powder/flour

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