Tansy is what we might term a garden herb, and a very useful one as a medicine. To get it when it has its full strength it should be gathered in the months of July and August . The tops are the medicinal parts. They have and emit a powerful odor upon stirring them. They can be used in the form of a tincture.

Medical properties and uses. -- Tansy is a good remedy in many forms of dyspepsia. It relieves morbid irritation of the mucous lining of the stomach, and increases its functional activity, promoting digestion. The hot tea will often relieve severe cramping, and check cholera morbus. It is beneficial, in the form of a hot tea, to increase labor pains. It acts on the kidneys coloring the urine a pale green color, and it can be smelled on the urine. Everybody knows or heard of tansy bitters. Make a tincture as I have directed before. Dose, a tablespoonful three times a day.