Toadflax goldenrod – Tanacetum vulgare

Description of Wormwood Toadflax:

Tanacetum vulgare L. (Old or other familiar names: pain-grass, worm-grass, worm-flower, worm-flower, worm-grass, apothecary’s worm-grass) Nests – Compositae a perennial plant 30-100 cm tall, with straight, stiffly held, almost glabrous stems. Leaves twice cleft on the wing. Its nests form a large, spreading umbellate cluster. Flowers yellow.

Occurrence:

Europe, Siberia and America, mainly in fields, roadsides and along streams. In our country, it is found in rivers, ditches, lawn edges and bushy places.

Part of it to be collected:

Leafy flowering stems that yield herba tanaceti.

Active ingredient:

Tanacetin, tannic acid and yellowish-green essential oil.

Harvesting and drying:

The above-ground part of the plant, flowering between the months of July and August, should be collected. The leaves, stripped from the thicker stems, should be dried with the thinner flowering stems in a ventilated attic. Source: Dr. Ferenc Darvas and Dr Gyula Magyary-Kossa,Domestic herbs, their production, marketing, effects and medicinal uses