Wild Tansy Essential Oil (Tanacetum vulgare)
Overview
Wild Tansy may also be referred to as tansy, common tansy, bitter buttons, garden tansy, cow bitter, or golden buttons. It is typically processed using steam or hydro distillation as a method for extracting oil from the flowering plant/herb.

Essential Facts
- Aroma Description:
- Common Name(s): tansy, common tansy, bitter buttons, garden tansy, cow bitter, or golden buttons
- Botanical Family: Asteraceae
- Botanical Genus: Tanacetum
- Chemical Family: Ketones, Oxides
- Perfumery Note: Middle
- Indigenous Country: France
- Cultivation: Distiller is Certified Organic
- Processing Methods: Steam or Hydro Distillation
- Part Typically Used: Flowering plant/herb
- Shelf Life: 4-5 years
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Ethically and sustainably sourced
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Organic
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Vegan
Essential Details
Benefits & Uses
Therapeutic Benefits of Wild Tansy:
Analgesic
Anti-asthmatic
Anti-inflammatory
Anti-microbial
Anti-oxidant
Anti-spasmodic
Anti-viral
Decongestant
Energizing
Expectorant
Hypotensive
Mucolytic
Stimulant
Energetic, Spiritual, and Emotional Qualities
Energetics and Chakras Qualites of Wild Tansy:
4th Chakra - Unconditional Love
5th Chakra - Speaking Truth
6th Chakra - Perspective
Energizing
Expansive
Purifying
Transformative
Uplifting
Articles
Wild Tansy Articles or Publications:
- PubMed: Chemical composition and antifungal activity of supercritical extract and essential oil of Tanacetum vulgare growing wild in Lithuania.
- PubMed: Anthelmintic activity of crude extract and essential oil of Tanacetum vulgare (Asteraceae) against adult worms of Schistosoma mansoni.
- PubMed: Cytotoxic effect of eudesmanolides isolated from flowers of Tanacetum vulgare ssp. siculum.
- PubMed: Safety and efficacy of Setarud (IMOD TM ) among people living with HIV/AIDS: a review.
- PubMed: In vitro anti HSV-1 and HSV-2 activity of Tanacetum vulgare extracts and isolated compounds: an approach to their mechanisms of action.
- PubMed: Antioxidant principles of Tanacetum vulgare L. aerial parts.
- PubMed: In vitro efficacies of oils, silicas and plant preparations against the poultry red mite Dermanyssus gallinae.
- PubMed: Tanacetum vulgare: antiherpes virus activity of crude extract and the purified compound parthenolide.
- PubMed: Vascular effects of Tanacetum vulgare L. leaf extract: in vitro pharmacological study.
- PubMed: Acute and chronic toxicity of a lyophilised aqueous extract of Tanacetum vulgare leaves in rodents.
- PubMed: Xanthatin and xanthinosin from the burs of Xanthium strumarium L. as potential anticancer agents.
- PubMed: Acaricidal properties of Artemisia absinthium and Tanacetum vulgare (Asteraceae) essential oils obtained by three methods of extraction.
- PubMed: Effect of the chloroform extract of Tanacetum vulgare and one of its active principles, parthenolide, on experimental gastric ulcer in rats.
- PubMed: Floral volatiles ofTanacetum vulgare L. attractive toLobesia botrana den. et schiff. females.
- PubMed: [Isolation of an alkane from an ether extract of the flowering tips of Tanacetum vulgare L. (Compositae)].