Habitat & Description: Zone 4-9, Tansy is a flowering herbaceous plant with finely divided compound leaves and yellow, button-like flowers. It has a stout, somewhat reddish, erect stem, usually smooth, 50–150 cm (20–59 in) tall, and branching near the top.
Parts Used: whole plant, oils (warning: Tansy oil is highly toxic and can cause death from as little as 10 drops if consumed internally. Never use it in cooking or for internal consumption!)
Culinary Uses: leaves are used, Cakes, custards and puddings
Tansy Pudding
Ingredients
5 ounces of grated bread
1 pint of milk
5 eggs
a little nutmeg
juice of tansy and spinach, to your taste
1/4 pound of butter
some sugar
a little brandy
Directions
Put it in a saucepan, and keep it stirring on a gentle fire till thick.
Then put it in a dish and bake it; when baked, turn it out, and dust sugar on it.
Source: The Lady's Own Cookery Book (1844).
Medicinal Uses: enema for round & thread worms in children, topical crèmes for scabies, lice and fleas.
Magickal Uses: Tansy’s have correspondence with health and longevity. Tansy’s planetary ruler is Venus, its magickal gender is female, elemental rule is water.
It is not recommended to eat too many tansys at once because it could be unsafe if eaten in large quantities and it is also unsafe for pregnant women to ingest as it could end up being aborted.
Tansy has a strong aromatic warming herb.
Ants do not like Tansy.
Tansy expels intestinal parasites.
TANSY OIL IS HIGHLY TOXIC BOTH INTERNALLY AND EXTENALLY.
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