Blue+Tansy

= = = Essential Oil = **Appearance:** A mobile Deep cobalt blue fluid with a very intense sweet-green-fruity scent with mild fresh-camphoraceous topnotes **Production areas:** Morocco **Extraction:** Steam distillation of the fresh flowering herb **1 kg. Oil yield from:** 300-400 kg. of the fresh herb (low)
 * Botanical Source: **Tanacetum annuum (Asteraceae/Compositae - daisy family)

Therapeutic nature
**Safety status:** Non-toxic, slight non-irritant, non-sensitizing **Fragrance category:** middle tone with sweet, green notes **Tropism:** Neuroendocrine, respiratory, vascular, epidermal systems Fourth and Fifth chakras **Essential Quality:** Calming, harmonizing, cooling

Psychological functions
**Calms and Relaxes:** --Tension, irritability, suppressed anger, resentment, jealousy --Anxiety, depression with anxiety **Harmonizes and Nurtures:** --Acute emotions, including anger, fear, overjoy, grief <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">--Shock, trauma of any kind

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Physiological functions

 * Nervous sedative/relaxant, analgesic**: Tense and hyperactive conditions with irritability, agitation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Hypotensive: ** High blood pressure
 * Antiallergenic, Antihistamine, anti-inflammatory:** Immediate (type 1) allergies (including asthma, rhinitis, sinusitis, otitis, pruretic atopic dermatitis, uticaria); all inflammation (all types)
 * Bronchodilator**: All asthmatic conditions, emphysema
 * Analgesic**: neuritis, sciatica, fibromyalgia, rheumatism, arthritis
 * Venous restorative:** varicosities
 * Antidiabetic:** diabetes
 * Antileukemic, thymus stimulant?:** Leukemia
 * Hormonal**


 * Caution:** Avoid with estrogen dependent cancers because of it's unknown hormonal action

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Topical functions
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">**Skin care:** sensitive skin type <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">**Anti-inflammatory, antipruretic:** inflamed, itchy or painful skin conditions, atopic dermatitis, wet or dry eczema, erythema, couperose, sprains and strains

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Chinese Medicine Functions and Indications
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">**Qualities:** Sweet, green <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">**Temperature:** Cool <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">**Meridian tropism:** Liver, Heart, Lung <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">**Movement:** Neutral <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">**Essential functions:** To regulate the Qi and release constraint

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">--Liver Qi stagnation with mind disharmony, with mood swings, irritability, anger <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">--Heart Qi stagnation with mind disharmony, with nervousness, anxiety, worry, insomnia <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">--Liver Qi stagnation with muscle and joint aches, nerve pains
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">1) Spreads Liver and heart Qi, releases contraint and harmonizes the mind **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">--Liver Yin deficiency with mind agitation, with moodiness, frustration, irritability, agitated depression, anger <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">--Heart Yin deficiency with mind agitation, mental restlessness, anxiety, worry
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">2) Nourishes Liver and Heart Yin, Calms the mind **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">--Lung Qi accumulation with wheezing, cough, chest distention or pain
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">3) Descends Lung Qi and stops wheezing **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">--Wind-damp-heat in the skin with red, itchy, painful eruptions <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">--Wind-damp-heat in the meridians with red, swollen, painful joints, rheumatic pains
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">4) Dispels wind-damp-heat from the skin and channels, and relieves pain **