Also used to flavour soups, salads and as a tea for chest ailments. Formulate as poultice for bruises. Tansy tea was a frequent household medicine still used today. For swelling, nothing beats 20 minutes of a cold compress. Apply cold compress for 10-20 minutes at a time, several times a day.
Nothing beats the relieving and healing power of cold water for burns.
Soak or pour cold water over the burn until the sting disappears. Cover with sterile non-adherent dressing. The gel from an aloe vera plant rubbed onto the burn can expedite the healing process also. Seasons change and furniture comes and goes, but the familiar tick-tock of the grandfather clock remains. Grandfather clocks date back to the late 18th and early 19th century long case clocks or standing clocks, as they were called.