FUN FACTS

BN: Matricaria chamomilla. AKA  Baboonig, Babuna, Babuna camornile, Babunj, German chamomile, Hungarian chamomile, Roman chamomile, English chamomile, Camomilla, Flos chamomile, Single chamomile, sweet false chamomile, pinheads, and scented mayweed¹, 洋甘菊, 黄春菊(Huáng chūnjú). Chamomile tea can lighten hair.  It is the national flower of Russia.  There's a chamomile lawn at Buckingham Palace. It's a mild tranquilizer.

CONSTITUENTS

flavonoids, mucilage, phenyl carboxylic acids, amino acids, and choline, essential oil, coumarins, methoxylated flavone aglyca, phytosterols.  Essential Oils contains chamazulene, cis-β-farnesene, eucalyptol, coumarin, galaxolide, and camphor.³  Apigenin, quercetin and luteolin are the major flavonoids that produces the anti-inflammatory effects.⁴

USES/BENEFITS

(Disclaimer) Alleviates insomnia, anxiety, sore throat, cough, cold, flu, fever, menstrual cramps, inflammation pain, stress, and skin rashes.  Lowers blood sugar.  Helps with nausea and indigestion.  Anti-inflammatory, anticoagulant, carminative, sedative, emmenagogue, laxative, antispasmodic, anodyne, and diaphoretic.  Rheumatoid Arthritis.

CAUTION

Chamomile may interact with anticoagulant (Warfarin), antiplatelet, and sedative drugs (ie benzodiazepine and cytochrome P-450 enzymes)³.  In vitro, chamomile extracts inhibits the activities of major human drug metabolizing enzymes and results in the grapefruit effect.  Consult your physician before ingesting highly concentrated tea.  It also stimulates menstruation, therefore women who are pregnant or trying to get pregnant should consult their doctors before using this herb.