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Chamomile is the dried flower heads of :
German : Matricaria recutita Linn.
(Syn. Matricaricaria chamomilla Linn. Chamomilla recutita (Linn.) Rauschert)
(Compositae / Asteraceae).
Roman :
Chamaemelum nobile (Linn.) All. (Syn. Anthemis nobilis Linn.) (Composiate).
The herb is
native to Europe, Northern and Western Asia but now cultivated extensively in
Hungery, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Argentina.
Roman herb is a
strongly fragrant, hairy, half spreading and muchbranched perennial herb with
flower heads about 2.5 cm. diameter, up to about 0.3 m high, native to Southern
and Western Europe, cultivated in England, Belgium and United States.
Blue essential oil
is obtained from expanded flowerheads by steam distillation.
Chemical constituents :
The volatile oil of the chamomile contains sesquiterpene
lactones, flavonoids including apigenin, rutin, luteolin and quercimeritrin
(quercetin-7-D-glucosides) and coumarins.
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Health Food :
German chamomile and to a lesser extent Roman chamomile
crude flowers or extracts are one of the most widely used herbal tea
ingredients, singly or in combination with other ingredients. Used internally
for gastrointestinal spasms and inflammatory disease of the GI tract,
externally for skin disease.
Tinctures and
extracts are used as mild sleep aids, antispasmodics and digestive aids and antioxidant food supplements.
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