💊 CHAMOMILE: Benefits and Harms. What You Need to Know!
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Chamomile: Beneficial Properties and Contraindications.
The healing properties of chamomile have long been known. The ancient Greek physicians Hippocrates (5th-4th centuries BC) and Dioscorides (1st century) recommended it for relieving pain and cramps. In the 1st century, Pliny the Elder, noting that chamomile was highly valued by the god of healing, Asclepius, wrote that all parts of the plant can be used as an antidote for snake bites, a decoction as a diuretic, for liver disease, excessive bile secretion, and eye diseases, and the chewed plant can be used to treat ulcers. The ancient physician Galen (2nd-3rd centuries) famously said that "chamomile is not far from the rose in its gentleness of action." Avicenna (10th-11th centuries) claimed that chamomile is "the most useful remedy for exhaustion, for its warmth resembles that of an animal."
In modern scientific medicine, infusions and decoctions of chamomile flower heads and its essential oil are used. Chamomile flowers are used internally and externally in stomachic, diaphoretic, and emollient infusions.
An infusion of chamomile flower heads has anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, antiseptic, mild astringent, analgesic, sedative, anticonvulsant, diaphoretic, and choleretic properties.
The aerial parts, when used in a complex infusion, have demonstrated radioprotective properties in experiments: during irradiation, they promote active compensation in the early stages of radiation sickness, while simultaneously exerting a gastroprotective effect. It exhibits cytostatic properties in human lymphoblastoid cell culture (Burkitt's lymphoma).
Matricaria chamomile is prescribed internally as a diaphoretic, carminative, and antispasmodic for menstrual disorders, intestinal spasms, flatulence, diarrhea, gastritis, and colitis. Externally, it is used for gargling, enemas, and baths, as a gargle, and as an emollient and anti-inflammatory agent in the form of poultices made from steamed chamomile and black elder flowers. Chamomile infusion is also used to wash festering wounds and as an eyewash. Chamazulene and its synthetic analogs are used to treat bronchial asthma, rheumatism, allergic gastritis and colitis, eczema, and X-ray burns. Chamazulene enhances regenerative processes and reduces allergic reactions, and has anesthetic properties. It was noted (1966) that chamomile infusion was widely used at the Donetsk Medical Institute clinic for intestinal lavage (so-called siphon enemas) in the treatment of chronic (ulcerative) colitis, which was often resistant to other treatments.
Chamomile, in combination with other plants, is also used for prostate adenoma, chronic glomerulonephritis, chronic prostatitis, and cervical cystitis. The benefits and harms of herbal chamomile tea have been known for a long time. Our ancestors knew from experience that this lovely flower is not only suitable for bouquets; it is a medicinal plant that is effective against insomnia and stomach pain, and can even be drunk by small children.
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