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pharmaceutical camomile is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Compositae, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Chamomilla officinalis L. As for the name of the chamomile family itself, in Latin it will be: Asteraceae Dumort. (Compositae Giseke).
Description of chamomile pharmacy
Pharmacy chamomile is an annual fragrant herb, the height of which can reach thirty centimeters. The stems of this plant are branched, straight and extending from the rhizome itself. Chamomile leaves will be double-cut and endowed with filamentous lobes. Baskets of this plant are rather large in size, they are solitary and endowed with tubular bisexual flowers of yellow color, as well as white ligulate flowers. The chamomile fruit is an achene not endowed with a tuft.
The flowering of this plant occurs in the period from June to the month of August. Under natural conditions, chamomile is found in the south and west of the former Soviet Union. It is worth noting that now this plant has become quite rare and it is most often grown for medical purposes. As a weed, this plant will grow at the edges of forests, in meadows, fields and along roads.
Description of the medicinal properties of chamomile
Pharmacy chamomile is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while it is recommended to use flower baskets of this plant for medicinal purposes. The presence of such valuable healing properties is recommended to be explained by the content of choline, bitterness, essential oil, apigenin, tannins, organic acids, salicylic acid, umbelliferone and various trace elements in the flower baskets of this plant.
It should be noted that chamomile will be used in combination with valerian roots, marshmallow roots, wormwood herb, yarrow and mint leaves. Medicine uses the medicinal raw materials of this plant for the preparation of herbal preparations, including infusion, tea and decoction, as well as for the preparation of special preparations and for the production of essential oil. The composition of chamomile essential oil will contain azulene, which has the ability to provide antiallergic effect. Chamomile is endowed with astringent, carminative, anticonvulsant, sedative and disinfecting effects.
It is noteworthy that chamomile will improve appetite and help normalize digestion. By taking an infusion created on the basis of this plant, it is quite permissible to treat blepharitis: such a healing agent should be taken in the morning and in the evening.
In France, an infusion prepared on the basis of chamomile is indicated for use in case of ill health and colds, digestive disorders, oversaturation of tobacco and coffee, and also with physical overload.
For cleansing emulsion enemas, you will need to take one tablespoon of vegetable oil, as well as a decoction prepared on the basis of chamomile pharmacy at the rate of six grams per one glass. Such enemas are recommended for use with paraproctitis and with inflammation of hemorrhoids. As for therapeutic microclysters, they will require about thirty to fifty milliliters of a warm decoction of this plant or an infusion based on yarrow, calendula and chamomile. Such therapeutic microclysters are indicated for use in inflammation of hemorrhoids, flatulence, colitis, paraproctitis and proctitis. It is noteworthy that the decoctions should be taken warm, which will help to achieve the most effective result.
