CHAMOMILE FLOWER REMEDY

In the language of flowers, chamomile is a symbol of energy and patience in adversity, because of its great ability to restore equilibrium and support the nervous system.  Chamomile was traditionally used in love potions and at weddings, and to wash the face and hair to attract the beloved.  Our ancestors also respected it as a grave plant, to ease the passage of the dead into the world to come

Chamomile has been best known as a calmative.  As a nervine chamomile is safe and effective, gentle to the stomach, it can also be used to relieve indigestion.

Chamomile has a powerful soothing and sedative effect which is harmless.

Its strong antiseptic properties make it an invaluable lotion, the flowers are good for resolving toothache and earache.  The herb itself is and ingredient in herb beers.  It has extensive healing properties.

Emotional Issues:

 It is Beneficial to those people are fussy, fretful, changeable, easily get upset, irritable by nature, unable to release emotional tension, whining, never satisfied.  Impatient, rude and have an anger.

Being known as ‘the remedy of the sun’ Chamomile inserts the energy of the sun into those who feel dull, angry and have emotional problems.

For depression, hyperactivity, poor concentration and learning problems.

For those who get easily worked up and have difficulty calming down again.

For nervousness, emotional instability and insomnia.

For highly strung, over-responsible, churned up states.

For hyperactive children prone to mood changes and to extreme emotional reaction. A Chamomile Essence can be added to the bath to calm irritable or hyper active children.

For inner harmony and calm.

Physical Issues:  For emotional tensions mainly in the stomach area, anxiety and fear, gives a deep relaxation.

Tension accumulates around the solar plexus leading to digestive problems and a sluggish gall bladder.  It is a sedative and a calming medicine for the stomach.

For hysteria, nightmares, convulsions, delirium, tremors of alcoholics, melancholy and a whole range of nervous afflictions, especially of women.

For muscle pain and tension throughout the body.

For restless or hyperactive children and can be given in a bottle or on a teaspoon to small babies to relieve pain.

For emotionally based stomach problems, particularly in children.

For babies who may be teething.

Brings counsel to children who are “sunshine and showers” and swallow their hurt, feeling misunderstood.

Helps those who are sensitive to pain, unable to deal with their discomfort, being impatient, rude or angry when ill.  Often the reaction seems disproportionate to the amount of pain being felt.  Even slight pain may cause sweats and fainting in women and children.   Also good for those who cry in their sleep.  Relaxes with good sleep.

Essence is used to cure diarrhea in children and it is used with purgatives to prevent griping, and as a tonic it helps dropsy.

Good for colonic, gastritis, indigestion, peptic ulcers, diarrhea.  PMS, period pains, irritable bladder, fluid retention, cystitis, eczema, boil, skin infections, allergies such as pollen and house dust.  Headache, migraine, children’s fevers, teething, earaches.

Menopause symptoms, muscular pain, inflamed joints, sprains, burns.  Tension, anxiety, depression, over-excitement, restlessness, insomnia, irritability.

Relaxes and soothes muscles, colic (particularly in babies), abdominal pain, wind and distention, treat both diarrhea and constipation.

Heartburn and acidity, anti inflammatory, peptic ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome.  Varicose ulcer on the legs.  Cold, sore throats, coughs, gastro-enteritis, bronchial tubes, asthma, sinusitis, douche for vaginal infections.  Liver tonic, rashes, cuts, chilblains, insect’s bites.  Swelling on the face due to abscess or injury.

Also good for children’s stomach complaints, which are often emotionally based.

Externally it can be applied alone or with other herbs as a poultice to relieve pain, swelling, inflammation and neuralgia.

It helps to release tension and resolve inner conflict, enabling inner quiet and encouraging serenity, emotional balance and a sunny disposition.

Brings emotional objectivity; clears stress and unprocessed emotions out of the solar plexus and nervous system.

IT STIMUATES SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA 

Reference:

Book Encyclopedia of Flower Remedies by Clare K. Harvey

Book Flowers that Heal by Drs.Malti Khaitan