Chamomile
Gender: Masculine
Planet: Sun
Element: Water
Chakra Colour: Violet
Medicinal Uses: German chamomile is most often used in healing in the US, but Roman chamomile works as well. It relaxes the body and mind and promotes a good night’s sleep. It’s safe enough to use for children. Also for teething stress and colic. For nerves and insomnia, drink warm at bedtime. Can mix with warm milk and honey.
It is also a gentle muscle relaxant, anti-spasmodic and anti-inflammatory. Especially useful for menstrual cramps. It aids in digestion and soothes gastric complaints and colitis including irritable bowel problems. It also safely relieves morning sickness and restlessness that comes with pregnancy. For stomach problems, including gastritis, colitis and morning sickness, drink a cup of tea an empty stomach first thing in the morning hot or cold.
When used topically, it speeds the healing of cuts, scrapes, blisters and burns. It is also helpful for rashes, eczema and other skin inflammation. Add it to a salve, rinse the affected area with chamomile tea, or add a few drops of essential oil to bathwater. Do not use ointments for burns, use compresses or light lotions instead. Oils hold in body heat and don’t let the burns heal. A tea bag makes a good compress. Chill or use warm. Eye inflammations can be treated by placing a cool compress soaked in a tea over the eyes.
A mouthwash helps keep gums healthy and soothes mouth inflammations.
Magical Uses: It is used in spells for money, peace, love, tranquility and purification.
An infusion used to wash thresholds (doors and windows) will help keep unwanted energies passing through. Sprinkle powdered flowers around yourself or home to remove spells cast against you and to prevent fires and lightning strikes.
Use it in a ritual bath before performing spells for any of these purposes. Just a simple bath while visualizing will increase your attractiveness to the opposite sex. Also, use it in a bath as part of a spell to release a loved one, or to release feelings of pain, loss or anger.
Washing your hands in water made with this herb before gambling will increase your luck.
Add to sachets for luck or money. Or place pressed flowers in your wallet to attract money to it. Use in meditation incense.
Other Names: Ground Apple, Asteraceae (daisy), (German) Wild Chamomile, Scented Mayweed, Hungarian Chamomile, (Roman) Garden Chamomile, Ground Chamomile, Low Chamomile, Whig Plant, English Chamomile
Contraindications: Do not use if you are taking the following estrogens, sedative medications and anticoagulants.
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