Such difficult camomile

The scientific name of a camomile – a matrikariya hamomillya, comes from the word "mater" — mother. It is explained by the fact that a camomile since ancient times treated small children.

But the camomile extends the care not only to children. It helps to keep health and beauty to women.

The specific name of a camomile comes from two Greek words - the words "hama" — low, and "меллон" — apple which speak about the low growth of a plant and aroma, reminding a smell of apples.

Camomile pharmaceutical - Matricaria chamomilla - an annual grassy plant from family of a thistle family. At a camomile pharmaceutical direct a silnovetvisty, naked stalk to the 40-45th. in height. The green plumose cut threadlike leaves.

Flower baskets convex with an empty receptacle. On this sign the officinal camomile is distinguished from other species of camomiles. Flowers of a camomile exhale pleasant aroma. Tsvyotyot a camomile from May to August.

Seeds begin to ripen since June. Camomile fruits small semyanka up to 2 mm in length.

In a wild look the camomile meets in Siberia, in the foothills and forest-steppe zones of Altai, Kuznetsk Alatau, the Baltics, is rare in Transbaikalia and Central Asia. The run wild pharmaceutical camomile meets in the steppe, on waste grounds, on glades, deposits, on kitchen gardens, in gardens, near dwellings and on roadsides of roads.

The camomile is cultivated in many countries of the world, in Russia it is also grown up on plantations. Many summer residents grow up it on the personal plots.

As the herb a camomile pharmaceutical was highly appreciated by doctors of Ancient Greece and Rome. In the medicinal and cosmetic purposes use flower baskets of a camomile, without stalks which collect at the beginning of blossoming when regional reed flowers in baskets are located horizontally.

- Hippocrates and Dioskorid applied a camomile pharmaceutical to treatment from a headache as light sedative, at diseases of a liver, kidneys, a bladder.

- Flower baskets of a camomile contain: vitamin C, carotene, nicotinic acid, bitterness, slime, sugar, gum, coumarins, glycoside, flavonoids, essential oil.

- Medicines from a camomile have disinfecting, anti-inflammatory, anesthetizing, bile-expelling, sudorific, enveloping and emollient properties.

- It is applied at violations of work of digestive tract, spasms, a meteorizm, inflammatory processes.

- Medicines from a camomile expand brain vessels, strengthen and speed up breath, increase number of warm reductions.

- The camomile has also light laxative property.

- It is a part of the gastric, calming, carminative, emollient and other collecting.

- Camomile decoctions rinse a throat, wash out wounds and ulcers.

- Camomile decoction
To fill in 1 tablespoon of dry flowers 1 incomplete (to a border) a glass of the boiling water, to insist 20-30 minutes, to filter. To accept ¼ glasses 3 times a day. The same broth is used for the cosmetic purposes.

Unfortunately, in the Middle Ages the camomile lost the former popularity, and interest in it renewed only at the beginning of the 20th century. However in the cosmetic purposes the camomile was used with success still by our great-great-grandmothers.

- For giving to skin of velvet and a golden shade
To fill in 1 tablespoon of dry raw materials with 2 glasses of boiled water, to cover with a gauze and to allow to cool down, filter and wash in the morning and in the evening. The more often, the effect is more.

- The toning cubes for smoothing of wrinkles
To fill in 2 tablespoons of dry baskets of a camomile with 1 glass of boiled water, to insist 20 minutes, to filter, cool, freeze. To wipe with cubes a face, a neck, a decollete after washing, after a bathtub and a shower.

- For the withering oily skin
To add 1 teaspoon of vodka to 1 glass of camomile infusion, to impregnate a gauze and to put on a face for 10 minutes. To wash water of room temperature.

This structure it is possible to remove in the evening a make-up. But to watch that liquid did not get into eyes.

- A steam bath for clarification of the person from camomile infusion
To fill in 2 tablespoons of inflorescences of a camomile with 1 liter of abrupt boiled water, to allow to cool down, bend a little over a bowl for 5-7 minutes, at dry skin for 3 minutes, having taken cover from above a towel. After a steam bath to wash cool water.

- Bathtubs for moistening and rejuvenation of skin
To fill in 4 tablespoons of a dry camomile with 1 liter of boiled water, to draw half an hour, to filter, pour out in a bathtub the water temperature which +37 - + 38C. To take a bath of 15 minutes. After a bathtub not to be wiped, allow to dry to moisture in the natural way.

- If after washing of the head for 2-3 months to rinse hair camomile broth they will gain gloss and a golden shade.