A deep dive into chamomile’s amazing medicinal properties. Plus exciting announcements!
Links & resources from this episode
- Channel Zero Network
- Herbalism, PTSD & Traumatic Stress Course
- International Solidarity Movement Podcast
- Mobile Herbal Clinic Calais Crowdfunder
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Transcript
Welcome to the Frontline Herbalism podcast with your host, Nicole Rose from the Solidarity Apothecary.
Nicole Rose:This is your place for all things plants and liberation.
Nicole Rose:Let's get started.
Nicole Rose:Hello everyone.
Nicole Rose:Thanks for tuning back in.
Nicole Rose:I'm really sorry for the delay in getting this podcast out.
Nicole Rose:Classic Nicole fashion things have been quite kind of intense and busy.
Nicole Rose:I was away for 10 days seeing one of my partners and have been working my ass off from morning till night on this Herbalism, PTSD and Traumatic Stress Course.
Nicole Rose:But I'm gonna talk about.
Nicole Rose:And yeah, just doing all the things and I'd learned my microphone to Comrades working on the International Solidarity Movement podcast, which I'm really happy to say has now been launched.
Nicole Rose:Can find it on all the main places like Spotify and on the ISM website, and it's kind of The interviews that we've recorded while I was in Palestine for three weeks in December.
Nicole Rose:Yeah, a lot of, a lot of work has gone into it, and I really hope that people listening to it are encouraged to go to Palestine and support ISM more broadly.
Nicole Rose:Unfortunately, since I left Palestine, things have yeah, escalated pretty hard there.
Nicole Rose:, I'm not gonna talk about it all without a content warning.
Nicole Rose:I'm sure people can read the news or see things on social media, but it's been really, really heavy.
Nicole Rose:Yeah, some of the people that we interviewed have kind of had like an escalation in hostility towards them in terms of settler violence and the army, , police attention, things like this.
Nicole Rose:So, , yeah, please check it out.
Nicole Rose:I'll put the link in the show notes.
Nicole Rose:, please leave a review for it, share it on your networks, et cetera, et cetera.
Nicole Rose:The other exciting announcement is that da la da.
Nicole Rose:I'm now an official member of the Channel Zero Network, so this is like an English-based radio kind of podcast network run by radical media makers.
Nicole Rose:I'm just gonna read you the about blurb from the website.
Nicole Rose:Okay, so we are here to present anarchist analysis and context to deepen people's understanding of the situation and broaden the struggle.
Nicole Rose:We share stories from the front lines, lessons from history and battle tested ideas to spread revolutionary practices.
Nicole Rose:During these days of late capitalism and rising nationalism.
Nicole Rose:We are constantly bombarded with right wing radio and shallow liberal analysis with the threat of fascism.
Nicole Rose:Everything in this framework falls within, parameters set by the state and offers no way out.
Nicole Rose:We present perspectives that exist outside of the paradigm through interviews, documentaries, panel discussions, and audio zines.
Nicole Rose:Fuck what you heard.
Nicole Rose:This is the resistance.
Nicole Rose:And now this is what I'm really excited about is I get to play a jingle for another show, , on my different episode.
Nicole Rose:Sir, I'm gonna play a jingle now.
Nicole Rose:You will never, ever surrender or compromise.
Nicole Rose:We occupied government buildings.
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Nicole Rose:A podcast where we dig deep into critical issues impacting our communities in the occupied lands, known as the so-called United States, or what many people recognize as Turtle Island.
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Nicole Rose:So take your seat by this fire and may the bridges we burn together light our way,
Nicole Rose:feel that fire so it's a game blazing fire that they can never stop.
Nicole Rose:Find us@indigenousaction.org and with the Channel Zero Network.
Nicole Rose:Like seriously, how cool was that?
Nicole Rose:, so yeah, I'll put the link in the show notes.
Nicole Rose:You can check out all the other podcasts.
Nicole Rose:There's like a whole bunch of them really cool ones.
Nicole Rose:And yeah, it's just like an anarchist crush for me.
Nicole Rose:Like these different projects, like I've been listening to them for a long time and it's been some of the inspiration of why I started this show.
Nicole Rose:So, , yeah, please check them out.
Nicole Rose:And the other big thing that was announced recently is we have launched a crowdfunder for our Mobile Herbal Clinic in Calais.
Nicole Rose:You've heard me mention the project like a few times on the show, but basically we've been unsuccessful for a couple of grants and we lost our main funder.
Nicole Rose:Yeah.
Nicole Rose:And it's just been really difficult.
Nicole Rose:We weren't able to go to Calais in February, like for other reasons other than funding.
Nicole Rose:Like it was like a clinical supervisor availability issue as.
Nicole Rose:But , yeah, it really got me down.
Nicole Rose:I hate not being there.
Nicole Rose:And yeah, I really want us to get out there in March.
Nicole Rose:So yeah, I'm just gonna read a little bit of text from the website so you know what I'm talking about.
Nicole Rose:So, for the last five years, the Mobile Herbal Clinic Calais, which is formally Herbalists without Borders UK-Calais has maintained a presence in Northern France supporting refugees and migrants risking their lives cross the British border.
Nicole Rose:Since October, 2009, we have seen 10,000 people with upper respiratory conditions, skin complaints, digestive issues and more, as well as injuries from police violence.
Nicole Rose:Our medicines are made by a dedicated network of grassroots medicine makers and growers.
Nicole Rose:Together we made and distributed more than 6,000 medicines at the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic, and I actually.
Nicole Rose:, I'm like the, in this like field coordinator role for the trips.
Nicole Rose:So I like crunch our clinical data.
Nicole Rose:So while we're working in the field, we have this like piece of paper on a clipboard and we don't, you know, we don't record anyone's name or age or anything like that.
Nicole Rose:We just put a little dash if it's, you know, an upper respiratory infection or if it's, you know, like an atopic skin thing or if it's like a sprain or if we've referred them and it just helps us
Nicole Rose:For example, if we see, okay, there's like 50 people with scabies, we've got that data to share with other groups working there and you know, can develop responses.
Nicole Rose:So it's a really useful tool and , I type up the numbers like every single trip and yeah, I just like couldn't believe it, like putting everything together since 2019 and realizing it's like 10,000.
Nicole Rose:Yeah, basically like it's really hard crowdfunding, like it's a really hard climate for fundraising in general.
Nicole Rose:Like I know people are broke.
Nicole Rose:I know there's like a cost of living crisis.
Nicole Rose:I know everyone struggles in capitalism, but like even just like five pounds would be amazing.
Nicole Rose:Really appreciate like everyone who's donated so far.
Nicole Rose:Yeah, you can see like much more information on the crowdfunder, but like our main costs are medicine making, basically like, you know, if someone is presenting with kind of like a cold or a cough and it's, you know, it.
Nicole Rose:They haven't had it for like over a week and it's nothing more serious, then we'll give them like a cough syrup.
Nicole Rose:We'll give them an immune tonic, we'll give them a chest rub, maybe we'll give them some salt water depending on their symptoms.
Nicole Rose:And every single one of those medicines is made from like stuff that we've made ourselves, plants that we've grown ourselves, or we've bought them, like from organic suppliers.
Nicole Rose:You know, we have to pay for the packaging, the glycerin, like all of the things.
Nicole Rose:And then we also have like our external medicine station, which is, you know, for wounds and dressings and foot care and like all of that stuff's like super expensive, like dressings and you know, even
Nicole Rose:So, yeah.
Nicole Rose:And then, you know, just the cost of getting to France.
Nicole Rose:Yeah, it's a lot.
Nicole Rose:And.
Nicole Rose:I just, yeah, I really appreciate everyone's donation and, , I don't wanna sound like I'm begging, but I am literally like at that point now where I don't know if we're gonna go much like if, unless we get kind of more support.
Nicole Rose:So yeah, if you could share that around, if you could donate, like, we'd appreciate it so much.
Nicole Rose:All right.
Nicole Rose:Thank you.
Nicole Rose:. Okay.
Nicole Rose:So I think that's it in terms of updates.
Nicole Rose:I'm gonna record like a second show about the herbalism PTSD and traumatic stress course.
Nicole Rose:But for now, this show is all about Chamomile and I think Chamomile is just like the most, like underestimated amazing nervine.
Nicole Rose:So like a nervine is a plant with an affinity for the nervous system.
Nicole Rose:And you know, like chamomile one of the most drunk teas in the whole world and we completely take it for granted.
Nicole Rose:We kind of like.
Nicole Rose:You know, just, I used to being like, oh yeah, I'll have a chamomile tea.
Nicole Rose:Yeah, yeah, it's fine.
Nicole Rose:But actually like, has such an amazing effect on the nervous system.
Nicole Rose:It's really anti-inflammatory.
Nicole Rose:It has loads of amazing qualities for like longer term, , gut healing and gut health.
Nicole Rose:Like just, yeah.
Nicole Rose:Yep.
Nicole Rose:Absolute mega babe when it comes to plants.
Nicole Rose:So please have a listen.
Nicole Rose:It's from my book.
Nicole Rose:And if you didn't know from the Prisoner's herbal book, which is a book that gets sent for free to people inside all around the world, and it was one of the plants that I found in prison.
Nicole Rose:I found the wild chamomile, the pineapple weed in the like cracks of the concrete.
Nicole Rose:And we also were able, fortunately, to get chamomile, like from the prison canteen.
Nicole Rose:So it was definitely like a plant that I worked with a lot and I experimented with a lot, and I think it's like really beautiful and accessible as a hub.
Nicole Rose:So yeah, enjoy the content about chamomile and take care.
Nicole Rose:Speak to you soon.
Nicole Rose:Hello.
Nicole Rose:Okay, so let's talk about Chamomile.
Nicole Rose:So we have Roman Chamomile and German Chamomile, and there's also wild Chamomile, , which is also called pineapple weed.
Nicole Rose:And the plant family is the Asteraceae family, the Daisy family.
Nicole Rose:In terms of identification, German Chamomile is the annual plant that self-seeds and it can grow kind of 10 to 80.
Nicole Rose:High.
Nicole Rose:It has white flowers with a little yellow disc in the middle, surrounded by evenly spaced white floret, and it generally flowers in June and July, but obviously, you know it's shifting with climate change and it smells pleasant and sweet.
Nicole Rose:Roman chamomile, this is the one that's like very low growing.
Nicole Rose:Kind of like six to 10 centimeters in his perennial.
Nicole Rose:, and the flowers are much smaller than the German chamomile.
Nicole Rose:And then wild chamomile, , a low growing herb as well.
Nicole Rose:, hairless with, , leaves deeply and intricately cut into very thin lobes.
Nicole Rose:, the main lobes are divided further into smaller ones, , which then divided again.
Nicole Rose:, and it has a really strong pineapple smell.
Nicole Rose:So the flower headss are, yeah, 30 to 45 millimeters across with yellow centers and no white petals.
Nicole Rose:, and you can see pictures of these in the prisoner's, herbal book, and obviously Googling is search them.
Nicole Rose:But yeah, you can kind of tell the differences I think quite easily between the different chamomiles.
Nicole Rose:Are there species?
Nicole Rose:So there's like a corn chamomile, which has no.
Nicole Rose:And there's also sea Mayweed, , which is found at the sea site.
Nicole Rose:Some of the folk names in English, Maythen, Manzanilla, Whig Plant, ground apple.
Nicole Rose:The Latin name is actually derived from the Greek, uh, khamaelon, meaning earth apple.
Nicole Rose:Okay.
Nicole Rose:Chemical constituents.
Nicole Rose:This is the embarrassing bit.
Nicole Rose:I'm gonna have a bash.
Nicole Rose:Okay.
Nicole Rose:German chamomile, uh, terpenoids.
Nicole Rose:, sesco, turpin, cumins, flavonoids.
Nicole Rose:And I'm just, you know what, I'm just not gonna say some of the long words and other components such as tannins, erythema, acid, choline, polysaccharides, and phytoestrogens.
Nicole Rose:and Roman chamomile also has Terpenoids Coine, which says like amazing blue essential oil flavonoids and other components like acid, Esthers, anthemic acid, fass acids, and choli.
Nicole Rose:All right, food and nutrition.
Nicole Rose:chamomile is used as a flavoring agent in alcohol beverages, Bittons and teas is also been used to flavor desserts and sweets herbalist.
Nicole Rose:Mark Patterson writes that test show that chamomile is commonly high.
Nicole Rose:In fact, magnesium phos.
Nicole Rose:Rib flavin and sodium and very high in niacin.
Nicole Rose:Ecological role.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile is often found on well drained soil on waste ground and around field margins.
Nicole Rose:You can find Chamomile across Europe in Tempera Asia and North Africa, as well as some parts of Australia and Argentina.
Nicole Rose:, and obviously, you know, it's also cultivated much kind of beyond that.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile was used as a stewing hub in the middle Ages to help keep insects away, so they were hung in bundles or placed on the floor and in the furniture.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile is currently grown and imported from Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, France, Greece, Hungary, and Egypt.
Nicole Rose:Okay, cultivation.
Nicole Rose:So medicinal herb growers, Jeff and Melanie Carpenter, say Chamomile likes full sun and well drained sandy alone with good fertility and organic matter.
Nicole Rose:This annual will readily selfs seed.
Nicole Rose:However, selfs seeded beds are often interspersed with weeds that Chamomile will not outcompete, and I've grown Chamomile a bunch.
Nicole Rose:And yeah, it's definitely like such a fuss pot and you kind of have to like have this like real.
Nicole Rose:So I'm totally adlibbing here, but you have to have this like real, like annual approach to it, if that makes sense.
Nicole Rose:Like you're growing a vegetable, like it's not like all the other amazing perennials where you just kind of like stick them in the ground.
Nicole Rose:Maybe you rescue them from some grass now and again, it's like al needs like its own little bird.
Nicole Rose:Lots of sun, like, yeah.
Nicole Rose:Anyway, energetics.
Nicole Rose:So temperature, cooling.
Nicole Rose:Moisture drying tissue, state wind tension and heat excitation, and the taste is aromatic, bitter, and sweet.
Nicole Rose:Herbal actions, Analgesic, anti-allergenic, anti-anaemic, anti-inflammatory, anti parasitic antiseptic antispasmodic.
Nicole Rose:, bactericidal, calming, carminative cholagogue.
Nicole Rose:Digestive, emmenagogue, hepatic hypnotic, immuno stimulant, nerve sedative, ophthalmic.
Nicole Rose:Sudorific and vulnerary.
Nicole Rose:Wow.
Nicole Rose:You know, it's just, that's what I'm talking about.
Nicole Rose:It's a very special herb.
Nicole Rose:Okay.
Nicole Rose:Health challenges supported by Chamomile.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile has a very long history of traditional use in every region.
Nicole Rose:It is found.
Nicole Rose:It was one of the nine sacred herbs of the Anglo-Saxons.
Nicole Rose:Nervous system.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile is a mild to moderate nervous sedative.
Nicole Rose:It can help us switch from a sympathetic to the parasympathetic nervous system state.
Nicole Rose:It will help calm the nervous system and relax the muscles.
Nicole Rose:It can also really help with troubled sleep that is attributed to restlessness, indigestion.
Nicole Rose:It's a bit of a catch-all phrase for a variety of digestive system complaints, including belching, bloating, gas, et cetera, herbalist, Sajah Popham.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile is unique in the way it contains both bitter compounds as well as aromatic volatile oils, which leads to a nice combination of our two primary digestive actions.
Nicole Rose:Thus, we see an increase in gut secretions, local circulation to the digestive organs, and an overall relaxant and antispasmodic effect.
Nicole Rose:Herbalist, David Hoffman writes, because Chamomile is rich in essential oil, it acts on their digestive system promoting proper function.
Nicole Rose:This usually involves soothing the walls of the intestines, easing griping pains, and facilitating the elimination of gas.
Nicole Rose:A cup of hot Chamomile tea is a simple, effective way to relieve indigestion.
Nicole Rose:It calms inflammation such as gastritis and helps prevent.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile can also help with stomach aches, nausea, heartburn, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and constipation.
Nicole Rose:Ulcers, ulcers are sadly all too common in our stress out world.
Nicole Rose:These include stomach ulcers, peptic ulcers, small intestine ulcers, duodenal ulcers, and in their esophagus.
Nicole Rose:They're often caused by the prolonged use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, as well as food allergens, irritating the.
Nicole Rose:Sajah just says Chamomile helps via its vulnerary and inflammation, modulating properties as well as gently helping to support digestion, joint pain, tendonitis, repetitive strain injury, and skin conditions.
Nicole Rose:These can be helped by applying diluted Chamomile essential oil topically.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile has a stunning blue essential oil that is high in Colin and Aine.
Nicole Rose:It can be diluted and used topically for conditions like, , eczema and psoriasis to bring new symptomatic.
Nicole Rose:It can also be used for rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic pain, and fibromyalgia.
Nicole Rose:When I was unwell with Costochondritis, chronic inflammation in the cartilage of the ribs, I would use Chamomile essential oil with coconut oil and rub it all over my ribs as I was going to bed.
Nicole Rose:It helped me fall asleep when I was in a lot of pain and also reduce the inflammation, joint pain, tendonitis, R rsi, and skin inflammation can also be relieved by adding a Chamomile infusion into your bathtub or making and using a compress on the, so,
Nicole Rose:. Gum problems.
Nicole Rose:A mouth rinse of Chamomile tea can help with gingivitis, as well as other gum, inflammations and sores in the mouth.
Nicole Rose:Fungal infections, Chamomile can help internal and topical fungal infections.
Nicole Rose:Topical applications, including pots and baths, can help with skin rashes and inflammation, including those from a fungus.
Nicole Rose:I once had an acute fungal infection in my toenail while on a speaking tour that affected my ability to walk.
Nicole Rose:The people where I was staying didn't have many herbs, but they did have camel tea bags, so I made a very strong infusion with lots of bags and gave myself an impromptu foot bath.
Nicole Rose:I also wrapped the nail with the garlic and oil, and thankfully it healed up quite fast.
Nicole Rose:My friends were surprised that my embarrassing limp went.
Nicole Rose:, that was at this, uh, tattoo circus in Switzerland, and it was just like so ridiculous.
Nicole Rose:Like I literal, honestly, I swear down, like I couldn't walk on.
Nicole Rose:It was so inflamed.
Nicole Rose:And, , the day before I, I went there, like, we had a demo in London for my friend Kevin in prison and , it was like the first time one of, I think it was maybe the first time I was meeting his parents.
Nicole Rose:I can't remember.
Nicole Rose:It was like years ago.
Nicole Rose:Yeah, it's kind of like hopped there, like just like hobbled.
Nicole Rose:With this like terrible toe and like his family was looking at me like, who is this girl?
Nicole Rose:She's so weird.
Nicole Rose:, but yeah, managed to heal it with, uh, chamomile.
Nicole Rose:Okay.
Nicole Rose:Pink eye, uh, Sr.
Nicole Rose:Writes how Chamomile can be useful for pink eye and conjunctivitis.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile is very helpful by either applying a teabag topically on the eye, only used once by the way, meaning one tea bag for each eye.
Nicole Rose:Or making a tea with a bag or a loose tea, straining it super well and being used as an eye wash for conjunctivitis.
Nicole Rose:The tea can be applied by depending a cotton ball into tepid cool tea, and applying it from what?
Nicole Rose:By wiping from the inner eye to the outer eye in one sweep.
Nicole Rose:When this is done, make sure to discard the cotton ball after each eye and be sure to wash hands in between.
Nicole Rose:Pre-menstrual tension chamomile can be a really great ally for people who menstruate, who would like some relief from nervousness, tension, irritability, and all the other feelings that can be experienced in that time before coming.
Nicole Rose:It can help calm folks down, but can also support by dispersing stagnation and draining fluids, which will help ease.
Nicole Rose:Menstrual pain, can also act as an ague to help bring on any bleeding.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile can help calm menstrual cramps by its pain, killing anti-inflammatory, and antispasmodic actions, upper respiratory tract infections and allergies.
Nicole Rose:Conditions such as bronchitis, catarrh, asthma and spasmodic coughing can all be helped by Chamomile.
Nicole Rose:These conditions are best helped with steam inhaled through the nose and mouth.
Nicole Rose:Sajah says the mucus membranes of the mouth, sinus, throat, and lungs, all benefit from the oils within Chamomile.
Nicole Rose:Fighting off invading pathogens and helping to soothe the tissue and heal the mucosa and reducing inflammation can help calm down allergic reactions, and it has been used as an old treatment for hay.
Nicole Rose:Hemorrhoids.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile can be added to a sits bath to help cool down, itchy, irritated hemorrhoids, children's complaints.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile is super safe for children, which makes it a very well used remedy for fevers.
Nicole Rose:It can be combined with peppermint and lemon balm.
Nicole Rose:It's also good for colic and diarrhea.
Nicole Rose:Overall.
Nicole Rose:It can just help an irritable child chill out due to its action on the nervous.
Nicole Rose:For teething, a traditional remedy is soaking a cloth in the tea or infusion, letting it cool, and then applying it to the sore area.
Nicole Rose:A cloth can also be soaked and then put in the freezer to become a feasible chew that the baby can chew on for relief.
Nicole Rose:chamomile has also been made into all sorts of gels for teething kids, as well as creams and ointments for nappy rash.
Nicole Rose:Be aware that children will need less than adults.
Nicole Rose:Haircare for folks with blonde or golden hair.
Nicole Rose:chamomile has been used as a hair wash to keep hair light, seasonal allergies.
Nicole Rose:Chamomile can also be extremely useful for hay fever sufferers, especially if mixed with nettle and plantain that are detailed in this book.
Nicole Rose:Cautions.
Nicole Rose:Do not take during pregnancy.
Nicole Rose:Be careful using and therapeutic doses in combination with orthodox anticoagulants.
Nicole Rose:Sajah says caution with central nervous system depressants such as opiates, alcohol, benzodiazepines, tricyclic antidepressants, Anas anesthetics or anti-epileptic.
Nicole Rose:Avoid with warfarin and related anticoagulant medications.
Nicole Rose:Avoid if allergic or sensitive to the Asteraceae family plants.
Nicole Rose:So that's the Daisy family.
Nicole Rose:Okay.
Nicole Rose:How to practically use chamomile while in prison where you might find chamomile.
Nicole Rose:German chamomile does grow in the world, but it is increasingly hard to find and I would be very surprised to find it in prison unless it was somehow introduced into a prison garden intentionally.
Nicole Rose:When I was inside Roman chamomile was planted in one of the gardens and German chamomile was planted in a new mother and baby unit garden, which is where I harvested them from.
Nicole Rose:However, wild Chamomile pineapple weed is often the most abundant, which is why I included it in this profile.
Nicole Rose:You can find it growing on gravel and in paths.
Nicole Rose:However, this tenacious weed often comes up in the most unexpected places.
Nicole Rose:Stress.
Nicole Rose:Drink the tea whenever you feel tense and stressed.
Nicole Rose:It is particularly good if you're trying to wind down after a particularly hard day.
Nicole Rose:I used to drink it after emotional visit.
Nicole Rose:Insomnia and poor sleep.
Nicole Rose:Try drinking the tea before you go to bed.
Nicole Rose:Better to have a stronger smaller cup than to be half the night needing the loo.
Nicole Rose:Leave for at least 30 minutes for a strong brew, indigestion, drink a cup of Chamomile tea.
Nicole Rose:Joint pain, and inflammation.
Nicole Rose:Now sadly, you're not gonna be able to access the concentrated essential oil in prison.
Nicole Rose:However, drinking the tea will still help.
Nicole Rose:If you only have access to the canteen brought tea bags, then you can still place the warm tea bags on sore joints for.
Nicole Rose:. You can also soak fabric in the strong tea and wraparound sore areas.
Nicole Rose:If you have access to the plants, then simply make a strong infusion and do the same gum inflammation and mouth sores.
Nicole Rose:Make a cup of Chamomile tea and then swish it in your mouth and rinse skin rashes and inflammation.
Nicole Rose:Make a super strong infusion and add it to a warm bath if possible.
Nicole Rose:If you do not have access to a bath, then you can soak some material in the infusion and wrap it around the affected area toenail infection.
Nicole Rose:Either do a foot bath in a strong infusion of Chamomile, or if this is not possible.
Nicole Rose:You can also place a warm teabag directly on the affected toe conjunctivitis or pink eye.
Nicole Rose:Place a warm not hot teabag over each eye and leave on for at least 10 minutes.
Nicole Rose:Make sure to throw away the teabags afterwards to not spread infection.
Nicole Rose:Can also make an eye wash for some Chamomile tea that has cooled down.
Nicole Rose:If you have access to cotton wool, then dipping it in the cool tea, wiping your eye from the inside to the outer eye can also.
Nicole Rose:Premenstrual tension and period pains.
Nicole Rose:Drink Chamomile tea, upper, or respiratory infections such as sore throat or block sinuses.
Nicole Rose:Make a strong infusion of Chamomile ideally in a bowl and place your face over it with a towel over your head so that you can inhale the steam allergies, drink the tea and use a strong tea as an eye bath for hay fever or other allergic inflammation.
Nicole Rose:Hemorrhoids, add Chamomile to a sits bath.
Nicole Rose:All right.
Nicole Rose:That is all for Chamomile this week and the next time we talk about a plant, it's gonna be self-heal.
Nicole Rose:I'm very excited about.
Nicole Rose:Okay.
Nicole Rose:I hope you're good.
Nicole Rose:Take care.
Nicole Rose:Thanks for listen.
Nicole Rose:Thanks so much for listening to the Frontline Herbalism podcast.