Ukhuvan - chamomile

Essence.
Chamomile comes in white and light red, but white chamomile is stronger; it has thin stems on which sit flowers with white petals, similar to horehound flowers and having a pungent smell and taste.

Nature.
Hot in the third degree, dry in the second.

 Actions and properties.
This medicine is warming, promotes ripening and opens blockages. Red chamomile binds and prevents all kinds of outflows, and at the same time dissolves, but its astringent and drying properties are stronger. She's sweating. Its oil, if rubbed with it, is also a diaphoretic; it opens the mouths of blood vessels, dissolves and liquefies.

Choice.
The best chamomile is young and green.

Tumors and acne.
Chamomile dissolves hot tumors in the stomach and blood clotted in the stomach and helps against cold tumors.

Wounds and ulcers.
Chamomile is useful for fistulas, loosens scabs, clears malignant ulcers, and is beneficial for wounded muscles and nerves.

Tools with joints.
Chamomile helps with “nerve contraction” if you soak a woolen rag in its decoction and apply it to the nerve.

Organs of the head.
Chamomile is a sleep aid; if you smell it fresh, it also puts you to sleep. Chamomile oil is useful for ear pain.

Respiratory and chest organs.
Chamomile, when drunk dry in shikanjubin and with salt, like dodder, for example, helps with asthma.

Nutritional organs.
Chamomile is harmful to the mouth of the stomach, although it dissolves and dries up what leaks into the stomach and dissolves the blood that has thickened there.

Eruption organs.
Chamomile, if drunk with water sweetened with honey, strongly drives urine and dissolves blood clotted in the bladder, and also crushes stones. If chamomile is drunk together with flowers or inflorescences in wine, then it strongly drives out menstruation and urine. Chamomile oil, if administered in the form of suppositories, also strongly promotes urine and menstruation. The introduction of chamomile oil in the form of suppositories also helps to dissolve hardening in the uterus and opens the uterus. Dry chamomile is drunk in sikand-zhubina, like dodder. It removes black bile and mucus and helps against hot swellings in the anus. Chamomile and this oil make the kidney cones open. Chamomile also helps with dropsy of the testicle, after it is opened, it is beneficial for kulanja, pain in the bladder and hardening of the spleen.