CHAMOMILLA. 149 
GroGRAPHIvAL DisrripuTion.—Most parts of Europe. 
Locatitires.—Cornfields, waste grounds, and by the road- 
side. 
Parts USED IN MEDICINE, AND Mopg or PREPARATION.— 
The Whole Plant, gathered when in flower. The mother tinc- 
ture is obtained by expressing the juice of the whole plant, 
gathered fresh, and mixing it with twenty parts of alcohol. 
The attenuations are prepared in the same manner as given 
under Aconite. 
Mepicat Usss (Hommopatuic).—Hahnemann’s observations : 
“This has been extensively used as a family medicine in 
complaints of all kinds, chiefly those that develope themselves 
rapidly. But physicians have held it too much in contempt, 
‘aot considering it as a medicine, but only a popular remedy, 
and allowing their patients to use it, in conjunction with their 
prescriptions, in large handfuls, for infusions, tea, etc., as 
external applications; while, at the same time, they were 
giving internal medicines, as if it were always a safe and salu- 
tary thing, never injurious, or at least quite unimportant. Also 
they have occasionally substituted for it Anthemis nobilis, the 
Roman Chamomilla, not considering that it is quite a different 
species, possessing different properties. 
“ Thus we may see how far physicians have been blinded 
with regard to a plant belonging to a class of powerful 
medicines, when it was their duty to acquaint themselves 
thoroughly with its properties; not only that they might them- 
selves make a wise and proper use of it, but put a stop to the 
general abuse, pointing out when good effects might be ex- 
pected from it, and, on the other hand, when it should be 
avoided. 
“ But physicians have hitherto not fulfilled this duty ; they 
have rather rivalled the public in prescribing or permitting the 
use of this powerful remedy, in all cases, without distinction, 
and in doses of all degrees. 
“ Yet it requires but a little ray of sense to perceive that no 
