Preparation
highHill's green oil recipe bruises green chamomile with bay leaves, sea-wormwood, rue, and sweet marjoram, then boils the herbs in olive oil.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Chamomile
Matricaria chamomilla
Chamomile appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
- Risk
- moderate
- Books
- 15
- Contexts
- 5
- Mentions
- 88
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- chamomile
- Latin name
- Matricaria chamomilla(ambiguous)
- Identity note
- Historical spelling often appears as camomile; German and Roman chamomile differ.
Safety
moderate
Asteraceae allergy and anticoagulant/pregnancy cautions are relevant.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- NCCIH Herbs at a Glance: Asteraceae allergy and anticoagulant/pregnancy cautions are relevant.
Aliases
chamomilecamomileChamaemelum nobileMatricaria chamomilla
Chamomile in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations and ritual uses. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Ritual
highFrazer records Midsummer noon gathering of camomile in Hesse because flowers picked when the sun is highest were believed to hold the plant's medicinal qualities most strongly.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1913
Chapter VIII. The Magic Flowers of Midsummer Eve.
Ritual
highFrazer also lists camomile among plants burned in festival fires whose smoke was driven over people, children, orchards, crops, and houses.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1890
8. The Need-fire
Preparations and ritual uses
Green chamomile oil
highHill's green oil bruises green chamomile with bay leaves, sea-wormwood, rue, and sweet marjoram before boiling them in olive oil.
Festival fumigation
highFrazer records camomile among plants burned in seasonal fires whose smoke was directed over people, children, houses, orchards, and crops.
The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1890
8. The Need-fire
Chamomile Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Medicine
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Myths of the Norsemen.
Matched as camomile; high confidence.
Astrology
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Clavis Astrologiae Elimata.
Matched as camomile; high confidence.
Preparation
6 passages across 6 books; strongest source: Anatomy of Melancholy.
Matched as camomile; high confidence.
Symbolism
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 10.
Matched as camomile; high confidence.
Ritual
3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Balder the Beautiful, Volume I.
Matched as camomile; high confidence.
Chamomile Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper
1653
"...| Blue Bottle | | THOMAS KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Burdock | Butter-bur | Wall Bugloss | | Bugle | Camomile | Carraway | | Centaury | Wild Carrot | Celandine | | THOMAS KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Chervill | Comfry | Cleavers | | Coltsfoot | Crabs Claws *or* Fresh water Soldier | Cowslip | | Columbine | Shrub Cinquefoil | Costmary | | THOMAS KELLY, LONDON. | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | Crowfoot | Cuckow Point | Water Cress | | Cudweed | Crosswort | Dill | | Dandelion | Daisy | Devils Bit | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | E..."
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Preparationalias: camomilehigh confidence
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...to be taken. Sum. tal., Sumat talem, let the patient take one like this. Superbiho, to drink after taking anything; as, chamomile tea or warm water after an emetic; or a cuj) of water, or any liiiuid medicine, to wash down a dose of any sort ot pills. Superinfundo, to pour upon. Supra, above. Supradictus, above mentioned. Syncope, a fainting fit. Syr., Syrupus, syrup. Tabel., Tabellse, tabulre, lozenges. TactUB, the touch. Tania, the tapeworm. Talis, such. Sumat talem, let him take such a one as this. Talus, the ankle. Tam, so. Tamen, yet. Temperies, temperamentu..."
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Preparationalias: chamomilehigh confidence
The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"... to be then strained off. - What is called the green oil, is thus made, bruise in a marble mortar three ounces of green chamomile, with the same quantity of bay leaves, sea-wormwood, rue, and sweet marjoram; then boil them in a quart of oil of olives, till they are a little crisp. The oil is then to be poured off, and when cold put up for use. These oils are used to rub the limbs when there is pain and swellings; their virtues will be found at large, under the several herbs which are the principal ingredients: and after one or other of these methods, may be made ..."
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The Golden Bough
James George Frazer
1913
"...43433-h-22.html.xhtml#note_211) At Kirchvers, in Hesse, people run out to the fields at noon on Midsummer Day to gather camomile; for the flowers, plucked at the moment when the sun is at the highest point of his course, are supposed to possess the medicinal qualities of the plant in the highest degree. In heathen times the camomile flower, with its healing qualities, its yellow calix and white stamens, is said to have been sacred to the kindly and shining Balder and to have borne his name, being called Balders-brâ, that is, Balder's eyelashes.[212](11680365936..."
Chapter VIII. The Magic Flowers of Midsummer Eve.Open in Reader
Astrologyalias: camomilehigh confidence
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer
1890
"...ht after for fuel on these occasions; among the plants used for the purpose are giant-fennel, thyme, rue, chervil-seed, camomile, geranium, and penny-royal. People expose themselves, and especially their children, to the smoke, and drive it towards the orchards and the crops. Also they leap across the fires; in some places everybody ought to repeat the leap seven times. Moreover they take burning brands from the fires and carry them through the houses in order to fumigate them. They pass things through the fire, and bring the sick into contact with it, while the..."
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Ritualalias: camomilehigh confidence
Books Mentioning Chamomile
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
camomile
28 mentionscited
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
chamomile
24 mentionscited
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
camomile
13 mentions
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
chamomilecamomile
4 mentionscited
Myths of the Norsemen
H. A. Guerber | 1908
camomile
3 mentions
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
camomile
2 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1890
camomile
2 mentionscited
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer | 1913
camomile
2 mentions
Clavis Astrologiae Elimata
Henry Coley | 1669
camomile
2 mentions
Balder the Beautiful, Volume I
James George Frazer | 1913
camomile
2 mentions
The Complete Book of Fortune
Anonymous | 1930
camomile
2 mentions
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay | 1841
camomile
1 mention
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman | 1820
chamomile
1 mention
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 10
Aleister Crowley | 1913
camomile
1 mention
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
camomile
1 mention