Available online www.jocpr.com Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2015, 7(1):640-645 Review Article ISSN : 0975-7384 CODEN(USA) : JCPRC5 640 Ethnobotanical and therapeutic uses of camomille Mahmoud Bahmani 1 , Kourosh Saki 2 , Hannaneh Golshahi 3 , Mahmoud Rafieian-Kopaei 4* , Narges Abdali 1 , Ahmad Adineh 1 , Farshad Namdari 5 and Fariba Bahmani 6 ty of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan Universi 1 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 3 edical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran Medical Plants Research Center, Shahrekord University of M 4 5 AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Shohada Hospital of Dehloran City, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran 6 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT The chamomile (Matricari achemmomilla) belongs to Astraceae family that is native of Mediterranean moderate temperate and Asia, and has high pharmaceutical, nutritional, cosmetical and hygienic values. Because of active ingredients in the chamomile’s extract and essence such as terpenoids, ceraizin, coumarin, spiroters and flavonoids (including epigenin, luteolin, camazolin, bizabolol, sesquiterpene), lactones (such as matricarin), polysaccharides, capric and nownilic ethers, amplifrons, amino acids, fatty acids, phenolic acids, choline, and coumarin, matricin, bizabolol and its oxides and the cis & trans of ton-in-di-cycloether alpha-bizabolol and azolen has major effect in the treatment of various diseases of the nervous, digestive, respiratory, reproductive, muscular and skeletal systems. It is a valuable plant that can play an important role in the treatment of human diseases. In this paper, chamomillae plant is presented in various aspects such as ecology, species, health effects, ingredients, side effects, carcinogenic or mutagenic and disuse occasions. Keywords: Chamomile, Therapeutic properties, Effective ingredients, Diseases, Medicine _____________________________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION Chamomile is one of the most important remedies and one of the most widely used medicinal plants in Europe, Middle East, North America, Australia and Africa. Due to its growing usage of its essential oil in the pharmaceutical industry, cosmetics, perfumes and food flavoring preparations, study the properties and characteristics of this medicinal plant is very important. Therefore, in this paper, chamomillae plant is presented in various aspects such as ecology, species, health effects, ingredients, side effects, carcinogenic or mutagenic and disuse occasions [1] . History The latin name of camomille is taken from Greek words Khamai and Malon with the meaning of small flowers with the scent of apples. German chamomile (Matricaria chemmomilla) is native to temperate regions of the Mediterranean and Asia Minor and also it belongs to the family Astraceae. Nowdays this plant can be found in Europe, North America and Australia. It has Gray-green leaves flowers with yellow centers and white petals surrounded them. Flowers of this plant smell the apple. German chamomile grows in prairies and sandy soils. Its stem is green and whitish. Its leaves are small with narrow and irregular the cuts covered with shaggy [2] [3] . Scientific classification The scientific classification of chamomile is given in Table 1.