Chamomile is a herbaceous plant in the Asteraceae family (which includes, for example, sunflowers and dandelions). It bears the official name of Matricaria chamomilla or Matricaria recutita, and in Romanian it is also called romanita, matrix or romanica.
The plant has beneficial effects for the body, known since Antiquity. The earliest information dates back to Ancient Egypt, but it was the Greeks who established chamomile as a plant with numerous applications for the human body. Hippocrates, Dioscorides and Galen - some of the biggest names in ancient medicine - wrote about chamomile and its effects on the body.