Today, if a patient goes to the doctorâs office with a stomach ache symptom, health care professionals may recommend ginger to help prevent or treat further nausea or vomiting, and even cancer chemotherapy. However, they probably wonât prescribe a liter of ginger ale.
Sleep better with chamomile tea. If you love herbal tea, you most likely already know chamomile tea as the 'night-time' tea. This tea, with its mild sedative effects, is treasured for its ability to relieve insomnia and encourage a good night's sleep, free of nightmares.
Chamomile has not been implicated in causing serum enzyme elevations or clinically apparent liver injury. Background Chamomile (kam' o myle) is the common name for several daisy-like plants, the flowering tops of which are used to make teas, liquid extracts, capsules or tablets. The chamomile most commonly used for its hypnotic and sedative effects is German chamomile (Matricaria recutita). Chamomile extracts contain volatile oils, flavonoids and hydroxycoumarins. The flavonoid apeginin has benzodiazepine-like activity and is believed to be the active component of the herbal.