Posted by ed_uk2010 on February 16, 2015, at 8:00:05
In reply to placebo, posted by alexandra_k on February 15, 2015, at 21:14:47
>should i drink water and pretend it is chamomile tea?
:) It would probably need to taste and smell similar, at the very least. Do you like chamomile tea?
Scientific study has hardly been extensive, but German Chamomile does seem possibly useful in anxiety and depression. Most chamomile teas use the German variety. Look for Matricaria recutita.
One of the little studies...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19593179
Personally, I would not be fooled by a placebo chamomile capsule. I would immediately know what it was by smelling it. I suppose alternative practitioners might argue that the smell is potentially as important as the other features of the herb. Aromatherapists would have something to say.
I find this abstract interesting, but confused:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22894890
Perhaps we should be promoting to chamomile to those on antipsychotics (think elevated blood sugar). In our rodent friends, chamomile appears anti-diabetic!
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