Chamomile Flower, Egyptian (Matricaria)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Peace in the home: sprinkle the flowers around the house or simmer them on the stove to settle tension.
• Cleansing bath: add a strong infusion to bathwater to clear away a heavy or crossed feeling.
• Sun offering: lay the flowers on a solar altar or burn them lightly in solar incense.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Gambler’s hand wash: hands are washed in chamomile tea before games of chance or buying lottery tickets.
• Money drawing: chamomile goes into money-drawing mixtures and is sprinkled around a business to bring customers.
• Uncrossing: it is added to cleansing baths to lift jinxes and bad luck.

A Simple Working

• Steep a tablespoon of chamomile flowers in a cup of just-boiled water for ten minutes.
• Strain the tea into a small bowl.
• Light a green candle and set the bowl before it.
• Stir the tea clockwise three times while naming the game or venture you are heading into.
• Wash your hands in the warm tea and let them air dry without wiping.
• Pour the rest at your front step as you leave.

Pairs Well With

• Cinnamon, to speed up money drawing.
• A green candle, for luck and money work.
• Lavender, for peace and sleep blends.
• Buckeyes, the traditional gambler’s pocket charm.

What You Receive

Dried Egyptian chamomile flowers, available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 1 lb.

Origin & Lore

Matricaria chamomilla is an annual daisy grown across Europe, western Asia and North Africa, with Egypt a major growing region. Its flowers have been brewed as a bedtime tea for centuries, used to rinse and brighten fair hair, and added to baths in traditional herbal practice.

Before a card game, old-time gamblers washed their hands in chamomile tea so that luck would stick to them.

The Old English Nine Herbs Charm, recorded in the tenth-century Lacnunga manuscript, names maythe (mayweed, usually identified as chamomile) among the nine sacred herbs. Its use as a gambler’s wash is documented in twentieth-century hoodoo practice in the American South.