A GIFT from the Greeks
IT WAS the Roman poet Virgil, in his epic Aeneid (30 BC), who coined the warning that entered English as “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts”.
From the time of the first herbalists chamomile appears as a welcome gift from the Greeks. Let me tell you it is no Trojan horse and there is no reason to beware of this lovely beneficial plant, famed for its medicinal virtues.
Chamomile has pretty little daisy flowers with a yellow central disc, fringed by white petals. Because of its fragrance, the Greeks named (“on the ground”) and (“apple”).
