Psychologically it exerts a softening, soothing, calming and centring effect that is appropriate for individuals that present any rigidity, harshness, tension, anxiety or instability. Roman camomile can especially help dissolve those ego defenses rooted in anger. Promoting both flexibility and stability (possibly by regulating the temporal lobes), the oil is extremely useful for emotional rigidity and for helping dissolve distressed feelings of negativity, especially when these involve anger issues. Roman camomile’s highly effective relaxant effect works here by olfaction to reduce nervous tension, impulsivity, anxiety and so on. Because of this, Roman camomile should only be used for the agitated or nervous type of depression, not the melancholic or liver type, nor any depression arising from a weak, e.g. neurasthenic condition.
Like an abundant Earth Goddess, Roman camomile engages the gentle warmth and sweetness of lingering late summer days, inviting us to relax into the inherent harmony of life’s rhythms, to yield to the innate ow of life and enjoy its fruits of cyclical nurture and serenity. In so doing, it may gift us with the valuable experience of being sustained by and belonging to the whole universe rather than operating merely from the identity and will of the separate self.
(Peter Holmes, Aromatica, vol. 1)