Mineral element content of chamomile

Mineral components play an important role as adjuvants in the therapeutical activity of chamomile. Considering their content in the different species, an interesting observation was that the wild populations are richer in dis tribution of mineral elements than the cultivated Degumil type, while ratio s of K/Na and Ca/Mg in this cultivated type are many times higher than in w ild chamomile populations. Chamomile tea extract (infusion) is widely used in digestion complains. Mac ro- and microelement content of the infusion is relatively low in which rel atively high concentrations of potassium, calcium and magnesium were found. The dissolution of mineral elements in tea was between 10% and 26% for mos t of the elements with the highest value attributed to magnesium (26%).