The chemical compound that may have some anticancer properties in camomile tea, as well as in parsley and celery, is apigenin . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apigenin There are a couple of abstracts on NIH describing it: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23485682 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...