Once, while living in Germany, I had a horrific pain on my tail bone. There’s no neater way to couch this: it was an abscess. A boil, if you will. And it was so painful that I couldn’t walk, couldn’t sit, and could hardly sleep. I’ll spare you the gory and frankly disgusting details, but after I was finally taken care of at the hospital and asked for something to help heal the area, the doctor told me to take a sitzbad (sitz bath in English) in Chamomile. Chamomile? I had vis