Hi

I have found Chamomile tea with honey (2 teaspoons) and ginger is an excellent help for UC, I find my mild flare-ups really calm down.
And probably help other inflamitory diseases like excima. I think because Chamomile tea and honey are both anti-inflamotories and I find Im not that keen on the taste of Chamomile tea.

Hi Abbie

Welcome to the forum.

I have a difficult relationship with chamomile as well. I use commercial teabags if I find myself in a difficult situation (e.g.before flying or delivering a difficult workshop in a strange environment). They seem to be fairly bland and soothing on my digestive system. Making a tea from my homegrown chamomile is an entirely different story....it is bitter!

I was complaining to my herbalist friend about this and she laughed at me and said, "Well, what do you expect, it is a bitter!" She also gave me chamomile water to drip onto a very hot outbreak of ezcema on one of my fingers and it was wonderful in calming it down and now, there's no trace of it.

Non Shaw recommended using a chamomile vinegar to wash hot, sweaty places like behind ears and in groinal areas to stop fungal infections. My chamomile self seeded last year and the plants which came up were used to make a soothing syrup for a child who was driving her family to distraction and to add to an eczema salve, so I didn't have the chance to make a vinegar. Hopefully this year it will grow again and I can try something new.

Sarah