To relieve hemorrhoids first look for ways to get your bowels moving easier and more frequently so they produce softer stools. I have suggestion ways, in other articles, to do this by changing your diet.
Any straining and puffing you do to push hard or even soft stools out during a bowel movement will aggravate your hemorrhoids and can lead to bleeding and pain.
When completing a bowel movement, make sure you are using the softest tissue available so that when you clean yourself you don’t scrape or aggravate your hemorrhoids. You can also use pre-moisten tissue. Just make sure that the tissue you use is not colored or scented because these chemical additives can aggravate your hemorrhoids.
You may have to take a shower a couple times a day to keep your rectum area clean.
Here are three natural remedies that you can use to aid in eliminating your hemorrhoids.
Aloe Vera
Aloe Vera gel is an astringent that helps to heal open wounds. It is useful in hemorrhoids by applying the gel directly onto your anus. The best type of gel for this is directly from the aloe plant. If you don’t have one, then 100% organic whole leaf aloe gel is second best. You can get this organic aloe at a health food or nutrition store.
If you have a fresh plant, wash a leaf thoroughly with distilled water. Peel it on one side, bend it with the peeled side outward, and slip it into your anus. This will provide you with pain relief and reduce your hemorrhoid bleeding. Just trim down the leaf so it slides into your anus easily.
Aloe Vera juice, that you drink, is also good for hemorrhoids. It helps to soften your stools and to activate peristaltic action. If you like aloe juice, then drink around 1/2 a cup of Aloe Vera juice three time a day.
You can add 1/4 or 1/3 part aloe juice to a cup of apple juice to make the taste easier to handle. To make this aloe-apple juice more effective, add 10 drops of barberry extract.
Barberry is an astringent for blood vessel congestion along the colon and rectum. It will improve blood circulation; it stimulates the immune system to resist disease, and will tone body tissues. It also is capable of stopping bleeding hemorrhoids.
Bilberry
Bilberry’s active ingredients are flavanoids. Bilberry contains chemical called “anthocyanosides.” This fruit like herb has been used in Europe for a long time. In clinical studies, it has shown to be effective in treating weak capillaries by strengthening their walls.
Buy the 25% standardized formula and take 100 mg three times a day of bilberry. Bilberry will give you hemorrhoid relief.
Butcher's Broom
Butcher's broom, an evergreen bush, has a history of being used for varicose veins and hemorrhoids. As an extract, it contains “ruscogenins”, which can narrow blood vessels and decrease their inflammation and swelling. It strengthens and tones veins and capillary walls.
Take 100 mg of butcher’s broom three times a day. Use the type that has 9-11% ruscogenins.
Now you can use either of the three herbal remedies for hemorrhoid relief. If one is not working to good, try the other. Once you have gotten the hemorrhoid relief that you want stop using the herbal remedy.
March 13, 2012
How to Use Herbal Salves & Ointments to Shrink Your Hemorrhoids
Comfrey Herbal Salve
Here is an herbal combination that contains herbs that promote the healing of skin wounds and blood vessel, is antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, soothing, and antiitching.
Here is what is in it:
* Comfrey root
* St. John's Wort flower and bud
* Calendula flower
* Plantain leaf
* Chickweed herb
* Mullein leaf
Here's how to use it:
Clean the area where you want to apply the salve. Apply the salve to the anus or slightly into the rectum by rubbing to soften the salve. This application can be done at night so you get a good dose of this salve as it passes through the skin. Use for 6 days, then rest one day. Use for 6 week, then rest one-week.
When using any kind of salve and herbal extracts, keep them in the refrigerator. This keeps them fresh and gives your hemorrhoids a "cool relief " feeling.
Veri-Gone salve
Veri-Gone is a salve that was made for varicose veins and has been used for general cases of hemorrhoids.
* Witch Hazel
* Echinacea Extract
* Calendula Extract
* Chamomile essential oil
* Alcohol
* Distilled water
Here's a link where you can find this salve. This site has variety of salve formulations.
http://oldetimersherbals.com/salves.htm
Ghee - Turmeric Salve
Here's a Ghee mixture that is listed in, New Choices in Natural Healing, 1995, by prevention magazine health books.
Combine 1 teaspoon of ghee with 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder. Apply some of this mixture onto your hemorrhoids just before you go to bed.
Here's how to use it:
* Apply it for 3 nights in a row
* Stop for two nights
* Resume for three nights
* Continue this cycle until your hemorrhoids are gone
Wear old clothes when you use this combination since the turmeric will stain your clothes. The discoloration on your skin will clear after two-three weeks or sooner.
Zinc Oxide Ointment
Zinc Oxide is readily available in a drugstore or throughout the Internet. It is useful in reducing hemorrhoids symptoms, since it is astringent, antiseptic, and antibacterial.
Zinc oxide will keep the area dry from moisture and will help to reduce itching and chafing. Use it as often as you like and, of course, when you go to bed.
Pilewort Ointment
Pilewort is an herb that has a history of being used for hemorrhoids. It is a fast acting hemorrhoid remedy. It is an astringent, tones the blood vessels, and stops bleeding. You can use it as frequent as you like. Just apply to the anal area.
Do not take pilewort internally.
Calendula Ointment
Calendula flower has been extensive used in China to heal hemorrhoids. It has a soothing effect and reduces inflammation. Its other characteristics are,
Antibacterial
Analgesic
Antiseptic
Astringent
hemostatic (stops bleeding)
styptic (contracts blood vessels)
Calendula ointment helps to form new tissue and for that reason is used for cuts, burns and other skin disorders. Apply the ointment directly on your hemorrhoids. Use it daily and as often as you like.
Source: http://www.healthguidance.org/authors/42/Rudy-Silva
Rudy Silva
Rudy Silva, BA Physics, Natural Nutritionist. He is the author of constipation, acne, hemorrhoid, and fatty acid ebooks. He writes a newsletter call http://www.betternaturalremedies.com.
Here is an herbal combination that contains herbs that promote the healing of skin wounds and blood vessel, is antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, soothing, and antiitching.
Here is what is in it:
* Comfrey root
* St. John's Wort flower and bud
* Calendula flower
* Plantain leaf
* Chickweed herb
* Mullein leaf
Here's how to use it:
Clean the area where you want to apply the salve. Apply the salve to the anus or slightly into the rectum by rubbing to soften the salve. This application can be done at night so you get a good dose of this salve as it passes through the skin. Use for 6 days, then rest one day. Use for 6 week, then rest one-week.
When using any kind of salve and herbal extracts, keep them in the refrigerator. This keeps them fresh and gives your hemorrhoids a "cool relief " feeling.
Veri-Gone salve
Veri-Gone is a salve that was made for varicose veins and has been used for general cases of hemorrhoids.
* Witch Hazel
* Echinacea Extract
* Calendula Extract
* Chamomile essential oil
* Alcohol
* Distilled water
Here's a link where you can find this salve. This site has variety of salve formulations.
http://oldetimersherbals.com/salves.htm
Ghee - Turmeric Salve
Here's a Ghee mixture that is listed in, New Choices in Natural Healing, 1995, by prevention magazine health books.
Combine 1 teaspoon of ghee with 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder. Apply some of this mixture onto your hemorrhoids just before you go to bed.
Here's how to use it:
* Apply it for 3 nights in a row
* Stop for two nights
* Resume for three nights
* Continue this cycle until your hemorrhoids are gone
Wear old clothes when you use this combination since the turmeric will stain your clothes. The discoloration on your skin will clear after two-three weeks or sooner.
Zinc Oxide Ointment
Zinc Oxide is readily available in a drugstore or throughout the Internet. It is useful in reducing hemorrhoids symptoms, since it is astringent, antiseptic, and antibacterial.
Zinc oxide will keep the area dry from moisture and will help to reduce itching and chafing. Use it as often as you like and, of course, when you go to bed.
Pilewort Ointment
Pilewort is an herb that has a history of being used for hemorrhoids. It is a fast acting hemorrhoid remedy. It is an astringent, tones the blood vessels, and stops bleeding. You can use it as frequent as you like. Just apply to the anal area.
Do not take pilewort internally.
Calendula Ointment
Calendula flower has been extensive used in China to heal hemorrhoids. It has a soothing effect and reduces inflammation. Its other characteristics are,
Antibacterial
Analgesic
Antiseptic
Astringent
hemostatic (stops bleeding)
styptic (contracts blood vessels)
Calendula ointment helps to form new tissue and for that reason is used for cuts, burns and other skin disorders. Apply the ointment directly on your hemorrhoids. Use it daily and as often as you like.
Source: http://www.healthguidance.org/authors/42/Rudy-Silva
Rudy Silva
Rudy Silva, BA Physics, Natural Nutritionist. He is the author of constipation, acne, hemorrhoid, and fatty acid ebooks. He writes a newsletter call http://www.betternaturalremedies.com.
March 10, 2012
Use Digestive Enzymes to Reduce Hemorrhoid Inflammation
Using digestive enzymes when you have hemorrhoids is a good idea. Digestive enzymes help reduce inflammation, reduce fibrin, and clean the blood of foreign particles. These enzymes activities strengthen your immune system and give it more power to work on your hemorrhoids.
Bromelain
Bromelain is a digestive enzyme that is found in pineapple. It's capable of reducing inflammation and swelling and for this reason has been used to treat hemorrhoids.
Bromelain also activates a chemical that promotes the breakdown of fibrin. Fibrin is a chemical that repairs open wounds, internal wounds and weak tissue by creating fibrin deposits. If you are over 35, fibrin is not balanced with your body's enzymes. This results in excess fibrin deposits at inflamed locations, eventually causing more sickness and disease. Disease.
To balance and control excess fibrin activity, you need to take digestive or systemic enzymes. Systemic enzymes are enzymes that work throughout the body to attack blood impurities and dissolve fibrin.
As a supplement take 500-750 mg a day. You can also add fresh pineapple to your diet since it is high in fiber and other nutrients.
Digestive and Systemic Enzymes
Digestive enzymes are used to help you digest your food and improve your assimilation. Systemic enzymes are found deep into our body. They are in your tissues, organs, and cells where they help in all types of chemical reactions that your body is involved in.
Both types of these enzymes are available in capsules so you can easily supplement your diet. Digestive enzymes help to reduce the stress you get in the rectum when your food is not properly digested. Undigested food reaching the colon eventually leads to constipation.
Take a good digestive enzyme that you can get at health food store. Take 2 capsules with each meal.
Systemic enzymes help reduce swelling, inflammation, improve circulation, and speed the healing of tissue. One important fact about systemic enzymes is they eliminate fibrin, which is at center of most inflammatory conditions and illness.
Take systemic enzymes between meals. This allows them reach the small intestine and get absorbed into the blood stream where they can do their work.
Some systemic enzymes are enteric enzymes, which means they are coated so they will not dissolve in the stomach. This allows them to move into the small intestine where they will be absorbed into your blood stream.
The brand Vitalzyme contains serrapeptase, a systemic enzyme that is mix with other nutrients and enzymes. Just put Vitalzyme or serrapeptase into the goggle engine. This will bring in a flood of sites for you to chose a good systemic enzyme.
Bromelain
Bromelain is a digestive enzyme that is found in pineapple. It's capable of reducing inflammation and swelling and for this reason has been used to treat hemorrhoids.
Bromelain also activates a chemical that promotes the breakdown of fibrin. Fibrin is a chemical that repairs open wounds, internal wounds and weak tissue by creating fibrin deposits. If you are over 35, fibrin is not balanced with your body's enzymes. This results in excess fibrin deposits at inflamed locations, eventually causing more sickness and disease. Disease.
To balance and control excess fibrin activity, you need to take digestive or systemic enzymes. Systemic enzymes are enzymes that work throughout the body to attack blood impurities and dissolve fibrin.
As a supplement take 500-750 mg a day. You can also add fresh pineapple to your diet since it is high in fiber and other nutrients.
Digestive and Systemic Enzymes
Digestive enzymes are used to help you digest your food and improve your assimilation. Systemic enzymes are found deep into our body. They are in your tissues, organs, and cells where they help in all types of chemical reactions that your body is involved in.
Both types of these enzymes are available in capsules so you can easily supplement your diet. Digestive enzymes help to reduce the stress you get in the rectum when your food is not properly digested. Undigested food reaching the colon eventually leads to constipation.
Take a good digestive enzyme that you can get at health food store. Take 2 capsules with each meal.
Systemic enzymes help reduce swelling, inflammation, improve circulation, and speed the healing of tissue. One important fact about systemic enzymes is they eliminate fibrin, which is at center of most inflammatory conditions and illness.
Take systemic enzymes between meals. This allows them reach the small intestine and get absorbed into the blood stream where they can do their work.
Some systemic enzymes are enteric enzymes, which means they are coated so they will not dissolve in the stomach. This allows them to move into the small intestine where they will be absorbed into your blood stream.
The brand Vitalzyme contains serrapeptase, a systemic enzyme that is mix with other nutrients and enzymes. Just put Vitalzyme or serrapeptase into the goggle engine. This will bring in a flood of sites for you to chose a good systemic enzyme.
March 07, 2012
Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids, which are also called piles, is a condition of weakened and swollen veins in the anus or lower rectum. They often go unnoticed and usually clear up after a few days, but can also cause long-lasting discomfort of the rectum such as pain, itching, and bleeding. Hemorrhoids can be divided into two types: Internal hemorrhoids lie inside the anus or lower rectum; external hemorrhoids lie outside the anal opening. Both can be present at the same time. Sometimes a blood clot forms in an external hemorrhoid and inflammation and a painful lump develops. This condition is called a thrombosed hemorrhoid.
Description
Hemorrhoids are a very common medical complaint. More than 75% of Americans have hemorrhoids at some point in their lives, typically after age 30. Men are more likely than women to suffer from hemorrhoids that are serious enough to require professional treatment.
During a bowel movement, veins in the anus are protected from damage by expanding to drain blood away from the area. The veins are normally somewhat elastic, and they snap back to their regular size after defecation is finished. However, repeated straining due to constipation or hardened stools causes the veins to be swollen and stretched out of shape. The swelling also triggers nerves in the area, causing itchiness and a sensation of full bowels. In addition, straining may cause the rupture of blood vessels and bleeding at the anus.
Causes & symptoms
Aging, obesity, pregnancy, chronic constipation or chronic diarrhea, excessive use of enemas or laxatives, straining during bowel movements, and spending too much time on the toilet are all factors that can contribute to the development of hemorrhoids. In some people there is also a genetic tendency to have fragile veins that are prone to developing hemorrhoids and varicose veins .
The most common symptom of internal hemorrhoids is bright red blood in the toilet bowl or on one's feces or toilet paper. When hemorrhoids remain inside the anus they are almost never painful, but they can protrude outside the anus and become irritated and sore. Such hemorrhoids are called prolapsed hemorrhoids. These sometimes move back into the anal canal on their own or can be pushed back inside; however, they may remain permanently outside the anus until treated by a doctor. Small external hemorrhoids usually do not produce symptoms. Larger ones, however, can be painful and interfere with sitting, walking, defecating, and cleaning the anal area after a bowel movement.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis of hemorrhoids begins with a visual examination of the anus, followed by an internal manual examination. The doctor may also insert an anoscope, a small tube with a light that can be used to view the anal canal. More serious problems may be ruled out using a sigmoidoscope or colonoscope to inspect the colon.
Description
Hemorrhoids are a very common medical complaint. More than 75% of Americans have hemorrhoids at some point in their lives, typically after age 30. Men are more likely than women to suffer from hemorrhoids that are serious enough to require professional treatment.
During a bowel movement, veins in the anus are protected from damage by expanding to drain blood away from the area. The veins are normally somewhat elastic, and they snap back to their regular size after defecation is finished. However, repeated straining due to constipation or hardened stools causes the veins to be swollen and stretched out of shape. The swelling also triggers nerves in the area, causing itchiness and a sensation of full bowels. In addition, straining may cause the rupture of blood vessels and bleeding at the anus.
Causes & symptoms
Aging, obesity, pregnancy, chronic constipation or chronic diarrhea, excessive use of enemas or laxatives, straining during bowel movements, and spending too much time on the toilet are all factors that can contribute to the development of hemorrhoids. In some people there is also a genetic tendency to have fragile veins that are prone to developing hemorrhoids and varicose veins .
The most common symptom of internal hemorrhoids is bright red blood in the toilet bowl or on one's feces or toilet paper. When hemorrhoids remain inside the anus they are almost never painful, but they can protrude outside the anus and become irritated and sore. Such hemorrhoids are called prolapsed hemorrhoids. These sometimes move back into the anal canal on their own or can be pushed back inside; however, they may remain permanently outside the anus until treated by a doctor. Small external hemorrhoids usually do not produce symptoms. Larger ones, however, can be painful and interfere with sitting, walking, defecating, and cleaning the anal area after a bowel movement.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis of hemorrhoids begins with a visual examination of the anus, followed by an internal manual examination. The doctor may also insert an anoscope, a small tube with a light that can be used to view the anal canal. More serious problems may be ruled out using a sigmoidoscope or colonoscope to inspect the colon.
March 01, 2012
Anal itching and Hemorrhoids
This article was intended to answer many of the most often asked questions on this subject. I wish you discover all of this information useful.
Anal itching is one of the most usual of hemorrhoids symptom, it appears in both internal and external hemorrhoids. Fortunately it is also one of the leading symptoms to appear and one of the easiest to cure, but you have to take it seriously or risk other symptoms that will not be nearly as simple to deal with.
Cause of anal itching
In case of internal hemorrhoids itching is caused by a mucus secreted by rectal lining, this happens because it's been pulled down by constant development of internal hemorrhoids. Mucus then moistens the anus and the skin around it, causing constant irritation of the skin. With external hemorrhoids case itching is caused by irritation of an extremely sensitive skin around the anus.
How to cure anal itching?
"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you." - Dr.Rob Gilbert
Treatment of anal itching is simple compared to other hemorrhoids symptom. Even so treating just symptom without treating the cause will bring you just short-lived ease from this persistent disease, and you can bet that you will experience another hemorrhoids flare up before long, and the next time it might not be as simple as the first, as a matter of fact most likely it will be worse.
When treating hemorrhoid symptoms, both internal and external, you must concentrate on your diet, and exercise or movement,
lack of it causes intestinal slow down, and that again causes hard, pallet like stool, which is then accountable for development of hemorrhoids. High fiber diet in addition with a adequate water intake will aid in making your stool softer and bulkier, and because of that it will become easier to pass. That will result in a less straining, and relieving of pressure on your anal area, thus diminishing risk of hemorrhoids flare up.
Even so when treating anal itching pay particular regard to personal hygiene.
1) Wash up after bowel movement, use a shower or a bidet, if you're not at home use wet hemorrhoidal wipes with Witch Hazel.
2) Take sitz baths, two to five times per day for 15 minutes. Soaking in warm water will not just bring ease from ache but will at the same time wash away out all the excrement that could be difficult to clean because of hemorrhoid tags.
3) Use anti-itch hemorrhoids ointments. Use creams with %1 hydrocortisone, and be certain to read instructions carefully, keep off any hemorrhoidal cream that can have itching as side effect. For hemorrhoidal cream review and recommendation see our site.
4) Use pill based treatments for hemorrhoids that assist restore balance in your digestive system. These treatments are excellent because they attack the major cause of hemorrhoids as well as symptoms at the same time.
By using these treatments you can actually cure your hemorrhoids forever.
We have come to the end of my informational article. It's now your job to take this information and do something with it.
Hemorrhoids symptom cause treatment.com is a definite hemorrhoids site, Nikola has years of hemorrhoid fighting experience, and on this site you can learn all you need to know about hemorrhoid symptoms and hemorrhoids in general!
Anal itching is one of the most usual of hemorrhoids symptom, it appears in both internal and external hemorrhoids. Fortunately it is also one of the leading symptoms to appear and one of the easiest to cure, but you have to take it seriously or risk other symptoms that will not be nearly as simple to deal with.
Cause of anal itching
In case of internal hemorrhoids itching is caused by a mucus secreted by rectal lining, this happens because it's been pulled down by constant development of internal hemorrhoids. Mucus then moistens the anus and the skin around it, causing constant irritation of the skin. With external hemorrhoids case itching is caused by irritation of an extremely sensitive skin around the anus.
How to cure anal itching?
"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you." - Dr.Rob Gilbert
Treatment of anal itching is simple compared to other hemorrhoids symptom. Even so treating just symptom without treating the cause will bring you just short-lived ease from this persistent disease, and you can bet that you will experience another hemorrhoids flare up before long, and the next time it might not be as simple as the first, as a matter of fact most likely it will be worse.
When treating hemorrhoid symptoms, both internal and external, you must concentrate on your diet, and exercise or movement,
lack of it causes intestinal slow down, and that again causes hard, pallet like stool, which is then accountable for development of hemorrhoids. High fiber diet in addition with a adequate water intake will aid in making your stool softer and bulkier, and because of that it will become easier to pass. That will result in a less straining, and relieving of pressure on your anal area, thus diminishing risk of hemorrhoids flare up.
Even so when treating anal itching pay particular regard to personal hygiene.
1) Wash up after bowel movement, use a shower or a bidet, if you're not at home use wet hemorrhoidal wipes with Witch Hazel.
2) Take sitz baths, two to five times per day for 15 minutes. Soaking in warm water will not just bring ease from ache but will at the same time wash away out all the excrement that could be difficult to clean because of hemorrhoid tags.
3) Use anti-itch hemorrhoids ointments. Use creams with %1 hydrocortisone, and be certain to read instructions carefully, keep off any hemorrhoidal cream that can have itching as side effect. For hemorrhoidal cream review and recommendation see our site.
4) Use pill based treatments for hemorrhoids that assist restore balance in your digestive system. These treatments are excellent because they attack the major cause of hemorrhoids as well as symptoms at the same time.
By using these treatments you can actually cure your hemorrhoids forever.
We have come to the end of my informational article. It's now your job to take this information and do something with it.
Hemorrhoids symptom cause treatment.com is a definite hemorrhoids site, Nikola has years of hemorrhoid fighting experience, and on this site you can learn all you need to know about hemorrhoid symptoms and hemorrhoids in general!
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