Friday 30 October 2009

Home Remedies For Hemroids - 5 Natural Treatments You Can Try at Home

By Jolene Zaremba

About 85% of all people will at some point in their lives have to contend with treating the medical condition known as hemroids. In most cases, the reason a person develops this condition is because they have poor dietary habits and lead an unhealthy lifestyle. It is often through a lack of fiber in their diet that leads to this condition because they will need to push much harder when they have a bowel movement. Yes, over-the-counter medication can help, but home remedies for hemroids are proving far more effective.

So just what advantages are to be had from using home remedies rather than over the counter ones to treat hemroids?

The main benefit to you when suffering from hemroids and using home remedies is because they contain only natural ingredients there is far less risk of you suffering from side effects from them. Also, you will find that the cost of purchasing the ingredients to make your home remedies is considerably less than that you would pay for using medications prescribed by your doctor or purchased over the counter at your local drug store.

What are the kinds of home remedies for hemroids that you as a sufferer should consider using?

Treatment 1 - Olive Oil

This particular remedy has properties within it that work on relieving the pain and discomfort felt caused through the itching and swelling of the hemroids. All you need to do to help treat hemroids with this is just have a teaspoonful of it each day.

Treatment 2 - Aloe Vera

This has been used for many centuries to help treat a wide array of skin problems including warts and moles. Again, it contains properties that help to treat the symptoms which cause the sufferer so much discomfort along with the hemroids underlying causes. You have two options on how to use this particular home remedy, you either apply an Aloe Vera cream directly to the affected area or you drink the juice every day.

Treatment 3 - Witch Hazel Compress or Cream

This is a remedy that you can purchase in any good quality drug or health food store and is made from the leaves and bark of the Hamamelis Virginiana plant. It is believed that there are certain properties within this treatment that help to reduce the itching and swelling and so relieve the pain associated with hemroids. This particular home remedy for hemroids requires the distilled witch hazel liquid to be applied directly to the area that is affected.

Treatment 4 - Pilewort

This is another very effective natural way of treating hemroids. Along with tonifying the blood vessels it also prevents bleeding from occurring. You can either take this treatment internally by drinking it in tea form or apply it directly to the hemroids as an ointment.

Treatment 5 - Grape Seed and Pine Bark

The main reason why people find hemroids so uncomfortable is because the veins within them become swollen and painful. If you include these two ingredients in your treatment of this medical condition you will find that they help to improve the blood vessels integrity because of the anthocyanins and proanthocyanins which they contain. These are properties that then help to reduce the level of swelling in the hemroids and so reduce the levels of pain one feels.

As we have shown you above there are many different types of home remedies for hemroids that you may want to consider using if you do suffer from this problem at some stage in the future. Not only are you at much less risk of suffering unwanted side effects using these, but they also tend to work more quickly at treating the problem than many of the prescribed and over the counter medicines do.

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