Are There Natural Cures For Hemorrhoids?

The big question is: Is there actually a cure for hemorrhoids or is the current fuss being made in the media and on the internet just another of those hypes – people making money by duping others while they can?

There certainly are people out there in the world who seem to be prepared to say anything they can in order to get customers to part with their money, do they also exist in the world of hemorrhoid treatment?

Even Wikipedia, the ‘new’ encyclopedia of the general person in the street is citing warnings of scams involving hemorrhoid treatments involving a ‘free trial’.

For the uneducated – these scams are run by people who take your credit card details ‘for postage and age/address verification purposes’ (since when did we ever need to verify our address to have an item posted to us?) and then after you have received your free trial preparation, you are charged on a monthly basis, receiving follow-up items, having unwittingly signed up to a monthly service which allows the scammers to enjoy your money while you receive an inferior product.

The monthly service can only be cancelled by calling a number, which, surprise, surprise, is never answered, or simply does not work, leaving you out of pocket and rather angry.

The moral of the story is this: do not buy hemorrhoid treatments from any company over the internet unless you are able to trust them.

How do you know that you can trust them? Find someone who has actually used the product (do not rely on testimonials on websites – they are often written by ghost writers) and is willing to associate their name with it. A registered health professional, for instance. Talk to your doctor, ask whether they have heard of a certain preparation and whether it would work or not, and then take their advice.

The most common remedies for hemorrhoids are those that contain :

• astringents to shrink the tissues;
• vasoconstrictors, which reduce the blood flow to the affected tissues and cause shrinking;
• local anesthetics which dull pain;
• barrier protectants which allow stools to move past the hemorrhoids more freely reducing trauma;
• keratolytics which destroy the top layer of tissue allowing medication to be absorbed by ‘deeper tissues’;
• analgesics which work like the anesthetics;
• antiseptics which help to prevent infection and finally
• corticosteroids which reduce inflammation.

While any and all of these will help relieve the symptoms, they will not cure the problem.

A cure seems to come in the form of Chinese herbal medicine, a change of diet including much more fibre (fresh fruit and vegetables), daily intake of olive oil and lots of water.