Natural Treatments for Hemorrhoids

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of expert village today I'm going to talk to you about hemorrhoids and in particular about ways to alleviate some of the pains from hemorrhoids. Now, in this clip we're going to talk about herbal remedies. One of the common use of herbs is the witch hazel which has reportedly have some kind of antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties in it. If you look at this picture that I have of witch hazel, this is the plant that it looks like in the wild of witch hazel. You can see it kind of looks like most common green plants, but you don't need to go out and search for witch hazel because witch hazel can be readily available in the drugstores in either tablet form or mix with other kind of herbal medicine which are compressed and put into get tablets that you can swallow or, like for example here, you can buy this in the drugstore which is hemorrhoidal pre-moistened medical wipes that they've actually incorporated witch hazel into the wipes, into the towelettes, so that when you pass a bowel movement you can use a towelette to clean the area and also it has the witch hazel and other like alloy in it to lubricate and to decrease the risk factor of getting infection when the hemorrhoids bleeding or if it's really at a very bad stage. Witch hazel is one of the herbal remedies. There are other ways, other herbs, that you could use. Here, chamomile is also very good. You could buy, this is tablet form, you can buy chamomile tea because it is supposedly also have a sort of very antiseptic properties in it. You can either buy chamomile tea that you can drink, you can buy the tablet form. There are several ways that you can treat the pains from the hemorrhoids using herbal remedies."