The treatment of hemorrhoids with potatoes is a well-known and common folk remedy that has been effectively used by many recently. It is worth recognizing that many face this unpleasant problem. According to doctors, every tenth adult. In most cases, the disease develops as a result of a sedentary lifestyle, often the first symptoms in women appear during pregnancy. Effective and effective methods of treatment have now been invented, but our ancestors already in ancient times knew ways that could help defeat this ailment.
Treatment features
The treatment of hemorrhoids with potatoes was used by our ancestors many centuries ago. The main analgesic effect was exerted by potato starch, which is able to gently envelop swollen and inflamed areas, relieving irritation and itching. In addition, do not forget that raw tubers contain a large amount of vitamins B, C, E. Together they strengthen the vessels, accelerating tissue regeneration, contributing to the healing of numerous cracks that occur during the development of this ailment. In addition, silicon and vitamin C also have antibacterial properties.
Of course, if you are faced with such a serious and dangerous disease as hemorrhoids, you can not self-medicate. Be sure to consult a doctor who will diagnose, prescribe the appropriate drugs. The use of any treatment methods, including alternative recipes, should be coordinated with a doctor in order not to aggravate the situation.
Who are the grandmother's recipes for?
It is believed that the treatment of hemorrhoids with potatoes is the best way to get rid of the disease for lactating and pregnant women. In this condition, most of the existing pharmacological preparations are contraindicated for them, so in most cases they have to rely only on folk wisdom. If chemicals are contraindicated, consider treating hemorrhoids with potatoes. Only preliminary coordinate this option with your doctor.
Among the obvious advantages of using raw potatoes from hemorrhoids are its naturalness, cheapness and the absence of side effects. You can achieve maximum effectiveness if you start to put lotions or candles in the complex, make steam baths, microclysters, drink infusions or juices.
It is important to remember that potatoes can only help in the early stages of the disease. If the ailment is already running, then lotions and other folk methods will be ineffective. Candles and lotions can only slightly alleviate the symptoms, but they will not save you from the very cause of the disease.
Symptoms
You should carefully monitor your body to begin treatment when the first symptoms appear. In this case, it will be the fastest, most effective, as well as a high probability that it will be possible to do without pharmaceutical preparations, most of which have side effects.
The main symptom in the first stage is spotting during bowel movements. However, it must be remembered that the same symptoms are inherent in some other ailments, so that only a doctor can make an accurate diagnosis, having carried out all the necessary studies and analyzes.
Visit doctor
Pull with a visit to the clinic should not be. Although some may have hemorrhoids in the first or second stage for several years, in others it will go into a severe acute form within a few months. In this case, the patient will no longer be able to save conservative treatment, a surgical operation will be required.
We emphasize once again that with such a dangerous ailment it is forbidden to engage in self-medication. Otherwise, it can lead to fatal consequences.
Tuber selection
In this article, we will describe in detail how to treat hemorrhoids with potatoes. Let's start by choosing the right tubers. This has a definite meaning.
Please note that potatoes for hemorrhoids at home should only be fresh. Ensure that the tubers are free from green spots. Potatoes with a greened skin contain too much solanine, which, when absorbed into the blood, can cause headaches or dizziness. For the same reason, sprouted or already withered tubers cannot be used in folk treatment.
The highest concentration of solanine and vitamins in the tuber is found precisely under the peel. Therefore, if you start treatment before the New Year, then even unpeeled potatoes are suitable for juice and lotions. The main thing is to wash it thoroughly. But since January, be sure to cut the peel. From February-March, the layer thickness should already be at least 5 mm. From April to June, it is better not to treat potato hemorrhoids at all, since in these months it’s almost impossible to find old tubers that have not sprouted, and there are still no new ones. If young people already appear in June, then there is too little starch in them; they cannot be effective.
Candles
One of the most effective means during pregnancy with hemorrhoids from potatoes is candles. In their form, they resemble pharmacies. For their manufacture, the knife blade and previously peeled tuber should be thoroughly washed with laundry soap. After that, cubes are cut from potatoes one and a half centimeters thick, and from three to three and a half centimeters long.
Make sure that they do not have sharp corners, as if the shape is irregular, the mucous membrane can be injured. Therefore, the sticks must be trimmed so that the candles are cylindrical. The diameter of the base should be about one centimeter.
As a result, several candles can be made from one tuber, which can be sent for storage in the refrigerator. You can use them for two to three days, no more.
Mode of application
Before placing candles from potatoes for hemorrhoids, be sure to empty the intestines. Ideally put an enema. Wash the anus thoroughly with household or baby soap.
Before going to bed, lie on your side, bend your legs at the knees. Take the pose that you usually have to take at a proctologist's appointment. Insert the candle to a depth of about one and a half centimeters. To make it easier to enter, you can dip it in sea buckthorn or olive oil, or use honey. All these products in their composition contain vitamin E and silicon, which have wound healing and antibacterial effects. Stay with a potato candle for hemorrhoids all night. In the morning, she should easily go out during a bowel movement.
This tool is recommended to be used daily at bedtime for two weeks. If possible, place candles in the morning and evening. Leave it for at least three hours in the morning. If hemorrhoids have not passed, repeat the course of treatment, taking a break of one month.
Lotions
Lotions are also effective. How to make hemorrhoids from potatoes, we will tell in this article. Just note that lotions will help you only with external hemorrhoids. A lotion is made overnight from raw potatoes, which are crushed on a grater or in a blender. This will help relieve pain effectively.
Squeeze out the resulting potato gruel and put it on cheesecloth, folded in several layers. Using a patch, attach the compress so that the grated potato covers all the sore spots and hemorrhoids. Place a piece of cellophane or oilcloth on top. The course of treatment is two weeks. After a break of seven days, it can be repeated. Potato lotions help well, preventing the prolapse of the intestine, healing the emerging cracks.
Sitting on a chair
According to reviews of potatoes from hemorrhoids, the method also helps, during which you should prepare a stool or chair in advance. For this method of treatment, we also need potato gruel, cooked in the same way as in the previous recipe.
Cover the chair or stool with oilcloth, and lay a piece of soft cloth on top. In total, two or three such pieces will be required. Take 12 medium sized tubers, peel them and wash with laundry soap. If you carry out the procedure in the fall, then you can not peel the potatoes, but just wash them thoroughly. Next to the chair, place a pot or bucket into which you will transfer the used pulp.
If the patient is an elderly person, then most likely he will not be able to cope on his own - an assistant will be required. Grind one potato in a blender or on a grater, and then put the resulting mass on a chair seat. The patient should sit in this gruel, maximally pushing the buttocks. Every quarter hour, cook a new tuber, changing the potato mass on the seat. In total, this procedure will take you three hours.
If necessary, it can be repeated after two weeks. If hemorrhoids are only in the initial stage, then it should pass after the first time.
Potato juice
Many people ask a reasonable question whether potatoes help with hemorrhoids. Judging by the reviews of patients who have already encountered such a problem, even potato juice is effective. Take it in two forms - inside and as a microclyster.
In both cases, only freshly squeezed potato juice should be used. Delay with its use is not worth it, you will have no more than a quarter of an hour after cooking.
If you are going to put microclyster, then empty the intestines first. You may need to do this with a regular enema. The microclyster itself based on potato juice is made with a syringe, into which 30 ml of potato juice is poured. It is not necessary to throw out the cake, it is better to also use it later for lotions. The full course of such treatment is ten days. After a break of one to two weeks, repeat the course.
Drinking potato juice
Healers say that potato juice is a proven tool that helps to effectively strengthen the walls of blood vessels.
In parallel with microclysters from potato juice, it is recommended to drink freshly squeezed juice of 100 ml for 30 minutes before each meal. Alternatively, pure juice can be a vitamin cocktail, in which you will need to add 50 ml of celery juice and another 100 ml of carrot juice to 100 ml of potato juice.
Steam baths
According to reviews of potatoes from hemorrhoids, steam baths help patients who decide to use alternative methods of treatment. These are the so-called "reverse inhalations."
Pre-potatoes should be washed thoroughly with laundry soap and a brush, and then peeled. Pour the peel in a small saucepan with cold milk, put on fire, bring to a boil, and then boil for three to five minutes.
The patient should crouch over the container with milk so that the vapor enters the inflamed area, but does not burn them. There are two options for how this can be implemented. For example, pour the peeled milk into a pan with a wooden lid. A hole with a diameter of about five centimeters should be made in it.
If the patient has an assistant, it will be convenient to transfer the milk into the kettle, and then send the steam from the nozzle to the hemorrhoidal nodes.
After the procedure, lubricate the anus with sea buckthorn or rosehip oil. Alternatively, use a cream with propolis or aloe. Such steam baths are recommended to be done no more than once a week.
Potato flower infusion
Another recipe is based on the infusion of potato flowers. It is allowed to drink infusion prepared from dried potato flowers instead of potato juice. It is important that they be dried in a dark room, and then stored in a place not accessible to light. This is a prerequisite, since in the light of potato flowers immediately lose almost all of their beneficial properties.
Two teaspoons of flowers every morning pour 350 ml of boiling water, then leave to infuse for two hours. Drink the infusion three times a day before meals, 100 ml.
This is another effective tool that can help with hemorrhoids, but only if the disease is in the initial stage. Otherwise, the ailment can be launched, it will go into acute or chronic form. Then it will not be possible without surgical intervention. Once again, we draw your attention to the fact that the use of any tool, especially related to traditional medicine, is allowed only after consultation with your doctor. He must approve this method, give practical advice.
Reviews about this tool are mostly positive, patients noticed the effect of the use of potatoes after a few days. But it is still better to consult a doctor in advance before starting treatment.