Sitz bath is a popular method of soothing the painful symptoms of hemorrhoids. This is also one of the easiest healing treatments that you can do at home to aid the healing from the itching and burning of hemorrhoids. But before taking this kind of treatment, it is important to include some herbal preparations to improve the healing process.

A sitz bath is just a simple bath that you sit in to lessen the swollen and irritated tissues located around the rectum and anus from the effects of prolapsed hemorrhoids. Aside from healing hemorrhoids, this type of bath is also ideal for other conditions such as perineal tears after child birth. It aids the healing of the sutures in the vaginal and anal areas. But let’s just concentrate on the important things to know in treating hemorrhoids through sitz bath.

There are many sitz bath with herbal hemorrhoid recipes available either as a prepackaged or you can put them together yourself. Sitz bath will help reduce the hemorrhoid symptoms and hasten the recovery. Just fill the tub with warm and hot water. Choose the temperature that will not irritate your hemorrhoids. Fill the tub with water until it reaches your hips or stomach. Then add 22 drops of juniper and also the same number of drops of lavender essential oils. Stir the oils with your hand and then sit in the tub with your knee raised for around 10-15 minutes at least thrice a day. Doing this will bring more blood into the affected area and will also bring in more nutrients and eliminate the toxic waste.

Aside from juniper and lavender oils, the herb Shepherd’s Purse can also be used in sitz bath. This is especially beneficial in treating hemorrhoids by reducing internal and external bleeding and blood pressure, relieving hemorrhoids, repairing wounds, and reducing prolapsed rectum. To use this herb, you need to place 1 ounce of shepherd’s purse in two quarts of distilled water and let it sit for at least 12 hours. When morning or evening comes, boil the mixture for 2-3 minutes and then strain it. Pour the said mixture into a sitz tub or a full bathtub. Stay in the tub for around 20 minutes and do this 2-3 times a day.

Witch hazel is also a good recipe for a sitz bath. To prepare this, get a small tub, container or basin that you can sit in and add some warm distilled water. Add at least 1 cup of witch hazel liquid to the water. Sit in the small tub for as long as you can and do it as often as needed. In just 3 to 4 days, your hemorrhoids will be gone. You can also opt to freeze the witch hazel into small ice cubes and wrap them with a cloth. Press the cloth with the ice cubes against the hemorrhoids for 10-15 minutes every hour. This will help lessen the pain and swelling of the hemorrhoids.

You can choose from the different herbal hemorrhoids recipes offered in this article and rest assured that you get the best results. However, you need to use the sitz bath remedy only for the time you need to get rid or get relief from your hemorrhoids. Using the herbs longer than necessary can cause the condition you’re trying to get rid of worst. After the sitz bath and shower, you can also use one of the herbal pastes or ointments directly on the hemorrhoids and leave it overnight.

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