As most doctors would say, the last and most desperate treatment for everything that causes physical pain to the human body is surgery. That means that you can always make use of the goodness that only nature can give like plants with medicinal properties to alleviate your suffering provided of course that you follow your doctor’s advice all the way.
Medications can work wonders on your body, yes, but utilizing natural remedies can also do the same with less damage to kidney and liver function. One of many nature’s secrets is using lemon balm to cure hemorrhoids or piles, along with other herbs and plant extracts that can also alleviate irritation and discomfort caused by swollen varicose veins in the rectal area.
Aside from lemon balm, you can also use mango fruits and leaves, milk thistle extract, Gotu Kola, yarrow, and plantain to treat hemorrhoids. These herbs are ideal if you only have a developing case of hemorrhoids, depending on their potency, these herbs can shrink and cut off blood supply from the piles. Surgery is only advisable if your piles turn into anal abscess or rectal prolapsed that can endanger your body by introducing bacteria to the blood stream that may later cause sepsis.
Its Latin name is melissa officinalis (from the lamiaceae family). Its common names are: lemon balm, balm mint and balm.
The practice of using lemon balm to cure hemorrhoids can be traced back many centuries ago. Herb-gatherers have long been using the leaves of the plant to shrink and reduce the swelling of hemorrhoids. It can be crushed and mixed into an unguent and applied to the affected area or made into tea for the patient to drink. These days, the herb is processed and made into soft gel capsules for oral use. Lemon balm is available in 500-mg capsules and it should be taken only once or twice per day.
Doctors also prescribe lemon balm to cure hemorrhoids in ointment form. It soothes inflammation and reduces the stinging pain that is accompanied by hemorrhoids. When applied to the affected area, it provides a cooling sensation to alleviate the literal and morbid ‘pain in the ass’.
Mango leaves on the other hand is brewed to make a tea or crushed to make a salve for curing hemorrhoids. The extract of the yarrow plant is also used to make tea in order to alleviate the symptoms off hemorrhoids such as inflammation of the rectal area. It also prevents constipation by preventing the reabsorption of water by the large intestines that can dry up feces. Yarrow is one of the ingredients in bulk-forming laxatives for smoother passage of stools.
Just bear in mind that the use of natural plant extracts to treat this disease is not enough if you don’t add more fiber to your diet. Hemorrhoids come and go with the right predisposing factors such as frequent constipation and straining during bowel movement. This condition can also bleed and when that happens, lemon balm and other plant extracts can’t alleviate your pain anymore. Bleeding hemorrhoids can only be remedied with surgery so try to be attentive about your body. Talk to your doctor for more information about hemorrhoids and how you can prevent and treat them.
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