Hemorrhoids and Homeopathy

Homeopathic remedies can help a person with symptoms of acute or chronic hemorrhoids.
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What Are Hemorrhoids?

The most common symptom of internal hemorrhoids is painless bright red blood covering the stool, on toilet paper, or in the toilet bowl. However, an internal hemorrhoid may protrude through the anus outside the body, becoming irritated and painful. This is known as a protruding hemorrhoid.

Symptoms of external hemorrhoids may include painful swelling or a hard lump around the anus that results when a blood clot forms. Excessive straining, rubbing, or cleaning around the anus may cause irritation with bleeding and/or itching, which may produce a vicious cycle of symptoms.

Cause of Hemorrhoids

• Constipation and Prolonged straining at stool
• Low fiber diet causing small caliber stool and straining during defecation.
• Sitting for prolonged period at closet.
• Hypertension mainly in portal vein.
• Obesity.
• Sedentary life style.
• Pregnancy causes hypertension and increases strain during bowel movements.
• Increased use of alcohol and caffeine.

Types of Hemorrhoids

• External hemorrhoids – occur outside of anal verge (distal end of anal canal)
• Internal hemorrhoids – occur inside the rectum.
• Prolapsed hemorrhoids – Internal hemorrhoids that are much distended and pushed outside anus.
• Strangulated hemorrhoids – If anal sphincter muscle goes into spasm and traps a prolapsed hemorrhoid outside the anal opening and supply of blood is cut.          

Homeopathic Remedies For Hemorrhoids

• Aesculus hippocastanum – Painful, blind or protruding piles of purplish color which is very sore with aching, burning and itching and a sensation of sticks or splinters in the rectum, rarely bleeding. Hard dry stool passed with difficulty and followed by a feeling of prolapse of rectum. Bleeding gives relief. This remedy is especially suitable to the form of hemorrhoids arising from portal congestion, abdominal plethora. They may or may not bleed, but there is a feeling in the rectum as of splinters or sticks. Other indicating symptoms are aching in the lumbar region, protruding purple piles with severe pains in the sacrum and small of the back and fullness in the region of the liver. Dryness, burning and itching are good indications. Hughes prefers Nux vomica and Sulphur in hemorrhoids dependent on congestion of the portal system.

• Aloe socotrina – When he blood passes like water from hydrant, piles protrude like bunch of grapes. Better by cold water, flatus with feces. Violent itching and burning in anus. Constantly putting finger in anus. Constant bearing down in anus; bleeding, soreness which gets relieved by cold water. Sense of insecurity in rectum when passing flatus. Lumpy, watery, jelly like stool. hemorrhoids protruding, very sore and tender. This is also a most useful hemorrhoid remedy. It is indicated where the piles protrude like a bunch of grapes, bleeding often and profusely, and are greatly relieved by the application of cold water. There is a very marked burning in the anus the bowels feel as if scraped. There is a tendency to diarrhea, with the well-known uncertain feeling in the lower bowel.

• Ammonium carb – Protrusion of piles after stools with long lasting pains cannot walk. 

• Apis – Hemorrhoids with stinging pain as if from the bite of honey bees and after confinement.

• Arsenic album – Burning pain and restlessness relieved by hot application. hemorrhoids burn like fire and skin around the anus gets excoriated. Painful spasmodic protrusion of rectum with severe tenesmus. Great exhaustion from least exertion with burning pains. Night aggravation of complains with restlessness and fear and fright. Hemorrhoids burn-like fire. Burning is relieved by sitting in hot water. Skin around anus ulcerated.

• Calcarea fluor. – Internal piles with constipation and backache. Much flatus in the colon. Bleeding piles with itching of anus, worse during pregnancy.

• Carbo veg. – Protruding piles, blue, even suppurating, offensive, swelling, burning in the rectum, oozing of fluid from rectum, flatulence; Itching, gnawing and burning in rectum. Soreness, moisture around anus at night. Discharge of blood with stool. White hemorrhoids with excoriation of anus. Bluish burning piles and paining after stool.

• Collinsonia can.–Sensation of sharp sticks in the rectum. Sense of construction. Painful, bleeding piles or blind piles. Hemorrhoids with most obstinate constipation. Constipation and piles during pregnancy-alternating with diarrhea.

• Ficus – Helps to stop bleeding when used as a tincture, when the blood is bright red.

• Ficus religiosa – Hemorrhage and hemorrhoids. Bloody hemorrhoids with bright red blood and pain, soreness, burning, itching and aching in rectum.

• Hamamelis – Painless bleeding followed by prostration which is out of all proportion to the blood lost. The blood is of dark color. There is anemia, breathlessness and weakness notwithstanding good appetite. Venous congestion and venous stasis are characteristics. Bruised soreness of affected parts. Passive hemorrhage from any part as piles. Hemorrhoids after confinement. Blood dark, profuse with soreness in the rectum, great weakness after bleeding.

• Hypericum – Bleeding piles. It is a very specific remedy.

• Kali carb. – Piles relieved by hard pressure like sitting on a horseback without a saddle. Hemorrhoids are large and swollen. Piles after child birth. Piles are painful, burning like fire and bleed copiously. Great distension and swelling inside. Fistula of the anus. Burning temporarily relieved by sitting in cold water or by cold application.

• Millefolium – Bleeding hemorrhoids. Blood bright red. Works better in tincture-5 drops a dose, thrice daily. Hemorrhage from bowels. Bleeding hemorrhoids and stool as well as urine is bloody. Blood is bright red in color.

• Mimosa – A single dose of 1x or 6x cures external piles. Its leaves made into a poultice with oil and tied on the anus causes immediate relief in pain and also causes receding of piles.

• Muriatic acid – Piles like bunch of grapes which look purple and burn when touched. Piles in children; protruding; reddish blue. Tendency to involuntary evacuation while urinating .hemorrhoids most sensitive to all touches, even sheet of toilet paper is painful. Anal itching and rectal prolapse while urinating. hemorrhoids during pregnancy, bluish, hot, with violent stitches.

• Nitric acid – hemorrhoids that have ceased to bleed, but very painful and hanging down loosely with sharp pricking pains in rectum. Great straining while passing stool and hemorrhoids that bleed easily. Hemorrhages from bowels and violent cutting pains after stools lasting for an hour after stool. Severe burning and stinging. Rectum feels torn and severe fissures in rectum. Severe exhaustion and irritability after stools.

• Nux vomica  –  One of the main remedies for bleeding or non-bleeding piles to be given when there is burning pain and constipation with ineffectual desire. If the hemorrhoids be large and blind, with a burning, stinging and constricted feeling in the rectum and a bruised pain in the small of the back, and especially if excited by sedentary habits or abuse of stimulants, then Nux may be prescribed with confidence. Itching hemorrhoids keeping the sufferer awake at night, relieved by cold water, or bleeding piles with constant urging to stool, and a feeling as if the bowel would not empty itself are further indications. Great sensitiveness of the anus cannot make use of the softest toilet paper; the piles are so sore and sensitive that the slightest touch is unbreakable.

• Paenoia – hemorrhoids with ulceration, the anus and surrounding parts are purple and covered with crusts, ulcers within the anus are very painful. The whole mucus membrane studded with ulcers and cracks. Biting, itching in anus that provokes scratching. Anal orifice swollen and burning in anus after stool then internal chilliness. Fistulas on the anus with painful ulcers. Purple hemorrhoids covered with crusts and severe atrocious pains with and after each stool.

• Phosphorus – Known for bleeding hemorrhoids and great weakness after stool. White, hard stool with discharge of blood from rectum each time with and after stool. Painless copious debilitating stools with very fetid stool as well as flatus. Green mucus with long, narrow, hard stool like a dog’s. Seems as if anus is open at all times. Blood from hemorrhoids is bright red in color and great debility co-exists.

• Pulsatilla – one of the best remedies in hemorrhoids. Passive congestion; blind hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids that bleed easily.

• Ratanhia – The rectal symptoms are most important. Aching in rectum as if full of broken glass. Anus burns for hours after stool and feels constricted. Dry heat at anus with sudden knife like stitches. Stools must be forced with great effort and thus hemorrhoids too protrude out. Fissures of anus with great constriction and burning like fire. hemorrhoids too burn and get relieved by cold water.

• Sulphur –This remedy corresponds to ailments producing hemorrhoids and to the troubles resulting from piles which have stopped bleeding, and as a result fullness in the head and uneasiness in the liver; constipation is present; a desire for stool and itching of the anus. Itching and burning of anus and piles dependent upon abdominal plethora. Frequent unsuccessful desire to go to closet. Stool hard, knotty and insufficient. Redness around anus with hemorrhoids oozing and belching.

• Thuja – Piles swollen and painful while sitting with burning pains in anus. Anus is fissured and painful to touch with many painful warts. Constipation with violent rectal pains causing stool to recede. Distended, indurations in abdomen and chronic diarrhea.

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