If you have swollen hemorrhoids, a sitz bath can help you reduce them and speed your recover. Fill a tub with warm or hot water. Use temperature that will not irritate your hemorrhoids. Fill it so water reaches your hips or stomach, 6-8 inches. Then add 22 drops of juniper and 22 of lavender essential oils into bath.

Stir in oils with your hand and then sit in bath with your knee raised for 10-15 minutes three times a day. This position helps to bring more blood into your hemorrhoid area, which brings in more nutrients and to pulls out toxic waste.

After 15 minutes, take a shower with water as cold as you can take.

After this sitz bath and shower, you can use one of herbal paste or ointments directly on your hemorrhoids and leave it on over night. Sitz Bath Using Shepherd’s Purse

The herb Shepherd’s Purse can be used in sitz bath. This herb is useful in treating hemorrhoids by reducing,

• Internal and external bleeding • Reducing blood pressure • Relieving hemorrhoids • Repairing wounds • Reducing prolapsed rectum

Here’s how to use it,

Use these herbs just long enough to give you hemorrhoid relief. Once you see that your symptoms have disappeared, stop using these herbs. Using herbs longer than necessary will make you less sensitive to power of these herbs, if you have to use them again.

Comfrey root powder

Comfrey powder comes from an herbal root that has plenty of allantoin. This herb is a powerful acting herb that is anti-inflammatory and stimulates formation of new skin. It can also cause hemorrhoids that are outside on anus to shrink and pull back. This makes comfrey powder an effective hemorrhoid remedy.

Here’s how to use it.

Buy powder and not liquid. Make a paste by mixing it with olive, fish, or flaxseed oil. Apply paste directly onto your anus and surrounding area. You can apply it at night and your morning shower will remove it.

Fresh comfrey leaves or roots are best to use. However, you can get precut and dried comfrey root and leaves from a health food or herb store. If you use dried leaves, you can put them into a coffee grinder to create a powder. Use this powder to create a paste with oils.

Gotu Kola

Gotu Kola is an Indian herb that is a hemorrhoid remedy. Use an extract that has 70% triterpenic acid since this is active ingredient.