Natural Cures for External Hemorrhoids
Experts tell us that in the developed world about 40% of the adult population will have problems with hemorrhoids at some time in their lives. If hemorrhoids are giving you problems, don’t feel that you are the only one. Far from it! You have lots of company!
Hemorrhoids are not contagious, they are environmental in origin, although there are some genetic influences. To avoid getting Hemorrhoids you need to change the things in your environment that would cause them. This means, primarily, that you need to eat a high-fiber diet and avoid sitting for long times without getting up and moving around.
If you already have hemorrhoids it would be best to look for a treatment for bleeding hemorrhoids that leads to an effective way to heal hemorrhoids and is part of or contributes to your final, total, permanent cure.
That means that you want to be mainly looking for a cure for hemorrhoids, not just something to give you quick relief from the pain or other problem of the moment.
Contrary to what some of the purveyors of over-the-counter short-term relief products would have you believe, hemorrhoids can be treated, shrunk, healed and gotten rid of. You do not have to buy a short-term relief product every week for the rest of your life. Unless you opt for that “solution”. And why would you want to when you can get long-term, permanent relief by curing your hemorrhoids and getting rid of them?
Short-term solutions are only… well, short term. Your real goal should be to healing and curing your hemroids then eliminating or modifying whatever conditions helped cause them, so you do not get a re-occurrance of the problem.
Disclaimer: Nothing in the above explanations is intended to be or represented to be or should be construed to be any form of medical advice. The information herein has been gleaned from medical journals, news articles in the popular press and other freely-available public sources. It is presented here for informational purposes only. For any medical advice the reader is urged to consult with his or her licensed physician or other medical specialist.
Contributed by Jonathan J. Jones