Sitz bath with juniper and lavender oils

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

Add the oils by hand, and then sit in the bath with your knee raised for 10 to 15 minutes three times a day. This position helps bring more blood to the hemorrhoid area, bringing more nutrients and removing toxic waste.

After 15 minutes, take a shower with the coldest water you can.

After this sitz bath and shower, you can use one of the herbal pastes or ointments directly on your hemorrhoids and leave it on overnight.

Sitz Bath with Shepherd’s Purse

Shepherd’s Purse herb can be used in a sitz bath. This herb is useful in the treatment of hemorrhoids by reducing,

* Internal and external bleeding
* Reduce blood pressure
* Relieve hemorrhoids
* Wound repair
* Reduction of the prolapsed rectum

Here is how to use it,

Place 1 oz of shepherd’s bag in two quarts of distilled water and let sit for 12 hours. In the morning or in the evening, boil this mixture for 2-3 minutes and then strain it. For liquid in a seat tub or full tub. Stay in the bathtub for about 20 minutes and do this 2-3 times a day.

After the sitz bath, take a cool shower to stimulate blood circulation in the hemorrhoid area.

witch hazel and a sink

Prepare a small tub, bowl, or container that you can sit in and add some warm distilled water. Add 1/4 cup of the witch hazel liquid to the water. Sit in the small tub for as long as you can, and do it as often as you can. This will relieve your hemorrhoids in 3 to 4 days.

Or, you can freeze witch hazel in a small ice cube, then wrap it in cheesecloth and press it against your hemorrhoids for 10-15 minutes every hour. This will reduce the pain and inflammation of your hemorrhoids.

Use the sitz bath only for as long as you need to remove or relieve your hemorrhoids. Remember that using herbs for longer than necessary can cause the condition you are trying to eliminate.