Natural ideas, options and diet recommendations

Constipation

The old saying 'Prevention is better than cure' needs to be applied to constipation!

Daily ritual

• Each morning start the day with a glass of warm/hot water with a squeeze of lemon added.
• Then gently massage with some oil in a clockwise direction over the abdominal area.
• Then make a habit of sitting on the toilet every morning for at least 10mins.  Do not strain but wait patiently. If no result  you may get the urge later in the day.
• But also repeat the warm drink/ massage routine tomorrow morning.

Natural constipation Treatments

• Drink 2 litres of warm or hot water daily, not cold.
• Try hot prune juice or lemon juice in hot water half an hour before breakfast
• Eat plenty of fruit like Kiwifruit/ kiwicrush from most supermarkets.
•  Make your own muesli with oats, seeds, nuts, linseed etc. Soak over night and pour off liquid.
• Or add LSA mix 1 desert spoon full to your cereal every morning.
• Avoid adding Bran as this absorbs too much fluid and can create dry stools.
• Take Probiotics or Slippery Elm powder which keep the gut healthy.
• 1 tsp freshly ground linseed with 1 tsp ground psyllium seed hulls with each meal is an excellent treatment for constipation
• Omega 3 fish oils 1000mg - 2000mg daily.

Haemorrhoids

Natural Haemorrhoid Treatments.

• Sit in a warm bath up to hips for 10-15 minutes at least twice a day. If there is minor bleeding after stool and considerable pain, Epsom salts may be added to the water.
• Drink 1-2 cups of stinging nettle and oat straw infusion per day. Nettle infusion is helpful for bleeding haemorrhoid's.
• Apply witchazel, or after a warm bath, apply Wizard ointment from Lincoln Mall Pharmacy or Weleda Haemorrhoid ointment. 
• If haemorrhoid's do not bleed, try cold compresses. Soak a sanitary pad in cold water and put in the freezer. Once frozen place on haemorrhoid anal area and lie on your side for 10-20mins.
• Exercise regularly.
• Yoga can be an especially helpful as well as pelvic floor exercises. Gentle walking for 20mins a day helps the circulation throughout the whole body including helping to create regular bowel movements.

Homoeopathic Treatments.

• Nux Vomica 
  • If you are hooked on laxatives and need to break the habit.
  • Characterised by itching
  • Symptoms are better from cool bathing. 
  • Discharge of light blood after evacuating bowel.
  • Constant ineffectual urging to stool.
  • When your Haemorrhoids protrude and feel like a bunch of grapes by your anus.

If you require repeated doses, see your homoeopath for constitutional treatment.

• Sulphur 
  • You may have ineffective urging to pass a stool but do not seem to be able to go
  • Burning at anus, alternating with diarrhoea.
  • Your stools are hard, dark, dry
  • painful to pass stool due to rectal fissure or 'crack'
  • Itching and burning around the anus is made worse by bathing.
  • When it all becomes worse by rubbing or standing.
  • Becomes worse at night.
• Alumina
  • Difficulty passing stool, even if the stool is soft and sticky
  • Stools hard, dry, and covered with mucus
• Bryonia
  • Stools pass with great difficulty.
  • You are irritable and ill-tempered
  • You have a large thirst for drinks of cold water
• Nat rum Mur
  • Hard crumbly stool that causes rectal bleeding and soreness
  • Contractions of the anus, bleeding and pain
• Graphites
  • When there is no urge to pass a stool.
  • May go for days without bowel movement and when it finally comes it takes the form of round balls stick together with mucus and is painful to pass
  • The person who needs graphites is often obese
• Aescules
  • Burning sensation in the rectum.
  • Dull ache in the lower back and sharp shooting pain upwards.
  • The lining of the rectum seems swollen and obstructs the passageway.
  • The haemorrhoids look like a bunch of purple grapes.
  • Worse from moving, standing or walking.
  • Worse in the morning.
• Arnica
  • Useful for haemorrhoids that develop after childbirth.
  • Heals damaged tissue.
  • Do not apply Arnica lotion or ointment take tablets orally.
• Collinsonia
  • Sensation of sticks in the rectum.
  • Usually constipated.
  • Worse from cold, better from heat.
• Nitric acid
  • ​​​​​​​Haemorrhoids feel like needles or splinters in the rectum and bleed easily.
  • Pain after stool lasts for hours.