Horse Chestnut for Treating Hemorrhoids

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When over the counter ointments don't work on your hemorrhoids, try relieving the pain that you are feeling using horse chestnuts. Yes, horse chestnuts are known to have ingredients that can cure hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids like varicose veins, the veins are seen as bulging or swelling. Most likely the blood cannot pass through the veins causing it to swell.

Horse chestnuts are widely popular in Europe and many people resort to this herbal remedy in treating hemorrhoids. How horse chestnuts can help cure hemorrhoids? According to study, horse chestnuts have flavonoids and saphonins, the effective substances that makes it a potent remedy for hemorrhoids. These two substances help the blood flow go smoothly thus relieving the inflammation. It also helps strengthen the blood vessel walls.

For relief of hemorrhoids, you can take the horse chestnut seed extract internally in tincture or capsule form. Some experts would also recommend using the horse chestnut extracts during sitz bath.

However using horse chestnut as a cure does not apply for everyone. Other people may have an allergic reaction to horse chestnut so they can't use it as a cure for hemorrhoids. Also if you have bleeding disorder or if you are taking blood thinners, you should not take a horse chestnut.

You have also to take note that other parts of the plant is poisonous so you have to be careful to take only the or the products that are made from the seeds or bark of the young branches. But for hemorrhoid treatment, horse chestnuts are one of the effective herbal cures.