subject: Hemorrhoid Treatment-How You Can Cure Hemorrhoids With The Right Diet [print this page] A high fiber diet comprising mainly of fruits and vegetables should form the major part of your meals if you want to eliminate and prevent constipation which is the usual precursor to the onset of hemorrhoid symptoms. (Click here to know how to cure the symptoms of hemorrhoids permanently)
If you want to use bran or other bran cereals as your high fiber food supplement you should add it slowly to your diet, you should increase your intake of bran or other bran cereals over a couple of weeks.
If you want to use natural sources of high fiber meals like fruits and vegetables you can add them freely to your diet without too many concerns. However, you may experience more gas for a week or two, before your stomach gets used to the new diet. (Click here to know more about 5 vegetables and fruits that if used once weekly can prevent hemorrhoids permanently)
These are some common sources of high fiber foods that you can use:
-Juices
Juices are good for hemorrhoids but especially dark berry juice mixed with equal parts of apple juice. The dark berry juices to use are, Cherries, blackberries, blueberries. These berries contain "anthocyanins" and "proanthocyanidins" which reduce hemorrhoidal pain and swelling by toning and strengthening the hemorrhoidal veins.
Drink at least one glass of this juice mixture each day.
-Red and Black Currant Berries
Currants are high in Vitamin C, rutin, and minerals. This makes their juice valuable in clearing hemorrhoids. The also have a small amount of the fatty acid GLA, which produce prostaglandin that help to reduce pain.
Drink 1 -2 glasses a day of red or black currant berries.
-Foods items that is rich in iron:
These food items that are rich in iron help to build up blood and they increase the iron reserve of the body.
Chicken liver, steamed crab
Kelp
Prunes
Dried apricots
Sunflower seeds
Pistachios
Cashews, almonds, sesame seeds
Baked potatoes
Cooked Swiss chard
Raisins
Cooked broccoli
Tuna
-Cantaloupe
Cantaloupes are a very good source of fiber foods, they are also rich in minerals and vitamins. It has a high beta-carotene level and has anti-blood clotting properties.
-Ginger, Garlic, and Onion
These three herbs should be added to your hemorrhoid diet. They have a fibrinolytic property, that is they help to break down excess fibrin in the blood. Fibrin is a type of protein that helps to initiate healing in damaged tissues of the body. However excess fibrin in the blood can lead to the formation of blood clots in the blood vessels, and these in turn can worsen the symptoms of hemorrhoids.
Drink 1 -2 glasses a day of red or black currant berries.
-Oils
At every meal, use olive oil, flax seed oil, and apple cider vinegar in your salad. In your soups, use olive and flax seed oil or other food dishes where they is appropriate. You can also take a capsule of fish oil after each meal.
Fish oil is probably one of the most important oils to use daily. Fish oil is very rich in polyunsaturated fats which help to prevent excessive clotting of blood, also the type of cholesterol available in fish oil is heart friendly making the heart pump blood around the body more efficiently.
-These following foods help to reduce hemorrhoidal bleeding:
Alfalfa
Dark green leafy vegetables
Blackstrap molasses
Flax seeds - are high in omega-3 oils, which reduce inflammation and pain. They are also high in fiber.
Lima and butter beans are high in iron, which help to build more blood. If you have bleeding hemorrhoids, adding lima beans to your diet would be a good choice.
Hemorrhoid Treatment-How You Can Cure Hemorrhoids With The Right Diet
