Chronic anal fissure

Hey Jdele.

In order to select the correct remedy for your condition, you will need to post some more information about your case, then a prescription can be given based on the totality of your symptoms etc, as only this will completely cure the condition, rather than just alleviate the symptoms.

This is though, only one symptom. In order to select the best suited remedy, we need to know more about YOU, what kind of person you are, your temperament, what you do for a living, what other ailmets you suffer from on a regular basis, what problems you have had in the past, any traumatic events etc etc.

The more detail you give, the better the chance of finding the correct remedy.

Also, out of interest, how are you supplementing the protein in your diet. in the absence of meat or fish?

you could try sepia or phosphorus. take in 30c potency twice a day for some days.

Dear Jdele.

Thankyou for the additional information.

You say you are a Vegetarian, how are you supplementing your dietary protein in the absence of meat or fish?

Also, you say you do not go out in the sun that often, is this through choice or circumstance? If through choice, please explain.

Okay, but Tofu is not a complete protein. Like any pulse product it needs to be combined with other foods to provide all 8 essential amino acids. Are you also eating lots of other beans and pulses, wholegrains and nuts etc? Do you eat ANY animal (complete) protein at all?

The reason this is so important to your case in particular, is that if you are not getting adequate protein, particularly the amino acid Lysine, the body, incuding the skin, will not be able to heal itself properley, and chronic fissures etc can be the result. Such a diet by the way, could also have been the cause of your anaemia, as this is very, very common amongst vegetarians, due to the diet providing only limited amounts of certain vitamins and minerals.

Giving a remedy if the cause of the condition lies in the diet will provide only temporary relief, and may even aggravate it, which is why it is important to rule this out first.

I'll await your answers.

What kind of problems did you suffer from as a child?

Okay, well there is really not much to prescribe on here, so you have one of two options:
1/. Treat the problem as a long standing acute, which it may well be, using such remedies as ratanhia, and aesculus, or even Collinsonia or Nux Vom, selecting the best match for your symptoms and temperament.
or 2/. if this fails to cure the condition, treat this at a deeper level using chronic remedies, the most frequently indicated of which for your condition being: Nitric Acid, Petroleum, Graphites and Silicea. When chosing a more chronic remedy it is important to select that which is the closest match to your particular personality as well as the physical symptoms suffered from. There are many good books giving 'portraits' of these remedies, many of which are available online.

I hope this helps.

The general rule is only one remedy should be given at a time. Start low, a 6c, and then move on to the next potency if there is improvement but this is either limited, or lasts only for a short time. I would not go higher than a 200c without advice. Remedies are best given in liquid form, 30% alcohol, 3 drops in a small bottle of mineral water, a small sip as a dose. Refridgerate the bottle between doses, and discard the solution after use. If you prefer, you can simply take a short sniff from the actual remedy bottle for each dose instead, which is actually much easier.

For acute remedies the dosage is as follows: one dose three times daily for three days only, stopping before this if there is improvement or aggravation.

For chronic remedies: one dose 3 times on one day only.

Two books I would recommend would be Margaret tylers 'Drug pictures', and Gibsons 'Portraits of Homoeopathic Remedies'. There are a number of such books reproduced online, just type the name of the remedy into a search engine. There is also an alphabetical list of remedies available on this site. The best way though is to cross reference from many sources.

I hope this helps.

A Chinese medicine doctor gave me a wonderful, gentle cure for my chronic anal fissure:

Hodges Herbary Comfrey Hand Salve (a small tin $7.00 Canadian) and Yunnan Paiyao (a small bottle of powder - less than $5.00)

Put a little powder on the palm of your hand and mix it with the comfrey salve to form a paste. Put the paste into the rectum.

What it does is create a barrier between the bowel movements and the fissure giving it time to heal.

For me, a miracle cure as I'd tried everything up until then save for the surgery.

Be well.

Hi, I also have a chronic fissure since January. I've been using a calcium channel blocker called diltiazem prescribed by my doctor. Passing stools caused the muscle to start spasms. Rest of day is ruined. Calcium supports muscle spasming. So blocking calcium supposed to relax muscle. Doctor says generally takes 6 weeks to heal. I'm in my 5th week and maybe only feel 10% better. Dread using the bathroom will ruin rest of day. Anyway interested in this chinese cure. JDELE did you try? and to CathrynJ does it burn?

Hello Jdele,

I have gone through all your posts on this site. Can you please let me if your fissure problem gone? I am facing exactly same issue since 2 months, please help me if you have any remedy available with you.

Thanks.

Hi - I've been suffering from an anal fissure for almost two years. It got so bad that I could no longer work and no pain killers that I took (including Tylenol 3) would help the intense pain. I thought that I was overreacting to the pain even though I felt it was extreme. I don't think anyone believed how much pain I was in, so I stopped telling people what was wrong with me. Thankfully I found similar stories on the internet and realized I wasn't going crazy. I finally found a specialist who confirmed (the most painful experience of my life) what I already knew and prescribed Diltiazem cream. I've only been applying it for a few days and even though the pain during bowel movements can still be painful, the extreme pain that I felt a couple of hours afterward that lasted for 5-6 hours does not occur anymore. I went to work for a full 12 hour shift today and I'm very hopeful that this might be the end of my misery. I just hope that nobody else has to go through the feeling that they are alone with this problem. Take it from me - it IS very painful, so ignore people that might dismiss your problem.

Let me start by saying how much I feel for you poor people, having suffered from this painful affliction for years I know exactly how you all feel. My story has a happy ending thanks to a great naturopath. Fifteen months ago I was at my wits end with this problem having gone through all off the shelf ointments and exploratories I was worse than ever and the pain for about six hours after a bm was intense and I dreaded going to the loo.

I visited a naturopath and she prescribed me mineral therapy to promote natural healing, I took these tablets for a couple of months in conjunction with a home made witch hazel based cream. This helped the pain a lot and was gettin much better but it had not healed totally. I then came across this herbal remedy called 'heal fissures' from amoils , I mixed the bottle with the witch hazel cream and applied it twice a day. Within days I was fissure free.

Twelve months on I still apply the cream on ocassion if I have had a difficult bm.

Hope this helps you too.