Title: To Heal Tears and Stitches
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To help heal tears to the perineum, take comfrey sitz baths as directed below several times a day for at least five days. Drink a tea made of equal parts of comfrey and nettle for a week or two to help repair any internal damage. (See the Materia Medica for cautions regarding comfrey. If you do not wish to use comfrey, oat straw can be substituted.)

S I T Z B A T H S To do a sitz bath you will need two large buckets. They need to be big enough to hold your buttocks comfortably, yet must fit inside your bathtub or shower. Plastic buckets are more comfortable than metal ones. Fill one bucket with hot, hot water. For added benefit you can make an herbal tea to add to the hot water. The other bucket needs to be filled with the coldest water possible. You might need to drop a few ice cubes into the cold water to keep it really cold.

Now, get ready. Carefully ease your buttocks into the hot water. The water should be almost uncomfortably hot, but not so hot that you burn! Sit for several minutes and just when it starts to get comfortable, transfer your hot, pink buns to the cold bucket. It will be shocking. Force yourself to sit there for several minutes. And just when it begins to feel tolerable--you've got it--back into the hot bucket. Repeat this process five to six times, several times a week. Just in case it sounds too tortuous, it really doesn't feel that uncomfortable, and the benefits are certainly worth it.

You may find it helpful to keep an atomizer containing comfrey tea with a little aloe vera gel in it next to the toilet. Before urinating, squirt a little of the tea over the stitches to keep the urine from stinging. (The tea should be made fresh every couple of days.) Comfrey salve is helpful too, though you should not apply it for the first day or two, as the stitches need time to dry. For a comfrey salve recipe, see the St. John's Wort Salve in the Hemorrhoids section.

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