Patients with hemorrhoids should never apply salt water to soak because it tends to irritate the rectum and the mucous membrane around the hemorrhoids, which can easily aggravate the condition or even have adverse consequences. Clinically, you can use 0.9% saline for cleaning and wiping, but you should not soak yourself with self-blended saline because you cannot grasp the effective concentration of saline, which can be too high or too low and cause irritation to the mucous membrane of the hemorrhoid, leading to local edema or pain and other symptoms. You should take a sitz bath with potassium permanganate to reduce inflammation and swelling and sterilization, which is ideal for treating hemorrhoids, along with herbal ointments, including Ma Yinglong hemorrhoid suppositories and TENA suppositories, which are ideal for treatment.