At present, there are many kinds of hemorrhoid medicines on the market, such as tablets and pills for oral use, suppositories, ointments and patches for external use, and so on. In the face of a wide variety of hemorrhoidal drugs, many people often do not know how to choose. In fact, when choosing hemorrhoid medication, the first thing to do is to treat the symptoms, especially some oral hemorrhoid medication. Hemorrhoids are generally divided into internal hemorrhoids, external hemorrhoids and mixed hemorrhoids. Among them, external hemorrhoids or anal fissures are more often used ointment, which can be applied directly to the local affected area, to relieve the symptoms of the therapeutic purpose. Internal hemorrhoids are classified into I, II and III degrees. For I degree, II degree non-surgical treatment period of hemorrhoids with mild symptoms, you can choose the drug conservative treatment. For early thrombosed external hemorrhoids, surgical treatment is more effective. Generally speaking, internal and mixed hemorrhoids advocate intra-anal administration of medications, such as various suppositories. It should be noted that the use of ointment for internal hemorrhoids requires the use of an injector to inject the ointment into the anus, so as to ensure effective treatment. Most of the internal Chinese medicines for hemorrhoids have the effects of clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling blood and relieving pain, and dispersing wind and moistening dryness. However, the ingredients are different and their corresponding symptoms are also different. For example, the ground elm acacia pills, generally used for dry stool, bleeding, or local redness and pain in the anus, patients with inflammation; and hemorrhoids tablets, focusing on clearing heat and fire, like some of the bitter mouth, constipation of the patients can choose. For the treatment of hemorrhoids oral drugs because to be absorbed through the stomach and intestines, so part of the drug can not play a role, may be destroyed by gastric acid or digestive enzymes, or the gastric mucosa caused by direct stimulation, increasing the burden on the liver, while the effect of the drug to reach the diseased area also need a longer time. The suppository or ointment is directly on the hemorrhoidal area, absorption is naturally much faster than oral, the effect can be greater play. There is also a patch on the market to treat hemorrhoids in the form of medication. This patch dosage form is the active ingredient of the drug attached to the patch, through the umbilical skin absorption, thus improving blood circulation, promote intestinal peristalsis, so that the bowel movement, reduce perianal pressure, to achieve the therapeutic purpose, the use of a relatively convenient a lot. However, as the drug components are not directly on the affected area, but to be absorbed and blood circulation, and therefore may lead to a part of the drug failure. The hemorrhoid medications that currently dominate the market are: chemohemorrhoidal suppository, Ma Yinglong Hemorrhoidal Cream, Jiuhua Hemorrhoidal Suppository, Rongchang Anal Tai and Tai Ning. Because the Chinese medicine oral class hemorrhoid medicine mostly has the effect of clearing heat and fire, the medicine is bitter cold: therefore, the spleen and stomach weak person and pregnant women, children are best not to use. In the clinic, the doctor is more respected hemorrhoid patients with external medicine, mainly because of its local medicine, side effects are smaller. However, before using topical hemorrhoidal drugs, first of all, carefully read the instructions to understand the use of methods and drug contraindications. Whether you use suppositories, ointments or patches for topical treatment, you need to do a good job of local cleansing before using the medication. First use warm water or saline to clean the local area, when the condition is more serious, you can also use potassium permanganate water (1:5000 ratio,), take a sitz bath, clean the local area, and then use the medicine. When using the patch, it is also necessary to clean the navel with water before applying the patch.