Treatment of hemorrhoids in antiquity. In the seventh century. A.D. the monk Fiacro proposed a "soft" treatment compared to those generally in use
In this post, which refers to the Middle Ages, I wrote about how much and why to suffer from hemorrhoids at the time it was not a walk at all:https://www.pilloledistoria.it/8681/medioevo/medicina-medievale-cosi-si-curavano-le-emorroidi.
A brutal “tear” (in the hope that the doctor was skilled enough with his hands) or a red-hot iron, they were roughly the only possibilities patients had to try to heal and heal (which was far from obvious, given that sometimes, the pain of the moment aside, it only made the situation worse).
If red-hot iron was the preferred technique already proposed by the medical school of Hippocrates (V century BC), it is true that just over a thousand years later Fiacro, Irish monk who lived in the 7th century AD, had proposed a decidedly less bloody solution: sit on a hot stone.
However, if and how much this soft against hemorrhoids it worked, we do not know.