Inserting a potato up your butt

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Doctors would like to remind you: "There is no medical evidence that putting frozen potatoes inside the anus can help cure [hemorrhoids]."

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The UK edition of Reader's Digest has published a list of nine home remedies for treating hemorrhoids, which is good news for anyone in the overlapping Venn diagram of "Reader's Digest subscribers" and "People unaware of pharmacies." Some of the magazine's suggestions include holding a warm teabag against your butthole while you're sitting on the toilet (which, as a side note, might be the saddest mental image that can be conjured of any living person); applying Vicks Vaporub "to the outside of the anus"; and grating a raw potato, making a poultice out of it, and holding a wad of wet potato against that same general area.

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