Author: Steamy Chick

Published: November 3, 2016

Updated: May 2024

When it comes to natural alternatives to fibroid treatment vaginal steaming is an ancient practice that has been gaining a lot of attention. A gentle therapy that involves sitting over herbal steam it has a lot of appeal for users because it is natural, doesn’t have side effects and can be done at home. It also feels nice. So much so that it’s a popular spa treatment. But could vaginal steaming actually work?

I set up a little experiment in my kitchen to find out.

Based on a concept from Traditional Chinese Medicine that fibroids are congealed phlegm, I tried to think of something that might behave like how phlegm does – liquid at times but congeals into a hard substance when dried out. I decided to use shoe goo – a type of glue used to on leather.

I took shoe goo and spread it all over the sides of a glass jar and added a big glob at the bottom. I let it dry for 48 hours and then placed the jar on a metal rack with a pot of boiling water underneath. In a matter of two minutes all of the glue had entirely melted and the jar was perfectly clean. Pretty quick results. Actually, way faster than I had anticipated. So we know that steam can melt glue really quick. But how would this work in the uterus?

Sitting over steam can easily impact the outer genitalia by direct contact but fibroids are up higher in the uterine cavity. So can steam get up higher into the uterus to influence the fibroids? I created a second experiment to try to find out.

This time I repeated the experiment as before but added a piece of pleather with a tiny slit (1/8 of an inch) over the metal rack. I placed the jar with dried glue over the slit. Doing the experiment in this way a lot less steam was able to get into the jar. After a couple minutes I saw signs of condensation on the side of the jar and that was the only way I knew that some steam was making its way through the slit. After about five minutes the glue was clearly melting and passing back out through the small opening. But very slowly. I continued for 30 minutes (the average amount of time for a vaginal steam session). At the end of 30 minutes about 1/2 of the glue in the jar had melted and drained out through the slit. Definitely a lot slower but still pretty impressive.

In the case of the second experiment a tiny bit of steam was perhaps getting into the jar but I think the main reason the dried glue melted was because the heat touching the bottom of the jar heated up the walls of the jar everywhere which in turn melted the glue.

In the case of a vaginal steam it’s possible this same principle applies. The steam which heats up the outer genitalia introduces heat which then heats up the rest of the uterus increasing heat (and circulation) throughout the uterine cavity.

Although this isn’t a perfect experiment to emulate a fibroid in the uterus, it shows the process and the potential of using steam to liquidize fibroids. It appears that they might be able to melt right out.

A midwife shared an experience she had with her client where she was able to experience first hand the benefits of vaginal steaming. After three steam sessions within one months time the cleint’s fibroid shrank from five centimeters to two and a half centimeters which was confirmed through ultrasound. Astonishingly quick results.

Colon hydrotherapist Monisha Garner has also seen such success. After nine weeks treating a client with two fibroids the size of an apple, Garner’s client went to the gynecologist for a checkup and was pleasantly surprised to find out that both fibroids were entirely gone.

Antoinette C. of San Diego treated her fibroids by steaming at home. She reports that two of her fibroids actually fell out in the toilet. “Bitches,” she addressed them, “it has been a long journey, lessons have been learned, it’s time for you to go your own way,” she said as she flushed them gone forever.

About the Author

Keli Garza has a Masters degree in International Development graduating cum laude. Garza is the owner of Steamy Chick and the founder of the Peristeam Hydrotherapy Institute.