The Great Potato Debate

This just in: We are now once again considering it safe to stick potatoes up our butts. Someone posted a good comment that said:

My 3 homebirth midwives with a combined number years experience exceeding 70, all recommend the potato. Amongst them personally they've birthed 14 children, so I'm sure they are speaking from personal experience, as well as experiences of mothers they've worked with. What you do is cut a raw potato in the shape of a suppository, insert it before bed, and poop it out in the morning. The potato will help the hemorrhoid deflate. 

Can't get more evidence-based than that. That's my side and I'm sticking to it.