Varicose veins are successfully treated in the early stages and at home. Help with the combined treatment provide folk remedies, massage, gymnastics. We will look at the most effective home methods for getting rid of varicose veins.
Varicose veins most commonly affect the lower extremities. Excessive stress on the legs strains and damages the vascular walls, which can lead to venous blockage and ulcers.
Folk remedies for varicose veins
Folk remedies for the treatment of venous insufficiency have been used by our ancestors for hundreds of years. Many medicinal herbs contain substances that are part of modern expensive medicines.
You can use folk remedies only after consulting a doctor.
In the early stages of the disease, varicose veins are always easier to treat.
The most effective folk remedies for treating varicose veins:
1. Horse chestnut
Active ingredients from chestnut strengthen the walls of blood vessels, prevent the formation of blood clots in them and promote the resorption of already formed ones. It is also used for phlebitis and hemorrhoids.
chestnut tincture
Take 25 g of chestnut flowers or fruits, pour 250 ml of vodka (ratio 1: 10). Put the bottle or jar with the product in a dark place and do not forget to shake it every day. Insist 14 days. Take the resulting infusion of 40 drops 3 times a day for at least 2 weeks. Also, with improvement, you can continue treatment, but reduce the daily dose by 2 times.
Can be usedChestnut tincture and externallyrub sore legs. This helps reduce heaviness in the legs and improve circulation. Many ointments and creams for varicose veins contain chestnut extract.
2. Apple cider vinegar
Apple cider vinegar contains important trace elements, vitamins, organic acids. They lubricate the dilated veins on the legs. Vinegar cools, tightens skin and capillaries. Better than anythingrub it into the varicose veinsPiece of cotton morning and evening.
Can doGauze wraps with vinegar:cover your feet with wet napkins, wrap plastic bags over them and hold for an hour.
vinegar compress- an alternative to wrapping. Dip a towel in apple cider vinegar, place it on your feet and leave it on for 20 minutes. Legs should be slightly raised, you need to lie on your back.
allowed toRinse feet with bite solution(for 1 glass - 3 liters of water) after the shower, without wiping, so that they dry by themselves. Repeat the process several times a day.
3. Recipe for varicose veins (from Vanga)
- Recipe number 1.To prevent varicose veins, you need to walk in dew every morning at dawn in natural socks. If the socks are completely wet, you don't need to take them off. The dew should dry by itself.
- Recipe number 2.Drizzle unripe walnuts with oil, preferably olive oil. Leave the mixture in the sun for 40 days. Rub the feet with the resulting product. It is important to use everything to the end.
4. Leeches
Leeches for varicose veins have long and widely been used. Leeches produce a special substance - hirudin. It prevents blood from clotting, thins the blood and prevents blood clots from forming.
Hirudotherapy will help get rid of varicose veins and even completely get rid of spider veins. Many ointments for varicose veins contain hirudin. It is not worth using leeches alone. It is better to contact a phlebologist and undergo hirudotherapy (5-6 sessions), repeated after 3-4 months.
In one session, 4-5 leeches are attached to the most problematic place and along the vein. You don't need to be afraid of the surgery. It is completely painless and the effect will exceed all expectations.
5. Nutmeg
Tincture with nutmeg is one of the most powerful means of treating varicose veins and thrombophlebitis.
200 g of nuts are grated, pour 1 liter of vodka, insist 2 weeks. Take 25 drops of tincture three times a day. But be careful: Nutmeg contains toxins and powerful hallucinogens. The dose must not be exceeded.
6. Treatment of varicose veins with peroxide
With varicose veins and thrombophlebitisSwab applied with peroxidefor 20-25 minutes to the affected areas and ulcers. It is very important to keep this time, because the usual peroxide rinse does not give such a good result.
In addition, specially developedPeroxide solution is administered intravenously. It has been proven that washing the veins with a solution of peroxide cleans the walls of blood vessels from blood clots and eliminates varicose veins. However, this procedure is performed only by a specialist!
7. Treatment of varicose veins with honey
In addition to being a delicious treat, honey is a powerful anti-inflammatory multivitamin. Honey is used externally for healing trophic ulcers and resorption of venous nodes.
- honey compress. Apply a thin layer of honey to a towel or canvas, wrap your legs and cover with additional polyethylene and another towel for insulation. The first procedure lasts 2 hours, the subsequent - 4 hours or more.
- Infusion of honey with garlic. Take 250g of crushed garlic and 350g of honey. Mix and leave for a week. Then take a tablespoon at least 3 times a day before meals.
Massage for varicose veins
Massage for varicose veins has a beneficial effect on the skin of the legs, smoothes it, improves blood circulation and tissue trophy, relieves the network of lymphatic capillaries and venous vessels. Contraindications to massage are heart disease, serious problems with blood vessels, complications of varicose veins and trophic ulcers. The massage is carried out under medical supervision.
Massage techniques for varicose veins are in a special order. The patient lies on his back, legs slightly raised. First massage the thighs and buttocks, then the legs and then the feet. Feet are stroked and rubbed.
Compression underwear for varicose veins
For the prevention and treatment of varicose veins, special underwear is made - stockings and stockings. Stockings are good because they don't compress the back of the knee area. But for the summer, golfs are better because they are not hot. It is important to navigate not only according to your taste, but also according to the situation and the severity of the disease. In any case, high-quality compression underwear benefits. In such stockings and gulfs it is comfortable, the legs tire less in them, a massage effect occurs.
Exercises for varicose veins
In order to prevent the development of varicose veins, it is important to avoid strong static loads. If you are sedentary, you should walk more. Swimming helps a lot. If you get very tired at work, your legs hurt and "hum" at the end of the day, you need to relax, lift and support them regularly.
Here are some effective exercises for varicose veins:
- Raise yourself onto your toes so that your heels are 1 cm off the floor, then drop them sharply to the floor. So 20 times, with a break of 20 seconds. Do a total of 3 repetitions.
- Sit in a chair, lift your legs up and make circular movements with your feet. Alternately pull the socks away from you and toward you.
- Sitting on a chair, without taking your toe off the field, raise your heels (15-20 times). After that, without tearing off the heels, raise the socks and pull them towards you.
- Lying on your back, do the "bike" exercise bike. Feet must make at least 100 scrolls.
- Lying on your back, do the same movements with your legs as described in paragraph 3.
Apply our proven recipes, follow the doctor's instructions and you can get rid of varicose veins quite successfully, if not permanently, at least significantly reducing the risk of their further development.