Varicose veins are successfully treated at an early stage and at home. Help with combined treatment will be provided by folk remedies, massage, gymnastics. We will look at the most effective home methods to get rid of varicose veins.
Varicose veins most often affect the lower legs. With excessive load on the legs, the walls of the vessels become tense and damaged, which can cause vein 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 ingredients that are part of modern expensive medicine.
You can use folk remedies only after consulting a doctor.
In the early stages of the disease, varicose veins can be treated more easily and simply.
The most effective folk remedies for the treatment of varicose veins:
1. Horse chestnut
Active substances from chestnuts strengthen the walls of blood vessels, prevent the formation of blood clots in them and promote the absorption of already formed ones. It is also used for phlebitis and hemorrhoids.
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Take 25 g of chestnut flowers or fruits, pour 250 ml of vodka (proportion 1: 10). Put the bottle or jar with the product in a dark place, don't forget to shake it every day. Confirm 14 days. Take the resulting infusion of 40 drops 3 times a day for at least 2 weeks. Further, with an increase, you can continue the treatment, but reduce the daily dose by 2 times.
Can be usedchestnut colored and externallyrub a sore leg. This will help reduce weight in the legs, improve blood 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, refreshes the skin and capillaries. The best thingrub into varicose veinsa piece of cotton in the morning and evening.
Can dowrap gauze with vinegar:cover your feet with a wet towel, wrap a plastic bag on top and hold for an hour.
Compressed vinegar- an alternative to bandages. Dip a towel in apple cider vinegar, place it on your feet and leave it for 20 minutes. Legs should be slightly raised, you need to lie on your back.
canrinse feet with bite solution(for 1 glass - 3 liters of water) after showering, without wiping, so that they dry themselves. Repeat the procedure several times during the day.
3. Recipe for varicose veins (from Vanga)
- Recipe number 1.To avoid varicose veins, every morning at dawn, you need to walk in the dew in natural socks. When the socks are really wet, you don't need to take them off. The dew should dry on its own.
- Recipe number 2.Drizzle unripe walnuts with oil, preferably olive oil. Put the mass under the sun for 40 days. Rub your feet with the resulting product. It is important to use everything to the end.
4. Leeches
Leeches for varicose veins have been used widely and for a long time. Leeches produce a special substance - hirudin. It prevents blood clotting, thins the blood and prevents the formation of blood clots.
Hirudotherapy will help get rid of varicose veins and also completely get rid of spider veins. Many ointments for varicose veins contain hirudin. It is not worth using leeches on their own. It is better to contact a phlebologist and take a course of hirudotherapy (5-6 sessions), which is repeated after 3-4 months.
In one session, 4-5 leeches are attached to the most problematic places and along the veins. There is no need to fear the procedure. It is completely painless, and the effect will exceed all expectations.
5. Nutmeg
Tinted with nutmeg is one of the strongest remedies for the treatment of varicose veins and thrombophlebitis.
200 g of grated nuts, pour 1 liter of vodka, insist for 2 weeks. Take tincture 25 drops 3 times a day. But you should be careful: nutmeg contains strong toxic and hallucinogenic substances. The dose should not be exceeded.
6. Treatment of varicose veins with peroxide
With varicose veins and thrombophlebitisrubs with peroxide are usedfor 20-25 minutes to the affected areas and ulcers. It is very important to maintain this time, because ordinary peroxide rinses do not give such good results.
In addition, specially designedperoxide solution is given intravenously. It has been proven that washing the veins with a peroxide solution cleans the walls of blood vessels from blood clots, helping to get rid of varicose veins. But this procedure is carried out only by specialists!
7. Treatment of varicose veins with honey
Honey is not only a delicious treat, but also an anti-inflammatory drug, a powerful multivitamin. Honey is used externally for the healing of trophic ulcers, absorption of venous nodes.
- Compressed honey. Apply a thin layer of honey to a towel or canvas, wrap your feet, and cover with additional polyethylene and another towel for insulation. The first procedure lasts 2 hours, the next - 4 hours or more.
- Honey infusion with garlic. Take 250 g of crushed garlic and 350 g of honey. Mix and incubate for a week. After that, take a spoonful at least 3 times a day before meals.
Massage for varicose veins
Massage for varicose veins has a good effect on the skin of the legs, smoothing it, improving blood circulation and tissue trophism, unloading 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. Massage is carried out under the supervision of a doctor.
The massage technique for varicose veins is in a special massage. The patient lies on his back, his legs are slightly raised. First, massage the thighs and buttocks, then the legs, and then the feet. Feet are rubbed and rubbed.
Compression underwear for varicose veins
To prevent and treat varicose veins, special underwear is produced - socks and stockings. Stockings are good because they do not squeeze the popliteal fossa area. But for summer, golf is better, because it is not hot. It is necessary to navigate not only according to your taste, but also according to the condition and severity of the disease. Either way, high-quality compression underwear will do the trick. It is comfortable in such socks and golf, the legs are less tired in them, the massage effect occurs.
Exercise for varicose veins
To prevent the development of varicose veins, it is important to avoid heavy static loads. If you have a sedentary job, you should walk more. Swimming helps a lot. If at work you become very tired, your legs hurt and "buzz" at the end of the day, you need to take frequent breaks, lift them and support them.
Here are some effective exercises for varicose veins:
- Rise with your toes so that your heels are 1 cm off the floor, then drop sharply to the floor. So do 20 times, with a 20 second break. Do 3 repetitions in total.
- Sit on a chair, lift your legs and make circular movements with your legs. Pull the socks alternately away from you and towards you.
- Sitting on a chair, without removing your toes from the field, lift your heels (15-20 times). After that, without tearing the heel, lift and pull the sock towards you.
- Lying on your back, do the "bicycle" exercise. The legs need to do at least 100 scrolls.
- Lying on your back, do the same movements with your legs as described in paragraph 3.
Apply our time-tested recipe, follow the doctor's prescription and you can succeed, if not permanently get rid of varicose veins, then at least significantly reduce the risk of further development.