Heaviness in the legs, edema of the lower extremities, muscle spasticity, and an appearance of a network of blood vessels are all signs of varicose veins. If any of these signs appear suddenly, treatment should be started immediately. How to treat varicose veins at home? What folk methods effectively support in repelling the disease that many women have recently suffered?
Treatment of varicose veins with physical activity
Many people with varicose veins think that the disease is not suitable for physical activity, but they are very wrong. Of course, there's no risk in doing extreme sports or traumatic sports, and conversely, moderate exercise is beneficial. Swimming, walking and jogging give very good results. As for home treatment, here are a few exercises that will help, which will not take much time, but will avoid serious consequences. The main thing to remember is that exercises will help in the early stages, the more advanced the disease, the more difficult it is to cure.
Varicose veins can only be cured with exercises that involve the muscles of the legs. Doctors have developed a special program for ideal results:
- For the first exercise, you need a tennis ball. At any free time, sitting in front of the TV or just relaxing, roll it with your feet. This not only relaxes the muscles, but also normalizes blood flow in the veins.
- Place a thick book on the floor and place your feet so that your heels are on the floor. Slowly raise your toes and stand still for a few seconds, then lower to your heels. Do this exercise 15 times.
- In a prone position, raise your legs to a 90-degree angle. Stretch the calf muscles, take a deep breath, exhale, and gradually bend the knee joint. Do this movement for about 5 minutes, in this position you can rotate your feet in one direction, then rotate your legs in the other direction.
- Alternatively, in a prone position, you can pedal with your feet on an imaginary bicycle.
- Lie on your stomach and alternately raise your legs as high as you can. Keep them as high as possible.
Performing these exercises once a day can cure varicose veins. But not only exercises will help in treatment, water procedures are also very effective.
Water procedures for varicose veins
Treatment of varicose veins at home is also possible with water procedures. Simple actions can be very effective:
- Soak your feet in cold water as soon as possible. This can be done not only at home, but also at the gym or in the water while watering the beds.
- Sit in front of the TV in the evening, soaking your feet in cool water, but for maximum effect, add a decoction of sage, chamomile or oak bark.
- Don't want to shower, just wipe your feet with an ice pack.
- A contrast shower not only gives energy for the day, but also perfectly strengthens the veins.
- Swimming in swimming pools, in the summer in rivers and lakes will help fight varicose veins.
Treating varicose veins with physical activity or water procedures will not completely cure the disease. There are many folk methods associated with the use of herbs and tea leaves.
Medicines in the treatment of varicose veins
The fact that our ancestors treated diseases with topical medicines, infusions and healing tea leaves is no longer a secret to anyone. Nowadays, more and more people prefer treatment with folk remedies. Varicose veins can also be cured with herbs, the main thing is to choose the right collection and prepare an infusion from it. Here are some effective recipes that have been tested for decades and have helped a lot of people.
- Boil 600 ml of water. Take the roots of witch hazel and neem in equal proportions. Put them in hot water and soak for 12 hours. Drink once a day, 200 ml.
- Grind 25 g of hops. Pour 250 ml of boiling water on top, then heat in water bath for 15 minutes. This decoction should be taken before each meal.
- Combine 350 g liquid honey and 250 g minced garlic together and soak for 2 weeks. Drink 1 teaspoon. half an hour before meals.
- Horse chestnut flower or fruit tincture helps to treat varicose veins. Grind 50 g of chestnuts and pour 500 g of 40% vodka. Emphasize 2 weeks. Take 40 drops three times a day. This tincture can be used as a foot rub.
- Nutmeg tincture is prepared as follows: 100 g of seeds are poured into 500 g of vodka and infused for 10 days. Then filter and drink 30 drops 30 before meals.
- 25 g of crushed insects pour into a cup of boiling water, boil for a few minutes and drink three times a day, half a glass each time.
- Half an hour before the next meal, it is recommended to drink apple cider vinegar, 50 g per glass of water.
Herbs are not only used internally, they also act as compresses:
- Apply honey-soaked cabbage leaves to the areas of the legs where they feel the most discomfort or where the network of blood vessels can be seen. Tie cabbage leaves with cling film for better effect, you need to incubate for 2 to 4 hours.
- A clay compress is very effective in treating varicose veins. Feet should be smeared with clay, wrapped with gauze and left for 1 hour.
- Very good in the treatment of varicose veins helps white clay. It can be used not only outside, but also inside. There is some calcium in it, but it penetrates the blood better. External use clay in compressed form is an excellent anti-inflammatory agent.
- Kalanchoe tincture helps to treat varicose veins. She needs to massage her legs, this way, in a very short time, you can get rid of the pain. Fresh leaves need to be crushed, poured with 40-degree vodka and steeped for 7 days.
- Lemon slices in the form of a compress placed on the aching leg area will help reduce varicose veins. Lemons are wrapped in paper and bandaged and kept for at least 2 hours.
- Compress fresh potatoes. Rub the tubers on a fine planer, apply a thin layer to the legs and cover. Keep the same day, but every 4 hours you need to change the compress with a new one.
- Crush wormwood grass and pour yogurt, the resulting mixture is used to cover bandages and wrap legs.
- Three apples are poured with boiling water, the Antonovka variety is best suited for this, insist 3 hours and prepare mashed potatoes. Leave the ice cream for five days and get the apple sauce for the same time. Then take a five-day break and the course is repeated.
Treatment of varicose veins with folk remedies at home is not only with decoction and decoction. Ointments containing medicinal herbs also help very well and you can cook them yourself at home.
Ointment in the treatment of varicose veins
Ointments containing horse chestnut help prevent and treat varicose veins. Its action is based on the content of substances contained in it that can thin the blood and open the capillaries.
Very good results in the treatment of varicose veins show hydrogen peroxide. It is used according to the Neumyvakin method: a 3% solution is administered intravenously or orally, but only a special program is used.
But at home, peroxide is used as a lotion. A medicated gauze pad is applied to the leg in the most uncomfortable area and kept for at least 20 minutes.
Apitherapy is also considered another home remedy for varicose veins.
Treatment of varicose veins with bees
Apitherapy - bee treatment has a local and general effect on varicose veins. And it doesn't matter whether it's superficial or internal varicose veins. The bee sting will start the regeneration process - new cells are born to replace old cells that have worn out and lost their properties. Thus, valves are formed to strengthen the walls of blood vessels.
But it should be remembered that bee stings are not shown to everyone: pregnant women and people with heart disease should not be used categorically.
It's not just bee stings that help varicose veins. Dead bee tincture is also very effective. You need to take it drop by drop for a very long time, from 1 to 6 months. Alcohol contains substances found in the body of bees.
It should also be remembered that not all procedures will help him, there are procedures that are contraindicated in the treatment of varicose veins.
What procedures are contraindicated for varicose veins?
- With varicose veins, any heat procedure is completely contraindicated: warm compresses on the shin and UHF.
- People with varicose veins are not forbidden to go to steam rooms and solariums, but it is better not to abuse these procedures.
- Overheated legs lead to the fact that the vessels dilate, and this condition aggravates the disease.
- Prolonged exposure to the sun dilates blood vessels.
There are many folk remedies that effectively support the treatment of varicose veins. But it is worth remembering that they are the best support in the initial stage, if the disease has progressed, in these cases only drugs can help, surgery. That's why if you have at least one of these symptoms, get treatment urgently.