Heaviness in the legs, swelling of the lower extremities, muscle spasms and the appearance of a vascular network are signs of varicose veins. If any of these signs appear suddenly, treatment should be started immediately. How to treat varicose veins at home? Which of the folk methods effectively help in the fight against the disease, from which many women have recently suffered?
Treatment of varicose veins with physical activity
Many people with varicose veins believe that this disease is incompatible with physical activity, but they are very wrong. Of course, engaging in extreme or traumatic sports is not worth the risk, and moderate exercise, on the contrary, will benefit. Swimming, walking and light running showed very good results. When treating at home, here will help some exercises that do not take much time, but avoid serious consequences. The main thing is that exercises help in the initial stages, the more the disease begins, the more difficult it becomes to cure.
Varicose veins can only be cured by exercises that involve the muscles of the legs. Doctors have developed a special program that has shown ideal results:
- For the first exercise you need a tennis ball. In any free time, sitting in front of the TV or just relaxing, roll it with your foot. This will help not only relax muscles, but also normalize 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 stand on your toes and freeze for a few seconds, then lower yourself onto your heel. Do this exercise 15 times.
- Lie on your stomach and raise your legs at a 90 degree angle. Tighten the muscles in the calves of the legs, take deep breaths in and out, and gradually bend the knee joints. Do this for about 5 minutes. In this position, you can rotate your foot one way, then the other.
- You can also pedal your feet on an imaginary bicycle while lying on your stomach.
- Roll onto your stomach and alternately raise your legs as high as you can. Hold her as high as you can.
If you do these exercises once a day, you can cure varicose veins. But not only exercises help with the treatment, water treatments are also very effective.
Water procedures for varicose veins
Treatment of varicose veins at home is also possible using water procedures. Simple measures can be very effective:
- Pour cold water over your tired feet as soon as possible. This is not only possible at home, but also in the gym or in the country when watering the beds.
- If you're in front of the TV in the evening, make a cool foot bath, but to maximize the effect, add decoctions of sage, chamomile, or oak bark herbs.
- Don't feel like swimming, just wipe your feet with a piece of ice.
- A contrast shower not only provides energy for the whole day, but also perfectly strengthens the veins.
- Swimming in the pool, in the river or lake in the summer will help in the fight against varicose veins.
Treating varicose veins with physical activity or water treatments will not help to completely cure the disease. There are many folk methods associated with the use of herbal teas and tea leaves.
Medicinal herbs in the treatment of varicose veins
It is no longer a secret to anyone that our ancestors treated diseases with lotions, infusions and tea leaves made from medicinal herbs. Currently, 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 tried and tested for decades and have helped a large number of people.
- Bring 600ml of water to a boil. Take hazel root and arnica in equal parts. Put in hot water and leave for 12 hours. Take the infusion once a day, 200 ml.
- Grind 25 g hops. Pour 250 ml of boiling water over it, then heat in a water bath for 15 minutes. This brew should be taken before every meal.
- Mix 350 g of liquid honey and 250 g of chopped garlic and leave for 2 weeks. Take 1 tsp. half an hour before meals.
- A tincture of horse chestnut fruits or flowers helps with varicose veins. Grind 50 g of chestnut and pour 500 g of 40% vodka. Insist 2 weeks. Take 40 drops three times a day. This tincture can be used as a rub on the legs.
- Nutmeg tincture is prepared as follows: 100 g of nut is poured into 500 g of vodka and infused for 10 days. Then filter and take 30 drops 30 before meals.
- 25 g of crushed hop cones are poured into a glass of boiling water, boiled in a water bath for a few minutes and taken for half a glass three times a day.
- Half an hour before the next meal, it is recommended to consume apple cider vinegar, 50 g per glass of water.
Herbs are not only used internally, they are also effective as compresses:
- Apply cabbage leaves smeared with honey to those places on the legs where the greatest discomfort occurs or the vascular network is visible. So that the effect is better, tie the cabbage leaf with plastic wrap, and you need to keep such a compress from 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.
- White clay helps very well in the treatment of varicose veins. It can be used not only outside but also inside. It's low in calcium, but it penetrates the blood better. External application of clay in the form of a compress is an excellent anti-inflammatory agent.
- Kalanchoe tincture helps with varicose veins. She has to rub her legs, this way you can get rid of pain in a very short time. Fresh leaves need to be crushed, poured with 40 degree vodka and insisted for 7 days.
- With varicose veins, lemon slices in the form of a compress, placed on sore spots on the legs, will help. The lemon is wrapped in paper and bandaged and kept for at least 2 hours.
- Fresh potato compress. Rub the tubers on a fine grater, apply a thin layer on the legs and connect. Keep the day, but every 4 hours you need to change the compress for a fresh one.
- Grind grass wormwood and pour sour milk, apply the resulting mixture to the bandage and wrap the legs.
- Three apples are poured with boiling water, the Antonovka variety is best for this, insist 3 hours and prepare mashed potatoes. Put lotions in for five days and take applesauce for the same time. Then a break of five days and the course is repeated.
Treatment of varicose veins with folk remedies at home is possible not only with tinctures and decoctions. Ointments containing medicinal herbs, which you can prepare yourself at home, also help very well.
Ointments in the treatment of varicose veins
Horse chestnut ointments help prevent and treat varicose veins. Its action is based on the content of substances that can thin blood and open capillaries.
Very good results in the treatment of varicose veins showed hydrogen peroxide. It is used according to the Neumyvakin method: a 3% solution is administered intravenously or orally, but only a special scheme is used.
But at home, peroxide is used as a lotion. A swab soaked with it is applied to the legs where the discomfort is most felt and kept there for at least 20 minutes.
Apitherapy is also considered another method of treating varicose veins at home.
Treatment of varicose veins with bees
Apitherapy - treatment with bees has a local and general effect on varicose veins. It does not matter whether the varicose veins are superficial or internal. A bee sting starts the regeneration process - new cells are born to replace the old ones, which are already worn out and losing their properties. This is how valves are formed that strengthen the walls of the blood vessels.
However, it is worth remembering that bee stings are not shown to everyone: pregnant women and people with heart disease should not be used categorically.
Not only bee stings help with varicose veins. Dead bee tincture is also very effective. You need to take it drop by drop over a very long period of time, from 1 to 6 months. The tincture contains substances that are in the body of the bee.
It is also worth remembering that not all procedures will help him, there are those that are categorically contraindicated in the treatment of varicose veins.
What procedures are contraindicated for varicose veins?
- With varicose veins, all thermal procedures are completely contraindicated: warming compresses on the shins and UHF.
- It is not forbidden for people with varicose veins to visit steam rooms and solariums, but it is better not to abuse these procedures.
- Overheating of the legs causes the vessels to dilate, and this condition significantly aggravates the disease.
- Prolonged exposure to the sun relaxes the walls of the venous vessels.
There are many folk methods that effectively help in the treatment of varicose veins. But it is worth remembering that they help best at the initial stage, when the disease is already running, in these cases only medicine can help, surgical. Therefore, urgently start treatment if you have at least one of the symptoms.