The main "provocateurs" of varicose veins are a long stay on the legs, excess weight. Patients are not allowed to take hot baths, sauna, long stay in place, high heels. This disease lies in wait for many engaged in power, heavy sports. Heredity also matters.
The onset of the disease is characterized by painful sensations and slight swelling of the veins; in the next stage, the disease causes more discomfort: muscle cramps and fatigue appear, skin color changes, nodules appear. In neglected cases, venous inflammation and thrombophlebitis begin. The disease goes into a form dangerous to life.
Therefore, it is best to start treating varicose veins at the very beginning of the disease, in this case, to reduce symptoms and stop the development of the disease can almost always.
For the treatment of varicose veins, both traditional methods of treating varicose veins and traditional medicines are used. As is often the case, among folk remedies there are many years of proven methods of treatment, effectively helping to get rid of the symptoms of beginning varicose veins. Folk methods are not reflected negatively on the work of the kidneys and liver, and sometimes they have a general strengthening effect on the body as a whole.
Since ancient times, varicose veins have been treated with a variety of natural remedies. Some of them were applied externally, others - inward. Recipes and ways to treat the most effective remedies that alleviate the symptoms of this disease have survived to this day.
Lotions, compresses, ointments are very diverse, in the treatment of this ailment a large number of medicinal plants, oils and other substances are used.
For example, as one of the methods, thinly chopped pieces of pork lung were applied to the veins for ten days. To apply to the affected areas, slices of fresh ripe tomatoes were also used.
Sick sites also smeared with oil , which was infused with walnuts. This oil must be kept in the sun for forty days and then applied.
Freshly known potato is a well-known universal treatment for varicose veins. It is rubbed on a grater, the resulting gruel is applied with a centimeter layer on the sore spots. The resulting compress is covered with gauze, bandage and change every four hours. Potato juice can be drunk.
Just like a mixture of grated raw potatoes used crushed fern, mixed with kefir or bitter wormwood.
Often, besides lotions in the treatment of varicose veins are widely used. For their preparation, there is the following recipe: four tablespoons of willow bark pour boiling water, heat on a small fire for 15 minutes. Sometimes the bark of willow is mixed with the bark of oak. Baths are made not only for feet, in the healing broth they dip their legs to the knee. Such baths relieve fatigue and pain.
In recipes for external use, also mentioned Kalanchoe, birch buds, horseradish leaves.
Some apply such therapeutic methods of veins: gauze bandages moistened with Aloccasia tincture are applied to diseased veins, topped with Vishnevsky ointment, covered with polyethylene, with a soft cloth, and fixed with elastic bandage. This compress is held for 3 days, making sure that the ointment does not dry out. Such compresses are done five times.
A common remedy for compresses is cabbage leaves , oiled with honey. They are put on their feet from the feet to the groin, fixed with a bandage and covered with polyethylene. Do a few 10-day treatment courses, which are repeated after 10 days of rest.
Of the means used inside is known tincture of horse chestnut . To make it, insist 100 g of chestnut flowers in 1 liter of vodka for two weeks in the dark and warm. Tincture is taken three times a day for thirty drops for 4 weeks. Experts agree that this tool reduces blood clotting and strengthens the walls of the capillaries and veins.
The decoction of hazel leaves possesses the same properties. In May, they gather the blossoming leaves, pour boiling water and stand for two hours. Take such a decoction four times a day for half a cup before meals.
Medicinal plants are also used in the treatment - nettle, hop (cones), celandine, rue. Prepare tinctures of these plants, pour 2 tablespoons of herb with boiling water and heating in a water bath for 15 minutes. Some of the infusions include mint, motherwort, nightshade, propolis.
It is equally useful to use a Ntonov apples . Preliminary, they are poured with boiling water, wrapped, held for 4 hours. Then the apples are kneaded and filtered. The resulting infusion should be stored in the refrigerator and taken with honey. It is believed that pectin, which is rich in apples, cleanses the blood well with thrombophlebitis.
The simultaneous use of both outside and inside apple cider vinegar also has a beneficial effect on the body. Vinegar rubbed into the skin of the affected area is added to the water. It is recommended to drink two glasses of water with two teaspoons of vinegar, dissolved in it.
It is useful to include in the diet blueberries, cranberries, figs, as well as sea buckthorn. A common medicine is a mixture of honey and garlic. To make it, 250 g of garlic is ground in a mortar (you can grate), pour 350 grams of honey, mix and insist for a week. The resulting mixture takes 1 table. l. 3 times a day for half an hour before meals for 1-2 months.
To prevent this disease is easier than to treat it. Recommendations are familiar to everyone: for the prevention of varicose veins like many other diseases, you need to move more, swim, exercise, eat right. On the table should be present more fruits and vegetables, less fatty and spicy, and also alcohol.