The legs suffer more from varicose veins.The part of the body farthest from the heart needs a rest regimen, supporting tired and weakened blood vessels.And we "use" our little feet until we see an enlarged superficial network, swelling, painful lumps with joints and lose sleep because of the pain.
Treatment of varicose veins with folk remedies is not an alternative to medications.Because the main drugs are based on plant materials.To cure a disease, it is useful to use the accumulated experience of traditional medicine.
Required properties
All methods used should eliminate or prevent the causes of varicose veins:
- improves the density and elasticity of the vascular wall of the veins;
- restoration of hanging valves;
- increased blood flow in the vessels of the legs due to the fluidity of the blood, reducing its clotting;
- prevention of blood clot formation and thrombophlebitis;
- have an anti-inflammatory effect;
- To relieve local edema, the diuretic property is useful.
For home use, you should choose medications that:
- easy to prepare and use yourself;
- do not have a toxic effect;
- Stores well in the refrigerator;
- can be grown on a window or in a country house, bought on the market;
- relatively cheap.
Treatment methods
All traditional methods of treating varicose veins are divided into general and local.
Common ones include a certain diet, baths, ingestion of infusions and decoctions.Many herbal medicines are used both internally and topically.
Local application is based on the use of lotions and compresses applied to the most painful area.You need to learn how to prepare ointments.
The duration of treatment courses is suggested by doctors from one month or more.Vacations of no more than a week are possible, replacing one product with another.
Diet for varicose veins
Doctors with extensive experience do not recommend starting therapy for varicose veins in the legs without a fasting diet.It should be followed for 5-7 days, regardless of the presence or absence of excess weight.
The essence of the diet: the exclusion of white bread, pastries, cakes, sweets, hot spices, alcohol, coffee, meat and fish dishes.Liquid is not limited.It is necessary to eat only vegetarian food: fruits and fresh juices as much as possible.Cranberries, blueberries, sea buckthorn and figs are considered particularly valuable.Two days later, rice porridge, buckwheat, fresh vegetables in a salad with vegetable oil and nettle soup are added.
This diet is recommended every month for 2-3 days.People with varicose veins in the legs are advised to completely avoid foods containing starch (bread and baked goods made from high-quality flour, boiled potatoes).You can boil potatoes in their skins and add bran to your food.
General treatment procedures
They have an effect on the whole body, normalize blood circulation.
bathrooms
Varicose veins can be treated with baths.Contraindicated in cases of thrombophlebitis and trophic ulcer.
The contents of the bath are prepared in advance: boil half a kilogram of oak, willow and chestnut branches equally for half an hour (this is best done in an enamel bucket).Then add 4 pharmaceutical packets of herbs to the solution (chamomile, twine, St. John's wort) and steam overnight.Separately in the morning, boil rye bread (3 loaves), filter and pour into the bath.
The procedure should be done before bedtime for about 40 minutes, the water temperature should be kept at 38-40 degrees.
For soda baths, you need to distribute a full bath package with water or 6-7 tablespoons per 5 liters for feet only.
You can prepare only willow bark (two handfuls of broken twigs in a three-liter pan), boil for half an hour.
For foot baths, two to three spoons of dry raw materials from crushed bark are enough;Herb grass (2 packets of 50 g each) is also recommended.
Combinations of plants are recommended: hazel leaves, birch, chamomile flowers, clover, hops, pine shoots.
After the bath, you should do a light massage from the bottom up, wear elastic socks and put your feet at a slight height.
Recommendations for internal use
Folk recipes for oral administration are very creative.They offer a medicine or a combination, decoctions, water infusions, alcoholic tinctures.The decoction is easier to prepare in a large thermos, preserving all the properties of a water bath.Must be strained before use.
- Infusion of Antonov apples- two or three small apples are poured with a liter of boiling water and wrapped for four hours.Then cook them and drink half a glass of decoction with honey on an empty stomach and at night.
- nettles- a well-known remedy for varicose veins.2-3 tablespoons of dry leaves are placed in a half-liter thermos of boiling water.For infusion, 40 minutes are enough.You should drink 1/3 cup an hour after meals.
- Alcoholic tincture of celandine- Sold in pharmacies, it is recommended to drink 9-10 drops with a spoonful of milk, before meals, three times a day.
- Soda solution— prepared before use (a teaspoon in a glass of warm water), it is recommended to drink in the morning and in the evening.
- Treatment with garlic and honey- Chop 250 g of garlic, mix with 350 g of honey, leave for at least ten days.It is recommended to take a tablespoon half an hour before meals.
- A decoction of a mixture of oak bark, willow branches and chestnutboil for half an hour, then add chamomile, St. John's wort, twine and leave for 12 hours.First drink 50 ml with honey, then 150 ml after two days.
It is recommended to combine the use of herbal medicines with baths and local treatment.The course of therapy lasts two months.
Local treatment
Local means an effect only on the pathologically inflamed area of the leg veins.
Use of liquids for creams
Local procedures in the form of compresses and lotions will require preliminary preparation of the necessary solution and oil.
- Apple cider vinegar- is considered a means to improve vascular tone.They rub it on painful areas with enlarged veins twice a day.For internal use, add two teaspoons to 250 ml of water.
- Potato juice- used to treat ulcers.The ground pulp is applied to the ulcer and bandaged, after five hours the bandage is changed.
- Cabbage leaf compresses- Helps relieve pain and inflammation from the skin.The leaf binds at night.
- Cone hop- Prepare a tablespoon for a glass of boiling water.Creams are applied from the prepared medicine or you are allowed to drink a glass before meals.
- wormwood- the leaves and flowers are used, they are ground into a paste, diluted with kefir and applied to areas with enlarged veins.
- TOMATOOnly those that are ripe enough should be used.Varicose nodes are sliced and covered with a bandage.After 3-4 hours, the compress is replaced with a new one.
Alcohol tinctures
Kalanchoe - used as an alcohol solution for rubbing.You need to prepare the solution correctly: after cutting, leave the leaves in the cold for 5-7 days, then grind them in a meat grinder, add vodka (you can use the volume as a guide, the Kalanchoe in the container should be 2 times smaller), leave it in the dark for another week.After filtration, the product can be used in the treatment of varicose veins.It is suitable for long-term storage.
An alcohol solution (2/3 of the plant material) is prepared from white acacia flowers and birch buds for a week to lubricate the skin over the diseased veins.
From Eastern medicine, the properties of Adam's apple are known to have a positive effect on the tone of blood vessels.
Green walnuts - crush them into small pieces and toss them in olive oil.You must stay in the sun for at least forty days.After which you can lubricate the affected areas.
A medicinal mixture of chamomile, St. John's wort, yarrow, calendula, oak bark and horsetail is recommended for cleaning trophic ulcers and relieving inflammation.
Horse chestnut is used both externally and internally.The leaves and flowers of the plant are used.For compresses, drink with water as tea.An alcohol solution is prepared for internal use.Keep it in a dark place for at least two weeks.Drink 30 drops before meals.
Adam's apple is the fruit of a rare maclura tree that grows in the southern regions.It should not be used internally, as the liquid is poisonous.An alcohol solution for grinding is prepared from the crushed fruit.It is recommended to keep it in the dark for a month.
How to prepare ointment at home
Ointment-based herbal medicines stay longer on the affected area and penetrate deeper into the area.For ointments, vegetable oils, decoction of flax seeds, lard and chicken fat are used.A concentrated herbal decoction is added to the molten, hot base.Simmer on low heat with stirring for five minutes.
Herbal mixtures are used with ointments;they should not be prepared every day: eucalyptus leaves, dandelion root, celandine grass, lemon balm, lilac flowers, clover, chamomile, calendula, fir needles.Everything is baked in equal amounts before being mixed with the oil base.
Such ointments should be stored in the refrigerator.Apply a thick layer to the skin using light rubbing movements.Cover with compress paper and a warm bandage.It is better to apply oil compresses at night.
Other treatments
Bee stings contain hirudin, which thins the blood and prevents the formation of blood clots.Bee treatment requires a mandatory sting in the external venous node.At first, the patient experiences pain and burning, these phenomena quickly go away by themselves, and with them the protruding venous nodes are removed.
Possible consequences
Folk remedies for varicose veins are not at all harmless.These are concentrated extracts from plants that have strong side effects when taken orally.This applies especially to people with diseases of the stomach and pancreas.Herbs affect the acidity of gastric juice.Therefore, their use can cause worsening of chronic diseases of the digestive system.
It is necessary to monitor allergic manifestations (itching on the skin, redness, swelling).If such symptoms occur, discontinue further use.
To use traditional methods, you need faith in medicine and patience.Few people pay attention to the recommendation to walk in thin cotton socks through the grass dew at dawn and not take them off until the feet are dry.This charming recipe brings out the best in nature.