Heaviness in the legs, swelling of the lower extremities, muscle spasms and the appearance of a vascular network are signs of varicose veins. If one of these signs suddenly appears, treatment should be started immediately. How to treat varicose veins at home? Which of the folk methods effectively helps in the fight against the disease that many women have recently suffered from.
Treatment of varicose veins with physical activity
Many people with varicose veins think that this disease is not compatible with physical activity, but they are very wrong. Of course, it is not worth the risk when you do extreme sports or traumatic sports, and moderate exercise will, on the contrary, be beneficial. Swimming, walking and light jogging showed very good results. As for home treatment, a few exercises will help here that will not take much time, but will avoid serious consequences. The main thing to remember is that exercises will help in the initial stage, the more the disease starts, the more difficult it will be to cure it.
Varicose veins can only be cured by exercises involving the leg muscles. 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 to relax the muscles, but also to normalize the 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 rise up onto your toes and freeze for a few seconds, then lower onto your heel. Perform this exercise 15 times.
- Taking a lying position, raise your legs at an angle of 90 degrees. Pulling the muscles in the calves of the legs, take a deep breath and exhale, gradually bending the knee joints. Do this for about 5 minutes. In this position, you can rotate the foot in one direction, then in the other.
- You can also pedal your feet on an imaginary bicycle while lying down.
- Roll onto your stomach and alternately raise your legs as high as possible. Hold them as much as you can.
Doing 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:
- As soon as possible, pour cold water on your tired feet. This can be done not only at home, but also in the gym or in the countryside while watering the beds.
- Sitting in front of the TV in the evening, make a cold foot bath, but for maximum effect, add decoctions of sage, chamomile or oak bark.
- Do not bathe, just wipe your feet with a piece of ice.
- Contrast shower not only gives energy for the whole day, but also perfectly strengthens the veins.
- Swimming in a pool, in the summer in a river or lake will help fight varicose veins.
Treatment of varicose veins with physical activity or water procedures will not help to completely cure the disease. There are many folk methods associated with the use of herbal infusions 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 treated 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 large number of people.
- Boil 600 ml of water. Take hazelnut root and arnica in equal proportions. Add them to hot water and let it stand for 12 hours. Take the infusion once a day for 200 ml.
- Grind 25 g of hops. Pour over 250 ml of boiling water, then heat in a water bath for 15 minutes. This decoction should be taken before every meal.
- Mix liquid honey 350 g and chopped garlic 250 g and let it stand for 2 weeks. Take 1 tsp. half an hour before eating.
- A tincture made from the fruits or flowers of horse chestnut helps with varicose veins. Grind 50 g of chestnuts and pour over 500 g of 40% vodka. Insist for 2 weeks. Take 40 drops three times a day. This tincture can be used as a foot rub.
- Tincture of nutmeg is prepared as follows: 100 g of nuts are poured into 500 g of vodka and infused for 10 days. Then filter and take 30 drops 30 minutes before meals.
- Pour 25 g of crushed hop cones with a glass of boiling water, boil in a water bath for a few minutes and take half a glass three times a day.
- Half an hour before the next meal, it is recommended to take apple cider vinegar, 50 g per glass of water.
Herbs are not only used internally, but are also effective as poultices:
- Spread the cabbage leaves smeared with honey on those places on the legs where the greatest discomfort is felt or where the vascular network is visible. Wrap a cabbage leaf with a plastic film so that the effect is better and you have to keep such a wrap for 2 to 4 hours.
- A clay compress is very effective in the treatment of varicose veins. Spread clay on the feet, wrap them in gauze and leave for 1 hour.
- White clay helps very well in the treatment of varicose veins. It can be used not only outside, but also inside. There is little calcium in it, but it penetrates into the blood better. The external use of clay in the form of poultices is an excellent anti-inflammatory agent.
- Kalanchoe tincture helps with varicose veins. She should rub your legs, that way, in a very short time, you can get rid of pain. Fresh leaves should be crushed, poured with 40-degree vodka and insisted for 7 days.
- With varicose veins, slices of lemon in the form of a poultice, which are placed on the painful areas of the legs, will help. The lemon is wrapped in paper and bandaged and kept for at least 2 hours.
- Fresh potato compress. Grate the tubers on a fine grater, apply a thin layer on the legs and wrap. Keep the day, but every 4 hours you have to change the dressing with a fresh one.
- Grind wormwood grass and pour sour milk over it, apply the resulting mixture to the bandage and wrap the legs.
- Three apples are poured with boiling water, the Antonovka variety is the most suitable for this, insist for 3 hours and prepare mashed potatoes. Put the lotions on for five days and take the applesauce for the same amount of 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 that you can cook yourself at home are also very helpful.
Ointments 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 in it that can thin the blood and open the capillaries.
Hydrogen peroxide has shown very good results in the treatment of varicose veins. It is used according to the Neumyvakin method: 3% solution is administered intravenously or orally, but only a special scheme is used.
But at home, peroxide is used as lotions. A tampon soaked in it is applied to the legs in the place where discomfort is felt the most and kept 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. And it does not depend on whether it is superficial or internal varicose veins. A bee sting starts the regeneration process - new cells are born to replace the old ones, which have already worn out and lose their properties. This is how valves are formed that strengthen the walls of blood vessels.
But it is worth remembering that bee stings are not shown to everyone: pregnant women and people with heart pathologies should not be used categorically.
With varicose veins, not only bee stings help. Dead bee tincture is also very effective. It should be taken drop by drop for a very long time, from 1 to 6 months. The tincture contains substances found in the bee's body.
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 in varicose veins
- With varicose veins, any thermal procedures are completely contraindicated: heating of pads on the lower legs and UHF.
- People with varicose veins are not prohibited from visiting steam rooms and solariums, but it is better not to abuse these procedures.
- Overheating of the legs leads to the fact that the vessels expand, and this condition greatly worsens the disease.
- Long-term exposure to the sun relaxes the walls of venous vessels.
There are many folk methods that effectively help in the treatment of varicose veins. But it is worth remembering that they will help best in the initial stages, if the disease is already in progress, in these cases only medicine can help, surgically. Therefore, if you have at least one of the symptoms, start treatment immediately.