Heaviness in the legs, swelling of the lower extremities, muscle cramps and the appearance of a vascular network are all signs of varicose veins. If one of these signs suddenly appeared, 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, which many women have recently suffered from.
Treatment of varicose veins with physical activity
Many people with varicose veins believe that this disease is not compatible with physical activity, but they are very wrong. Of course, it’s not worth the risk when doing extreme sports or traumatic sports, and moderate exercise, on the contrary, will benefit. Swimming, walking and easy running showed very good results. As for home treatment, a few exercises will help here, which will not take much time, but will avoid serious consequences. The main thing to remember is that exercises will help at the initial stage, the more the disease is started, the more difficult it will be to cure it.
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 the 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 rise on your toes and freeze for a couple of seconds, then lower yourself onto your heel. Perform this exercise 15 times.
- Assuming a prone position, raise your legs at an angle of 90 degrees. Pulling the muscles in the calves of the legs, take deep breaths and exhale, gradually bending the knee joints. Do this for about 5 minutes. In this position, you can rotate your foot in one direction, then in the other.
- Also, in a prone position, you can pedal with your feet on an imaginary bicycle.
- Roll over onto your stomach and alternately raise your legs as high as possible. Hold them up as high as you can.
Performing these exercises once a day can cure varicose veins. But not only exercises will help in the 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, douse your tired feet with cold water. This can be done not only at home, but also in the gym or in the country while watering the beds.
- Sitting in front of the TV in the evening, make a cool foot bath, but to maximize the effect, add decoctions of herbs of sage, chamomile or oak bark.
- Don't feel like taking baths, just wipe your feet with a piece of ice.
- A contrast shower not only gives energy for the whole day, but also perfectly strengthens the veins.
- Swimming in the pool, in the summer in the river or lake will help in the fight against 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 that are 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 of 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 tested for decades and have helped a large number of people.
- Bring 600 ml of water to a boil. Take hazel root and arnica in equal proportions. Add them to hot water and infuse for 12 hours. Take the infusion once a day, 200 ml.
- Grind 25 g of hops. Pour 250 ml of boiling water over it, then heat it in a water bath for 15 minutes. This decoction should be taken before every meal.
- Combine liquid honey 350 g and chopped garlic 250 g together and infuse 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 rubbing on the legs.
- Nutmeg tincture is prepared as follows: 100 g of nut are 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 several minutes and taken three times a day for half a glass.
- 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 inside, they are also effective as compresses:
- Apply cabbage leaves smeared with honey to those places on the legs where the greatest discomfort is felt or the vascular network is visible. Tie the cabbage leaf with plastic wrap so that the effect is better and you need to keep such a compress from 2 to 4 hours.
- A clay compress is very effective in the treatment of 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 little calcium in it, but it penetrates into the blood better. External use of clay in the form of a compress is an excellent anti-inflammatory agent.
- Kalanchoe tincture helps with varicose veins. She needs to rub her legs, in this way, in a very short time, you can get rid of pain. Fresh leaves need to be crushed, poured with 40 degree vodka and insisted for 7 days.
- Lemon slices in the form of a compress placed on sore areas of the legs will help with varicose veins. 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 bandage. Keep the day, but every 4 hours you need to change the compress to a fresh one.
- Grass wormwood grind and pour sour milk, the resulting mixture is applied to the bandage and wrap the legs.
- Three apples are poured with boiling water, the Antonovka variety is best suited for this, insist 3 hours and prepare mashed potatoes. Put lotions 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, which contain medicinal herbs, also help very well and you can cook them yourself at home.
Ointments in the treatment of varicose veins
Ointments containing horse chestnut help in the prevention and treatment of varicose veins. Its action is based on the content of substances in it that can thin the blood and open the 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 lotions. A swab soaked in it is applied to the legs in the area where discomfort is most felt, and held 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 process of regeneration - new cells are born to replace the old ones, which have already worn out and lose their properties. Thus, 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.
Not only bee stings help with 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. 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, any 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 leads to the fact that the vessels dilate, and this condition greatly exacerbates the disease.
- Prolonged 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 running, in these cases only medicine can help, surgically. That is why if you have at least one of the symptoms, urgently take up treatment.