The legs suffer the most from varicose veins.The part of the body farthest from the heart needs a rest regime, supporting tired and weakened blood vessels.And we "exploit" our little feet until we see enlarged superficial mesh, swelling, painful nodular bumps and lose sleep due to pain.
Treatment of varicose veins with folk remedies is not an alternative to drugs.Because the main drugs are based on plant raw materials.To cure the 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:
- improving the density and elasticity of the vascular wall of the veins;
- restoration of drooping flaps;
- increase in blood flow in the vessels of the legs due to fluidity of blood, decrease in its coagulation;
- prevents the formation of blood clots and thrombophlebitis;
- have an anti-inflammatory effect;
- Diuretic property is useful to relieve local edema.
For use at home, you should choose drugs that:
- easy to prepare and use yourself;
- have no toxic effect;
- Stores well in the refrigerator;
- it can be grown on the windowsill or in a country house bought on the market;
- relatively cheap.
Methods of treatment
All traditional methods of treating varicose veins are divided into general and local.
The general ones include a certain diet, baths, ingestion of infusions and potions.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 must learn to prepare salves.
The duration of treatment courses is recommended by doctors of a month or more.Interruptions 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 of 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: exclusion of white bread, sweets, pastries, confectionery, hot spices, alcohol, coffee, meat and fish dishes.Liquid is not limited.It is necessary to eat only vegetarian food: as much fruit and fresh juices 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 young nettle soup are added.
This diet is recommended monthly for 2-3 days.People with varicose veins of the legs are advised to completely avoid foods containing starch (bread and pasta made from high-quality flour, boiled potatoes).You can boil potatoes in their skins and add bran to your meal.
General treatment procedures
They have an effect on the whole organism, normalize blood circulation.
Bathrooms
Varicose veins can be treated with baths.They are contraindicated in thrombophlebitis and trophic ulcers.
The contents of the bath are prepared in advance: half a kilogram of oak, willow and chestnut branches are boiled equally for half an hour (it is best to do it in an enamel bucket).Then add 4 apothecary packs of herbs to the solution (chamomile, string, St. John's wort) and infuse overnight.Separately in the morning, rye bread (3 pcs.) is boiled, strained and poured into the bath.
The procedure should be carried out before going to bed for about 40 minutes, the water temperature should be maintained at 38-40 degrees.
For baths with soda, you need to dissolve a full package of bath water or 6-7 tablespoons per 5 liters for the 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 tablespoonfuls of dry raw materials of crushed bark are sufficient;it is also recommended to use gorse grass (2 packs of 50 g each).
Combinations of herbs are recommended: hazel leaves, birch, chamomile flowers, clover, hops, pine branches.
After the bath, you should do a light massage from the bottom up, put on elastic socks and put your feet on a slight lift.
Recommendations for internal use
Folk recipes for oral administration are very inventive.They offer a single drug or a combination, decoctions, water infusions, alcohol tinctures.The decoction is most easily prepared in a large thermos, preserving all the properties of a water bath.It 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 knead them and drink half a cup of decoction with honey on an empty stomach and at night.
- Nettles- a well-known remedy for the treatment of varicose veins.2-3 tablespoons of dry leaves are placed in a half-liter thermos of boiling water.40 minutes is sufficient for infusion.You should drink 1/3 cup one hour after a meal.
- Alcoholic tincture of celandine- sold in the pharmacy, it is recommended to drink 9-10 drops with a tablespoon 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 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, string and leave for 12 hours.Drink first 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 treatment lasts two months.
Local treatment
Local means an effect only on the pathologically inflamed area of the leg veins.
Using juices for lotions
Local procedures in the form of compresses and lotions will require preliminary preparation of the necessary solution and ointment.
- Apple cider vinegar- is considered a means of improving vascular tone.They rub it on the painful areas with varicose 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- help relieve pain and inflammation from the skin.The sheet is tied overnight.
- Hop cones- Steep a tablespoon in a cup of boiling water.Lotions are applied from the prepared medicine or you are allowed to drink a glass before meals.
- wormwood- leaves and flowers are used, ground into a paste, diluted with kefir and smeared with varicose veins.
- tomatoesOnly those that are sufficiently ripe should be used.The enlarged 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 tincture for rubs.You need to prepare the solution correctly: after cutting, leave the leaves in the cold for 5-7 days, then grind in a meat grinder, add vodka (you can use the volume as a guide, the kalanchoe in the container should be 2 times less), leave in the dark for another week.After filtering, the product can be used in the treatment of varicose veins.It is suitable for long-term storage.
An alcohol tincture (2/3 of the plant material) is prepared from white acacia flowers and birch buds for one week to apply to the skin over the diseased veins.
It is known from Eastern medicine that the properties of Adam's apple have a positive effect on vascular tone.
Green walnuts - finely chopped and covered with olive oil.You must stay in the sun for at least forty days.After that 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, it is brewed with water as a tea.An alcohol tincture is prepared for internal use.Store in a dark place for at least two weeks.Drink 30 drops before meals.
The Adam's apple is the fruit of a rare maclura tree that grows in the southern regions.It should not be taken internally as the juice is poisonous.An alcoholic tincture for grinding is prepared from ground fruits.It is recommended to keep it in the dark for a month.
How to prepare an ointment at home
Based on ointments, herbal medicines stay over the affected area longer and penetrate deeper into the area.For ointments, vegetable oils, decoction of linseed, lard and chicken fat are used.A concentrated herbal decoction is added to the melted and heated base.Simmer over low heat, stirring, for five minutes.
Herbal mixtures are used with ointments;it is not necessary to prepare daily: eucalyptus leaves, dandelion roots, celandine, lemon balm, lilac flowers, clover, chamomile, calendula, fir needles.Everything is infused in equal amounts before being mixed with the ointment base.
Such ointments should be stored in the refrigerator.Apply a thick layer to the skin with light rubbing movements.Cover with compress paper and a warm bandage.It is better to apply ointment compresses at night.
Other treatments
Bee stings contain hirudin, which thins the blood and prevents blood clots.Treatment with bees requires a mandatory sting in the external venous node.Initially, the patient experiences pain and burning, these phenomena soon pass by themselves, and together with them, the protruding venous nodes are removed.
Possible consequences
Folk remedies for the treatment of varicose veins are far from harmless.These are concentrated plant extracts 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 exacerbation of chronic diseases of the digestive system.
It is necessary to monitor allergic manifestations (itching of the skin, rashes, swelling).If such symptoms occur, discontinue further use.
To use traditional methods, you need faith in the 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 your feet are dry.This charming recipe brings out the best of nature.