Heaviness in the legs, swelling of the lower limbs, muscle cramps and the appearance of a vascular network are signs of varicose veins. If any of these signs suddenly appear, treatment should begin immediately. How to treat varicose veins at home? Which of the folk methods effectively help in the fight against the disease from which many women have recently suffered.
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 doing extreme sports or traumatic sports, and moderate exercise, on the contrary, will be beneficial. Swimming, walking and light 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 exercise will help in the initial stage, the more the disease starts, the more difficult it will be to cure.
Varicose veins can only be cured by exercises that involve 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 on your toes and freeze for a few seconds, then lower on your heels. Do this exercise 15 times.
- Taking a lying position, raise your legs at an angle of 90 degrees. Pulling the calf muscles 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 your leg in one direction and then in the other.
- Also, lying down, you can pedal with your feet on an imaginary bicycle.
- Turn on your stomach and alternately raise your legs as high as possible. Hold them as high as you can.
Doing these exercises once a day can cure varicose veins. But not only exercise will help with 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, run cold water over your tired feet. 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 achieve maximum effect, add herbal decoctions of sage, chamomile or oak bark.
- You don't feel like a bath, just wipe your feet with a piece of ice.
- The 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 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 that involve the use of herbal decoctions 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 from 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 the boil. Take hazel root and arnica in equal proportions. Add them to hot water and insist for 12 hours. Take the tincture once a day for 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 350g and chopped garlic 250g together and insist for 2 weeks. Take 1 teaspoon half an hour before meals.
- A tincture of horse chestnut berries or flowers helps with varicose veins. Grind 50 g of chestnuts and pour them with 500 g of 40% vodka. Insist 2 weeks. Take 40 drops three times a day. This tincture can be used as a foot rub.
- Nutmeg tincture is prepared as follows: 100 g of nuts are poured with 500 g of vodka and infused for 10 days. Then strain and take 30 drops 30 times 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 used not only inside, but also as compresses:
- Apply cabbage leaves with honey to the places of the legs where the greatest discomfort is felt or the vascular network is visible. Tie the cabbage leaf with nylon for a better effect and you should keep such a compress for 2 to 4 hours.
- A compress with clay is very effective in the treatment of varicose veins. The feet should be smeared with clay, wrapped in gauze and left 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 better into the blood. The external use of clay in the form of a compress is an excellent anti-inflammatory agent.
- Kalanchoe tincture helps with varicose veins. She should rub her legs, in this way in a very short time you can get rid of the pain. Fresh leaves should be crushed, poured with 40-degree vodka and insisted for 7 days.
- Slices of lemon in the form of a compress, placed on the painful areas of the legs, will help with varicose veins. The lemon is wrapped in paper and bandaged and kept for at least 2 hours.
- Compress of fresh potatoes. Rub the tubers on a fine grater, apply a thin layer on the legs and bandage. Save the day, but every 4 hours you need to change the compress with a new one.
- Wormwood grass is ground and yogurt is poured, 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, insisted for 3 hours and mashed potatoes are prepared. Apply lotions for five days and take applesauce for the same amount of time. Then a break of five days is made and the course is repeated.
Treatment of varicose veins with folk remedies at home is possible not only with tinctures and decoctions. Ointments that contain medicinal herbs also help very well and you can prepare them yourself at home.
Ointments for the treatment of varicose veins
Ointments containing horse chestnut help prevent and treat varicose veins. Its action is based on its content of substances that can thin the blood and open the capillaries.
Very good results in the treatment of varicose veins shows hydrogen peroxide. 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 area where the most discomfort is felt 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 they are superficial or internal varicose veins. When a bee stings, the regeneration process begins - new cells are born to replace the old ones that have already worn out and lost their properties. This is how valves are formed, which 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. Tincture of dead bees is also very effective. You have to take it 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 for varicose veins
- With varicose veins, any heat procedures are completely contraindicated: warming compresses on the shins and UHF.
- It is not forbidden for people with varicose veins to visit steam baths and solariums, but it is better not to abuse these procedures.
- Overheating of the legs leads to expansion of the vessels and this condition significantly aggravates the disease.
- Prolonged exposure to the sun relaxes the walls of the 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, urgently start treatment.