The problem of varicose veins worries a huge percentage of the population. Unfortunately, clinical procedures are quite expensive, and if with pronounced varicose veins it becomes extremely necessary to consult a doctor, the minimal symptoms of the initial stage can be alleviated with the help of folk recipes. Many are interested in the effective treatment of varicose veins on the legs at home without surgery, especially the elimination of a cosmetic defect such as spider veins. Laser removal and hardening of blood vessels appeared relatively recently, but even before their appearance there were secrets of beauty and health.
How to get rid of varicose veins on the legs
In the aesthetic medicine clinic, the patient will be offered three ways to get rid of leg veins - laser coagulation and radiofrequency ablation welds the vein from the inside, the sclerosing procedure sticks the diseased vessel to thehelp of a special substance - sclerosing agent. All procedures are minimally traumatic, do not require incisions, do not leave scars, there is no rehabilitation period.
If there is a deterioration in the quality of life of the patient, the manifestations of varicose veins are significant and pose a threat - an operation will be performed to remove and ligate the affected veins - combined phlebectomy. The above procedures are the best solution for those who want to get rid of varicose veins forever.
In addition, the doctor will prescribe the wearing of compression stockings, the use of venotonics and anticoagulants, and the use of topical agents. An integrated approach is guaranteed to cope with any degree of the disease, and home recipes will become indispensable aids in this regard.
Effective folk recipes
Apple vinegar
Improves blood microcirculation, strengthens the walls of blood vessels, relieves swelling, has a general tonic effect, thanks to the contained useful microelements, vitamins and amino acids.
- Rub apple cider vinegar on your feet from ankles to thighs every night before bed, after you shower.
- moisten a bandage folded several times with vinegar and apply to the painful veins. Wrap in cling film, isolate with a scarf on top and keep the compress for 40 minutes. The legs should be raised. Perform the procedure three times a week.
- in a container in which you can lower your legs to the knee, dilute 5 liters of water and a glass of apple cider vinegar. Take this bath every other day for 30 minutes.
Epsom salt
Magnesia or magnesium sulfate contains magnesium, oxygen and hydrogen sulfide. It is used to relieve pain and inflammation in the joints, improve blood circulation, reduce muscle tension, and flush out toxins. You can not do without it, if it was decided to treat varicose veins at home.
- 2 tbsp. L. Dissolve the salt in 1 liter of water, dampen a cloth and apply a cold compress to your feet for 3 minutes, then warm up for the same time. To stimulate blood circulation, the procedure is performed daily.
Cabbage
White cabbage leaves relieve pain and swelling in the legs, reduce manifestations of varicose veins. They contain vitamins of groups B and C, fibers, amino acids.
- Rinse the required amount of leaves well, put them in a plastic bag and put them in the refrigerator for a day. Before going to bed, after showering, rub your feet with apple cider vinegar and wait for it to dry. Tie cabbage leaves to all problem areas and bandage loosely so air can circulate under the bandage. Prepare a new batch of leaves the next day. Remove the bandage in the morning and discard the old leaves. It is necessary to repeat the procedure from 10 days to 1 month, depending on the degree of damage and the results.
- Sprinkle baking soda on your feet, lather the cabbage leaves with laundry soap and apply to the veins. Bandage and wrap with a warm cloth. Leave the compress overnight, repeat every other day for 2 weeks.
Potatoes for ulcers
Grated raw potatoes are an excellent anti-inflammatory treatment for varicose ulcers. To do this, it is laid out on gauze, which is placed on the wound, covered with a cloth and left for 4-5 hours. Then the ulcer is washed off and a new batch of potatoes is laid out. Compresses should be changed before crusting.
Tomato compresses
Tomatoes contain vitamins of groups B and P, as well as flavonoids, which have the ability to tone the walls of blood vessels. Tomatoes are able to relieve pain and heaviness in the legs, reduce swelling of varicose veins and reduce the visual manifestation of the capillary network.
Chop the tomatoes, attach to varicose veins, cover with polyethylene, then with a towel and secure with an elastic bandage. Leave it overnight. The course lasts 2 weeks.
Nettle decoction
Take 150 g of fresh or dried nettle, crush in a blender and pour 1 liter of boiling water. Before use, the broth should be infused for at least two hours, after which it should be well filtered. You need to take the product ⅓ glass three times a day for a month. After 2 weeks, the course can be repeated.
Horse chestnut
Has a unique set of useful items.
For the treatment of varicose veins, the most important of these are aesculin and escin, which work as angioprotectors and venotonics.
The pharmacy offers a wide selection of pills, emulsions and topical horse chestnut products. Nevertheless, it should only be used after consulting a doctor, since there are a number of contraindications.
- To prepare the tincture, you need to take 20 dry chestnuts, peel them and pour 3 liters of water. Add 1 cup of sugar and 0. 5 cups of whey. Insist for two weeks and take 1 glass once a day in the morning, before breakfast.
- To get rid of varicose veins at home, horse chestnut is used in the bathing process. 500 g of any raw material (leaves, flowers, bark) should be boiled in 1 liter of water and infused for an hour, then poured into the water. It is allowed to take such a bath for no more than 15 minutes.
Nutmeg
Contains groups of vitamins A, C, B, PP, minerals in the form of copper, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, calcium, essential oils and proteins, a number of organic acids, pectin substances. In the treatment of varicose veins on the legs at home, it helps improve blood circulation, resists neoplasms and accelerates cell regeneration.
- Grind the nut in a coffee grinder, pour half a glass of boiling water over a teaspoon of powder, add 0. 5 tbsp. honey, let cool completely. Drink 15 minutes before eating. Every day you need to prepare a new portion of broth.
- Add 5 drops of nutmeg oil to 10 ml of vegetable oil. Use as a cream on the affected area every night.
Acacia flowers
Take 8 tablespoons of dry crushed white acacia flowers and pour in 200 ml of alcohol or vodka, leave for 7-10 days, then strain and use as a foot rub. After a while, the spider veins clear up, and then go away completely.
Calendula decoction
The plant has a tonic, anti-inflammatory, healing and decongestant effect, which makes it possible to treat varicose veins with it at home.
- In pharmacies, a cheap calendula tincture is sold, 20 drops of which are diluted in a tablespoon of water and drunk in the morning and evening.
- You can complement the effect of the tincture with an ointment prepared by yourself. Mix 500 ml of vegetable oil with 50 g of dried calendula flowers. Insist 12 hours, then send to a water bath for 40 minutes. After complete cooling, pass through cheesecloth. Rub the skin of the legs several times a day.
Kalanchoe leaves
The sap of the plant heals wounds, relieves inflammation and pain.
Best of all, the effectiveness of Kalanchoe is revealed in alcoholic tinctures. Fill a glass container with chopped leaves to the top and fill it with vodka. Insist for two weeks in a dark, cool place. Rub your lower limbs twice a day.
Laundry soap
An environmentally friendly product, promotes rapid healing of ulcers, relieves inflammation and disinfects.
- Wash open ulcers with soapy water before each dressing.
- For protruding veins, prepare an infusion - grate a bar of soap on a fine grater, add 10 crushed tablets of acetylsalicylic acid to it, pour 250 ml of vodka. Stir, close the lid tightly and leave in a dark place for three days. Filter the infusion, moisten it with cheesecloth, tie it to a vein, wrap it with polyethylene and a warm scarf. Leave it overnight.
Clay compresses
Blue and green clay is an excellent antiseptic and decongestant. Prevents the development of thrombophlebitis. Effective only when used during a course of 1 to 1, 5 months. A single application has no therapeutic effect.
The clay is used to make spot applications on painful areas or a full wrap. Clay is diluted with warm water or mineral water to the consistency of sour cream, applied in a thick layer to the protruding veins or to the legs entirely, wrapped in cling film and isolated. You can wear warm leggings, use a scarf or a blanket. The application lasts 40 minutes, wrap - 20-25 minutes.
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Leeches (hirudotherapy)
The saliva of leeches contains hirudin, which reduces blood clotting, helps in the treatment of thrombus formation, reduces the volume of circulating blood, which reduces the load on the vessels of the legs.
For a visible result, you will need 5 to 6 sessions of hirudotherapy. During the procedure, the doctor places two leeches on the most problematic area and places three more along the vein. When the leeches are full, they are carefully separated and destroyed in saline solution. The same leeches cannot be used twice for safety reasons. A hirudotherapy session lasts about an hour. When removing leeches, minor bleeding is possible.
Honey and propolis
They have a powerful regenerating effect on the walls of blood vessels.
- Take 100 grams of dried leaves of motherwort, mint, oregano and thyme, in a glass bowl, mix them with 300 ml of alcohol, add 20 g of propolis or 50 g of honey. Leave to infuse for 2 weeks, filter and use in compresses.
- Mix the juice and zest of one lemon, 100 g of honey or propolis, 200 ml of alcohol, 50 g of pharmaceutical gray jaundice. The mixture is infused for three weeks, after which it is filtered and rubbed through the veins until completely absorbed.
Oral and topical medications
- Bioflavonoid drug that reduces the elasticity of the walls of blood vessels, increases venous tone, improves lymphatic drainage and microcirculation, and has an anti-inflammatory effect. When treating varicose veins of the lower extremities at home, it is enough to take one tablet in the morning on an empty stomach for 2 months.
- Hair stabilizer, decongestant, anti-inflammatory angioprotector with horse chestnut glycoside (seeds). Improves trophism of blood vessels and adjacent tissues, eliminates venous congestion, relieves pain, fatigue, itching. It is recommended to take 12 to 15 drops three times a day before meals. The duration of treatment can range from two weeks to three months.
- Corticosteroid-based gel. Relieves inflammation of blood vessels, facilitates blood circulation. Instructions for use include application to the skin with massaging movements twice a day. But patients recommend applying a thick layer of gel under the cling film - warming up significantly improves the effect.
- The gel is a direct-acting anticoagulant based on polysulfuric acid mucopolysaccharide ester, relieves pain, swelling, bloating of the veins. Reduces the risk of blood clots when used regularly.
- Venotonic effective with vitamin P, which eliminates edemas, capillary fragility, heaviness, pain, fatigue. Seals venous walls, reduces inflammation and prevents thrombus formation.
User reviews
- "For a very long time, I looked for a way that suited me, and finally I found it. I see the positive effects of the apple cider vinegar rub and clay wraps. Sometimes I also use venotonics in combination, so that's usually great. There is no pain and the veins dissolve, the knots are not so obvious. "
- "I always use folk methods. My legs were aching and swelling for a long time, but somehow I didn't have time to do something. At one point, I got sick of it and the Internet advised me to use a nutmeg tincture and a horse chestnut preparation. I also connected the hike and a contrast shower. It got easier on the second day. I hope that the effect will be long-lasting and the disease will not develop. "
- "I have already been operated on twice for varicose veins, after the second operation I left for a long time, my legs hurt, the puncture sites hurt, and all that scares me. I myself decided that I would not go to the operation for the third time. For the first time the doctor prescribed angioprotective drugs, after the second operation I connected traditional medicine to them. I went to get leeches, cook chestnut ointment, make herbal compresses. Life just got easier. I can walk longer with my grandson, there is a kind of lightness in my legs. I will continue in the same spirit. "
- "A year ago I realized it's not that I can't walk for a long time, my legs have been tired since morning and they don't want to go anywhere. I often had to stretch my legs against the wall to get rid of the aches. She began to be treated with whatever she could - cabbage, horse chestnut, all kinds of sea buckthorn, calendula and Kalanchoe lotions. Vitamin P capsules, purchased compression stockings. The pain is gone, the heaviness is gone too. The legs get tired sometimes, but the difference is huge. I don't know which remedy helped, so I praise everything. "
Prevention of varicose veins
- Good nutrition - reduce the consumption of flour and fried foods, include fish, fruits rich in vitamin C, legumes in the diet;
- Give up alcohol and tobacco;
- The bath and the sauna are contraindicated for varicose veins;
- You will also have to give up vacuum, suction cups and thermal massage.
- Exercise regularly. Preferably not related to heavy lifting. Swimming, yoga, stretching are the best.
- Do not stay in awkward positions for a long time, do not wear uncomfortable clothes and shoes.
- Fall for a contrasting shower.
- At the end of each day, lift your feet off the wall and rest for ten minutes.
Treatment of varicose veins at home without prior consultation with a specialist threatens dangerous complications.
Pharmaceutical preparations and folk remedies affect every organism in different ways. The ingredients can cause an allergic reaction, bleeding and a sharp deterioration of the condition. Some ingredients cannot be taken at the same time. Even in a hospital setting, patients experience side effects. With self-medication, this danger will increase significantly.