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 see a doctor, then the minimum 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, in particular, the elimination of such a cosmetic defect as spider veins. Laser removal and hardening of blood vessels appeared in the public domain 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 clinic of aesthetic medicine, the patient will be offered three ways to get rid of veins in the legs - laser coagulation and radiofrequency ablation weld the vein from the inside, the sclerosing procedure glues the diseased vessel with the help of a special substance - sclerosant. All procedures are low-traumatic, do not require incisions, do not leave scars, there is no rehabilitation period.
If there is a deterioration in the patient's quality of life, 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 way out for those who want to get rid of varicose veins forever.
Also, the doctor will prescribe the wearing of compression hosiery, 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 helpers in this.
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 into your feet from ankles to thighs every night before bed, after showering.
- moisten a bandage folded several times with vinegar and apply to sore veins. Wrap with cling film, insulate 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, improves blood circulation, reduces muscle tension, and removes toxins. You cannot do without it if it was decided to treat varicose veins at home.
- 2 tbsp. l. Dissolve salt in 1 liter of water, moisten a cloth and apply a cold compress to your feet for 3 minutes, then warm 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 the manifestations of varicose veins. They contain vitamins of group B and C, fiber, 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 until it dries. Attach cabbage leaves to all problem areas and bandage them loosely so that air circulates under the bandage. Prepare a fresh 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 your feet with baking soda, lather the cabbage leaves with laundry soap and apply to the veins. Bandage and wrap with 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 on top and left for 4-5 hours. Then the ulcer is washed and a new batch of potatoes is laid out. The compresses must 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 the bulging of varicose veins, and reduce the visual manifestation of the capillary network.
Chop the tomatoes, attach to varicose veins, cover with plastic, then towel and secure with an elastic bandage. Leave it overnight. The course is 2 weeks.
Nettle decoction
Take 150 g of fresh or dried nettle, grind in a blender and pour 1 liter of boiling water. Before use, the broth must be infused for at least two hours, after which it must 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
Possesses a unique set of useful elements.
For the treatment of varicose veins, the most important of them are esculin and escin, which function as angioprotectors and venotonics.
The pharmacy has a huge selection of pills, emulsions and topical products based on horse chestnut. Nevertheless, it should be used only after consulting a doctor, since there are a number of contraindications.
- To prepare the tincture, you need to take 20 dry chestnuts, peel and pour 3 liters of water. Add 1 cup sugar and 0. 5 cup 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) must be boiled in 1 liter of water and infused for an hour, then poured into 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 of the legs at home, it helps to 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 the powder, add 0. 5 tsp. honey, leave to cool completely. Drink 15 minutes before eating. Every day you need to prepare a fresh portion of the broth.
- Add 5 drops of nutmeg oil to 10 ml of any 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 200 ml of alcohol or vodka, leave for 7-10 days, then strain and use as a rub for the feet. After a while, the spider veins will lighten, and then disappear altogether.
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, an inexpensive tincture of calendula is sold, 20 drops of which are diluted in a tablespoon of water and drunk in the morning and evening.
- You can supplement the effect of the tincture with a self-prepared ointment. 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 cooling completely, strain through cheesecloth. Rub into the skin of the feet 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 with vodka. Insist for two weeks in a dark and 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. Strain the infusion, moisten cheesecloth in it, attach 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 in a course of 1-1. 5 months. A single application has no therapeutic effect.
Clay is used to make point applications on sore 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 on bulging veins or on the legs entirely, wrapped in cling film and insulated. You can wear warm leggings, use a scarf or blanket. 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 blood clots, reduces the volume of circulating blood, which reduces the load on the vessels of the legs.
For a visible result, you will need 5-6 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. 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. Let it brew for 2 weeks, strain and use as 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 into the veins until completely absorbed.
Oral and topical medications
- A bioflavonoid drug that reduces the elasticity of the walls of blood vessels, increases venous tone, improves lymph 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.
- Capillary stabilizing, decongestant, anti-inflammatory angioprotector with glycoside from horse chestnut fruits (seeds). Improves trophism in blood vessels and adjacent tissues, eliminates venous congestion, relieves pain, fatigue, itching. It is recommended to take 12-15 drops three times a day before meals. The course of treatment can range from two weeks to three months.
- Corticosteroid based gel. Relieves inflammation of blood vessels, facilitates blood flow. The instructions for use include applying to the skin with massage movements twice a day. But patients recommend applying a thick layer of gel under the cling film - warming up significantly enhances the effect.
- Gel is a direct-acting anticoagulant based on mucopolysaccharide ester of polysulfuric acid, relieves soreness, swelling, bloating of veins. Reduces the risk of blood clots when used regularly.
- Effective venotonic with vitamin P, which eliminates edema, capillary fragility, heaviness, pain, fatigue. Seals the venous walls, reduces inflammation, and prevents thrombus formation.
User reviews
- "For a very long time I was looking for a suitable way for me, and finally I found it. I see the positive effects of apple cider vinegar rubbing and clay wraps. Sometimes I also use venotonics in combination, then it's generally great. There is no pain and the veins dissolve, the nodes are not so obvious. "
- "I always resort to folk methods. My legs ached and swelled for a long time, but somehow there was no time to do something about it. At some point, I got tired and the Internet advised me a nutmeg tincture and a preparation based on horse chestnut. I also connected hiking and a contrast shower. It became easier on the second day. I hope the effect will be long lasting and the disease will not develop. "
- "I have already been operated on for varicose veins twice, after the second operation I left for a long time, my legs ached, the puncture sites ached, and all this is scary. I decided for myself 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 leeches, cook chestnut ointment, make compresses from herbs. Life has become easier. I can walk with my grandson for a longer time, there is a kind of lightness in my legs. I will continue in the same spirit. "
- "A year ago, I realized that it’s not that I can’t walk for a long time, my legs are tired since the morning and they don’t want to go anywhere. I often had to lie with my legs up on the wall to get rid of the aches. She began to be treated with everything she could - cabbage, horse chestnut, all sorts of lotions with sea buckthorn, calendula and Kalanchoe. Vitamin P capsules, bought compression stockings. The pain is gone, the heaviness is gone too. Legs sometimes get tired, but the difference is huge. I don’t know which remedy helped, so I praise everything. "
Prevention of varicose veins
- Proper nutrition - reduce the consumption of flour and fried foods, include fish, fruits rich in vitamin C, legumes in the diet;
- Give up alcohol and smoking;
- Bath and sauna are contraindicated for varicose veins;
- You will also have to give up vacuum, cupping and thermal massage.
- Engage in regular exercise. Preferably not related to heavy lifting. Swimming, yoga, stretching are best.
- Do not stay in uncomfortable positions for a long time, do not wear uncomfortable clothes and shoes.
- Fall in love with a contrast shower.
- At the end of each day, lift your feet up on the wall and rest for ten minutes.
Treatment of varicose veins at home without prior consultation with a specialist threatens with dangerous complications.
Both pharmaceutical preparations and folk remedies affect each organism in different ways. The ingredients can cause an allergic reaction, bleeding, and a sharp deterioration in 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.