Loss of elasticity of the walls of the saphenous veins, which leads to the formation of nodes in their different areas, is varicose veins. How to treat this disease at home and can it be avoided? This issue is relevant for 40% of the population. This ailment is accompanied by impaired blood flow and valve function and leads to the formation of blood clots.
Causes of varicose veins
Nowadays, there are many theories related to why there is varicose veins. The main ones are:
- hormonal changes: have a strong effect on the vascular system;
- obesity: the load on the lower extremities increases, which leads to the development of this disease;
- pregnancy: there are hormonal changes, and the load on the whole body in general and especially on the legs;
I would also like to note that lifestyle is also of great importance in the development of this disease. Tension and load on the legs during the day, tight underwear, high heels, and, as a result, varicose veins, which is difficult to cure at home.
Symptoms of varicose veins
The initial symptoms of varicose veins are the appearance of small vessels on the surface of the skin, pain and heaviness in the legs (which most often manifests itself after sufficiently strong physical exertion), swelling of the lower extremities.
Varicose veins treatment
If you already know what varicose veins are, how to treat this ailment at home, we will tell you. With varicose veins, it is recommended to wear special elastic bandages and underwear. Also in the fight against this disease can help and training, such as swimming, walking. But do not forget that exercise with a load on the legs is a taboo in this disease.
Varicose veins: how to treat at home
If your disease is in the initial stage and does not have the status of a chronic disease, you can do the therapy yourself. Home treatment for varicose veins may take a little longer than surgical or medical intervention, but it is also more gentle for our body. So, folk remedies:
- With varicose veins , an infusion of dried nettle is often used. For this, the leaves of this plant are insisted for 30 minutes, filtered and taken one third of a glass three times a day.
- Apple cider vinegar can also help in the fight against varicose veins. It can be taken orally: 2 teaspoons of the substance are taken in a glass of water, mixed well and drunk. At one time, you can use 2-3 glasses of such a mixture. You can also use this vinegar to wipe problem areas of the skin.
- Fresh potatoes are another aid in the fight against a disease such as varicose veins. How to treat this disease with tubers at home? Very simple: you need to grate the potatoes. Having made gruel from it, we place this mixture in gauze and apply it to problem areas, such a remedy is very effective for ulcers caused by varicose veins.
- When thrombophlebitis is used, tincture of white acacia flowers is used to lubricate problem areas.
- Kalanchoe leaves will also come to our aid. Most often used tincture from this plant. To prepare it, a bottle of 0.5 l is taken, filled with chopped Kalanchoe leaves and filled with alcohol. Infuse the mixture for a week in a place where direct sunlight does not penetrate, after which the liquid is filtered. She is ready to use. Most often it is used for grinding the lower extremities.
- The white cabbage leaf, which is beaten, is also a good helper in the fight against varicose veins. Lubricate one side with vegetable oil, apply it to the affected area and fix it, for example, with a bandage, walk with such a compress for a day.
- Antonov apples are another remedy in the fight against varicose veins. Take 3 apples. Cut them and put in a saucepan. Fill 1 liter. boiling water, close the lid and leave to infuse for 4 hours under the covers. Then, without removing the apples from the pan, knead them, turning them into gruel. We strain the resulting mixture through cheesecloth and take such an infusion together with honey (50 ml infusion of a teaspoon of honey) in the morning or before bedtime.
- Ground hazel bark: A tablespoon of raw material is poured into 500 ml. boiling water and cooked for 10 minutes on fire, then filtered.
- Place green walnuts (unripe) in a jar, fill with olive oil and insist 40 days in the sun. We lubricate sore spots with the finished mixture.
- Alcohol tincture from the herb of the root, which is infused for 10 days in a dark place, is taken 10 drops diluted in liquid, three times a day.
- In the fight against varicose veins, a tomato will also help: cut into slices and apply to the affected areas, hold until wilted, then change the slices.
- We fill a half-liter bottle with birch buds (3/4 capacity) and pour vodka. Lubricate this tincture of the place where the pain occurs.
Diet for varicose veins
It is impossible not to mention that diet is an effective tool in the fight against varicose veins. Very useful in such an illness are its fruit variants or based on juices lasting 7-8 days. Also, do not forget to exclude alcohol, coffee, strong tea and starch from your diet.
Therapeutic baths for varicose veins
With varicose veins, therapeutic baths with the use of decoctions from such medicinal plants as chamomile, oak bark, a series of others are very effective. It will be useful to add sea salt and essential oils to the water.
Therapeutic exercises for varicose veins
With varicose veins, light exercise is not out of place, but do not forget that strong loads on the lower extremities are inappropriate with such a disease.