Folk remedies and vitamins against varicose veins

Varicose veins have been fought since ancient times. Presidents and leaders. Therefore, folk remedies against varicose veins have been tested for centuries. In addition, they are natural, without chemicals, reliable and inexpensive. But this does not contradict their effectiveness. What means can be successfully used to fight varicose veins?

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Leeches against varicose veins

Leeches, although nasty creatures, are very, very useful. They are also used in the fight against varicose veins. What is so valuable about leeches? Their saliva, as it turns out, contains many substances that have the ability to activate many processes in the body. Leech saliva was used in ancient times to help blood clot better, so that blood clots, called thrombi, could be absorbed in the body. In addition, with high blood viscosity and a large amount of it in the veins, leeches are irreplaceable for sucking out this blood and removing excess.

Interesting fact: one leech sucks about 15 ml of blood in one hour. Then, having sucked, it falls off the body. But that's not all. After the leech bites and falls off, up to 15 ml of blood flows out of the hole that formed. This allows the microscopic vessels to expand, ensuring the outflow of blood from other organs and tissues.

Leeches against spasms and cramps

Treatment with leeches (hirudotherapy) is an excellent remedy against vascular spasms, as well as the fight against hypertension and leg edema. Leeches help restore blood circulation, they contribute to the fact that blood flow increases and nourishes internal organs and tissues. This is an excellent prevention of varicose veins.

Leeches help to reduce the risk of vascular wall defects, establish normal blood clotting, and help cleanse the body of toxins.

Contraindications to the use of leeches

Are there any contraindications? Of course, yes. These are decreased blood clotting, increased bleeding, including gums, anemia, pregnancy, very thin and accelerated metabolism, individual intolerance to leeches, as well as pregnancy. Leeches should also not be used on children and very old people, especially those with weakened bodies.

Leeches should not be placed in places where the skin is too thin - this will harm the skin and blood vessels underneath. Therefore, you should not place a leech directly over a vessel, especially if it is a vessel with damaged walls.

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Best spots for leeches

A hirudotherapist (a doctor who prescribes leeches) will tell you where it is best to put leeches. They are best applied where, according to the canons of Eastern medicine, the meridians are located. To make leeches even more effective, they should be combined with massage, self-massage and therapeutic exercise aimed at varicose veins.

Ebonite disc

This is a good remedy against varicose veins. When a person rubs an ebonite disc on the sore areas of the legs, electromagnetic impulses arise, and the body reacts to them very positively. Metabolism increases, blood flow improves, wounds heal faster, the tone of the whole organism increases.

When an ebonite disc is rubbed against the skin, a person's biocurrents improve and the person's well-being improves.

How to use an ebonite disc correctly? You need to devote at least 15 minutes to this activity every evening, and in just 2 weeks the condition of your legs will be much better.

There is a secret to using an ebonite disc: you need to move it near the vein, but not directly over the vein itself.

If you don’t want to waste time on stroking and rubbing, apply an ebonite disc to the sore leg and wrap it overnight.

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Vitamins for strengthening blood vessels

In order for the vessels to be strong and durable, they need to be nourished not only from the outside, but also from the inside. Vitamins in sufficient quantities also help to resist the formation of blood clots, normalize microcirculation of blood in the veins and arteries.

Vitamin rutin (vitamin P) is an excellent remedy that reduces the permeability of the vessel walls and restores their strength and elasticity. Vitamin P also reduces the fragility of the capillaries through which blood circulates. This vitamin is abundantly found in the following products:

• Rose hip
• Blackcurrant berries
• Citrus
• Green tea
• Black chokeberry

Know that vitamin P is best absorbed in the body together with another vitamin - C. They enhance each other's effect in the body. And a gel based on rutin is very good for smearing on areas affected by varicose veins. These two methods will help fight the swelling of veins, which are already very clearly visible under the skin of the legs. A gel with rutin in its composition, for example, Troxevasin, helps relieve inflammation in the veins, reduces their permeability, and relieves pain in deformed areas of the veins.

Horse chestnut seeds

This is also a great folk remedy for varicose veins. You can make a tincture of horse chestnut seeds yourself by pouring alcohol over them and letting them steep for a week, then smearing the areas of your legs affected by varicose veins. Or you can buy a ready-made drugstore product, for example, Aescusan ointment. This product contains horse chestnut seeds and vitamin B. They mutually complement each other's anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, and fever-reducing effects on the body.

If the body lacks vitamin B, a person's muscles become weak, the legs may lose their sensitivity or lose it from time to time, the skin of the legs may burn, and the limbs often swell. Food and drugs containing vitamin B help combat these phenomena.

Vitamin B is found in abundance in yeast, legumes, grains, poultry and pork, and in liver – no matter whether beef or pork – as well as in beer. Preparations and food with vitamin B also help strengthen the walls of veins, improve the tone of blood vessels and the entire body, and help with leg pain.

When a person is diagnosed with venous circulation disorder, preparations with vitamin B are prescribed 2-3 times a day for a month.

Vitamin B5, or pantothenic acid

This vitamin is very actively involved in all processes related to hematopoiesis. If the body lacks pantothenic acid, people experience leg pain, spasms of the calf muscles, especially spasms can occur at night, which is especially dangerous for the human nervous system. This threatens skin diseases, as well as inflammation of the veins. To replenish the body with vitamin B5, you need to eat more peanuts, liver, eat sprouted grain porridge, bran porridge, eat boiled chicken yolks, broccoli, meat.

But you need to know that vitamin B5 is very unstable. It quickly breaks down if the food - its source - is heated, boiled, frozen. Vitamin B5 is also lost if cereals containing it are ground.

If a person has varicose veins, doctors may prescribe up to 250 mg of vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) 2 times a day. To ensure that the drug is well absorbed, it is better to supplement vitamin B5 with other drugs or products containing vitamin B5.

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

This vitamin is very good for strengthening the walls of veins and blood vessels. Ascorbic acid helps the body fight colds, pathogenic bacteria, viruses. Thanks to vitamin C, the body is much better and more effectively supplied with a vital element for the blood - iron.

Lack of vitamin C leads to the destruction of the walls of blood vessels and capillaries, a person quickly develops bruises and they go away poorly, and wounds heal poorly. To replenish the deficiency of vitamin C and effectively combat varicose veins, you need to get it from rose hips, citrus fruits, sweet peppers, tomatoes, melons, sea buckthorn, currants and rowan. If a person has already developed trophic ulcers, vitamin C should be taken every day at least 2 grams.

Vitamin A (retinol)

Thanks to vitamin A, the cells of the epipelia on the walls of the vessels are preserved much better, the walls of the vessels are stronger, and the vessels themselves pass blood well. Vitamin A is very good for healing wounds, trophic ulcers in the last stage of varicose veins.

Vitamin A can be taken from melon, liver, spinach, cabbage, carrots, milk, fresh apricots. Its doses in pharmaceutical preparations are strictly individual, so you need to consult a doctor to prescribe optimal doses of vitamin A, or retinol.

Vitamin E, or tocopherol

This vitamin is very good for protecting cell membranes, as well as for the body's resistance to bacteria and viruses. If the body lacks tocopherol, the leg muscles weaken, the muscles can lose their shape, atrophy, a person begins to experience difficulties when walking, and his leg sensitivity decreases. It may also be that with a lack of vitamin E, a person's reflexes weaken, for example, the reaction to hot, cold or slowness of movement. He may also not experience sensitivity to vibration. For example, while driving.

Vitamin E can be obtained from vegetable oils: sunflower, corn, cottonseed oil, there is a lot of tocopherol in peanuts, margarine, almonds, sunflower seeds. These products should be consumed for the health of veins and leg muscles.

Of course, these vitamins will not be enough for healthy veins and good blood flow - you will also need sodium, potassium, omega fatty acids, as well as zinc and copper. Then a person's diet will be rich and this is an excellent prevention against the machinations of varicose veins.

Walker's Delicious Recipes

Dr. Walker is an American nutritionist who created a whole system for combating leg diseases, in particular varicose veins. He suggested using juices for treatment, but not store-bought ones, but natural, freshly squeezed ones. Juices have a huge advantage over food products: they are absorbed immediately after drinking them, and have the most positive effect on all body systems. Especially on hematopoiesis and blood flow. What juices are best for treating varicose veins?

Carrot and spinach

You need to take 6 parts of spinach juice and 10 parts of carrot juice. An excellent remedy against leg tumors, leg ulcers, tissue metabolism, weakness, loss of strength. The juice is very useful for the correct and timely contraction of blood vessels, it helps to strengthen the muscles of the vessels and the muscles of the legs.

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Carrots, Celery and Company

You need to take 7 parts carrot juice, 4 parts celery juice, 3 parts spinach juice and 2 parts parsley juice. Mix all these juices and drink them immediately. This will help you fight swelling due to the large amount of sodium in celery, and help the blood circulate faster through the vessels due to carrots. Parsley is a very good remedy against bacteria (it was even used to treat genital diseases) and prevent spasms. The juice also strengthens the walls of blood vessels and reduces their fragility.

Carrot, beetroot and cucumber

Juices of these vegetables are very good for fighting varicose veins. You need to take carrot juice - 10 parts, beet juice - 3 parts, cucumber juice - 3 parts. This mixture contains a whole storehouse of vitamins and microelements necessary for healthy veins.

There is sodium, calcium, potassium, chlorine, and phosphorus, and all this helps to normalize blood pressure, increase blood flow, and make the walls of blood vessels stronger. Beetroot is generally very good for reducing the risk of developing blood clots - it can thin the blood. In case of thrombophlebitis - an indispensable ingredient.

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Carrots, turnips and other healthy vegetables

To prepare this juice, you need as many as 4 ingredients. These are carrots - 8 parts of juice, spinach - 4 parts of juice, turnips - 2 parts of juice, watercress - also 2 parts. This juice mixture contains everything: sulfur, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, and calcium.

All these ingredients together can easily dissolve blood clots - thrombi - and promote good blood flow. If there are no thrombi yet, this juice mixture is indispensable for preventing their formation.

If a person has oxygen starvation, then a mixture of these juices replenishes the lack of oxygen in tissue hypoxia. It is important to use beets with their green tops to prepare this juice mixture - they contain a lot of vitamins. And carrots also have green tops at the end, they are also useful for the juice mixture. This will improve the effect of juices on the condition of veins with varicose veins.

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Folk recipes for varicose veins

To effectively combat varicose veins, you can use the powers of nature. It is very important for a person to be treated with the plants that grow in his country - such plants are better absorbed by the body and help in the fight against vein diseases.

Hazelnut

To reduce the damage caused to the body by trophic ulcers, you need to use this recipe. It helps with phlebitis, varicose veins, when trophic ulcers occur, especially ulcers that form on the shin.

You need to take hazelnut bark (hazelnut) and its leaves, grind everything in equal parts. Pour 1 tablespoon of this mixture with 1 glass of boiling water and leave to cool and brew for an hour. Then take one quarter of a glass 3 times a day before meals.

Horse chestnut

Preparations made from it help blood to clot more slowly, thanks to chestnut the walls of veins are strengthened, their inflammation is reduced, as well as inflammation of muscles and joints, especially calf ones, this product is also good in the fight against varicose veins.

How to prepare it? You need to take 50 g of horse chestnut fruits and flowers (chopped), infuse them by pouring 0.5 liters of vodka or alcohol. Let it stand for 14 days in a warm place in the dark. There is one secret: for the drink to work better, it needs to be shaken once a day. You can take horse chestnut tincture 3-4 times a day. The course of treatment is 1 month. After that, a person feels much better.

Preparations containing horse chestnut are even used to treat complications of varicose veins.

Kalanchoe

This simple plant is very good for varicose veins. You need to take a Kalanchoe that is at least a year old. Wash the leaves, keep them in the refrigerator for a day and cut them, filling a liter jar halfway. Pour vodka over it so that it covers the Kalanchoe by 2 fingers. Let the tincture stand for 2-3 days in a dark, cool place. Then you can rub it on your legs at night. It is very good for varicose veins - the venous nodes become much smaller, and the veins do not look so swollen.

Yarrow and other plants

This modest plant can do a good job in preventing and treating varicose veins. To 50 grams of yarrow herb, you can add 200 grams of immortelle (flowers), lingonberry - 100 grams, birch (leaves) - 100 grams, and buckthorn bark - 100 grams. Mix it all and pour 300 grams of boiling water over 1 tablespoon. Then boil the mixture for 5 minutes. Let it brew for 4 hours, but not in a traditionally cold and dark place, but in a warm one.

The infusion will cool down during this time, but it needs to be strained, warmed up and taken 100 grams per day before meals three times a day.

This infusion is a very good remedy against thrombophlebitis and phlebitis, even at advanced stages.