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Alternatives and vitamins against varicose veins
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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With varicose fought since ancient times. Presidents and leaders. Therefore, alternative remedies for 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 drugs can be successfully used to combat varicose veins?
Leeches against varicose veins
Leeches though and opposite creatures, but very-very useful. They are used in the fight against varicose veins. What is so valuable leeches? Their saliva, as it turns out, contains in its composition a multitude of substances that have the property to activate many body processes. The saliva of leeches was used in antiquity, so that blood would coagulate better, so that blood clots in the body, which are called thrombi, would dissolve. In addition, with a high viscosity of blood and a large amount of it in the veins, leeches are indispensable to suck this blood and remove excess.
An interesting fact: one leech in one hour sucks about 15 ml of blood. Then, poured, it disappears from the body. But that is not all. After a bite of a leech and its disappearance, up to 15 ml of blood flows out of the hole that formed. This allows you to expand microscopic vessels, ensure the outflow of blood from other organs and tissues.
Leeches against spasms and cramps
Treatment with leeches (hirudotherapy) is an excellent remedy for vasospasms, as well as the fight against hypertension, edema of the legs. Leeches help restore blood circulation, they contribute to the fact that the blood flow increases and nourishes the internal organs and tissues. This is an excellent prevention of varicose veins.
Leeches contribute to helping to reduce the risk of defects in the walls of blood vessels, improve the normal coagulability of blood, thanks to them the body is cleaned of toxins.
Contraindications to the use of leeches
And what, unless there are such contraindications? Of course. This decrease in blood clotting, increased bleeding, including gums, anemia, pregnancy, very severe leanness and accelerated metabolism, individual intolerance to leeches, as well as the state of pregnancy. You can not also put leeches to children and very old people, especially with a weakened body.
Leeches can not be put in places where the skin is too thin - it harms the skin and blood vessels under it. Therefore, you can not put a leech and directly above the vessel, especially if it is a vessel with affected walls.
The best points for leeches
The doctor-girudoterapevt (the doctor appointing leeches) will prompt, in what points it is best to put leeches. It is best to glue them where, according to the canons of oriental medicine, there are meridians. To leeches were even more effective, they need to be combined with massage, self-massage and physiotherapy, directed against varicose veins.
Ebonite disk
This is a good remedy for varicose veins. When a person rubs an ebonite disk about the diseased parts on his legs, electromagnetic impulses emerge, and the body reacts very positively to them. The metabolism increases, the blood flow improves, the wounds heal faster, the tone of the whole organism rises.
When the ebonite disk rubs against the skin, the person improves the biocurrents, and the person feels better.
How correctly to use ebonite disk? It is necessary to devote to this lesson every evening at least 15 minutes, after 2 weeks the condition of the legs will become much better.
There is a secret to the use of ebonite disk: you need to drive them near the vein, but not just over the vein itself.
If you do not want to spend time stroking and rubbing, attach the ebonite disk to your aching leg and reel it in at night.
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Vitamins for vascular strengthening
To keep the vessels strong and strong, you need to feed them not only from the outside, but also from the inside. Vitamins in sufficient quantity also help to resist formation of thrombi, normalize microcirculation of blood in veins and arteries.
Vitamin rutin (vitamin P) is an excellent remedy that reduces the permeability of the walls of blood vessels and restores their strength and elasticity. Vitamin P also reduces the fragility of the capillaries through which blood circulates. This vitamin contains in abundance such products:
- Rosehip
- Black currant berries
- Citrus
- Green tea
- Aronia blackberry
Know that vitamin P in the body is best absorbed together with another vitamin - C. They increase the impact of each other in the body. A gel based on the routine is very good to smear them with varicose veins. These two methods will help to fight with swelling of the veins, which are already very well manifested under the skin of the legs. A gel with a routine consisting, for example, of Troxevasin, helps to relieve inflammation in the veins, reduces their permeability, and anesthetizes the deformed parts of the veins.
Seeds of horse chestnut
This is also a wonderful alternative to varicose veins. You can prepare a tincture of chestnut seeds by yourself, filling them with alcohol and putting on for a week to insist, and then smear varicose veins on the legs. And you can buy a ready-made drug, for example, Eskuzan ointment. This drug has the seeds of horse chestnut and vitamin B. They complement each other anti-inflammatory, antitumor and heat-reducing effects of each other on the body.
If the body lacks vitamin B, the muscles of the person become weak, the legs may lose their sensitivity or lose it from time to time, the skin of the legs can be burned, and the limbs often swell. Food and preparations with vitamin B in the composition help to combat these phenomena.
Vitamin B is abundant in yeast, legumes, cereals, meat of birds and pigs, it also has a lot in the liver - whether it be beef or pork, or in beer. Preparations and food with vitamin B also help to strengthen the walls of veins, improve the tone of the vessels and the whole body, help with pain in the legs.
When a person is diagnosed with circulatory disorders in the veins, 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 associated with hematopoiesis. If the body lacks pantothenic acid, people have pain in their legs, spasms of the calf muscles, especially spasms can occur at night, which is especially dangerous for the human nervous system. It threatens skin diseases, as well as inflammation of the veins. To replenish the body with vitamin B5, you need to take more peanuts, liver, eat cereal grains, porridge from bran, eat boiled chicken yolks, broccoli, meat.
But you need to know that vitamin B5 is very unstable. It is quickly destroyed if food is its source - to heat, boil, and freeze. Vitamin B5 is also lost if the grits with its content are grinded.
If a person has varicose veins, doctors can prescribe to him up to 250 mg of vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) 2 times a day. To the drug is well absorbed, it is better to supplement vitamin B5 with other drugs or products with vitamin B5.
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
This vitamin is very good for strengthening the walls of veins and vessels. Ascorbic acid helps the body fight colds, pathogens, viruses. Thanks to the vitamin with the body is much better and more efficiently supplied with a vitally important element for the blood - iron.
Lack of vitamin C leads to the destruction of the walls of blood vessels and capillaries, the person quickly develops bruises and badly descend, as well as poorly heal wounds. To replenish the deficiency of vitamin C and effectively fight with varicose veins, you need to get it from the fruits of dog rose, citrus, sweet pepper, tomatoes, melons, sea buckthorn, currants and mountain ash. If a person has already formed a trophic ulcer, the vitamin C should be taken every day at least 2 grams.
Vitamin A (retinol)
Thanks to vitamin A, the cells of the ethipelia on the walls of the vessels are much better preserved, the walls of the vessels are more durable, and the blood vessels themselves pass 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 strictly in pharmacy preparations are individual, therefore it is necessary to consult a doctor for the appointment of optimal doses of vitamin A, or retinol.
Vitamin E, or tocopherol
This vitamin is very good for protecting cell membranes, as well as confronting the body with bacteria and viruses. If the body lacks tocopherol, the muscles of the legs are weakened, the muscles can lose their shape, atrophy, the person begins to experience difficulties during walking, and also the sensitivity of the legs decreases. It may also be that with a lack of vitamin E, reflexes in the person weaken, for example, a reaction to hot, cold or slowness of movements. It may also not be sensitive to vibration. For example, while driving.
Vitamin E can be obtained from oils of vegetable origin: sunflower, corn, cottonseed oil, many tocopherol and in peanuts, margarine, almonds, sunflower seeds. These products need to be used for the health of veins and leg muscles.
Of course, these vitamins for the health of veins and good blood flow will not be enough - sodium, potassium, omega-fatty acids, and also zinc and copper will be needed. Then the diet of a person will be rich and this is an excellent prevention against the wiles of varicose veins.
Delicious Cooker Recipes
Dr. Walker is an American nutritionist who created a whole system of fighting leg problems, in particular with varicose veins. He proposed to use juices for treatment, but not store, but natural, freshly squeezed. Juices have a huge advantage over products: they are absorbed immediately after they have drunk, and have the most positive effect on all body systems. Especially on blood and blood flow. What kind of juices are best used to treat varicose veins?
Carrot and spinach
You need to take 6 parts of spinach juice and 10 parts of carrot juice. An excellent remedy for leg tumors, leg ulcers, swabbing in the tissues, weakness, loss of strength. Juice is very useful for correct and timely reduction of blood vessels, it helps to strengthen the muscles of the vessels and muscles of the legs.
Carrots, celery and company
You need to take carrot juice - 7 parts, celery juice - 4 parts, spinach juice - 3 parts and parsley juice - 2 parts. All these juices must be mixed and immediately drink. By this you will help yourself to fight with swelling due to the large amount of sodium in the celery, help the blood to circulate faster through the vessels thanks to carrots. Parsley is a very good remedy against bacteria (it used to treat even genital tract infections) and prevent spasms. Juice also well strengthens the walls of the vessels and reduces their fragility.
Carrots, beets and cucumber
The juices of these vegetables are very good for fighting varicose veins. It is necessary to take juice of carrots - 10 parts, juice of a beet - 3 parts, juice of a cucumber - 3 parts. This mixture contains a whole pantry of vitamins and microelements necessary for the health of veins.
There, sodium, and calcium, and potassium, and chlorine, and phosphorus, and all this helps to normalize blood pressure, increase blood flow, make stronger the walls of blood vessels. Beets are generally very good in order to reduce the risk of blood clots - it is able to thin the blood. With 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. This carrot - 8 parts of juice, spinach - 4 parts of juice, turnip - 2 parts of juice, watercress - also 2 parts. There is nothing in this juice mixture: 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 mixture of juices is indispensable for the prevention of their formation.
If a person has oxygen starvation, then a mixture of these juices compensates for the lack of oxygen in the hypoxia of tissues. It is important that the beet is used together with its green tops to prepare this juice mixture - there are a lot of vitamins in it. And carrots also have a green tops on the end, it too is useful for a juice mix. This will improve the effect of juices on the condition of veins in varicose veins.
Alternative recipes from varicose veins
To effectively combat varicose veins, you can use the forces of nature. For a person it is very important to heal precisely those 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 harm 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 lower leg.
It is necessary to take the bark of hazelnut (hazel) and its leaves, all this is ground in equal parts. 1 tablespoon of this mixture pour 1 cup of boiling water and put it to cool and insisted - for an hour. Then take one fourth cup three times a day before eating.
Horse Chestnut
Preparations made from it help the blood to clot more slowly, thanks to the chestnut the walls of the veins become stronger, their inflammation decreases, and also the inflammation of the muscles and joints, especially the calves, this product is also good in the fight against vein dilatation.
How to cook it? You need to take 50 g of fruits and flowers of horse chestnut (crushed), insist them, fill 0.5 liters of vodka or alcohol. Let 14 days stand in a warm place in the dark. There is one secret: to make the drink work better, you need to shake it once a day. You can take tincture of horse chestnut 3-4 times a day. The course of treatment is 1 month. After that, a person feels much better.
Preparations with horse chestnut are used even to treat complications of varicose veins.
Kalanchoe
This simple plant very well helps with varicose veins. You need to take a Kalanchoe, which is no less than a year. Wash the leaves, hold it in the fridge for a day and cut them, filling the half-liter jar. Pour all this with vodka so that it covers the Kalanchoe for 2 fingers. Let the tincture stay 2-3 days in a dark cool place. Then I can rub her feet for the night. Very good for varicose veins - the venous nodes become much smaller, and the veins do not look so swollen.
Yarrow and other plants
This humble plant can do a good job in preventing and fighting varicose veins. To 50 grams of yarrow grass, you can add 200 grams of immortelle (flowers), cowberry - 100 grams, birch (leaves) - 100 grams, and crust bark - 100 grams. Mix all this and pour on 1 tablespoon 300 grams of boiling water. Then the collection should be boiled for 5 minutes. Let it set for 4 hours, but not in a traditionally cold and dark place, but in a warm place.
Infusion during this time will cool down, but it must be filtered, heated and taken at 100 grams a day before meals three times a day.
This infusion is a very good remedy against thrombophlebitis and phlebitis even in difficult stages.