Doctors argue that varicose veins are found in about 30 %of the adult population of the planet, moreover in women more often (20 %) than in men (11 %). Most often, varicose veins affects the veins of the lower extremities, rectum. This disease is not only a cosmetic problem, it is fraught with serious complications, sometimes with adverse and even tragic outcome. So it is impossible to launch this disease under any circumstances.
Varicose veins, or, as they often say, varicose veins, this is a kind of expansion of veins, which is accompanied by a violation of blood circulation. And with such a disorder of venous blood circulation, the blood is slightly delayed in the walls of the vessels, causing their renewal. The walls of the vessel are initially able to withstand this pressure, but after a while, they begin to weaken and deform, turning into small tubes with narrow clearance. The blood flow slows down, metabolic processes in tissues are disturbed.
At the very beginning of the disease, blue-pink vascular web appears on the legs, and more often there is a feeling of heaviness and bursting in the legs, swelling (usually in the evening, especially after prolonged standing, but completely disappear by morning).
With the progression of the disease, burlap expansion of the vein occurs, its length increases, gyrus and nodular balls are formed, convulsions can appear in the calf muscles (especially in the evening, and sometimes at night), changes appear on the inner surface of the lower leg: sealing, darkening skin irritation, then due to the affected vein cannot ensure sufficient outflow of blood from the skin andViolates the nutrition (trophy) of tissue trophic ulcers, poorly supplied to treatment.
Complications of varicose vegetable expansion are phlebitis (inflammation of the vein), thrombosis formation of a blood clot (thrombus) in Vienna, which is fraught with a separation of a thrombus with the subsequent clogging of the vessel. In general, blood clots arise five times more often than in arteries. And in the veins of the legs three times more often than in the veins of the hands.
Cloths formed in varicose veins can come off and get into vital organs. Here you can expect a stroke and a heart attack. And if a torn blood clot falls into the pulmonary artery, clogging it, instant death occurs.
Varicose veins often appear in women during pregnancy. The varicose veins are in wait for those who suffer from overweight. All those people who have been experiencing large and serious physical activity athletes, surgeons, ballet dancers, teachers, hairdressers, as well as people with congenital weakness of connective tissue, after legs injuries, are subject to illnesses. Varicose veins often accompanies heart defects. In some cases, varicose veins are caused by taking hormonal drugs and hormonal disorders.
Rydigige Dalke in his book "Disease as a Symbol" calls the varicose veins "clogging of blood vessels" and "traffic jam in the shower". The esoteric physicic says "the channel of the river of life is damaged, the return of the energy of life to its source is blocked. "Ala it is varicose veins and thrombophlebitis are a "scream for the help of the affected legs. "
Varicose veins are currently successfully treated by many methods that are selected and combined depending on the stage of development of the disease: a variety of pharmaceuticals that improve the elasticity of blood vessels and their tone, normalizing blood flow and metabolic processes in tissues, wearing preventive and therapeutic anti -variacous tights, stockings, golphs, sclerotherapy. (introducing special drugs into the affected veins), laser therapy, microflebectomy (removal of varicose veins through punctures in the skin)
What to do?
When the first signs of varicose veins appear, you should consult a surgeon or angiologist as soon as possible and strictly follow all his recommendations. And, of course, help your feet yourself: quit smoking, eating right, do massage and gymnastics.
At the early stage of the disease, a good effect is given by daily (at night) contrasting baths for the legs. You will immediately notice how the tone of blood vessels improves.
After contrasting baths, it is good to perform self -massage of the legs. We will still definitely talk about massage later, but now it is also necessary to say a few words.
Self -massage of the legs from varicose veins
- First you need to do hips massage. Further, with light strokes and kneads, rise from the knees to the inguinal zone. With the help of spiral, straightforward and circular movements, stretch the knee joint with the fingertips. Click several times with your fist on the popliteal fossa, and with the help of circular movements, open this area.
- Lie on your back, relax your muscles and bend your knees. Grab your lower legs with your hands and rub the skin using stroking. Shake the legs muscles.
- With the help of light strokes, knead each finger of the leg. Moving from the bottom up, rub the ankle joint and both feet. Massage the feet and heels with circular movements, and by applying a little strength, rub the ankle joint.
Repeat this whole set of self-massage 2-3 times.
Rubbing apple cider vinegar
In America and Great Britain, apple vinegar is recommended for such purposes.
Before bedtime and in the morning, it is necessary to rub the sore area with natural apple vinegar. And besides this, every day you need to drink two teaspoons of vinegar, mixed in one glass of water.
Remember, it is apple vinegar that will provide a miraculous result, namely: cosmetic defects will disappear, and the veins will finally stop swelling.
Not the next day, of course, but after thirty days the effect is evident, that is, on the legs.
Apple vinegar helps well and if you are tormented by cramps. In order to protect yourself from seizures, you can use the ointment from apple cider vinegar. To prepare it, you need to mix a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, a teaspoon of turpentine and one egg yolk. The resulting ointment, you need to rub at the feet before bedtime.
Therapeutic baths
Three hundred years ago in Rus', it was believed that in the bath you can heal literally from all sores at once, and that it is the bath that gives health to the legs.
But this is true, it is the bath that can improve blood circulation, which means that it helps the work of the venous system, including the legs. But keep in mind that you can soar in the bath only in the initial stage of varicose veins.
Food for varicose veins should be, of course, full, diverse and tasty. That is, useful: containing all the nutrients necessary for the body and rich vitamins and minerals.
Dr. Walker, who works in the Norfolk laboratory of food chemistry and scientific research to combat varicose veins, recommends to drink such vitamin cocktails:
- Take 10 parts of carrot juice and 6 parts of spinach juice. Mix all this and drink, drink for health. Carrot juice, rich in beta-carotene, improves metabolic processes in the body, helps healing wounds and ulcers, and spinach juice containing vitamins C and E, helps to cleanse the intestines and improves the tone of blood vessels.
- Take 10 parts of carrot juice, 3 parts of beet juice and 3 parts of cucumber juice. Such a mixture perfectly affects blood pressure. Beetroot juice, for example, is very useful for thrombophlebitis, since it prevents blood clots and helps in their absorption when they are already there.
- Take 8 parts of carrot juice, 4 parts of spinach juice, 2 parts of turnip juice, 2 parts of the cord juice (it grows along the banks of streams, and collect it in spring and autumn). This cocktail has a truly unique effect, it dissolves blood clots and slows down their further formation.
Recipes of traditional medicine
- Horse chestnut is a great healing. Firstly, it lowers blood coagulation; Secondly, it strengthens the walls of capillaries and veins, thereby making the prevention of blood clots in the blood vessels, in addition to this, it helps to resolve the already emerging thrombuses. It is worth remembering that it is the Horse chestnut extract that has a miraculous effect. It helps well for varicose veins and infusion of flowers and fruits of horse chestnut. To prepare it, it is necessary to mix half a liter of vodka, and fifty grams of raw materials. Put this solution to infuse for two weeks in a dark and warm place, periodically shaken. After time, this infusion should be taken thirty drops, three times a day. The course of treatment is one month.
- Fresh leaves and flower heads of silver wormwood must be diligently rubbed. Add a tablespoon of raw materials to the same amount of acidic milk, stir it as it should, then apply on gauze in an even layer. Then put the bandage on the damaged part of the legs. Treatment should be carried out daily for 5 days, after which it is necessary to take a short break.
- For thrombophlebitis, use the following collection: fifty grams of yarrow grass, one hundred grams of crushing bark, one hundred grams of lingonberry leaves, two hundred grams of immortelle flowers, 100g birch leaves. The full tablespoon of this collection is brew 300 ml of boiling water and boil for 3 minutes. Then put it in a warm place for 4 hours. Then take a decoction in a warm form half a glass three times a day, half an hour before meals.
- For the prevention of the formation of trophic ulcers and in order to reduce the permeability of the vascular wall, it is necessary to prepare the infusion of the following herbs: three parts of the flowering chamomile flowers, the grass of the three -colored violets 1 part, the grass of the horsetail 1 part, the grass of the St. John's wort 2, one part of the grass of the yarrow, two parts of the calendula calendula flowers. One tablespoon of this fee should be poured with a glass of boiling water, let it brew for half an hour and strain. This infusion is well suited for lotions, compresses and for washing trophic ulcers.
- Another infusion is famous for the treatment of trophic ulcers: one part of the chamomile of the pharmacy, one part of the fruits of the coriander, two parts of the St. John's wort, the series of 2 parts, the grass of the drying of 1 part, the grass of the linenes 1 part, one part of the grass of the drug Donnik, one part of the root of the licorice. One tablespoon of this fee must be poured into a thermos, then pour with one glass of boiling water and let it brew for 45 minutes, then strain and take half a glass two to three times a day, after eating, for 1-2 two months.
- Where swollen veins are visible, five times a day must be moistened with fresh potatoes juice, you can also be applied to these places moistened in the same juice. It is advisable to supplement this procedure with drinking infusions of fresh potatoes.
- A great remedy for varicose veins is Kalanchoe. For this method, it is necessary to rinse the leaves of this plant qualitatively, dry them and finely chop them. Put them in a half-liter bottle to half. After that, they should be poured with hot water and put in a dark, warm place in order to infuse the infusion. Shake the bottle periodically. Watching a week, strain the infusion. This mixture must be rubbed from knees to the foot. In order to get rid of the blue grid of small veins, this procedure must be repeated every day for four months. In parallel with this, you can take one teaspoon, three times a day, a floral pollen inside.
- It will be very useful to make compresses from the milk serum at night. To prepare it, it is enough to moisten the usual serum rag, then you should wrap it with a sore spot and cover with compressed paper on top. This compress is necessary throughout the night. At its expiration, it is necessary to thoroughly wash the damaged place with cool water.
- If you do not have serum, you can make compresses from the leaves of horse chestnut and chestnut flowers, which must be thoroughly ground. It is worth remembering that such treatment is quite long.
- And with the help of alcohol tincture of white acacia flowers, you can quickly get rid of the swollen venous nodes, wetting them damaged places.
- You can fill the half-liter bottle with birch buds, completely pour water. For ten days, insist in a dark place, sometimes shaking the bottle. Lubricate this tincture of sore spots.
- You can also use the root of the trench, applying it to the swollen veins and trophic ulcers. But several times more practical and convenient to use ointment. Mas from the root of the trench is prepared as follows: one part of finely cut sponge roots and two parts of horse chestnut colors, mix all this and pour a little with vodka. Put in a warm place for half an hour.
- After time, add three parts of melted pork fat to the infusion. Put all this mixture in the oven for three hours, but in no case to allow boiling. After, cool, strain and pour into the vessels. It is necessary to store this infusion in the refrigerator. This ointment must be applied to damaged places daily before bedtime. On top of the ointment, establish a soft linen rag, compressive paper and bandage. In parallel with the compress, it is necessary to take the next tincture inward: ten drops of this decoction, mixing it with water. Take three times a day, 30 minutes before meals
Remember that when you throw your foot on your foot, you will complicate the blood flow and squeeze the vessels. When you rest, put your legs so that they are at the level of the heart. You can also raise one side of the bed a little so that the legs are slightly higher than usual.