Varicose veins are a disease of veins characterized by an increase in their size, change in shape and decrease in elasticity. The superficial veins of the lower extremities, the venous plexuses of the rectum, the veins of the portal system and the spermatic cord are mainly affected.
The development of varicose veins is facilitated by difficulties with the flow of blood from the venous system during a systematic long stay on the legs associated with professional activity, compression of the pelvic veins by the uterus during pregnancy, blockage in the pelvic veins. for example, systematic constipation, sedentary work, etc.
Sitting slows blood circulation and causes blood stagnation. Prolonged inactivity and sitting can destroy the heart of people who sit for a long time, and deep leg vein thrombosis can develop. Sitting with your legs crossed is harmful because you can press on the popliteal artery, which will cause blockage in the veins.
Clothing and shoes should not be tight, as this can slow down blood flow. Walking around the house on grass, dirt or just barefoot improves blood circulation and strengthens the heart. Congenital weakness of the venous wall and lack of venous valves predisposes to the disease. Ulcers may develop over time due to lack of blood supply.
One of the initial symptoms of the disease is a feeling of heaviness in the legs, dull or sharp pain and cramps at night. If left untreated, varicose veins harden and tighten over time, often causing ulcers and bleeding in the legs.
Varicose veins formed in the scrotum are called varicocele (varicose veins of the spermatic cord). If they appear in the rectum, they are called hemorrhoids.
Phlebitis (inflammation of blood vessels), varicose ulcers, severe itching, skin discoloration (often coppery red) are common complications of this condition. However, only a small percentage of people with varicose veins develop varicose veins. People with varicose veins are thought to have weak-walled veins from birth.
But weak vessel walls are likely the result of poor nutrition, toxemia, denervation (low nerve condition), and lack of exercise. In most cases, when varicose veins appear during pregnancy, they disappear after childbirth. With the help of sufficiently active physical exercises, varicose veins that appear during pregnancy can be eliminated even in the female state.
Failed surgery to remove or drain the vein The use of elastic stockings or bandages to support the vein is only half the size, resulting in tissue weakening to such an extent that the condition becomes chronic or more difficult to treat.
How to prevent varicose veins:
- Avoid sitting in one position for a long time so that the muscles do not become numb and do not stand for a long time;
- Do daily physical exercises for the feet: often climb on the toes, climb the stairs on foot, swim, walk 1-3 km, stay in a pose with the legs raised above the level of the heart for at least an hour;
- Do not gain weight.
What remedies help varicose veins?
Mikuli's exercises are very effective for cleaning the vessels: rise on the toes so that the heels are 1-2 cm below the floor, and then sharply descend on them. After doing this 30 times, rest for 10 seconds. The exercise should be performed calmly, slowly, 3-5 times a day, no more than 60 heel strikes on the floor each time.
Fill a half-liter bottle with birch buds to 1/3 of its volume and pour vodka up to the neck. Leave for 10 days, shaking occasionally. This tincture is to lubricate painful spots.
Wash 3 medium-sized Antonovka apples in cold water. Put them in an enamel bowl and pour 1 liter of boiling water. Insist for 3 hours, wrap tightly. Then crush the apples and filter the resulting infusion. Drink 50 liters every day in the morning on an empty stomach and in the evening before going to bed. Prepare an infusion and take it until the condition improves.
In the treatment of blockage of veins, you should simultaneously take a bath and drink decoctions of various medicinal plants: chamomile, comfrey, oak, chestnut, willow branches.
For baths: take 500 g (in winter - 300 g) of oak branches and the same number of chestnut and willow branches, put them in an enamel bucket, pour cold water, bring to a boil and boil for 30 minutes. Then add 200 g of herbs to each: cudweed marshmallow, sessile, chamomile, St. John's wort and leave for the night. Separately, boil or steam 3 pieces of rye bread and pour the broth into the bath. Every day before going to bed, you should take a bath for 30-40 minutes. At 38-43 ° C.
At the same time, you need to brew a mixture of 1 liter of boiling water and 1 tbsp. l. oak branches, 1 tbsp. l. willow branches and 1 tbsp. l. chestnut branches, boiled for 30 minutes, add broth 1 tbsp. l. herbs: swamp cudweed, consistent, chamomile, St. John's wort, leave for 12 hours, strain and add 2 tbsp. l. Honey.
Drink 2-3 times a day, 50 ml in the first 2 days, then 100 ml in 2 days. remaining days, 150 ml. The course of treatment is 20 days, with a break of 5-10 days. And repeat the course of treatment again.
- With varicose veins and thrombophlebitis: powdered plantain leaves, medicinal plant and yarrow flowers, white willow bark (preferably cambium), chestnut fruits or flowers, marshmallow or raspberry root (can be flowers and even leaves) and chamomile taken in equal proportions, thoroughlymix, brew 600 ml of boiling water with 2 tbsp. l. mixture, bring to a boil and immediately remove from heat and then insist overnight. Drink 3/4 cup in the morning and evening. Prepare a compress for the night from the remaining parts.
- Thrombophlebitis can be treated by taking a decoction of nettle leaves and following a long-term diet (do not eat meat, fish, fried anything). Nettle infusion: 1 tbsp. l. brew the leaves with a glass of boiling water, leave for 40 minutes, filter. Drink 1-2 tbsp. l. 3-4 times a day before meals.
- With varicose veins: 2 times a day, morning and evening, rub apple cider vinegar on all affected areas and drink apple cider vinegar at the same time: 2 tsp. q. 2-3 glasses per day for 1 glass of water. Abundant soaking and rubbing of white acacia flowers with alcohol tincture dissolves swollen venous nodes well.
- Baths from a decoction of willow bark with varicose veins are useful: brew 2 handfuls of bark with 5 liters of boiling water, put on a slow fire and heat for 30 minutes, filter.
- With thrombophlebitis: apply to the painful area 1-2 times a day for 1. 5-2 hours. l. bodyagi, insist 2 hours.
- A decoction of oak bark has a resin-like tightening effect on the internal veins. 1 st. l. brew the bark with 1 cup of boiling water, heat for 25 minutes on low heat, leave for 40 minutes, filter. Drink 1 tbsp. l. A day before eating Zraza.
- 1 cup of boiling water brew 1 tbsp. l. crushed leaves or hazelnut shell and insisted for 6 hours. Drink 3/4 cup 3-4 times a day for 30 minutes. before eating for a month.
- Pour 1 glass of vodka with 2 tbsp. l. chop fresh Kalanchoe leaves and leave for a week. Rub the affected feet with this tincture for a month.
- Finely chop freshly picked leaves and silver wormwood heads in a mortar, mix 1 tbsp. l. cooked raw materials and 1 tbsp. l. sour milk or sour cream, apply an even layer on the gauze and apply this gauze to the areas with enlarged veins for 1. 5-2 hours. Such bandages should be applied for 4-5 days. After 2-3 days, the treatment can be repeated.
- For dilated veins: early in the morning, before sunrise, in clean cotton socks on dewy grass so that the socks are well saturated with water. You need to walk in these socks when the sun rises, do not take them off until they are dry.
Exercises: lying down, raise your right leg, relax as much as possible and shake your leg sharply. Put your foot down. Do the same with your other leg. Repeat 10-20 times. And so - several times a day. The bigger the better. Walking and moderate exercise are the best prevention of varicose veins. From time to time it is necessary to take the "head-up-leg" position. In general, all exercises that raise the legs are useful.