Treatment folk remedies

Varicosity: prevention and treatment with herbs.

Varicose veins in legs.

How a horse chestnut helps a man.

Medicinal raw materials from this beautiful tree are the bark, leaves, flowers and fruits.
The bark is harvested at the beginning of the sap from young branches, the flowers — during full flowering, the fruits are harvested fully matured, in autumn.

Varicose veins in legs.

In all parts of the chestnut contains biologically active substances (triterpenoids, phenols, flavonoids). They reduce the viscosity of the blood, reduce the permeability of the capillaries and increase the tone of the veins.
This property of chestnut was noticed by the people for a long time. Decoctions and
tinctures from its raw materials are widely used in the treatment of varicose veins, hemorrhoids, trophic ulcers.

Fruits of chestnut against pathologies.

The most widespread treatment of vascular pathologies with
the power of preparations from the fruits of horse chestnut. Water-alcohol and dry extract from the fruit of chestnut is used in official medicine under the trade name «escusan».

It is prescribed for 15-25 drops 3 times a day with varicose veins, pains and heaviness in the legs, ulcers of the lower leg, hemorrhoids, stroke threat, brain edema. Preparations of horse chestnut reduce the risk of postoperative thrombosis of vessels and thromboembolism. Simultaneously lower arterial pressure, improve heart function and dilate blood vessels.

However, these drugs are not cheap. Therefore, for long-term treatment, they can be replaced with homemade tincture.

For this, the shell is separated from the cores. Grind and insist on vodka (200 g per 1 liter) in a dark, warm place for 2 weeks. Filter and the resulting red-brown tincture is stored in the refrigerator. Take 30-35 drops 3 times a day with 1/4 cup water before eating.
Courses for 3 weeks, breaks — 5-7 days.

For external use — 1 part fruit on 3 parts of vodka. Insist the same.
Applied for rubbing the affected areas with varicose veins, thrombophlebitis, radiculitis, rheumatism, deposition of salts, inflammation of muscles and joints.

It is not recommended to use the tincture inside with pronounced renal and hepatic insufficiency. You can not take tincture of women during pregnancy and breastfeeding, as well as in the treatment of anticoagulants.

Healing tincture.

Tincture of dried flowers on vodka (1 cup of dry raw materials — «columns» per 1 liter of vodka. To insist in a dark place for 2 weeks) apply:

• externally as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic for pain in the legs, articular rheumatism and arthritis;

• inside by 30-40 drops 3 times a day with 1/3 cup water with hypertension, blood diseases, hemorrhoids, tuberculosis and mastopathy.

We prepare chestnut juice.

You can make juice from fresh chestnut flowers. Accept it
20-30 drops with a quarter glass of water 2 times a day for half an hour before
food. Apply with the expansion of veins, thrombosis and hemorrhoids.

With such treatment, during the whole flowering time of chestnut, considerable relief comes. Pain disappears, varicose veins dissolve, hemorrhoids pass.
In addition, the juice from the flowers of chestnut has a good therapeutic effect
atherosclerosis, arthritis, osteochondrosis and gout.

Complex herbal medicine.

The use of horse chestnut preparations is useful to combine with other medicinal plants that have a beneficial effect on the vessels.

In particular, I recommend the bark of hazel, which in the form of a hot infusion is drunk with the expansion of veins, thrombophlebitis and ulcers of the lower leg.
1 tbsp. A spoon of crushed bark is insisted 2 hours in a glass of boiling water in a thermos, drunk fractional during the day.

Grass verbena medicinal in the form of infusion drink with vein thrombosis
and atherosclerosis:
1 tbsp. A spoonful of dry herb is insisted for 1 hour in 300 ml of boiling water. Strain and drink 2 tbsp. spoon 3-4 times daily before meals.

An infusion of herbs or pods of medicinal galega (goatskin) is taken orally as a deterrent to blood clotting and preventing thrombosis.
1 tbsp. A spoonful of dry raw materials (preferably seeds) is insisted in 0.5 liters of boiling water for 2 hours, filter. Drink 1/2 cup 3-4 times daily before meals.

Recommended fees.

The fruits of chestnut horse — 20 g, corn bark and rhizome of the mountaineer bird (sporis) — 30 grams, horsetail grass — 40 g.
2 tbsp. spoon collection insist 2 hours in a thermos, filter and drink a long time for 1/2 cup 3-4 times daily before meals.
Courses for 3-4 weeks, with a break for a week.

Alternate with such a collection: herb verbena grass and clover
medicinal — 40 grams, goat grass — 30 g, horse chestnut bark and hazel — 20 grams. Prepare similarly, used for thrombophlebitis and atherosclerosis.

For external use: the grass of the clover and the roots of the comfrey medicinal — 40 grams each, the horse chestnut bark and chamomile flowers — 30 grams each.
2-3 tbsp. spoon collection is insisted 2 hours in 300 ml of boiling water and a warm mass of un-filtered infusion is used in the form of compresses or lotions on the inflamed skin and venous nodes with thrombophlebitis. Procedures are performed before bedtime, courses for 2-3 weeks, with a break for a week.