Varicose Veins
Supplements to Help Varicose Veins
Too much pressure inside veins can be harmful for valves and can lead to blood accumulation which inflames them and makes them varicose. It can happen to any vein, but the most frequently affected are surface veins of your legs. Changing your lifestyle and taking nutritive supplements you can avoid surgical operation.
In a normal vein of a leg, the valves prevent blood flowing back, down the leg, under gravitation effect. When these valves don’t work efficiently anymore, blood agglomerates and dilates veins making subcutaneous ones blue and swollen, especially on the inside of the legs. There are people, who don’t have supplementary symptoms, but they have their legs and ankles swollen, they feel pain in their legs and can have as well itching sensations.
A person out of five can have varicose veins. Women are more affected than men and this affection tends to be hereditary. Other factors which increase the risk to get varicose veins are a poor diet, little physical exercise, a sedentary lifestyle and overweight. Pregnancy as well increases this risk, because a boost of blood volume and larger uterus which pushes upon abdominal veins increases pressure in legs veins.
When you suffer from varicose veins it is not enough to have medical treatment, but you must take nutritive supplements as well. However, you don’t have to take more supplements in the same time, but alternatively. The most frequently used nutritive supplements for varicose veins are vitamins C, E, B, Q 1o coenzyme, lecithin, an anti oxidant compound and supplements based on blueberries.
Besides, you can drink a cup of nettle tea in the morning and a cup of horse tail tea in the afternoon and in the evening.
Nutritive supplements are not necessarily included in pills. You can have an adequate diet as well. So you have to eat at least five dishes of vegetables and fruit a day. Citric fruit are rich in nutritive substances which contribute to maintaining the force and elasticity of the veins walls because they contain vitamin C, siliceous elements and vegetal pigments. Forest fruit, cherries and sour cherries rich in red and purple vegetal pigments are valuable as well. You have to eat a lot of foods rich in fibers like rice and integral cereals. They contribute to prevent constipation and the pressure which results from it, by pushing upon legs veins.
The most efficient supplements you can get from the pharmacy must contain zinc too.
Nutritive supplements can be combined with exercises even with yoga if you are able to take it up, with home remedies, with plant remedies, hydro therapy, aroma therapy or homeopathy.
Nutritive supplements based on gingko biloba can be useful too and the other types of therapies, individually or combined can lead to miraculous cures in no time.
If you suffer from varicose veins and they are painful or they bleed or if your legs are swollen or if you have chest pain or you suddenly can’t breathe, this is a medical emergency and you have to be seen immediately by a specialist.