Varicose veins - a scourge that often whips the feet of a modern person. As a result, the affected veins expand, bending and tangling into nodes. The speed of blood flow slows down, conditions for stagnation appear, and blood clots form (clots from thickened blood).
Further more. Blood clots can clog a vein. And the inflammation of the walls of the vessel begins - thrombophlebitis, at best leading to surgical intervention. The lack of blood circulation in the veins leads to trophic ulcers.
Varicose veins - a companion of hemorrhoids and prostatitis. In the anus, under the mucous membrane, the venous plexuses expand. Blood stagnation occurs in them, hemorrhoidal nodes appear, terribly painful, bleeding. Venous congestion is also formed in the prostate gland affected by prostatitis.
Folk remedies for the prevention of varicose veins
Medicine does not stop in the fight against insidious varicose veins, taking in its arsenal of new pharmacological preparations, an all-pervasive laser. But the old remedies of alternative medicine are not forgotten, because they have been tested by many generations. And they help to "calm" the ailment, but you can’t delay. It has long been proven: disease prevention is the best treatment.
Let us recall some of the most commonly used remedies: potato juice inside and lotions, rubbing veins with apple cider vinegar and taking it inside, walking on morning dew in cotton socks, dressings made from the slurry of silver wormwood grass on sour cream, lubricating diseased veins with tincture from birch buds. Many claim that the tincture of the fruits of the chestnut helped them .
Clarify the "family tree"
For treatment, horse chestnut is needed. Its plantings spread throughout Europe, some species reach Moscow. Horse chestnut is inedible; even animals do not eat it without habit. It is also called the stomach, the esculus (from the Latin Aésculus). Horse chestnut trees are decorative, are used in park gardening. He is even “according to the documents” - not a relative of the noble chestnut, which is edible in the fruits. Of course, these trees are similar. But they come from different families of the plant kingdom.
It came in handy to man and horse chestnut became famous as a fighter with vein diseases. It lowers the viscosity of the blood, enhances the filling of the venous system, thereby preventing thrombosis. Ointments, tincture of chestnuts from varicose veins are successfully used as a tonic to strengthen the walls of the veins, eliminate the inflammatory process in the vessels. Chestnut promotes the healing of varicose (trophic) ulcers. Helps curb hemorrhoids. Let us dwell on such a phytochemical as tincture of chestnuts for varicose veins. This is an effective drug that has long been popular. Why is it healing, what substances are concentrated in it?
Secret of power
For treatment, the roots and bark of the branches (collected during the sap flow), flowers, leaves (until they turned yellow), seeds with peel (in September) are used. All these parts of the tree contain healing organic matter. What is their strength in the fight against varicose veins?
The bark and brown shell of the seed peel contain tannins, escin saponin and fraxin and esculin glycosides, fatty oil. In the flowers - flavonoids, rutin, pectin, kempferol derivatives. The purified kernels contain starch, tannins and saponins, fatty oil, flavonoids.
Tannins (tannins) will condense and fix protein molecules in the vein membrane, making them impenetrable and smooth. Tannins taste astringent. For example, the mucous membrane of the mouth "tan" (becomes dense) from them. The same thing happens with venous vessels: their walls become denser, fragility disappears, they are covered with a protective film, which prevents the penetration of infection, irritating substances.
Saponins (sapo - soap) - natural soap substances that have a bactericidal, therefore, anti-inflammatory property. In chestnuts, it is present in the form of escin. This explains the use of mature chestnuts for washing hands. The therapeutic effect of escin is that it tones the veins, drives stagnant blood, relieves swelling, and reduces lymph flow.
The coumarin glycosides esculin and fraxin have a gentle anticoagulant effect - they thin the blood and it accelerates its flow through the veins. Improved blood circulation gives a resolving effect - trophic ulcers ("flowers" of varicose veins) are delayed.
Rutin reduces vascular fragility and capillary permeability, dissolves cholesterol deposits, lowers blood pressure, and relieves allergies and swelling.
Kempferol derivatives have anti-cancer and wound healing properties.
Fatty oil restores cells, regulates metabolism, softens inflammation.
All these substances will also contain homemade tincture of chestnuts for varicose veins.
About contraindications
Horse chestnut tincture banned:
- for patients with diabetes;
- with thrombocytopenia (platelet deficiency means that blood coagulates poorly, and this threatens with bleeding);
- for pregnant women in the first trimester;
- with hypotension (low blood pressure);
- with violations of menstruation.
If you decide to be treated with such a folk remedy as chestnut tincture, the recipe of which is in this text, consult a therapist. Note that you must strictly observe the dosage - the plant is slightly poisonous.
How to make chestnut tincture
To independently prepare tincture for internal use in order to treat venous insufficiency in diseases such as varicose veins, hemorrhoids, thrombophlebitis and prostatitis, you will need 20 g of chestnut seeds crushed together with brown peel (surface “spike” shell is thrown out), filled with 200 ml of vodka.
Insisting in a glass bottle lasts a week in the dark. Shake the contents daily without opening the lid. Take the filtered tincture on an empty stomach 3 times in 30 drops. The course of treatment is 1 month. In this case, control over blood coagulation is necessary - an analysis needs to be done.
According to the therapeutic effect, the tincture of chestnuts, the recipe of which is given in the text, is no worse than pharmaceutical preparations such as Eskusan (Germany) and Esflazid (Russia). But home remedies will cost much cheaper.
Ointments will help
It is good at the same time as taking the tincture to lubricate the inflamed veins in the legs with ointment. You need to make a mixture: powder from chamomile flowers, sage leaves - 10 g each, chestnut kernels in the shell, crushed - 50 g, potato starch - 5 g. Stir the components with 200 ml of chicken fat (melted and hot), simmer for 2-3 hours in a water bath, after 12 hours of infusion, warm to a boil, strain.
If joints hurt
A chestnut alcohol extract is used as an anti-inflammatory agent to relieve joint pain.
Chestnut tincture for joints for external use (treatment of arthritis, rheumatism) is prepared quickly: 50 g of seeds in the shell crumbles and is filled with vodka - 0.5 l. After two hours, the grinding is suitable for rubbing into sore spots.
Chestnut tincture for joints affected by arthrosis: the fruits are cut into 3-4 parts, put in a jar to the top and filled with vodka to the brim. Close tightly with a lid and insist in the dark for 3 weeks - the medicine is ready. The fluid is drained and applied to compresses on the joints.
When chestnuts bloom
The fruits ripen in the fall. What to do if September is to wait a long time? Not only
alcohol tincture from chestnuts for varicose veins can help. In the spring, juice from freshly picked flowers is suitable for the treatment of inflamed veins and hemorrhoid cones. It slows down blood coagulation. Dosage - 30 drops on an empty stomach twice a day. Dilute juice with water.
In the summer, apply pulp to the swollen veins from the leaves of a chestnut scrolled through a meat grinder.
The tincture of chestnut on vodka is also harvested for the future. In a jar with 100 ml of vodka, drop 20 g of plucked flowers. After a week of insisting at room temperature in the dark, the drug will be ready. Drink it should be 30 drops in the morning and evening. Relief occurs gradually, after 3 weeks the result of the healing effect of a flowering chestnut will be felt.
Those who are contraindicated in tincture of chestnut on vodka (children, pregnant women, people who are addicted to alcohol) can drink a decoction of bark from a tree trunk or branches. Pour in a liter of boiling water crushed crushed 3 tbsp. l., boil over low heat for 10 minutes. In the morning and at night, drink half a glass.
Bathtubs and baths
Not only with dilated veins, but also with myalgia, neuralgia, rheumatism, gout, skin itching, horse chestnut baths are effective - from seeds or bark. In a bucket of boiling water, cook ground raw materials for 30 minutes - 1.5 kg. Strain, pour into the bath.
To prepare sedentary baths for hemorrhoids, you will need to make a mixture of dry raw materials. It is necessary to combine: 3 servings of seeds of chestnut, chamomile (flowers), sage grass, 5 servings of oak bark. 4 tbsp. l pour the collection into a thermos, pouring boiling water - 3 glasses. Strain after 2 hours. Bring the volume of infusion to 2 l with water (boiled chilled). Take a bath for at least 15 minutes.