Varicosis is a scourge that often whips the legs of a modern person. As a result, the affected veins expand, twisting and becoming tangled into knots. The speed of blood flow slows down, conditions for its stagnation appear, and blood clots (plugs of thickened blood) form.
Further - more. Blood clots can block a vein. And inflammation of the walls of the vessel will begin - thrombophlebitis, at best leading to surgical intervention. Lack of blood circulation in the veins leads to trophic ulcers.
Varicosis is a companion of hemorrhoids and prostatitis. In the anus, under the mucous membrane, the venous plexuses expand. Blood stagnation occurs in them, hemorrhoids appear, terribly painful, bleeding. Venous congestion is also formed in the prostate affected by prostatitis.
Folk remedies for the prevention of varicose veins
Medicine does not stopin the fight against insidious varicose veins, taking into their arsenal new pharmacological preparations, an all-penetrating laser. But the old means of alternative medicine are not forgotten, because they have been tested by many generations. And they help to "calm down" the disease, but you can not hesitate. It has long been proven that disease prevention is the best treatment.
Let's recall some of the most commonly used remedies: potato juice inside and lotions, rubbing the veins with apple cider vinegar and taking it inside, walking in the morning dew in cotton socks, dressings from gruel of silver wormwood grass on sour cream, lubricating diseased veins with tincture of birch buds. Many claim that chestnut tincture helped them.
Clarify the "pedigree"
Horse chestnut is needed for treatment. Its plantings spread throughout Europe, some species reach Moscow. Horse chestnut is inedible; even animals do not eat it without a habit. It is also called the acorn, aesculus (from the Latin Aésculus). Horse chestnut trees are decorative, used in park gardening. It is even "according to the documents" - not a relative of the noble chestnut, which is edible in fruit. Of course, these trees are similar. But they come from different families of the plant kingdom.
It was useful to man and the horse chestnut became famous as a fighter against diseases of the veins. It lowers blood viscosity, enhances the filling of the venous system, thereby preventing thrombosis. Ointments, chestnut tincturefrom 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 herbal remedy as chestnut tincture for varicose veins. This is an effective drug that has long become popular. Why is it healing, what substances are concentrated in it?
Secret of power
For treatment, roots and bark of branches are used (collected during the period of sap flow), flowers, leaves (until they turn yellow), seeds with peel (in September). All these parts of the tree contain medicinal organic substances. What is their strength in the fight against varicose veins?
The bark and brown shell of the seed rind contains tannins, saponin escin and glycosides fraxin and esculin, fatty oil. The flowers contain flavonoids, rutin, pectin, kaempferol derivatives. In refined kernels - starch, tannins and saponins, fatty oil, flavonoids.
Tannins (tannins) will seal and fix the protein molecules in the vein lining, making them impenetrable and smooth. Tannins are astringent in taste. For example, the mucous membrane of the mouth "dube" (becomes dense) from them. The same happens with venous vessels: their walls become denser, fragility disappears, they are covered with a protective film that prevents the penetration of infection, irritating substances.
Saponins (sapo - soap) - natural soap substances, have a bactericidal, therefore, anti-inflammatory property. It is present in chestnuts as aescin. Thisexplains the use of ripe chestnut kernels for washing hands. The therapeutic effect of escin is that it tones the veins, drives stagnant blood, relieves swelling, and reduces lymph flow.
Glycosides of the coumarin series esculin and fraxin have a gentle anticoagulant effect - they thin the blood, and it accelerates its current through the veins. Improved blood circulation gives a resolving effect - trophic ulcers ("flowers" of varicose veins) are tightened.
Rutin reduces vascular fragility and capillary permeability, dissolves cholesterol deposits, lowers blood pressure, relieves allergies and swelling.
Kempferol derivatives have anticancer and wound healing properties.
Fatty oil restores cells, regulates metabolism, alleviates inflammation.
All these substances will contain homemade chestnut tincture for varicose veins.
About contraindications
Horse chestnut tincture banned:
- for diabetics;
- with thrombocytopenia (platelet deficiency means that the blood does not clot well, and this threatens to bleed);
- for pregnant women in the first trimester;
- for hypotension (low blood pressure);
- for menstrual disorders.
Having decided to be treated with such a folk remedy as chestnut tincture, the recipe of which is in this text, consult a therapist. Please note that the dosage must be strictly observed - the plant is slightly poisonous.
How to make chestnut tincture
To independently prepare a tincture for internal use for the treatment of 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 (the surface "studded" shell is discarded), filled 200 ml vodka.
Infusion 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 a day, 30 drops each. The course of treatment is 1 month. In this case, control over blood clotting is necessary - you need to do an analysis.
In terms of therapeutic effect, chestnut tincture, the recipe of which is given in the text, is no worse than such pharmaceutical preparations as Aescusan (Germany) and Esflazid (Russia). But home remedies are noticeably cheaper.
Ointments will help
It is good to lubricate the inflamed veins on the legs with ointment at the same time as taking the tincture. It is necessary to make a mixture: powder from chamomile flowers, sage leaves - 10 g each, chestnut kernels in the shell, chopped - 50 g, potato starch - 5 g. Mix 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, heat to a boil, strain.
If your joints hurt
Using chestnut alcohol extract as an anti-inflammatory to relieve joint pain.
Tincture of chestnuts for joints for external use (treatment of arthritis, rheumatism) is prepared quickly: 50 g of seeds in the shell crumble and pour vodka - 0.5 l. After two hours of infusion, rubbing is suitable for rubbing into sore spots.
Chestnut tincture for joints affected by arthrosis: the fruits are cut into 3-4 parts, poured into 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 liquid is drained and used for compresses on the joints.
When chestnuts bloom
Fruits ripen in autumn. What if September is still a long time to wait? Not only alcohol tincture of chestnuts from varicose veins can help. In the spring, juice from freshly picked flowers is suitable for the treatment of inflamed veins and hemorrhoidal cones. It slows down blood clotting. Dosage - 30 drops on an empty stomach twice a day. Juice diluted with water.
In the summer, apply gruel made from minced chestnut leaves to swollen veins.
A flower tincture of chestnut on vodka is also being prepared for the future. In a jar with 100 ml of vodka, drop 20 g of plucked flowers. After a week of infusion at room temperature in the dark, the drug will be ready. Drink it should be 30 drops in the morning and evening. Relief comes gradually, after 3 weeks you will feel the result of the healing action of a flowering chestnut tree.
Those who are contraindicated in tincture of chestnuton vodka (children, pregnant women, people addicted to alcohol), you can drink a decoction of the bark from a tree trunk or branches. Pour into a liter of boiling water chopped bark 3 tbsp. l., boil on low heat for 10 minutes. Drink half a glass in the morning and at night.
Baths and bathtubs
Not only with dilated veins, but also with myalgia, neuralgia, rheumatism, gout, skin itching, baths with horse chestnut - from seeds or bark - are effective. In a bucket of boiling water, cook for 30 minutes ground raw materials - 1.5 kg. Strain, pour into the bath.
To prepare sitz baths for hemorrhoids, you will need to make a mixture of dry raw materials. You need to combine: 3 servings of chestnut seeds, chamomile (flowers), sage herbs, 5 servings of oak bark. 4 tbsp. l. Pour the collection into a thermos, pouring boiling water - 3 cups. Strain after 2 hours. Bring the volume of infusion to 2 liters with water (boiled chilled). Take a bath for at least 15 minutes.
