HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR VARICOSE VEINS:
- Varicose veins, also known as varicoses or varicosities,
occur when your veins become enlarged, dilated, and overfilled with blood.
- Varicose veins
typically appear swollen and raised, and have a bluish-purple or red color.
- They are often painful.
- The condition is very common, especially in women and
policemen.
- In most cases, varicose veins appear on the lower legs.
Causes:
- Causes of varicose veins can include:
Age:
- As you get older, your veins can lose elasticity, causing
them to stretch.
- The valves in your veins may become weak, allowing blood
that should be moving toward your heart to flow backward.
- Blood pools in your veins and your veins enlarge and become
varicose.
- The veins appear blue because they contain deoxygenated
blood, which is in the process of being re-circulated through the lungs.
Pregnancy:
- Some pregnant women develop varicose veins.
- Pregnancy increases the volume of blood in your body, but
decreases the flow of blood from your legs to your pelvis.
- This circulatory change is designed to support the growing
fetus, but it can produce an unfortunate side effect — enlarged veins in your
legs.
- Varicose veins may surface for the first time or may worsen
during late pregnancy, when your uterus exerts greater pressure on the veins in
your legs.
- Varicose veins that develop during pregnancy generally
improve without medical treatment three to 12 months after delivery.
Symptoms:
- Varicose veins may not cause any pain.
Signs:
You may have with varicose veins include:
- Veins that are dark purple or blue in color.
- Veins that appear twisted and bulging; often like cords on
your legs.
When painful signs and symptoms occur, they may include:
- An achy or heavy feeling in your legs
- Burning, throbbing, muscle cramping and swelling in your
lower legs
- Worsened pain after sitting or standing for a long time
- Itching around one or more of your veins
- Bleeding from varicose veins
- A painful cord in the vein with red discoloration of the
skin
- Color changes, hardening of the vein, inflammation of the
skin or skin ulcers near your ankle, which can mean you have a serious form of
vascular disease that requires medical attention
Risk factors-
Age:
- The risk of varicose
veins increases with age.
- Aging causes wear and tear on the valves in your veins that
help regulate blood flow.
- Eventually, that wear causes the valves to allow some blood
to flow back into your veins where it collects instead of flowing up to your
heart.
Sex:
- Women are more likely to develop the condition.
- Hormonal changes during pregnancy, pre-menstruation or
menopause may be a factor because female hormones tend to relax vein walls.
- Taking hormone replacement therapy or birth control pills
may increase your risk of varicose veins.
Family history:
- If other family
members had varicose veins, there's a greater chance you will too.
Obesity:
- Being overweight puts added pressure on your veins.
- Standing or sitting for long periods of time.
- Your blood doesn't flow as well if you're in the same
position for long periods
Complications-
Ulcers:
- Extremely painful ulcers may form on the skin near varicose
veins, particularly near the ankles.
- Ulcers are caused by long-term fluid buildup in these
tissues, caused by increased pressure of blood within affected veins.
- A discolored spot on the skin usually begins before an ulcer
forms.
Bleeding:
- Occasionally, veins very close to the skin may burst.
- This usually causes only minor bleeding. But, any bleeding
warrants medical attention because there's a high risk it can happen again.
Blood clots:
- Occasionally, veins deep within the legs become enlarged.
- In such cases, the affected leg may swell considerably.
- Any sudden leg swelling warrants urgent medical attention
because it may indicate a blood clot — a condition known medically as
thrombophlebitis.
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES
- Homoeopathy today is a rapidly growing system and is being
practiced all over the world. It strength lies in its evident effectiveness as
it takes a holistic approach towards the sick individual through promotion of
inner balance at mental, emotional, spiritual and physical levels.
- When varicose vein is concerned there are many effective
medicines available in Homoeopathy, but the selection depends upon the
individuality of the patient, considering mental and physical symptoms.
HAMAMELIS:
- An excellent remedy for varicose vein.
- There is excessive pain.
- Venous congestion: passive, of skin and mucous membranes.
- Phlebitis
- Ulcers with stinging, pricking pain.
- Varicose vein with
sore ulcers.
- When applied externally causes the vessels to shrink.
- Patient takes cold easily from every exposure, especially in
warm, moist air.
- Use externally for varicose ulcers.
FLUORIC ACID:
- Veins in the legs
tending to ulceration.
- Severe burning pain, worse by heat.
- Varicose veins and ulcers, obstinate, long standing cases,
in women who have borne many children.
- In a general way it is a remedy for an unhealthy condition
of the tissues in broken-down constitutions, as in drunkards.
- It will relieve and cure varicose veins when they appear in
small points.
PULSATILLA:
- During pregnancy : nausea, morning sickness; varicose veins,
bluish, agg. towards evening.
- Varicose veins during pregnancy.
- Along with this the constitutional symptoms of the remedy
are also present Pulsatilla is the best cure for swollen and dilated veins.
- It is very effective in the treatment of Varicose Veins when
the swelling and pain get worse as the affected limb hangs down.
VIPERA:
- There is bursting
pain in the Varicose Veins as the limbs are allowed to hang down.
- The patient has to keep the limbs elevated to avoid the
pain.
- The vein is swollen, bordered by an area of inflammation,
which is very sensitive to touch, but particularly with the sensation, on
letting the leg hang down, as if it would burst from the fullness of the veins.
- Enlarged veins with cramps in the lower limbs.
AESCULUS:
- Purple varicose veins may be visible anywhere on the body,
even in the eyes, indicating a general venous stasis.
- These subjects are
irritable and depressed, tend to have lower back pain, and often present with a
head cold and sneezing.
CARBO VEG:
- Varicose Veins with a bluish, marbled appearance of skin.
- The legs feels stiff and paralyzed.
- Lividity is a common indication; mottled skin round ulcers;
indolent gangrene; varicose veins of arms, legs, vulva.
LACHESIS:
- Varicose Veins with a
bluish-purplish appearance. The joints feel as if they are sprained in the
morning.
- Purple or blue coloration is the chief characteristic of its
affections of the skin, with the excessive sensitiveness of all the Lachesis
affections.
- Purple swelling of limb from poisoned wound; purple
blisters; shallow ulcer with purple coloration of varicose veins.
GRAPHITES:
- Graphites is a very beneficial Homeopathic medicine for
Varicose Veins with cramps and jerks in the legs.
- There is a paralyzed feeling in the limbs with severe
cramps.
- Varicose vein of the ano-rectum.
BELLIS PERENNIS:
- Bellis Perennis is
the best Homeopathic cure for Varicose Veins during pregnancy with bruises and
aching in the limbs.
- It is also very effective when there is pain down the thighs
CALCAREA FLOUR:
- Calcarea Fluorata is of great help for treatment of Varicose
Veins with intense swelling.
- It helps to decrease the swelling in a very safe and natural
way.
- Varicose veins are knitted in hard lumps, in chronic cases.
ALLIUM CEPA: Varicose vein after cesarean section
MILLIFOLIUM: Varicose veins of legs ulcerate and bleed in
pregnant women.
Bright red active bleeding.
HIPPOZAENNUM: Scrofulous swelling of the veins with
formation of pus.
PYROGENIUM: Ulceration of varicose veins with fetid
discharge and pain.
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