| Exercise while you sit. If you find yourself unable to get up
and walk around at your office or in an airplane, for example, you can do simple exercises
to help keep the blood in your legs pumping, says Dr. Navarro. Try this exercise once an
hour: Flex your feet, lifting your toes while keeping your heels down, as though you're
pumping a piano pedal. Repeat for a minute or two. |
| Invert your legs with yoga. Yoga
poses that position your legs above your head can temporarily reverse the pooling of blood
associated with varicose veins, says Carrie Angus, M.D., medical director for the Center
for Health and Healing at the Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and
Philosophy in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. "Lie on the floor on your back, with your legs
and feet raised up against a wall, for about five minutes," suggests Dr. Angus.
"With this pose, gravity helps to push the blood back to the heart." To make
this pose more comfortable, Dr. Angus suggests putting a pillow under your hips. Repeat
once or twice a day. (If you have a history of back trouble, you may want to check with
your doctor before trying this pose.) |
| Have some horse chestnut. The herb aescin,
the extract from the dried seeds of the horse-chestnut plant, strengthens blood vessel
walls, helping to prevent veins from softening and bulging, says Joseph Pizzorno, Jr.,
doctor of naturopathy and founding president of Bastyr University of Naturopathic Medicine
in Seattle. "Horse-chestnut seed extract also reduces inflammation associated with varicose veins and
stimulates regeneration of damaged veins," he notes. In a study of 240 people with
varicose veins (194 of them women), taking 50 milligrams of aescin twice a day for 12
weeks reduced swelling in the lower legs by 25 percent. |
| Concentrate on fiber. Eating a high- fiber diet can take some of the pressure off varicose
veins, notes Dr. Navarro. If you're constipated, you tend to push too much and too
frequently when you have a bowel movement, which puts extra pressure on the valves of your
legs. Chronic constipation can be one of the accelerating factors leading to varicose
veins. "To relieve constipation, try a high-roughage diet with whole grains, like
oats, barley, beans, peas, lentils, baked potato with the skin, brown rice and whole
wheat, and plenty of vegetables and fruits," he says. Make sure that you increase
your intake of water when you add fiber to your diet. Without water, adding
fiber can make your constipation worse. |
| Seize your C. "To keep your veins healthy, you need to be
sure that you're getting enough vitamin C, which is essential to strong blood
vessels," says Dr. Angus. "I recommend 1,000 to 2,000 milligrams of vi-tamin C
everyday to strengthen blood vessel walls and prevent bulging when they become distended
with blood." Be careful though: Excess vi-tamin C may cause diarrhea in some people.
If you get diarrhea, she says, cut back to between 500 to 1,000 milligrams per day. |
| Try an aromatic compress. Applying a cold compress soaked with
witch hazel and essential oils to your legs helps soothe varicose veins, or creams with
witch hazel says Valerie Cooksley, R.N., holistic nurse and aroma practitioner in the
Seattle area and author of Aromatherapy: A Lifetime Guide to Healing with Essential
Oils. |
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