How to treat atherosclerosis of the lower extremities with folk remedies

Atherosclerosis of the peripheral arteries of the legs is a dangerous disease that can cause gangrene and amputation of the limb. The use of folk remedies helps reduce the medication burden and the risk of dangerous consequences; let’s look at popular recipes in more detail.

• Before using natural medicines, you need to make sure there are no allergies. Herbal extracts of wormwood, St. John's wort, citrus fruits, bee products are strong allergens. Their use begins with small dosages and is stopped immediately if adverse reactions occur.
• Alternative medicine methods should be used taking into account existing diseases. For example, hypertensive patients should not use decoctions of herbs that increase blood pressure: St. John's wort, lemongrass, hibiscus (hibiscus). People suffering from stomach ulcers and gastritis are not recommended to take products based on garlic, lemon, or drink pomegranate juice.
• It is necessary to strictly follow the recommended dosage and treatment regimen. Increasing the amount of medication will not help clear the blood vessels faster, but on the contrary, will cause metabolic failure, which will further worsen the situation.

In the acute form of atherosclerosis, trophic lesions develop. This critical condition requires urgent hospitalization. It makes no sense to use folk remedies in this case.

Herbal infusions

Collections from medicinal plants normalize metabolism, reduce blood clotting, and prevent thrombus formation, which has a positive effect on the treatment of atherosclerosis.

• Take an equal amount of dandelion root, wheatgrass, soapwort, and yarrow. 30 g of the mixture is steamed with 200 ml of boiling water, left for half an hour. Drink in the morning on an empty stomach.
• Garlic cloves, mistletoe, hawthorn flowers - all 30 g each. Take 2 tbsp per 500 ml of water. l. mixtures. Leave for 8 hours. Drink a glass twice a day.
• Leaves of wild strawberries, fireweed, raspberries, black currants, linden flowers, St. John's wort, thyme - all 25 g. For 0.5 liters of boiling water use 1 tbsp. l. mixtures. Pour, leave for 3 hours, drink a day.
• Fresh pine needles - 80 g, crushed rose hips - 50 g, onion peels - 30 g. Pour in 0.8 liters of water, boil for 10 minutes. Infuse, covering the container with a lid, for 4 hours. Drink 200 ml three times a day.
• Yarrow – 20 g, arnica – 10 g. Pour 250 ml of boiling water and leave for an hour. Drink in a day.

The duration of treatment with herbal mixtures is from 1 to 2 months. The course can be repeated after 2-3 months.

Do not use for anemia or blood disorders.

Alternative treatment of obliterating atherosclerosis of the vessels of the lower extremities

Obliterating atherosclerosis of the vessels of the lower extremities is one of the forms of atherosclerosis. With this disease, blood circulation in the legs is reduced due to deposits on the walls of the arteries and narrowing of their lumen. Most often, men over 40 years of age suffer from atherosclerosis of the legs. The main reasons are smoking and diabetes, as well as a sedentary lifestyle and poor diet. The disease is also promoted by wearing tight, non-breathable shoes, hypothermia, and poor personal hygiene.

Symptoms of atherosclerosis of the vessels of the lower extremities: the appearance of pain in the leg, a feeling of numbness and compression in the muscles when walking; The pain goes away with rest (intermittent claudication). In severe cases, the patient cannot walk 10 steps without stopping. In later stages, pain in the legs also appears at rest. The skin on the sore leg is pale and cold, cuts and bruises heal poorly. In the last stages of atherosclerosis of the extremities - trophic ulcers on the legs, gangrene.

Treatment of obliterating atherosclerosis of the lower extremities. To achieve success in treatment, you need to adjust the following points:

1. Normalization of nutrition - reduction of animal foods, as well as fried, spicy, smoked foods.
2. In patients with diabetes – maintaining normal sugar levels
3. Stop smoking.
4. Physical activity. Patients with intermittent claudication should walk for 30-45 minutes daily, albeit with stops and rests - this helps improve blood circulation, leads to an increase in muscle strength and an increase in the distance traveled without pain. Do leg exercises for 5-10 minutes several times a day
5. Washing your feet at night

Dr. Kapralov’s methods for the treatment of atherosclerosis of the lower extremity vessels.

1. For successful treatment of atherosclerosis of the legs, it is necessary to establish proper nutrition and physical activity, and you also need to have a healthy liver; if this is not the case, then you need to put it in order.
2. Apply a cold compress (towel soaked in cold water) to the liver area for 15-20 minutes, 2 times a day, half an hour before meals in a lying position. Course – 2 weeks
3. Take decoctions of immortelle and milk thistle separately: three weeks of immortelle, then a week break and three weeks of milk thistle.

If the disease is accompanied by diabetes , then rubbing insulin into the skin of the lower leg and foot is useful - do it twice a day for two weeks. Rub 1 ml of insulin into each procedure. Before rubbing, degrease the skin by washing with laundry soap.

To relieve inflammation, take orally decoctions of sweet clover, burdock root, red clover, hawthorn, 1/3 cup 3 times a day. The course is 4 weeks, conduct 4 courses per year. Rotate plants weekly.

To treat sclerotic arteries, make applications with infusions of string, plantain, chamomile, St. John's wort, and sage. Mix herbs in equal proportions, 1 tbsp. l. collection, pour 1 cup of boiling water, leave. Wash your foot with laundry soap, gauze, moisten it with infusion and wrap your foot from groin to heel, with compress paper and a sheet on top. Do 2 procedures a day for 3-4 hours. The course of treatment for atherosclerosis of the extremities is 3 weeks (recipe from a healthy lifestyle 2010, No. 8, pp. 14-15).

Folk treatment of atherosclerosis of the lower extremities with hawthorn. The man suffered a myocardial infarction, after which his health became worse every month: blood pressure began to rise, constant pain in the heart, dizziness, hypertensive crises, and obliterating atherosclerosis of the extremities began to progress. For three months I took medications prescribed by doctors, but there was no improvement.

2 years passed in such torment. In an old folk medicine book, he read that hawthorn tincture helps against obliterating atherosclerosis of the extremities. He bought 20 bottles of 100 ml each from different pharmacies, afraid of running into a fake, and mixed them. I took 30 drops 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals. The course of treatment with this remedy is 30 days. Then a 10-day break and a new course. After six months, improvements began, and after another 6 months, all illnesses disappeared. (recipe from Healthy Lifestyle 2009, No. 12, p. 11)

How to cure atherosclerosis of the legs with massage. The woman had severe obliterating atherosclerosis of the lower extremities: she could only walk a few steps with a stick, she constantly had cramps and pain in her legs, her legs were icy, her knee would break, and she constantly fell. In order to prevent the disease from developing to the final stage - gangrene, she began to be treated with massage.

Every morning, sitting on the bed, she massaged her legs from toes to groin, using different techniques: stroking, kneading, squeezing, patting. After the massage, I applied apple cider vinegar to the entire surface of my legs and lay under the blanket for another 10 minutes. Throughout the day, I kneaded and rubbed particularly painful muscles and reapplied apple cider vinegar. Before going to bed I did a full foot massage. Then I added exercises for the feet. After two months of hard and constant work, I walked without pain (Healthy Lifestyle 2009, No. 10, p. 9)

Treatment of atherosclerosis of the lower extremities with herbs at home. For atherosclerosis of the extremities, prepare the composition according to the following recipe: take 5 tbsp. l. pine needles, 3 tbsp. l. rose hips, 1 tbsp. l. onion peel, pour 1 liter of cold water, bring to a boil, boil for 10 minutes, wrap and leave overnight. The next day, drink this decoction completely throughout the day. Course – 4 months. (recipe from Healthy Lifestyle 2009, No. 21, p. 40, 2007 No. 9, p. 13)

Dioscorea is an effective folk remedy for the treatment of atherosclerosis of the lower extremities. The man’s legs hurt, he could not walk more than 200 meters without stopping, the skin on his legs became marbled, and his feet were constantly frozen. The doctor diagnosed atherosclerosis of the lower extremities and prescribed diet and medication.

The man began to follow a diet, but refused medications; he decided to treat atherosclerosis of the legs with folk remedies, because he worked as a forester and was knowledgeable about medicinal plants. He used many folk remedies: meadow clover, horse chestnut tincture, and other herbs. But all these remedies brought relief only for a short time. Finally, he found his herb - Dioscorea Caucasian (this happened in Pyatigorsk).

From the root of this plant he made a tincture (100 g per 500 ml of vodka, take 1 tbsp 3 times a day) and ointment (100 g of root per 400 g of pork fat - boil in a water bath for 2 hours, rub on feet before bedtime). He was treated with this remedy for 1 month, then a month off, then a new course. And so on for a year. Atherosclerosis of the legs was completely cured! (HLS 2008, No. 19, p. 8,)

Honey and lemon

The effectiveness of honey for vascular atherosclerosis is recognized even by official medicine. Regular consumption improves blood circulation, “dissolves” atherosclerotic plaques, normalizes blood pressure, and restores vascular walls.

You can eat 1 tbsp daily. l. honey or enhance the effect by adding other ingredients:

• For 14 days, take a mixture of honey and onion (1:1) 1 tbsp. l. in the morning.
• Pass 5 unpeeled lemons through a meat grinder, add 500 ml of honey, mix everything well. Leave in the refrigerator for 7 days. Take 2 tsp. twice/day 30 days.
• Mix plantain juice with honey (proportion 1:1). Take 20 ml in the morning for 10 days.
• To strengthen the vascular walls, it is useful to drink lemon water every day. The juice of half a lemon is diluted with 250 ml of cold water and drunk after meals.

What is atherosclerosis? Education mechanism

The appearance of this disease and its development occur due to the formation of so-called atherosclerotic plaques formed by cholesterol and deposited on the inner surface of blood vessels. Over time, they accumulate, the lumen in the vessel decreases and may completely disappear. To prevent this, folk remedies are used to treat atherosclerosis of the arteries of the lower extremities. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and using traditional medicine, including only natural herbal ingredients, gives good results.

The human body can produce two types of cholesterol – good and bad. The first takes part in the synthesis of hormones and membranes found in the cell. The second type, being in the blood, makes it oily and thick and is deposited in the form of plaques on the walls of arteries and vessels. In the human body there are endothelial cells - cells that serve as a protective layer of the internal walls of blood vessels. When a person creates active causes for the formation of plaques, they die. Timely treatment with folk remedies for atherosclerosis of the blood vessels of the legs will help stop the development of the disease.

Vegetable juices

Juices from root vegetables are the most useful in the treatment of atherosclerosis, strengthen the cardiovascular system, prevent blood clots, and maintain the elasticity of the arteries:

• Potato juice. Wash one medium-sized potato well and grate it along with the peel. The mass is squeezed through cheesecloth and the juice is drunk immediately. Drink the juice for 2 weeks, in the morning on an empty stomach. The course can be repeated after a month's break.
• Beetroot juice. It has a specific taste, it is recommended to mix it with carrot (proportion 1:4), gradually increasing the volume. Freshly prepared juice is kept in the refrigerator for 2 hours before use. The daily norm is 2 glasses. Drink in the morning and evening 20-30 minutes before meals. The duration of therapy is 2 weeks, after a two-week break it can be repeated.
• Carrot juice. It is recommended to drink 0.5-1.5 liters of freshly prepared drink daily. Can be mixed with other juices, proportion 1:2.
• Cabbage juice. It is not inferior in vitamin C content to citrus fruits. Recommended daily dosage is 1-3 glasses. Drink half an hour before meals.

It is not recommended to replace natural juices with industrially produced drinks. They contain much less useful substances, but include additives that are dangerous for atherosclerosis: flavorings, taste stabilizers, preservatives.

Contraindications and precautions

Despite the naturalness and authenticity of the components of traditional treatment, there are a number of conditions for which some recipes are contraindicated. Let's look at the most common of them.

• Stomach and duodenal ulcers.
• Hyperacid gastritis
• Advanced hypertension of 2-3 degrees.
• Pregnancy and lactation (for recipes with garlic-lemon mixture)
• Anemia
• Pancreatitis
• Hypersensitivity reactions to individual components of the prescription
• Gallstone disease (recipes with sorrel and spinach are not recommended for it)

Curing atherosclerosis on your own is a very difficult task. Therefore, despite the effectiveness of drug-free remedies, it is necessary to consult a doctor and undergo the necessary examinations.

Other effective remedies

In addition to herbs and juices, you can use other folk recipes. These include:

• Treatment with garlic. The most effective method that slows down the development of atherosclerosis and improves metabolic processes is taking an alcohol tincture. Fill a half-liter glass container 1/3 with finely chopped garlic and add alcohol. Keep in a warm, dark place for 14 days. Strain before use. Take starting with 2 drops per 20 ml of warm water three times a day. At each dose, the dose is increased by 1 drop, bringing it to 25. Then the amount is also reduced to 2 drops. Then they take a two-week break, then repeat the course. The course lasts 6-12 months.
• Brown algae (sea kale). For atherosclerosis, it is recommended to make it part of the main diet and consume regularly. You can chop it, boil it until the seaweed turns light, and use it as a side dish for any dish.
• Linseed oil. To slow down the progression of the disease, it is recommended to drink 15 ml in the morning on an empty stomach for 1.5 months.
• Sprouted wheat. Sprouts 1-2 mm in size are passed through a meat grinder. Pour hot milk (1:1), you can add 10 ml of honey to the resulting mass. Cool slightly and eat immediately. Prepared in the morning. The mixture cannot be stored.
• Royal jelly. 1-2 g of milk is taken in the morning on an empty stomach for 20 days in a row. After a two-week break, the course can be repeated.

Nutrition is of great importance. It is advisable to reduce the amount of carbohydrates, saturated and trans fats, eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, dairy products, and legumes.

Symptoms and characteristic signs

Like any other, this disease has its own symptoms, which make it possible to recognize it and prescribe the correct treatment. Let's name the main ones:

• Feeling of icy feet. My feet get cold even in the heat.
• Pain in the legs when walking or during physical activity. At the initial stage there is no pain when resting. But as the disease progresses, even at rest, persistent pain is felt.
• When walking, you feel numbness, tingling and unpleasant weakness in your legs.
• Aching pain or burning sensation when doing work and during rest.
• The appearance of trophic ulcers and calluses that do not heal. In this case, there is persistent pain in the knees and feet.
• With the development of ischemia - changes in tissues - a change in the shade of the skin of the legs is observed.
• Baldness in the lower leg area.
• Dystrophy of the muscles of the affected leg, which becomes much thinner than the healthy one.

All these unpleasant signs can be minimized by treating atherosclerosis of the leg vessels with folk remedies.

Hirudotherapy

This treatment method is used at any stage of development of atherosclerosis of the legs. Leeches have a positive effect on vascular walls, have a vasodilator and antispasmodic effect.

Important information: Prevention of atherosclerosis of blood vessels in the brain and lower extremities

In one session, annelids inject up to 140 biological substances into the patient’s blood, incl. hirudin. These are special components that prevent blood clotting. Hirudin helps cope with atherosclerotic plaques that deform blood vessels and clog their lumen.

Treatment with leeches relieves the patient of pain symptoms that always accompany atherosclerosis of the legs.

Hirudotherapy is recommended 2-3 times a year.

Prevention

To avoid vascular sclerosis of the lower extremities, it is recommended to give up bad habits, follow a diet, and a daily routine. You should do exercises every day, engage in active sports - swimming, running, walking, cycling. To improve blood circulation, you need to do massage, foot baths with herbal decoctions or essential oils. It is also necessary to control hormonal levels, blood pressure and weight. It is recommended to avoid stress. All concomitant diseases that can provoke sclerosis must be treated in a timely manner.

Diagnostics

If you detect any signs of sclerosis of the extremities, immediately contact an angiosurgeon. The doctor will conduct a thorough examination of the patient, perform the necessary anamnestic analysis, and indicate the correct course of therapy. Treatment is prescribed after studying the results of the following tests and instrumental examinations:

• X-ray examination - involves injecting a contrast agent through an artery; after a certain period of time, an x-ray is taken, which allows one to judge the development of vascular sclerosis in the extremities.
• Various blood tests (biochemical, sugar and to determine the level of cholesterol deposits on the walls of blood vessels).
• Dopplerography is performed using ultrasound equipment. This method of medical research makes it possible to identify vascular diseases of the legs in the early stages.
• Analysis of urine.
• The most effective way to recognize the disease is computed tomography. But not every medical institution has such highly developed technology.

Honey is a universal medicine

Honey is a suitable product for treating blood vessels when it comes to atherosclerosis. You can consume honey in its usual form or by preparing a garlic-honey extract. You will need to add a few drops of garlic juice to a tablespoon of honey and take it on an empty stomach. Such treatment with folk remedies has been passed down from generation to generation for many years.

Natural honey

Treatment using the Neumyvakin method

As the author of this method assures, hydrogen peroxide is an excellent remedy for atherosclerosis.

Therapy should begin with small doses, gradually increasing the concentration of peroxide:

1. On the first day, you need to take three doses of three drops. The substance should be consumed after first dissolving it in a small amount of mineral water. Every day the dosage increases by one drop.
2. From the eighth day you need to add two drops of the product daily.
3. On the sixteenth day the patient should reach a dose of 25 drops, which is maintained for three weeks.

Since atherosclerosis is rarely detected in the initial stages, the use of folk remedies alone is often not enough to completely cure the disease. In most cases, such therapy is used as an accompanying therapy. Regarding the choice of a specific drug and determining the course of treatment, as well as before treating atherosclerosis of the lower extremities at home, you must consult a doctor. Otherwise, complications of the disease may occur, often incompatible with life.

Why does pathology occur?

The disease can be inherited if blood relatives have a genetic malfunction in protein and enzyme structures.

Sclerotic changes are characterized by hardening of arteries and veins due to the deposition of lipids, cholesterol, calcium salts, and fibrous tissue on the walls of blood vessels. Due to cholesterol deposits, the vascular cavity narrows, disrupting blood circulation in the lower extremities. Often the cause of deterioration in blood supply to the legs is aortic sclerosis. The main factors in the development of the disease:

• bad habits;
• age-related changes;
• excess body weight;
• hypertension;
• sedentary lifestyle;
• regular consumption of fatty foods;
• stress;
• diabetes;
• endocrine disorders.

Hawthorn

Folk remedies for vascular atherosclerosis are prepared on the basis of hawthorn. The most effective alcohol tincture from the fruits of the plant. Pour 1 glass of fresh fruit into a glass jar (it is recommended to mash them first) and add 200 ml of alcohol. Place the jar in a dark place for 3 weeks. The finished tincture must be filtered and taken at night, 1 tsp with water.

A decoction can be prepared from hawthorn fruits. To do this, pour 20 g of berries into an enamel bowl, pour 200 ml of boiling water into it, place the container on the stove and cook over low heat for 5 minutes. After cooling, filter the broth and take 200 ml at night.

Reasons contributing to the occurrence and development of the disease

Nothing in life arises on its own. The same can be said about atherosclerosis. This disease is formed under the influence of certain factors that provoke the formation of bad cholesterol:

• Heredity. There are families where several generations have suffered from this disease. In other words, there is a genetic predisposition that causes bad cholesterol to form in the blood. Doctors are well aware that the main risk group is elderly men and women in menopause. But with genetic inheritance, in exceptional cases, the development of atherosclerosis in children was observed.
• Smoking. Nicotine constricts blood vessels, which speeds up the time of blockage of the vessel. The components of carbon monoxide entering the circulatory system destroy the protective coating of the internal walls of blood vessels.
• Passive lifestyle. It makes the blood thick, which reduces its passage through the vessels; as a result of stagnation, cholesterol plaques appear.
• Poor nutrition and, as a result, obesity, leading to metabolic disorders and the development of diabetes, in which the risk of blockage of blood vessels increases many times.

How to identify the disease

It is very important to promptly recognize the symptoms of the disease and immediately begin treatment of atherosclerosis of the legs with folk remedies. The danger of the pathology lies in the fact that it practically does not manifest itself in the initial stages of its development.

Therefore, the patient should immediately contact a specialist if the following symptoms occur:

• since atherosclerotic lesions primarily spread to the heart muscle, its first symptom is angina pectoris;
• rapid fatigue during active work;
• development of intermittent claudication;
• coldness of the lower extremities (it is not possible to warm up even when using a warm blanket or woolen socks);
• a feeling of severe pain in the legs while walking (the intensity of the pain depends on the degree of the disease);
• chilliness in the lower extremities;
• intermittent claudication;
• in case of hypothermia, the legs may turn pale or become covered with pigment spots.

Before treating atherosclerosis of the lower extremities at home, it is necessary to obtain an accurate medical diagnosis regarding the course of the disease and the presence of complications.

Therapy should be carried out under the supervision of an experienced specialist who can promptly respond to changes in the patient’s condition.