Does Bilberry vitamins really help with vericose veins?

Question

Does Bilberry vitamins really help with vericose veins?

Answer 1

When I think of Bilberry I think of eyes........ but after googling it it does say varicose veins too.

What It Is Used For

Historically, bilberry fruit was used to treat diarrhea, scurvy, and other conditions.

Today, the fruit is used to treat diarrhea, menstrual cramps, eye problems, varicose veins, venous insufficiency (a condition in which the veins do not efficiently return blood from the legs to the heart), and other circulatory problems.

Bilberry leaf is used for entirely different conditions, including diabetes.

Read at this link:  http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Book...  as it has other suggestions for varicose veins.

In a study conducted in Italy in 1982, the Indian herb gotu kola improved the structure of varicose veins and increased blood flow through them in 80 percent of the participants who took it for one month. This study also showed that gotu kola strengthens the connective tissue.

Researchers have found that ginkgo and gotu kola are even more effective when used together. Almost everyone who took this combination, many of whom had serious circulation problems in their legs, found that their circulation improved. Some enjoyed their first pain-free walking in months. And in numerous other studies, both ginkgo and gotu kola have been shown to be more effective and better tolerated than tribenoside, the standard drug used for this purpose.

Horse chestnut and butcher's broom—strangely named herbs that are not nearly as well-known in North America as in Europe—can also be used to make veins stronger and less porous.

Varicose Vein/Hemorrhoid Tea

½ ounce each hawthorn berries and flowers, ginkgo leaves and butcher's broom (if available)

Hot water (enough to cover herbs)

Combine herbs. Cover with hot water and steep for 5 minutes. Strain and drink. The same herbs can also be used to make a tincture (they are, in fact, used in several commercial tincture formulas).

Varicose Vein/Hemorrhoid Oil

1 ounce Saint-John's-wort oil

8 drops each essential oils of chamomile, palma rosa and cypress

Combine ingredients. Apply externally.

Varicose Vein/Hemorrhoid Compress

1 cup cold water

1 teaspoon tincture of calendula or Saint-John's-wort

3 drops each essential oils of chamomile and carrot seed

Combine ingredients. Stir a soft cloth in them, wring out and place over itching or broken varicose veins or hemorrhoids as often as practical.

Answer 2

The cause of vericose veins are incompetent venous valves of the superficial veins of the legs. Once this occurs nothing will reverse it, short of surgery. Bilberry may be a really good supplement but not for this.

Answer 3

Bilberry is supposed to help.

Table sugar can cause varicose veins so reducing your intake of white sugar or refined sugar might perhaps help as well.  See items 33 and 135 in http://www.rheumatic.org/sugar.htm .