Hydrotherapy for spider veins

Hydrotherapy reactivates the body's energy, helps to eliminate toxins and stimulates the blood circulation, in addition to relaxing and harmonizing the body and mind. This is why it is an effective treatment for varicose veins, when the symptoms first appear.

+ Hydrotherapy uses water's beneficial properties to preserve health and to prevent ailments. Cold water is a particularly beneficial treatment for varicose veins and scarring. This is why it is especially recommended to treat varicose veins in an inceptive state. Cold baths and showers are stimulating and energizing, help to reduce blood flow, inflammation and bruising, and help to constrict blood vessels when they are too dilated.

Another advantage of this therapy is that it is simple. You only need a bathtub, cotton clothes, a plastic bucket and a rubber hose.

It's important to use this treatment periodically and respect the guidelines indicated for each ailment, because cold water and the time exposed to it can cause significant reactions in the body. We've put together a guide to techniques and applications of cold water to treat varicose veins.

BATH FOR THE LOWER HALF OF THE BODY

You should take this kind of bath in a warm, pleasant room. The water's temperature shouldn't be any lower than 59 °F/15 °C. For people who are very sensitive to the cold, increase the water's temperature. You shouldn't soak in the water for longer than 15 minutes. Introduce your legs into the water very slowly. Don't repeat this treatment at intervals of less than three hours and wait two hours after eating before beginning. After this bath, you should wait at least half an hour before eating food. It's recommended that you do exercises to warm up your body before and after the bath or you can gently massage your legs to stimulate circulation.

∎ Application

1. • Fill the bathtub halfway, so that when you get in and stretch out your legs, the water doesn't go over your belly button.
2. • You should get into the tub very slowly.
3. • Stay in the water for 10 seconds.
4. • Repeat three or four times.
5. • Afterward, dry off with a cotton towel, with brisk rubs and wrap yourself in a bathrobe.

AFUSIONS

This therapy uses a hand held showerhead to apply water on painful areas. Water pressure should be moderate.

∎ Application

1. Place the showerhead about half a foot away from your left foot. Apply the water moving up from your foot all the way to your waist (over your entire leg and outer thigh.)

2. When you reach your hip, leave the water pressure on this part of your body for about half a minute. Point the shower head so that a trail of water flows down the leg to the feet.

3. Next, work on the inner thigh, moving down the leg to the foot. Repeat this on the other leg.

4. Once you've finished repeat the process on your other leg. Then, on the inner part of the legs.

SCRUBBING

This technique uses a linen cloth, previously soaked in cold water and wrung out. To do a scrubbing you need.

1. • A bowl with cold water (between 59 to 66 °F/15 to 19 °C, the intensity of the cold determines the body's reaction).
2. • A thick textured linen cloth, folded several times.
3. • A cotton blanket to cover the area once you've finished the treatment.

∎ Application

Use the linen cloth and rub over the leg in the following order;

1. • Top of the right foot
2. • Outer part of the leg
3. • Hip
4. • Inner thigh
5. • Buttocks
6. • Inner part of the leg
7. • Sole of the foot

Next cover the right leg with a cotton blanket and continue treatment on your left leg.