Varicose Veins

The information in this page about varicose veins, natural medicine, treatment and cure is NOT a sales pitch for any drug, supplement, herbal formula or even an alleged magic potion from an exotic faraway land.

Food is always best medicine

Varicose veins are defined as dilations of blood vessels in the vulnerable areas of the body (legs and testicles). The cause of varicose veins vary from men to women. Almost all cases of varicose veins are associated with GI tract chronic bloating and sometimes constipation. Varicose veins are often painful especially with muscle movement. Many women suffer from varicose veins during and after pregnancy. For men it is often associated with different types of bacterial infections. Some men who have varicose veins in the testes become infertile.

Varicose veins are often treated with pain killers and sometimes doctors recommend expensive operations for varicose veins to alleviate the pain. More often than not the operation does nothing to the pain or to the source of the problem. There is really no cure for varicose veins in western traditional medicine.

This is an extreme YIN condition (dilation is yin = expansive). YIN foods such as sugar, sweets and even fruit will make varicose veins worse because all these foods are YIN. Even during a pregnancy, a woman can avoid developing varicose veins by avoiding these foods. Given the proper foods, these dilated veins would tighten and regain their elasticity in just a few weeks. There is no chemical drug on earth that can make these veins tighten, but the proper foods can. The proper foods will also rebuild the body's immune levels and allow it to eliminate any microbial factor that might have triggered varicose veins in the first place such as brucella melitensis.  You can read more about the relation between varicose veins and YIN YANG in the seven laws of the universe.

Food is best medicine. When following a carefully designed diet, varicose vein sufferer improve rapidly and the need for an operation is diminshed. The pain of varicose veins recedes within just a few days, but the undesirable appearance of varicose veins will take longer to improve. Sometime it takes a few weeks and sometime it takes a few months depending on the severity of the varicose veins case. But all are cured with the right foods, given time.

In Addition to the diet for curing varicose veins, our recommended diet plan also includes temporary home remedies such as compresses and soakings, when necessary, with instructions on how to make these home remedies. This provides immediate relief for varicose veins sufferers during the first few days of going on the diet and until this diet begins to take effect in curing varicose veins.

Most people have come to believe that macrobiotics means eating exotic Japanese foods. This is a misconception. To cure Varicose veins you do not have to eat Japanese foods. You have to first understand the principles of natural balance explained in macrobiotics in order to understand what eating and other habits have led you to develop varicose veins. Then, macrobiotic principles will help you determine what foods you will have to eat in order to cure Varicose veins. Read If macrobiotics means eating locally grown foods, why are we eating Japanese foods?

It is true that food is best medicine for varicose veins. But some foods cure varicose veins and some make the condition worse. The food pyramid is only a general guideline and does not provide any specific information in the natural treatment and cure of varicose veins.

Food is best medicine. With a carefully designed diet plan for varicose veins there is no need for vitamin and mineral supplements. Some vitamin and mineral supplements can have severe adverse side effects on a varicose veins patient when taken randomly or in large doses. However, if supplements are desired, only natural food-based supplements should be selected and taken in moderate amounts. And beware of alleged miracle cures in far away lands.

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This is not a sales pitch for an expensive herbal concoction or an exotic supplement

Principles explained above are the laws of nature, and illness is simply the cumulative result of violating these laws. Hippocrates said: Thy food shall be thy remedy. From the Chinese book of internal medicine Nei Ching: What can not be cured with medicine, can only be cured with food. Food is your best medicine if the illness is varicose veins or almost anything else.

If you decide to treat varicose veins with the right diet, you can order a consultation with us from the top of this page. We can help by providing an appropriate diet plan, and you would not be alone traveling this road! Read about what many famous western doctors said about Food is Best Medicine. And keep in mind that we offer seminars worldwide about nutrition, the art of health and macrobiotics. You can find more answers and more about varicose veins and other illnesses and food as medicine in Frequently Asked Questions. When you are following a diet to read about the healing crisis.

In addition to changing your eating habits, take some time to relax, meditate or re-charge the batteries, and read what others have long discovered about this wondrous world around us.

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