You might be interested in knowing (or perhaps not), that there are some herbal options for varicose veins; I’ve been taking a product called theravein for a while and haven’t suffered any problems since I started. One of the ingredients, Horse Chestnut has several pubmed entries on usage for varisose veins. The other components, gota kula, and butchers broom (maybe one other one) have long term use as ‘local’ remedies for a particular varicose vein problem you don’t normally see on the leg, if you know what I mean.

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- pD