Heavy Legs

Slowing of venous and lymphatic circulation, heaviness in the lower limbs, numbness of the extremities, feeling of dead toes, edema of the feet and ankles.

Heart failure often leads in the elderly to edema of the ankles and heaviness of the legs.

Chronic venous disease concerns the “return circulation”, that is to say the oxygen-depleted blood which returns to the heart.

The limbs furthest from the heart often suffer from circulatory deficiencies: the legs require effort to be adequately irrigated.

Heavy legs: above all a lymphatic problem. heaviness generally precedes edema.

Choose a diet rich in flavonoids

Buckwheat (rutin) - Dandelion - Black elderberry

Evening primrose oil (essential fatty acids) and borage. Oil of fish.

Drink vegetable juices - Leek soup

Blueberry: fresh juice or fruit decoction strengthens the wall of capillary and venous vessels

Lemon: the juice is a capillary protector and a venous tonic

Fluxarola (Superdiet): venous tonic, 2 tabs X 2 / day - Fluidilège (Superdiet), 1 amp / day - Circulia (PariNat)

LAB Premium (PariNat) - Pianto S/A - Venaforce (Vogel), in drops or tablets

Avoidsugar added to foods, alcohols, coffee, tea, cereals with gluten and especially wheat in all its forms, fried foods, breadings

Cold affusion on the legs with witch hazel water - Foot bath: 1/4 cup of Epsom salts in 2 liters of water

Massage from the ankle to the thigh with: camphor oil + E.O. of Cypress or E.O. of Citron, hydrocotyl oil (Centella asiatica), massage oil (Weleda), Fluidilège gel (Superdiet), Neter oil (BioÉnergie)

Trempoline (rebounder) - Oxygenation by Jacquier air bowl

To relieve fatigue: bath neither hot nor prolonged, to stimulate: cold shower, to relieve: pedaling like gymnastics.

Prevention: walking stimulates the plantar pump which promotes venous return; break immobility, sleep with feet elevated (about 10 cm) and use lymphatic drainage.

Avoid birth control pill, tobacco (constriction factor at the capillaries), wearing high heels (a height of 3 cm is acceptable) and clothing that compresses circulation.