Can acupuncture cure varicose veins?

Varicose veins are a relatively common disease, especially for people who need to stand frequently or for the elderly, the incidence of varicose veins is extremely high. Varicose veins need to be treated with certain methods, acupuncture is one of them. In addition, elastic bandage or elastic stockings compression therapy, laser treatment, surgical treatment, surgical extraction and other methods can also effectively treat varicose veins!

1. Compression therapy with elastic bandage or elastic stockings

This method of treating varicose veins is suitable for mild, asymptomatic, small-scale superficial varicose veins, pregnant women and the elderly who are not suitable for surgical treatment.

2. Laser treatment

It is a minimally invasive surgical treatment with the same indications as surgical treatment. Its advantages include less trauma, quick recovery, and fewer incisions. It is especially suitable for young and middle-aged women who require aesthetic appearance after surgery. It is currently the most widely used method for treating varicose veins.

3. Surgical treatment

It is suitable for people with obvious varicose veins, soreness and heaviness in the lower limbs, pigmentation, congestive dermatitis, and local bleeding or ulcers. This is one of the more common methods of treating varicose veins.

4. Surgical extraction

An incision is made in the groin to cut, ligate or extract the great saphenous vein. If the varicose veins are too severe, multiple incisions need to be made to extract the varicose veins section by section. Surgical treatment requires hemiplegia or general anesthesia and 5-7 days of hospitalization. The treatment effect is good, but there will be disadvantages such as subcutaneous bruising, large wounds, wound pain, and high cost.

5. Sclerotherapy

It is a method of injecting a hypertonic solution into the varicose veins to destroy the vascular endothelium, causing them to heal and disappear. It is suitable for the treatment of only a small number of varicose veins. Because it can only treat small varicose blood vessels, and the treatment may cause severe pain, pigmentation, and even inflammation, redness, swelling, ulceration and other sequelae, and it is easy to relapse after treatment.

6. Acupuncture

Because varicose veins of the lower limbs are a surgical disease, traditional acupuncture therapy is now difficult to achieve effective results. After a long period of exploration and improvement in needles, acupoints and operations, a relatively effective treatment plan has basically been formed. The most commonly used acupuncture methods are magnetic plum needle and high-frequency electroacupuncture. Both acupuncture methods are safe and effective and are suitable for treating mild early varicose veins.