Pulsatilla: As a preventive; also, when the affected parts are bluish with soreness and stinging pain. Head remedy for varicose veins.
Formica: When there is debility.
Fluoric Acid: Old standing cases. Obstinate, especially in women, who have produced many children. Varicose veins and varicose ulcers especially of lower extremities.
Pyrogenium: Varicose ulcers. Ulcerated legs which discharge freely and are extremely painful.
Arsenic Alb: Burning like fire particularly at night.
Nux Vom: During pregnancy, due to high living.
Hamamelis: With stinging and pricking pain (Lotion of Hamamelis may also be applied locally in all cases of varicose veins).
Vipera: Worse on letting the affected part hang down, as if it would burst with fullness. Bursting feeling is the keynote of this remedy.
Belladonna:
Glononie:
Varicose veins in plethoric persons where blood rushes to the head. Throbbing pain in veins.
Magnetis Polus Aust: Throbbing pain in the legs when hanging down with the feeling of hot water running down the affected part. Fainting on walking.
Lachesis: Inflammation of veins of the leg during pregnancy.
Millefolium: Most useful remedy in varicose veins; especially when the capillaries are spongy and enlarged. Veins break easily when congested. Wounds bleed easily and much. Varicose veins during pregnancy when painful. Varicose veins of legs ulcerate and bleed in pregnant women.
Sulphur: Veins ulcerate, rupture and bleed. Varicose of the extremities. It should be tried as an inter-current remedy when other remedies only partially cure or fail to cure.
