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Guest Post Courtesy of the Progressive Health<\/a>\u00a0Blog<\/p>\n More than 60% of people will develop varicose veins, with women more likely than men. Varicose veins, a type of venous insufficiency, are swollen, damaged veins near the surface of the skin. Now research reports that pycnogenol can help treat and prevent varicose vein symptoms including swelling and leg pain. Pycnogenol, derived from French maritime\u00a0pine<\/a>\u00a0bark (Pinus pinaster), contains potent flavonoids called proanthocyanidins (PCOs) that have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects.\ufffd The study, published in Phytomedicine, investigated the effect of pycnogenol in patients with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). Italian researchers at Chieti-Pescara University, administered daily either 150 mg pycnogenol, elastic stockings (compression) alone or both pycnogenol and elastic stockings to 98 patients with CVI symptoms for 8 weeks.\ufffd THe researchers found that both pycnogenol groups had greater improvement in CVI symptoms including leg swelling and pain than the elastic stocking group. Furthermore, the combination pycnogenol and elastic stocking group had significantly better results than pycnogenol alone or elastic stockings alone. \u201cNo side-effects were observed; compliance and tolerability were very good,\u201d the study authors write<\/p>\n Read the rest here: Enrich your life and the lives of others<\/strong>\u00a0by learning Aromatherapy, Reflexology or Color\/Crystal Therapy at the\u00a0Alternative Healing Academy<\/strong><\/a>! Convenient and easy-to-handle payment plans are available! Get 10% OFF of any course simply by liking our\u00a0Facebook Page<\/a>! After liking the page, click ‘shop now<\/a>‘ to get the discount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guest Post Courtesy of the Progressive Health\u00a0Blog More than 60% of people will develop varicose veins, with women more likely than men. Varicose veins, a type of venous insufficiency, are swollen, damaged veins near the surface of the skin. Now research reports that pycnogenol can help treat and prevent varicose vein symptoms including swelling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-vitality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA Natural Varicose Vein Fix<\/a><\/p>\n