Home remedies · Back, muscles & joints
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Several times a day put the legs above heart level for ten minutes; in the evening while watching television anyway.
Above heart level the blood returns without muscle work. With heavy legs and mild swelling the effect is immediately noticeable.
It treats neither vein weakness nor thrombosis — it only relieves.
A one-sided swollen, warm, painful leg is not elevated and waited out — that can be a thrombosis and needs seeing the same day.
Have it assessed rather than treated at home: back pain with numbness in the saddle area, disturbed bladder or bowel function, weakness or fever. A joint that cannot bear weight after an injury, or is deformed. A one-sided swollen, warm leg.