Your doctor focuses brief bursts of high-energy laser light on the affected area. The zapped veins collapse and shrink. Eventually, your body reabsorbs them, and nearby veins take over for them or healthy new veins grow. Your doctor injects the affected area with a combination of fatty acids and salt water, which collapses the veins. Your surgeon makes several incisions, inserts a wire hook, pulls out the affected veins, and then wraps the area in tight bandages.
Recovery time varies depending on the extent of surgery, but can take up to several weeks.
After mainstream treatment, doctors generally recommend walking several miles a day to stimulate circulation and the growth of new healthy veins. Textbook of Nat Med. Botanical Influences on Illness, p. 273. Textbook of Nat Med. Textbook of Nat Med.