Warts are prevalent among people. According to the latest data, the papillomavirus has infected more than half of the world's population. Removal of warts with folk remedies can be easily done at home. So, you will find the most popular and effective folk remedies in the following article.
warts
A wart is a benign skin growth caused by a virus. This disease is more common in children and adolescents.
The infection is transmitted directly from person to person, through household items and autografts (combs, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin lesions, mental shocks contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
Distinguish between ordinary (simple, vulgar), flat (young) and pointed (pointed kandiloma) warts.
Common warts are dense, painless, rounded nodules 3-10 mm in diameter, their surface is rough, the color is normal skin or grayish-brown.
Their favorite localization is the back of the hands and fingers, the face, the scalp. If the warts are localized on the feet, the so-called plantar warts, the patient may experience pain when walking.
Flat (juvenile) warts - small nodules 0. 5-3. 0 mm, flesh-colored or yellowish, rounded, with a flat smooth surface, barely protruding above the level of the skin. Localized on the face and back of the hands.
Genital warts are sharp, grow rapidly, coalesce, and look like cockscomb or cauliflower. The color of these warts ranges from light pink to bright pink. They are generally located in the inguinal and intergluteal folds, quasi-anal region, on the genitals. Their development is facilitated by prolonged irritation and maceration of the skin.
Types of warts
There are several types of warts:
- common warts- These are fairly dense nodules of a rounded shape with a rough surface. The size is 3-10mm in diameter. Their preferred habitat is on the backs of the hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappear on the soles. Plantar warts, unlike ordinary warts, are painful and consist of threadlike bundles of papillae, around which there is a roll of powerful stratum corneum. It looks like a corn, so it can be confused. The cause of plantar warts is friction from shoes and frequent pressure.
- flat warts- These are small nodules with a size of only 0. 5-3 mm. Their color is either the same as the skin, or with a yellowish tint. The surface is strongly flattened, smooth. Usually occur on the face and the backs of the hands. More common in school children.
- Genital warts- This is a special type of wart. They are treated by urologists, gynecologists and venereologists.
How to treat this disease? There are two methods of treating warts: folk remedies and fighting with magic. Let's talk about folk remedies, here are some home treatment options.
Why you need to get rid of warts
The reason for the appearance of a cosmetic defect on the hands and other parts of the body is their "contagiousness". Having somehow got into the body, the papillomavirus does not appear immediately. A lot of time passes, from one to several months. In this case, the carrier of the virus may not show any manifestations. Typically, HPV spreads through the superficial layers of the skin.
HPV is transmitted from mother to unborn child, as well as through skin lesions. They can be infected in a public bath, when visiting the pool. Penetration is facilitated by excessive dryness or moisture of the skin, lack of capillary blood supply.
It turns out that the habit of nail biting is one of the reasons for the appearance of warts on the hands. The need to get rid of warts on the face is often caused by mechanical damage during shaving, depilation, peeling, when more opportunities for the penetration of the virus are created.
If the body's defenses are weakened and periodic measures are not taken to strengthen immunity, the likelihood of this cosmetic defect also increases.
Despite the good quality of a skin neoplasm, in particularly advanced cases, a cell of the body in which the papilloma virus has changed DNA can become a source of malignancy. The gene for the virus is often found in tumor cells. As a rule, an examination is sufficient to make a diagnosis. In the case of internal lesions - for example, the cervix - the DNA of the damaged cells is examined.
The transmission mechanism of the virus is not well understood.
But we notice that the probability of infection increases:
- when taking birth control pills that reduce immunity;
- during pregnancy, when immunity is also reduced;
- with violations in the body of the hormonal background;
- many women who have given birth.
Traditional and non-traditional therapies
There are many ways to treat warts - both traditional and non-traditional.
The doctor may suggest diathermocoagulation, liquid nitrogen freezing, and all kinds of lubrication. Perhaps no skin disease is treated with non-traditional methods as widely as warts.
Often the best treatment for warts is to leave them alone. In most patients, the immune defense works and the warts go away on their own.
Physicians in ancient China came up with the following recipe: tie a piece of ginger root to the wart and cover it with steaming wormwood leaves. Under the influence of smoking wormwood, ginger root begins to release antiviral compounds.
You can also try homeopathic remedies.
One of the ancient methods of treating warts was the use of conspiracies, in other words, "psychotherapy". For those who don't believe in conspiracies, we recommend autogenic training: get comfortable in a chair, relax, close your eyes and breathe deeply. At the same time, imagine how the warts disappear. The influence at the extrasensory level is very effective.
How to get rid of warts at home
Since getting rid of warts at home is much more convenient than in a medical institution, many people prefer to use various folk remedies. Despite the fact that these methods often give a positive result, they should be used with caution, because what helped one patient can harm another. Also, with the careless use of aggressive agents - for example, vinegar essence - a burn often occurs, after which a scar remains.
Not all types of warts need to be treated at home. Sufficiently reliable and safe folk remedies can only get rid of simple and flat varieties. One of the effective ways to remove a wart at home is to act on it with one or another aggressive substance. Many are helped by the simplest means.
For example, in the case of young formations, they get rid of it with dandelion juice, sour apple, daily smeared with vinegar essence or celandine juice, it is better to take it near the root ofthe plant. The skin around is treated with petroleum jelly so as not to cause burning. After several procedures, the tissues begin to darken and die off, they are regularly cut with nail scissors. After the procedure is completed, the scissors should be held in the flame for a short time.
Effective, but rather long-term removal of warts with folk remedies is carried out with onion or garlic juice. After applying the juice, you need to wait a bit for it to be completely absorbed. For guaranteed elimination of the defect, it is necessary to be treated for several weeks.
At night, you can make compresses from a thin plate of fresh garlic so that the garlic does not touch healthy skin. Freshly cut potato peel is suitable, its juice is applied externally several times a day.
You can finely grate a clean, fresh potato with the peel and make a compress from the resulting porridge for the night. It is possible to get rid of a wart in this way in a month. If the potatoes start to sprout, take half a cup of sprouts, fill with water to the top and put on a slow fire. When half the water boils, remove the cup from the heat. By lubricating the affected areas once a day with the received folk remedy, in some cases it is possible to get rid of the wart in a few days.
At home, HPV is treated with table salt. From a large onion you need to remove the middle and fill it with salt. After a while the juice will stand out, they treat the affected area every day. Salt can also be mixed with finely grated horseradish. The extracted juice is applied in the same way. It is possible to remove a wart at home with a calendula flower, it is tied at night. The procedure is repeated until the fault is completely gone.
To get rid of the formation on the skin, you need to spray it well and attach a piece of propolis to it. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. People getting rid of warts are executed with a crushed Kalanchoe leaf. Compresses are placed at night. In some cases, 4 to 5 sessions are enough. An effective way of infusing absinthe. Infuse 3 tbsp. I. dry wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Apply compresses until completely eliminated.
Folk remedies
Recipes based on potatoes, apples and other products used several millennia ago are especially popular among people.
- Take a raw potato, cut it in half, rub the wart with each half separately, then put them together and bury them in the garden.
- Cut a raw potato into 12 parts, rub the wart with each part for a minute, then "pick up" the potato, tie it in a thin rag and throw it in the manure. When the potato rots, the wart disappears.
- Take a raw potato and cut it in half. Throw one half on your head and rub the other half on the wart, then bury it in a dry place. When the buried part of the potato dries out or rots, the wart disappears.
- Take a silk thread and tie a knot on each wart in the air. Then hide this wire in a cut potato and bury it so that no one knows about this place.
- Cut a sour apple in half. Eat one half and rub the warts with the other, then bury it in the ground. When the apple rots, the warts disappear.
- Cut the apple in half with a hard wire. Grate the warts with the two halves of the apple, then put them together and tie them with the same thread. Bury in the ground.
- At the new moon, take a stick with a knot, cut it smoothly and rub the wart with this place for two minutes, looking at the moon. The wart will disappear in a few days.
- Make as many knots on a thread as there are warts, bury this thread in the ground. When the thread rots, the warts also disappear.
- Soak the raw onion in table vinegar for 2 hours and then attach it to the wart overnight. Repeat several days in a row. The wart should come out with the root.
- Rub the warts with fresh juice of sour apples for ten days. After 10 days, the warts will disappear.
- Apply a bandage with mashed Kalanchoe (houseplant) leaves on the warts. After a day, change the bandage for a new one. Within a week, the warts should be gone.
- Urinary treatment. Wet the warts with your own urine twice a day.
- Moisten the warts with water, then rub with ammonia, from which they should disappear quickly.
- Every night before going to bed, pour 1 drop of acetic acid on each wart, after lubricating the surrounding skin with petroleum jelly, as the acid is very caustic. Inept use of acetic acid can lead to a burn, which is much more difficult to heal than the wart itself.
- Rub the wart with clean chalk, sprinkle more chalk on top and secure with a red wool cloth. Change the dressing every three days. Repeat three times. You can't get your hands wet.
- Take a thin wooden stick, hold its end over the fire and cauterize the wart. Repeat several times. In a week, the wart will fall off.
- Dilute the wood ash with water to the consistency of thick sour cream. Lubricate the resulting mud daily. In some cases, such recipes can not only help, but also harm, since there is a risk of infection of the damaged area of the skin.
- Twice a day, drip the juice of aloe, celandine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja on the wart. The warts will be gone within a week.
- Willow bark helps well: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. "("Salerno Health Code", XIV century).
- Grind blueberry seeds, mix with lard. The resulting ointment is applied to the wart and bandaged. Change the dressing after three days. After 7 days, the warts will fall off.
In the Caucasus, they suggest treating warts with bean seeds, rubbing the wart with a bean and burying it in manure.
Recipes for the treatment of warts from a traditional healer
Reducing warts to an apple or potato (they should have a wart-like protrusion or tubercle; only in this case can you achieve a 100% positive effect). Cut an apple or potato in half (it is advisable to do this with a strong thread). With the half on which the protrusion is visible, rub the warts (in some cases it is advisable to rub with both halves). Then connect the halves together and tie them with the thread that was cut. Bury an apple or potato in the ground, away from home. When they rot, the warts disappear.
On a silken thread, knots are tied in the air above each wart, saying, "You can't live here. You shouldn't be here. My word is firm, inflexible. "Hide the wire in a freshly cut potato and bury it in the ground so that no one knows. When the potatoes rot, the warts disappear. In some cases, it is enough to bury just one wire.
Find a stem with a root from a cut ear or a blade of field grass. With the tip of a straw, prick the warts several times, saying a conspiracy or a prayer. After that, immediately bury the straw in a damp place with the root side up. When the straw rots, the warts disappear.
Wang's advice. Collect the spur (grass), dry it, grind it into powder and sprinkle it on the wart.
A woman managed to reduce her granddaughter's warts by applying mosquito repellent ointment (dimethyl phthalate) to her skin.
There is an old "summer" method for reducing warts. It is necessary to catch the grasshopper and, holding it by the hind legs, let it "bite" the wart. The grasshopper secretes an iodine-like liquid from its mouth which has anti-wart properties. If you have multiple warts, just display one. After about a week, the other warts will disappear completely.
Hermetically fill a bottle with a capacity of 30-40 ml with chopped onion zest, pour 9% vinegar. Insist for 10-15 days in a dark place, shaking occasionally. In the resulting solution, wet gauze or cotton wool and apply to the wart, preferably at night. They say that after such treatment, the warts disappear in 3-5 days.
There is a simple and ancient method to reduce warts with mushrooms. Any mushrooms are suitable for this purpose and in any form: fresh, pickled, salted and dried (pre-soak). Tie the fungus to the wart at night and fix it, cover it with cellophane or wax paper on top. After several treatments, the warts will disappear.
Disease prevention
And now some advice for the prevention of this disease:
- Follow the rules of personal hygiene.
- Eat a balanced diet rich in vitamins A, C and E to boost your immune system.
- Avoid stress and learn to relax.
- Put fresh oak leaves in your shoes instead of insoles.
senile warts
Their occurrence is not associated with a viral infection. They appear in elderly and senile patients, they look like a flat, well-demarcated plaque 0. 5-2. 0 cm in size, round or oval in shape, gray, brown or black. Its surface is covered with loose horny masses saturated with sebum.
Senile warts are more often localized on the cheeks, temples, around the eyes, on the trunk. If these warts are subjected to frequent trauma, they may show a tendency towards malignant transformation.
These warts do not need treatment. Avoid hurting them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed using diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- Juice squeezed from freshly cut sundew round-leaved grass, lubricate the warts twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. After 10 days, the warts will disappear.
- Lubricate the warts with fresh milkweed juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Grate the wart with clean chalk (without impurities), pour more chalk on top, tie it.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it will reduce the warts. " I mean willow bark.
- Lubricate the warts with alcoholic tincture of thuja.