Warts are widespread among humans. According to the latest data, the papillomavirus 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.
Transmission of infection occurs directly from person to person, through household items and self-inoculation (combs, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin damage, mental shock contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
Distinguish common warts (simple, vulgar), flat (juvenile) and pointed (pointed candiloma).
Common warts are dense, painless, rounded nodules 3-10 mm in diameter, their surface is rough, the color is normal skin or gray-brown.
Their preferred localization is the back of the hands and fingers, face, scalp. If the warts are located on the feet, the so-called plantar warts, the patient may experience pain when walking.
Flat (juvenile) warts - small, 0. 5-3. 0 mm nodules, flesh-colored or yellowish, rounded, with a smooth flat surface that barely protrudes above the skin level. Located on the face and back of the hands.
Genital warts are pointed, grow quickly, fuse together and look like a cock's comb or cauliflower. The color of these warts is light to light pink. They are usually located in the inguinal and intergluteal folds, near-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 with a rounded shape with a rough surface. The size is 3-10 mm in diameter. Their preferred habitat is on the back of the hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappear on the soles. Plantar warts, unlike common ones, are painful and consist of bundles of filiform papillae around which there is a roll of thick 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 tinge. The surface is strongly flat, smooth. Usually occurs on the face and back of the hands. Most common in school children.
- Genital warts- It is a special type of wart. They are treated by urologists, gynecologists and venereologists.
How to treat this disease? There are two methods of dealing with warts: folk medicine and fighting through magic. Let's talk about folk remedies, here are a few home treatment options.
Why you should get rid of warts
The reason for the appearance of a cosmetic defect on hands and other parts of the body is their "contagiousness". Having penetrated the body in one way or another, the papillomavirus does not appear immediately. Quite a lot of time passes, from one to several months. In this case, the virus carrier may not have any manifestations. As a rule, HPV spreads in the superficial layers of the skin.
HPV is transmitted from mother to unborn child, as well as through damage to the skin. They can become infected in a public bath when they visit 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 biting nails 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 received during shaving, epilation, peeling, when more opportunities are created for the penetration of the virus.
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 in the body where the papillomavirus has changed DNA can become a source of a malignant tumor. The virus gene 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 mechanism of virus transmission is not well understood.
But it is noted 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 unconventional.
The doctor may suggest diathermocoagulation, freezing with liquid nitrogen and all forms of lubrication. Perhaps no skin disease is treated with unconventional methods as widely as warts.
Often the best treatment for warts is to leave them alone. In most patients, the immune system works and the warts disappear on their own.
Doctors from ancient China offered the following recipe: put a piece of ginger root on the wart and cover it with smoldering wormwood leaves on top. Under the influence of smoldering 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 do not believe in conspiracies, we recommend autogenic training: sit comfortably in an armchair, relax, close your eyes and breathe deeply. At the same time, imagine how the warts disappear. Influence on the extrasensory level is very effective.
How to get rid of warts at home
Since it is much more convenient to get rid of warts at home 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 must be used with caution, since what helped one patient may harm another. In addition, 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 should 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 some aggressive substance. Many are helped by the simplest means.
For example, in the case of young formations, they get rid of them with dandelion juice, sour apple, daily smeared with vinegar essence or celandine juice, it is better to take it near the root of the plant. The surrounding skin is treated with Vaseline so as not to cause a burn. After several procedures, the tissues begin to turn black and die off, they are regularly cut with nail scissors. After completing the procedure, the scissors must be kept in the flame for a short time.
An effective, but rather long-term disposal of warts with folk remedies is carried out with onion or garlic juice. After applying the juice, wait a little 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 sheet 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 of the resulting slurry for the night. It is possible to get rid of a wart in this way within a month. If the potatoes start to sprout, take half a mug of sprouts, fill with water to the top and put on a slow fire. When half of the water boils away, remove the mug from the heat. Lubrication of 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, remove the center and fill it with salt. After a while, 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 a similar manner. It is possible to remove a wart at home with a calendula flower, it is attached at night. The procedure is repeated until the defect is completely gone.
To get rid of the formation on the skin, steam it well and attach a piece of propolis. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. People who get rid of warts are done with a crushed Kalanchoe leaf. Compresses are placed at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective remedy for infusion of wormwood. Brew 3 tbsp. l. dry wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Apply compresses until they are completely removed.
Folk remedies
Especially popular among the people are recipes with potatoes, apples and other products that were used many millennia ago.
- 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 "collect" the potato, tie it in a thin cloth and throw it into the slurry. When the potato rots, the wart disappears.
- Take a raw potato and cut it in half. Throw one half over your head and rub the other half over 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 over each wart in the air. Then hide this thread in a cut potato and bury it so that no one knows 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 into two parts with a hard wire. Grate the warts with both halves of the apple, then put them together and tie with the same thread. Bury in the ground.
- On the new moon, take a stick with a knot, cut it smooth and rub the wart with this place for two minutes while looking at the moon. The wart goes away in a few days.
- Tie as many knots on a thread as there are warts, bury this thread in the ground. When the thread rots, the warts will also disappear.
- Soak the raw onion in table vinegar for 2 hours, then tie it to the wart overnight. Repeat several days in a row. The wart must come out by 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 leaves of Kalanchoe (house plant) to the warts. After a day, change the bandage to a fresh one. In a week the warts should be gone.
- Urine treatment. Moisten the warts with your own urine twice a day.
- Moisten the warts with water, then rub with ammonia, from which they should quickly disappear.
- Every night before going to bed, put 1 drop of acetic acid on each wart after you have smeared the skin with Vaseline, as the acid is very caustic. Improper 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 tie with a red woolen cloth. Change the bandage 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 etch the wart. Repeat several times. In a week, the wart will fall off.
- Dilute wood ash with water to the consistency of thick sour cream. Apply the resulting slurry daily. Such recipes in some cases can not only help, but also harm, since there is a possibility of infection of the damaged area of the skin.
- Twice a day, drip juice of aloe, celandine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja on the wart. The warts will be gone in a week.
- Willow bark helps well: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. " ("Salerno Code of Health", XIV century).
- Grind cornflower seeds, mix with lard. The resulting ointment is applied to the wart and tied. Change the bandage 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 treating warts from a traditional healer
Reduction of warts to an apple or a potato (they must be with a protrusion or tubercle similar in shape to a wart; only in this case you can get a 100% positive effect). Cut an apple or potato in half (it is recommended to do this with a strong thread). With the half on which the protrusion is visible, the warts are rubbed (in some cases it is recommended 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 your home. As they rot, the warts will disappear.
On a silk thread, knots are tied in the air above each wart while saying, "You can't live here. You shouldn't be here. My word is firm, unwavering. " Hide the thread in a freshly cut potato and bury it in the ground, sonobody knows. When the potatoes rot, the warts disappear. In some cases, it is enough to bury only one thread.
Find a stem with a root from a clipped ear of corn or blade of field grass. Prick the warts several times with the tip of a straw and make a conspiracy or prayer. Then immediately bury the straw in a moist place with the root upwards. When the straw rots, the warts will disappear.
Wang's advice. Collect spore (grass), dry, grind to powder and sprinkle on the wart.
A woman successfully reduced her grandson's warts by applying mosquito repellent ointment (dimethyl phthalate) to her skin.
There is an old "summer" method to reduce warts. It is necessary to catch the grasshopper and hold it by the hind legs and let it "bite" the wart. The grasshopper secretes an iodine-like liquid from its mouth that has wart-reducing properties. If you have several warts, it is enough to show only one. After about a week, other warts will disappear completely.
Fill a vial with a capacity of 30-40 ml tightly with chopped onion peel, pour 9% vinegar. Insist for 10-15 days in a dark place, shaking occasionally. In the resulting solution, wet gauze or cotton cloth and apply to the wart, preferably at night. They say that after such treatment warts disappear in 3-5 days.
There is a simple old way to reduce warts with mushrooms. Any mushrooms are suitable for this purpose and in any form: fresh, pickled, salted and dried (pre-soaking). Attach the sponge 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 a few tips for preventing this disease:
- Follow the rules for personal hygiene.
- Eat a balanced diet high in vitamins A, C and E to strengthen 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, sharply demarcated plaque of 0. 5-2. 0 cm in size, round or oval in shape, gray, brown or black. Its surface is covered with loose, sebum-saturated horn masses.
Senile warts are more often located on the cheeks, temples, around the eyes, on the trunk. If these warts are subjected to frequent traumatization, they may show a tendency to malignant transformation.
These warts do not need treatment. Avoid getting hurt by them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed using diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- Juice squeezed from freshly cut sundew round-leaf grass, smear the warts twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. After 10 days the warts will disappear.
- Lubricate the warts with fresh milk juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Scrape the wart with clean chalk (without impurities), pour more chalk on top, tie it off.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it will reduce warts. "I mean willow bark.
- Lubricate warts with alcohol tincture of thuja.