Warts are common 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 easily be 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 the infection occurs directly from person to person, through household items and autografts (combs, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin lesions, mental shock contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
Distinguish ordinary (simple, vulgar), flat (young) and pointed (pointed candiloma) warts.
Common warts are dense, painless and 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 feel pain while walking.
Flat (juvenile) warts - small, 0. 5–3. 0 mm, flesh-colored or yellowish, rounded nodules with a smooth, flat surface, slightly protruding above the level of the skin. Localized on the face and back of the hands.
Genital warts are pointed, grow rapidly, merge and resemble a cockscomb or cauliflower. The color of these warts ranges from light pink to bright pink. They are usually located in the inguinal and intergluteal folds, in the region near the anal, on the genitals. Their development is facilitated by prolonged skin irritation and maceration.
Types of warts
There are several types of warts:
- common warts- These are rather dense nodules of a rounded shape with a rough surface. The size is 3-10mm in diameter. Their preferred habitat is on the back of the hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappear on the soles. Plantar warts, unlike ordinary warts, are painful and consist of bundles of filiform papillae, around which there is a roller of powerful horny layers. It looks like a corn, so it can be confusing. The cause of plantar warts is shoe friction and frequent pressure.
- flat warts- These are small nodules with a size of only 0. 5–3 mm. Their color is the same as that of the skin or with a yellowish tinge. The surface is strongly flattened, smooth. They usually occur on the face and back of the hands. More common in schoolchildren.
- Genital warts- This is a special type of wart. They are treated by urologists, gynecologists and venereologists.
How to cure this disease? There are two methods of dealing with warts: folk remedies and fighting through magic. Let's talk about folk remedies, here are some home treatment options.
Why it is necessary 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 penetrated the body in one way or another, the papillomavirus does not appear immediately. A lot of time goes by, from one to several months. In this case, the carrier of the virus may not have manifestations. As a rule, HPV spreads to the superficial layers of the skin.
HPV is transmitted from mother to unborn child, as well as through skin damage. They can become infected in a public bathroom 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 received during shaving, epilation, peeling, when more opportunities for virus penetration 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 in the body in which the papilloma virus has modified the DNA can become the source of a malignant tumor. The virus gene is often found in cancer cells. As a rule, an examination is enough to make a diagnosis. In the case of internal injuries - for example the cervix - the DNA of the damaged cells is examined.
The transmission mechanism of the virus is not well understood.
But it is noted that the likelihood 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, freezing with liquid nitrogen, and all types of lubrication. Perhaps no skin disease is treated with non-traditional methods as much as warts.
Often the best treatment for warts is to leave them alone. In most patients, the immune defense works and the warts disappear on their own.
Doctors of ancient China offered the following recipe: attach a piece of ginger root to the wart and cover it with steaming wormwood leaves on top. Under the influence of steaming absinthe, 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 an extrasensory level is very effective.
How to get rid of warts at home
Since getting rid of warts at home is much cheaper 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, as what helped one patient can 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 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, smeared daily with vinegar essence or celandine juice, it is better to take it close to the root of the plant. The skin around it is treated with petroleum jelly so as not to cause burns. After several procedures, the tissues begin to turn black and die, they are regularly cut with nail scissors. After completing the procedure, the scissors must be kept in the flame for a short time.
Effective, but rather long-term disposal of warts with folk remedies is carried out with onion juice or garlic. After applying the juice, you have to wait a while for it to be fully absorbed. For guaranteed disposal of the defect, treatment for several weeks is required.
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 along with the peel and make a compress from the resulting slurry for the night. It is possible to get rid of a wart this way within a month. If the potatoes are starting to sprout, collect half a cup of the sprouts, fill with water to the top and turn on a slow fire. When half of the water is boiling, remove the cup from the heat. Lubricate 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, it is necessary to remove the center 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 a similar way. It is possible to remove a wart at home with a marigold flower, it is attached at night. The procedure is repeated until the complete disappearance of the defect.
To eliminate the formation on the skin, it is necessary to 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. Tablets are placed at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are sufficient. An effective means of infusion of wormwood. Prepare 3 tbsp. L. dry wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Put on the compresses until completely removed.
Folk remedies
Especially popular among the people are recipes based on potatoes, apples and other products used many millennia ago.
- Take a raw potato, cut it in half, rub the wart with each half separately, then combine 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 cloth and throw it into the manure. When the potato rots, the wart will disappear.
- Take a raw potato and cut it in half. Throw one half over 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 up or rots, the wart will disappear.
- Take a silk thread and tie a knot on each wart in the air. Then hide this thread 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 into two parts with a hard wire. Grate the warts with both halves of the apple, then combine and tie them with the same thread. Bury in the ground.
- On 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 go away 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, then tie it to the wart overnight. Repeat for several days in a row. The wart should come out with the root.
- Rub the warts with fresh sour apple juice for ten days. After 10 days, the warts disappear.
- Apply a bandage with crushed leaves of Kalanchoe (houseplant) on the warts. After a day, change the bandage to a new one. In a week, the warts should be gone.
- Urine treatment. Wet 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 bedtime, drip 1 drop of acetic acid on each wart, after lubricating the surrounding skin with petroleum jelly, as the acid is very caustic. Misuse of acetic acid can cause burns, which are much more difficult to cure than the wart itself.
- Rub the wart with clean chalk, sprinkle more chalk on top, and tie it 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 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 slurry daily. Such recipes in some cases can not only help, but also harm, as there is a possibility 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 disappear in a week.
- Willow bark helps well: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. "("Salerno Health Code", 14th century).
- Grind cornflower seeds, mix with lard. The resulting ointment is applied to the wart and bandaged. Change the bandage after three days. After 7 days, the warts will fall off.
In the Caucasus, they suggest treating warts with bean seeds, rub the wart with a bean and bury it in manure.
Recipes for the treatment of warts from a traditional healer
Reduce warts to an apple or potato (they must have a bump or tubercle that resembles the shape of a wart; only in this case can you 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 rub the warts (in some cases it is recommended to rub with both halves). Then join the halves 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 silk thread, knots are tied in the air on each wart, saying, "You can't live here. You shouldn't be here. My word is firm, unyielding. "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 sufficient to bury only a thread.
Find a stem with a root from a cut ear of corn or a blade of field grass. With the tip of a straw, prick the warts several times, uttering a conspiracy or a prayer. After that, immediately bury the straw in a damp place with the root facing up. When the straw rots, the warts disappear.
Wang's advice. Collect the spur (grass), dry it, grind it into a powder and sprinkle it on the wart.
A woman successfully reduced her niece's warts by applying mosquito repellent ointment (dimethyl phthalate) to her skin.
There is an ancient "summer" method to reduce 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 fluid from the mouth that has wart reducing properties. If you have multiple warts, you only need to view one. After about a week, the other warts will disappear completely.
Hermetically fill a vial with a capacity of 30-40 ml with chopped onion peel, pour 9% vinegar. Insist 10-15 days in a dark place, shaking from time to time. In the resulting solution, moisten gauze or cotton cloth and apply to the wart, preferably at night. They say that after such treatment, the warts disappear in 3-5 days.
There is an old simple way to reduce warts with fungi. All mushrooms are suitable for this purpose and in any form: fresh, pickled, salted and dried (pre-soaking). Attach the fungus to the wart at night and fix it, cover it with cellophane or wax paper on top. After several treatments, the warts disappear.
Disease prevention
And now some tips for the prevention of this disease:
- Follow the rules of personal hygiene.
- Eat a balanced diet rich in vitamins A, C and E to strengthen your immune system.
- Avoid stress and learn to relax.
- Put fresh oak leaves in shoes instead of insoles.
Senile warts
Their presence is not associated with a viral infection. They appear in elderly and senile patients, look like a flat, sharply delimited plaque of 0. 5–2. 0 cm, round or oval in shape, gray, brown or black. Its surface is covered with loose, sebum-saturated horny masses.
Senile warts are most often localized on the cheeks, temples, around the eyes, on the trunk. If these warts are prone to frequent trauma, they can show a tendency to malignant transformation.
These warts don't need treatment. Avoid hurting them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed using diathermocoagulation or one of the folk recipes.
- The juice squeezed from the freshly cut round-leafed sundew herb lubricates the warts twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. After 10 days, the warts disappear.
- Lubricate the warts with fresh milkweed juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Grate the wart with clean plaster (without impurities), pour more plaster on top, tie it.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, you will reduce warts. "I mean willow bark.
- Lubricate the warts with the alcoholic tincture of thuja.