Warts are common among humans. According to the latest data, the papilloma virus has infected more than half of the world's population. Removing 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
Warts are 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 using household items and self-inoculation (combs, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin injuries, mental shocks contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
Distinguish between ordinary (simple, vulgar), flat (youthful) and pointed (pointy condyloma) 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 hands and fingers, face, scalp. If the warts are localized on the feet, 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, barely protruding above the skin level. Localized on the face and back of the hands.
Genital warts are spiky, grow quickly, coalesce and resemble cauliflower or cauliflower. The color of these warts is light to bright pink. They are usually localized in the groin and intergluteal folds, close to the anus, on the genitals. Their development is promoted by prolonged skin irritation and maceration.
Types of warts
There are several types of warts:
- common warts- These are rather dense rounded nodules with a rough surface. The size is 3-10 mm in diameter. Their favorite place to live is the back of the hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappear on the soles. Plantar warts, unlike the usual ones, are painful and consist of bundles of filiform papillae, around which there is a roll of strong horny layers. It looks like corn, so it can be confused. Plantar warts are caused by shoe friction and frequent pressure.
- flat warts- These are small nodules, only 0. 5-3 mm in size. Their color is either the same as the skin or with a yellowish tint. The surface is strongly flattened, smooth. It usually appears on the face and back of the hands. Most common in students.
- 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 ways to fight warts: folk remedies and fighting with the help of magic. Let's talk about folk remedies, here are some home treatment options.
Why you need to get rid of a wart
The reason for the appearance of a cosmetic defect on the hands and other parts of the body is their "stickiness". After entering the body in one way or another, the papilloma virus does not appear immediately. It takes quite a while, from one to several months. In this case, the carrier of the virus 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 skin lesions. They can get infected in a public bathhouse by 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 biting nails is one of the reasons for the appearance of warts on the hands. The need to get rid of a wart on the face is often caused by mechanical damage sustained during shaving, epilation, peeling, when greater opportunities are created for the virus to enter.
If the body's defenses are weakened and measures to strengthen immunity are not taken periodically, the likelihood of this cosmetic defect also increases.
Despite the good quality of the skin neoplasm, in particularly advanced cases, a body cell in which the papilloma virus has changed the DNA can become the source of a malignant tumor. The viral gene is often found in tumor cells. Usually, an examination is enough to make a diagnosis. In the case of internal damage - for example, the cervix - the DNA of the damaged cells is checked.
The mechanism of virus transmission is not well understood.
But it is observed that the probability of infection increases:
- using birth control pills that reduce immunity;
- during pregnancy, when immunity also decreases;
- with violations of the hormonal background in the body;
- many women who have given birth.
Traditional and non-traditional therapies
There are many ways to treat warts, both traditional and unconventional.
The doctor can recommend diathermocoagulation, freezing with liquid nitrogen 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 system works and the warts go away on their own.
Ancient Chinese doctors offered the following recipe: attach a piece of ginger root to the wart, and cover it with smoldering wormwood leaves. Under the influence of wormwood, ginger root begins to secrete 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 easy chair, relax, close your eyes and breathe deeply. At the same time, imagine how the warts disappear. The effect 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 a wart at home than in a medical institution, many 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 may harm another. In addition, careless use of aggressive agents - for example, vinegar essence - often causes a burn, after which a scar remains.
Not all types of warts need to be treated at home. Sufficiently reliable and safe folk remedies can get rid of only 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. The simplest remedies help many.
For example, in the case of new formations, they get rid of them with dandelion juice, sour apple, smeared with vinegar essence or nettle juice every day, it is better to take it near the root of the plant. The surrounding skin is treated with petroleum jelly to prevent burns. After several procedures, the tissue begins to turn black and die, it is regularly cut with nail scissors. After completing the procedure, the scissors should be kept in the flame for a short time.
Effective, but rather long-term destruction of warts with folk remedies is carried out with onion or garlic juice. After applying the juice, you need to wait a little until it is completely absorbed. Guaranteed elimination of the defect requires processing for several weeks.
At night, compresses can be made from a thin slab of fresh garlic so that the garlic does not touch healthy skin. Freshly cut potato skin is good, its juice is used externally several times a day.
Clean, fresh potatoes can be finely grated together with the peel and the resulting slurry made into a compress for the night. Getting rid of the wart in this way is possible within a month. If the potatoes start to sprout, take half a cup of sprouts, fill to the top with water and put on low heat. When half the water boils, remove the mug from the heat. Lubricating the affected areas once a day with the received folk remedy, in some cases it is possible to get rid of the wart within a few days.
HPV is treated at home with table salt. Remove the middle from a large onion and fill it with salt. After some time, the juice will stand out, they treat the affected area every day. Salt can also be mixed with finely grated horseradish. The squeezed juice is applied similarly. At home, it is possible to remove a wart with a calendula flower, it is attached at night. The procedure is repeated until the defect disappears completely.
To get rid of the formation on the skin, you need to steam it well and attach a piece of propolis. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. People get rid of warts with crushed Kalanchoe leaves. Compresses are put on overnight. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective remedy for wormwood infusion. Brew 3 tbsp. k. l. dry wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Apply compresses until they are completely removed.
Folk remedies
Recipes using potatoes, apples and other products that have been used for thousands of years are especially popular.
- Take a raw potato, cut it in half, rub the wart on each side 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 one minute, then "collect" the potato, tie it in a thin cloth and throw it in the manure. When the potato rots, the wart will disappear.
- Take a raw potato and cut it in half. Throw one side over your head, rub the other side over the wart, then bury it in a dry place. When the buried part of the potato dries out or rots, the wart will disappear.
- Take the silk thread and tie a knot above each wart in the air. Then hide this thread in a cut potato and bury it so that no one knows the place.
- Cut the sour apple in half. Eat one side, rub the warts with the other, then bury it in the ground. When the apple rots, the warts will disappear.
- Cut the apple in two with a sharp thread. Grate the warts with both halves of the apple, then put them together 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 warts will disappear within a few days.
- Tie as many knots on the thread as there are warts, bury this thread in the ground. When the thread rots, so will the warts.
- Soak the raw onion in table vinegar for 2 hours and then tie it to the wart overnight. Repeat 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 will disappear.
- Apply a bandage with pureed Kalanchoe leaves to the warts. After a day, change the bandage to a fresh one. After a week, the warts should disappear.
- Urine treatment. Moisten the warts with your urine twice a day.
- Moisten the warts with water and then rub with ammonia, which should make them disappear quickly.
- Apply 1 drop of acetic acid to each wart every night before going to bed after anointing the skin with petroleum jelly, as the acid is very caustic. Improper use of acetic acid can cause burns, which are much more difficult to treat than the wart itself.
- The wart is rubbed with clean chalk, more chalk is sprinkled on top and a red woolen cloth is bandaged. Change the bandage every three days. Repeat three times. You can't get your hands wet.
- Take a thin wooden stick, hold the end of it over the fire and melt the wart. Repeat several times. After a week, the wart will fall off.
- Wood ash is diluted with water to the consistency of thick sour cream. Lubricate the resulting slurry every day. In some cases, such prescriptions can not only help, but also harm, as infection of the damaged skin area is possible.
- Twice a day, drip the juice of aloe vera, celandine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja on the wart. The warts will disappear after a week.
- Willow bark helps: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. " ("Salerno Health Codex", XIV century).
- Grind cornflower seeds, mix with lard. The resulting flowers are applied to the wart and bandaged. Change the dressing after three days. After 7 days, the warts will fall off.
In the Caucasus, they recommend treating warts with bean seeds, rubbing the wart with a bean and burying it in manure.
Traditional healer's recipes for treating warts
Reduction of warts to an apple or a potato (they should have a protrusion or tuber that resembles a wart in shape; 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). Rub the wart with the side where the bump is visible (in some cases it is recommended to rub both sides). Then join the halves together and tie them with the cut thread. Bury the apple or potato in the ground, away from home. Once they rot, the warts will disappear.
On the silk thread on each wart, knots are tied in the air, while saying: "You can't live here. You shouldn't be here. My word is strict, unyielding. "Hide the thread in a freshly cut potato and bury it in the ground so that no one knows. When the potatoes rot, the warts will disappear. In some cases, it is enough to bury only the thread.
Find a stem with a root from a cut ear of grain or blades of grass. Poke the warts several times with the tip of the straw, uttering a conspiracy or prayer. Then immediately bury the straw in a moist place with the root up. When the straw rots, the warts will disappear.
Wang's advice. Collect the fin (grass), dry it, grind it into powder and sprinkle it on the wart.
A woman successfully reduced 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 its hind legs, let it "bite" the wart. A grasshopper secretes an iodine-like liquid from its mouth, which has wart-reducing properties. If you have several warts, then it is enough to show only one. After about a week, other warts will disappear completely.
A vial with a volume of 30-40 ml is tightly filled with chopped onion peel, poured with 9% vinegar. Insist for 10-15 days in a dark place, shaking occasionally. Moisten gauze or cotton cloth in the resulting solution and apply to the wart, preferably at night. They say that after such treatment the warts disappear within 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-soaked). Attach the mushroom to the wart overnight and fix it, cover it with cellophane or wax paper. After several procedures, the warts will disappear.
Disease prevention
And now some tips to prevent 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 your shoes instead of insoles.
Senile warts
Their occurrence is not related to a viral infection. They appear in elderly and senile patients, they look like a flat, sharply demarcated plate 0. 5-2. 0 cm in size, round or oval in shape, gray, brown or black. Its surface is covered by loose, fat-saturated horny masses.
Senile warts are more often localized on the cheeks, temples, around the eyes, on the trunk. If these warts are frequently traumatized, they may have a tendency to malignant transformation.
These warts do not require treatment. Avoid getting hurt by them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed using diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- The juice is pressed from freshly cut sunny round-leaf grass, the warts are applied twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. After 10 days, the warts will disappear.
- Lubricate the warts with fresh milky tear juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Grate the wart with pure chalk (without impurities), pour more chalk on top, dry.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it will reduce the warts. "I mean willow bark.
- Lubricate the warts with alcohol tincture of thuja.