Warts are widespread among people. According to the latest data, papillomavirus 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
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 self-grafting (combs, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin injuries, mental shocks contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4–5 months.
Distinguish warts ordinary (simple, vulgar), flat (youthful) and pointed (pointed kandiloma).
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, face, scalp. If the warts are localized on the feet, the so-called plantar warts, the patient may experience pain when walking.
Flat (juvenile) warts are small, 0. 5–3. 0 mm nodules, flesh-colored or yellowish, rounded, with a smooth flat surface, barely protruding above the level of the skin. Localized on the face and back of the hands.
Genital warts are pointed, grow quickly, merge and resemble a cockscomb or cauliflower. The color of these warts is from light to bright pink. They are usually localized 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 rather dense nodules of a rounded shape with a rough surface. The size is 3–10 mm in diameter. Their favorite habitat is on the back of the hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappear on the soles. Plantar warts, unlike ordinary ones, 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 confused. The cause of plantar warts is the friction of 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 that of the skin, or with a yellowish tint. The surface is strongly flattened, smooth. Usually occur on the face and back of the hands. Most common in schoolchildren.
- 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 dealing with warts: folk remedies and fighting through magic. Let's talk about folk remedies, here are a few 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 entered 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 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 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 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 especially advanced cases, a cell of the body in which the papilloma virus 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 transmission mechanism of the virus is not well understood.
But it is noticed 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, 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 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 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 easy chair, relax, close your eyes and breathe deeply. At the same time, imagine how the warts disappear. 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 must be used with caution, since what helped one patient may harm another. Moreover, 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 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 skin around is treated with petroleum jelly 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 should be held in the flame for a short time.
An effective, but rather long-term disposal of warts with folk remedies is performed with onion or garlic juice. After applying the juice, you need to wait a bit for it to be completely absorbed. For guaranteed disposal 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 along with the peel and make a compress from the resulting slurry for the night. It is possible to get rid of a wart in this way within a month. If the potatoes begin to sprout, pick up 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. 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, 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 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, you need to steam it well and attach a piece of propolis. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. People getting rid of warts is performed with a crushed Kalanchoe leaf. Compresses are placed at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective means of infusion of wormwood. Brew 3 tbsp. l. dry wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Put compresses until completely removed.
Folk remedies
Especially popular among the people are recipes using 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 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 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 over the wart, then bury it in a dry place. When the buried part of the potato dries out or rots, then the wart will disappear.
- 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 will disappear.
- Cut the apple into two parts with a harsh thread. 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 smoothly and rub the wart with this place for two minutes, looking at the moon. The wart will go 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, and 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 juice of sour apples for ten days. After 10 days, the warts will disappear.
- Apply a bandage with crushed leaves of Kalanchoe (houseplant) to the warts. After a day, change the bandage to a fresh 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, and then rub with ammonia, from which they should quickly disappear.
- Every evening before going to bed, drip 1 drop of acetic acid on each wart, after lubricating the skin around with petroleum jelly, since the acid is very caustic. Inept use of acetic acid can lead to a burn, which is much more difficult to cure 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 cauterize the wart. Repeat several times. The wart will fall off in a week.
- Dilute 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, 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 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, 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 must be with a protrusion or tubercle resembling a wart in shape; only in this case can you get a 100% positive effect). Cut an apple or potato in half (it is advised to do this with a strong thread). With the half on which the protrusion is visible, rub the warts (in some cases it is advised 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. When they rot, the warts will disappear.
On a silk thread, knots are tied in the air over each wart, while saying: "You cannot live here. You shouldn't be here. My word is firm, unyielding. "Hide the thread in a fresh 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 a thread.
Find a stem with a root from a cut grain ear or field blade of grass. With the tip of a straw, prick the warts several times, uttering a conspiracy or prayer. After that, immediately bury the straw in a damp place with the root up. When the straw rots, the warts will disappear.
Wang's advice. Pick up spur (grass), dry, grind into powder and sprinkle on the wart.
One woman successfully reduced her granddaughter's warts by applying a mosquito repellent ointment (dimethyl phthalate) to her skin.
There is an ancient "summer" method of 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 fluid from its mouth that has wart-reducing properties. If you have several warts, then it is enough to display only one. After about a week, other warts will completely disappear.
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-soak). Attach the mushroom 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
Here are some tips for preventing this disease:
- Follow the rules of personal hygiene.
- Eat a balanced diet high 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, sharply delimited plaque 0. 5–2. 0 cm in size, round or oval in shape, gray, brown or black. Its surface is covered with loose, sebum-saturated horny masses.
Senile warts are more often localized 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 injury to 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 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.