Warts are common among humans. 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. Therefore, in the following article you will find the most popular and effective folk remedies.
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-vaccination (combs, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin injuries, mental shocks contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
Distinguish ordinary (simple, rough), flat (young) and pointed (pointed candiloma) warts.
Common warts are dense, painless, round nodules 3-10 mm in diameter, with a rough surface, normal skin or grayish-brown in color.
Their favorite localization is the back of the hands and fingers, face, scalp. If the warts are localized on the feet, that is, plantar warts, the patient may feel pain while walking.
Flat (young) warts - small, 0. 5–3. 0 mm nodules, tan 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 pointed, grow rapidly, coalesce, and resemble a cockscomb or cauliflower. The color of these warts ranges from light to bright pink. They are usually localized in the inguinal and intergluteal folds in the genital area, close to the anal region. 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 round shape with a rough surface. The size is 3-10 mm in diameter. Their favorite habitat is the back of the hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappears on the soles. Unlike ordinary ones, plantar warts 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 mixed. The cause of warts on the soles of the feet is the friction of shoes and frequent pressure.
- flat warts- These are small nodules only 0. 5–3 mm in size. Their color is either the same as that of the skin or with a yellowish tint. The surface is strongly flattened, smooth. It usually occurs on the back of the face and hands. It is most common in schoolchildren.
- genital warts- This is a special type of wart. They are treated by urologists, gynecologists and venereologists.
How is this disease treated? There are two methods of dealing with warts: folk remedies and fighting with magic. Let's talk about folk remedies, here are a few home treatment options.
Why do 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 that they are "contagious". Having somehow penetrated the body, the papilloma virus 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 symptoms. As a rule, HPV spreads to 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 bathroom while visiting the pool. Penetration is facilitated by excessive dryness or moisture of the skin, lack of capillary blood flow.
It turned out that one of the reasons for the formation of warts on the hands is the habit of eating nails. 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.
The probability of this cosmetic defect also increases if the body's defenses are weakened and periodic measures are not taken to strengthen immunity.
Despite the good quality of a skin neoplasm, a body cell in which the papilloma virus has changed its DNA can be a source of malignant tumor, especially in advanced cases. The virus gene is often found in tumor cells. As a rule, one examination is sufficient to establish the diagnosis. In internal lesions - for example, the cervix - the DNA of damaged cells is examined.
The mechanism of transmission 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 treatments
There are many ways to treat warts - both traditional and non-traditional.
The doctor may recommend diathermoagulation, freezing with liquid nitrogen and any lubrication. Perhaps no skin disease is as widely treated with unconventional methods as warts.
Usually the best treatment for warts is to leave them alone. In most patients, the immune defense works and the warts disappear on their own.
Ancient Chinese doctors suggested the following recipe: add 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 a comfortable chair, relax, close your eyes and breathe deeply. At the same time, imagine how the warts disappeared. The effect at the extrasensory level is very effective.
how to get rid of warts at home
Many people prefer to use various folk remedies, as it is much more convenient to get rid of warts at home than in a medical institution. Although these methods often give a positive result, they should be used with caution, as what helps one patient may harm another. Also, with careless use of aggressive agents - for example, vinegar essence - often a burn occurs, after which a scar remains.
Not all types of warts should be treated at home. Enough reliable and safe folk remedies can only get rid of simple and straight varieties. One of the effective ways to get rid of a wart at home is to act on it with this or that aggressive substance. Many are helped in the simplest ways.
For example, in the case of young formations, they get rid of them, smeared with dandelion juice, sour apple, daily vinegar essence or celandine juice, it is better to take closer to the root of the plant. The skin around it is treated with petroleum jelly so as not to cause burns. After a few procedures, the tissues begin to darken and die, they are regularly cut with nail clippers. After the process is completed, the scissors should be kept in the flame for a short time.
Effective, but rather long-term wart destruction is carried out with folk remedies with onion or garlic juice. After applying the juice, you need to wait a little for it to be completely absorbed. For guaranteed disposal of the defect, it must be treated for several weeks.
At night, you can make a compress from a thin layer of fresh garlic so that the garlic does not come into contact with 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 for the night from the resulting slurry. It is possible to get rid of warts in this way within a month. If the potatoes start to sprout, take half a glass of sprouts, fill the top with water and put on a slow fire. When half of the water boils, remove the glass from the stove. With the folk remedy taken, it is possible to lubricate the affected areas once a day, in some cases 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 take out 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 a similar way. It is possible to remove a wart at home with a calendula flower, it is inserted 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 stick a piece of propolis. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. Getting rid of warts is carried out with a crushed leaf of Kalanchoe. Compresses are placed at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are sufficient. An effective way of infusion of wormwood. Brew 3 tbsp. I. dry wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Compress until it is completely removed.
folk remedies
Especially popular with people are recipes using potatoes, apples and other products that were used thousands of years ago.
- Take a raw potato, cut it in half, smear the warts on each half separately, then gather them together and bury them in the garden.
- Cut the raw potato into 12 pieces, rub the warts with each piece for a minute, then "collect" the potato, tie it in a fine cloth and compost. The wart disappears when the potato rots.
- 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. The wart will disappear when the embedded part of the potato dries out or rots.
- Take a silk thread and tie a knot over each airborne wart. Then hide this rope in a cut potato and bury it so that no one will know about it.
- Cut a sour apple in half. Eat one half and rub the wart with the other, then bury it in the ground. When the apple rots, the warts disappear.
- Cut the apple into two parts with a stiff thread. Grate the warts with the two halves of the apple, then bring them together and tie with the same thread. Bury it on the ground.
- At the new moon, take a knotted stick, cut it neatly, and rub the wart with this place for two minutes, looking at the moon. The wart will disappear in a few days.
- Tie as many knots as the number of warts on a thread, 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 bind 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 disappear.
- Apply a bandage to the warts with a puree of Kalanchoe (houseplant) leaves. Replace the bandage with a new one after a day. Within a week, the warts should be gone.
- Urine therapy. Wet the warts with your own urine twice a day.
- Moisten the warts with water, and then rub them with ammonia, which should quickly disappear.
- Since acid is very caustic, apply 1 drop of acetic acid to each wart after lubricating the skin with petroleum jelly every night before going to bed. Inadequate use of acetic acid can cause a burn that is much more difficult to treat than the wart itself.
- Rub the wart with clean chalk, sprinkle some more chalk on it 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 the tip over the fire and cauterize the warts. 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. In some cases, such recipes not only help, but also harm, because there is a possibility of infection of the damaged area of the skin.
- Twice a day, drip aloe, celandine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja juice on the wart. The warts will disappear within a week.
- Willow bark helps well: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. "("Salerno Law 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 recommend treating warts with bean seeds, rubbing warts with beans and burying them in manure.
Recipes for treating warts from a traditional healer
The warts should be reduced to an apple or potato (they should be with a wart-like protrusion or tubercle, only in this case you can achieve 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 half where the protrusion appears (in some cases it is recommended to rub with both halves). Then tie the halves together and tie them with the cut thread. Bury an apple or potato far from your home. When they rot, the warts will disappear.
On a silk thread, knots are tied in the air over every wart, "You can't live here. You shouldn't be here. My word is firm, unshakable. "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 disappear. In some cases, just burying a thread is enough.
Find a stem containing roots from a cut ear of grain or grass field blade. With the tip of a straw, pierce the warts several times, saying a conspiracy or prayer. After that, immediately bury the straw in a damp place with the root up. The warts disappear when the straw rots.
Wang's advice. Take a spur (grass), dry it, powder it and sprinkle it 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 old "summer" method of reducing warts. It is necessary to catch the grasshopper and, holding it by its hind legs, allow it to "bite" the wart. The grasshopper secretes an iodine-like fluid from its mouth that has wart-reducing properties. If you have several warts, you only need to show one. After about a week, other warts will disappear completely.
Tightly fill a 30-40 ml bottle with chopped onion peel, pour 9% vinegar. Insist 10-15 days in a dark place, shaking occasionally. In the resulting solution, apply to the wart with wet gauze or cotton cloth and preferably at night. They say that after such treatment, warts disappear in 3-5 days.
There is an old simple way to reduce warts with fungi. Any mushrooms are suitable for this purpose and in any form: fresh, pickled, salted and dried (pre-soaking). At night, stick and fix the fungus on the wart, cover with cellophane or oiled paper on top. After a few treatments, the warts will disappear.
Disease prevention
And now a few 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 on your shoes instead of insoles.
old age warts
Their occurrence is not associated with a viral infection. They occur in elderly and elderly patients, appear as a flat, sharply circumscribed plaque 0. 5-2. 0 cm in size, round or oval, gray, brown or black. Its surface is covered with loose, sebum-saturated horny masses.
Senile warts are mostly localized on the cheeks, temples, around the eyes, and on the trunk. If these warts are exposed to frequent traumatization, they may show a tendency to malignant transformation.
These warts do not require treatment. Avoid harming them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed using diathermoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- Juice squeezed from freshly cut sundew round-leaved grass, lubricate the warts twice a day - morning and evening. After 10 days, the warts disappear.
- Lubricate the warts with fresh milkweed juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Grate the wart with clean chalk (without dirt), pour some more chalk on top, tie it up.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it will reduce the warts. " I'm talking about willow bark.
- Lubricate the warts with thuja alcohol tincture.