Warts are widespread among humans. According to the latest data, the papillomavirus is infected with more than half of the world's population. Removing warts with folk remedies can be easily done at home. So, 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-implantation (combs, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin injuries, mental shocks contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
They distinguish common warts (simple, vulgar), flat (youthful) and pointed (pointed condylomas).
Common warts are solid, painless, rounded nodules with a diameter of 3–10 mm, their surface is rough, the color is normal to the skin or gray-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 feel pain when walking.
Flat (juvenile) warts - small, 0. 5–3. 0 mm nodules, fleshy 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 quickly, merge and look like a rooster's comb or cauliflower. The color of these warts is light to bright pink. They are usually located in the inguinal and intergluteal folds, around the anal area, 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 the back of the hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappear on the soles of the feet. Plantar warts, unlike ordinary warts, are painful and consist of bundles of filiform papillae around which there is a roller of powerful stratum corneum. It looks like 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 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 highly flattened, smooth. They usually appear on the face and back of the hands. Most often in students.
- Genital warts- This is a special kind 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 magic. Let's talk about folk remedies, here are some options for home treatment.
Why you should 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". Penetrating the body in one way or another, the papillomavirus does not appear immediately. It takes a long time, 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 damage. They can be infected in a public bathroom when they visit the pool. Penetration is facilitated by excessive dryness or moistening 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 due to mechanical damage received during shaving, epilation, peeling, when more opportunities are created for the virus to penetrate.
If the body's defenses are weakened and periodic measures to strengthen immunity are not taken, the likelihood of this cosmetic defect also increases.
Despite the good quality of the neoplasm of the skin, 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. As a rule, the examination is sufficient to make a diagnosis. For internal lesions - for example, the cervix - the DNA of the 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 you take birth control pills that reduce immunity;
- during pregnancy, when immunity is also reduced;
- with disorders 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 any type of lubrication. Perhaps no skin disease is treated as widely with non-traditional methods 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.
Doctors from ancient China offer the following recipe: attach a piece of ginger root to the wart and cover it with smoldering wormwood leaves. Under the influence of smoldering wormwood, the ginger root begins to release antiviral compounds.
You can also try homeopathic remedies.
One of the ancient methods of treating warts is the use of conspiracies, in other words, "psychotherapy". For those who do not believe in conspiracies, we recommend autogenic training: sit comfortably in a soft armchair, relax, close your eyes and breathe deeply. Inat the same time imagine the warts disappearing. The impact on 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 should be used with caution, because 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 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. 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 petroleum jelly so as not to cause a burn. After several procedures, the tissues begin to blacken and die, they are regularly cut with nail scissors. After the procedure is completed, the scissors should be kept on the flame for a short time.
Effective, but rather long-term removal of warts with folk remedies is carried out with onion or garlic juice. After applying the juice, you need to wait a little for it to be fully absorbed. For guaranteed removal of the defect, it is necessary to treat it for several weeks.
At night, you can make compresses from a thin plate of fresh garlic so that the garlic does not touch the healthy skin. Freshly cut potato skins are suitable, the juice of which is applied externally several times a day.
You can finely grate a clean fresh potato together with the peel and make a compress from the resulting mush for the night. It is possible to get rid of a wart this way within a month. If the potatoes start to sprout, take half a cup of sprouts, fill to the top with water and put on a slow fire. When half of the water boils, remove the cup from the heat. Lubricating the affected areas once a day with the resulting 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 some time, juice will be released, they treat the affected area every day. Salt can also be mixed with finely grated horseradish. The squeezed juice is applied in a similar way. It is possible to remove a wart at home with a calendula flower attached at night. The procedure is repeated until the complete disappearance of the defect.
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 is done with a crushed kalanchoe leaf. Compresses are applied at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective remedy for wormwood infusion. Steam 3 tablespoons of dry wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Apply compresses until complete removal.
People's funds
Especially popular among people are recipes with 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 collect them and bury them in the garden.
- Cut the 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 in the fertilizer. 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 in two with a sharp thread. Grate the warts with the two halves of the apple, then join them together and tie with the same thread. Bury in the ground.
- On a new moon, take a stick with a knot, cut it smooth and rub the wart with this spot for two minutes, looking at the moon. The wart will disappear 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 several days in a row. The wart should come out with the root.
- Lubricate the warts with fresh juice of sour apples for ten days. After 10 days the warts will disappear.
- Apply a bandage of crushed kalanchoe (houseplant) leaves to the warts. After a day, change the bandage to a new one. After a week, the warts should disappear.
- Urine treatment. Wet the warts with your own urine twice a day.
- Moisten the warts with water and then rub with ammonia, which should make them disappear quickly.
- Every night before going to bed, put 1 drop of acetic acid on each wart after lubricating the surrounding skin with petroleum jelly, 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 dressing 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 burn the wart. Repeat several times. After a week, the wart will fall off.
- 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 disappear in a week.
- Willow bark helps well: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. ("Salerno's Code of Health", XIV century).
- Grind cornflower seeds, mix with lard. The resulting ointment is applied to the wart and bandaged. Change the dressing after three days. After 7 days the warts will fall off.
In the Caucasus, they offer the treatment of warts with bean seeds, rubbing the wart with beans and burying it in manure.
Recipes for the treatment of warts from a folk healer
Reduction of warts to an apple or potato (they must have a bulge or tubercle resembling the shape of 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 where the bulge is visible, rub the warts (in some cases it is advisable to rub both halves). Then connect the halves together and tie them with the cut thread. Bury an apple or potato in the ground, away from your home. When they rot, the warts will disappear.
Knots of silk thread are tied in the air above each wart, saying, "You cannot live here. You shouldn't be here. My word is firm, unwavering. "Hide the thread in a fresh cut potato and bury it in the ground so that no one will know. When the potatoes rot, the warts will disappear. In some cases, it is enough to bury just a thread.
Find a stem with a root from a cut ear of wheat or a blade of field grass. With the tip of a straw, prick the warts several times, 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. Pick the spur (herb), dry, grind to powder and sprinkle on the wart.
A woman successfully reduced her granddaughter's warts by applying mosquito repellent ointment (dimethyl phthalate) to her skin.
There is an ancient "summer" method for 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 liquid from its mouth that has wart-reducing properties. If you have several warts, then it is enough to show only one. After about a week, the remaining warts will disappear completely.
Fill a bottle with a capacity of 30-40 ml tightly with chopped onion flakes, pour 9% vinegar. Insist for 10-15 days in a dark place, periodically shaking. Wet 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 in 3-5 days.
There is a simple old way to reduce warts with mushrooms. All kinds of mushrooms are suitable for this purpose and in any form: fresh, pickled, salted and dried (pre-soaked). Attach the sponge to the wart at night and fix it, cover it with cellophane or wax paper on top. After several procedures, 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 high in vitamins A, C and E to boost your immune system.
- Avoid stress and learn to relax.
- Place fresh oak leaves in your shoes instead of insoles.
Senile warts
Their appearance is not related to a viral infection. They appear in elderly and senile patients, appear as a flat, sharply demarcated plaque measuring 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 more often localized on the cheeks, temples, around the eyes, on the body. If these warts are subjected to frequent traumatization, they may show a tendency to malignant transformation.
These warts do not need treatment. Avoid hurting them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed using diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- With squeezed juice from freshly cut grass roundleaf dew, lubricate the warts twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. After 10 days the warts will disappear.
- Lubricate warts with fresh milkweed juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Grate the wart with pure chalk (without impurities), pour more chalk on top, tie it.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it will reduce the warts. ""I mean willow bark.
- Lubricate warts with thuja alcohol tincture.