Warts are widespread among people. According to the latest data, more than half of the world's population is infected with papillomavirus. Warts can be easily removed at home with folk remedies. 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.
The infection is transmitted directly from person to person, through household items and self-transplantation (combs, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin injuries, mental shock contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
Warts are divided into ordinary (simple, vulgar), flat (juvenile) and pointed (condyloma spike).
Common warts are dense, painless, rounded nodules with a diameter of 3-10 mm, their surface is rough, the skin color is normal or grayish brown.
Their favorite localization is the back of hands and fingers, face, scalp. If the warts are localized on the feet, the so-called plantar warts, the patient may have pain when walking.
Flat (juvenile) warts - small, 0. 5–3. 0 mm nodules, flesh-colored or yellowish, rounded, with a smooth flat surface, barely raised from the skin level. It is localized on the face and the back of the hands.
Genital warts are spiky, fast-growing, fused, and resemble a cockroach or cauliflower. The color of these warts ranges from light pink. They are usually localized in the groin and intergluteal folds, in the anal area, on the genitals. Long-term irritation and maceration of the skin contributes to their development.
Faces of warts
There are several types of warts:
- Common warts- These are rather dense nodules of a rounded shape with a rough surface. Size 3-10 mm in diameter. Their favorite habitat is the back of hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- Plantar wartswill appear on the bases. Plantar warts, unlike normal warts, are painful and consist of bundles of filiform papillae, around which there is a roller of strong stratum corneum. It looks like corn, so it can be confusing. 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 skin-like or yellowish. The surface is strongly flattened, smooth. It is usually found on the face and back of the hands. Most often among 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 fighting warts: folk remedies and fighting with magic. Let's talk about folk remedies, here are some home treatment options.
Why you need to get rid of warts
The reason for the appearance of cosmetic defects on the hands and other parts of the body is their "transmissibility". After entering the body in one way or another, the papillomavirus does not appear immediately. Quite a long time passes, from one to several months. In this case, the carrier of the virus may not have any symptoms. 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 become infected when entering a public bath, swimming 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 the 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 during shaving, epilation, peeling, when there is more opportunity for the virus to enter.
If the body's defenses are weakened and periodic measures to strengthen immunity are not taken, the probability of this cosmetic defect also increases.
Despite the good quality of the skin neoplasm, especially in advanced cases, the body cell in which the papilloma virus has changed its DNA can become the source of a malignant tumor. The virus gene is often found in tumor cells. As a rule, examination is enough to establish the diagnosis. In case of internal damage - for example, the cervix - the DNA of the damaged cells is examined.
The mechanism of virus transmission is not well understood.
But it is observed that the probability of infection increases:
- when taking birth control pills that reduce immunity;
- during pregnancy, when immunity is also reduced;
- with hormonal background disorders in the body;
- Many women who have given birth.
Traditional and non-traditional therapy
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 system works and the warts disappear on their own.
Doctors of ancient China suggested the following recipe: attach a piece of ginger root to the wart and cover it with boiled absinthe leaves. Under the influence of the boiled worm, the ginger root begins to release antiviral compounds.
You can also try homeopathic remedies.
One of the oldest methods of treating warts was the use of conspiracies, in other words, "psychotherapy". For those who do not believe in conspiracies, we recommend autogenic exercise: sit comfortably in a chair, relax, close your eyes and breathe deeply. At the same time, imagine how the warts disappear. Effects on the extrasensory level are very effective.
How to get rid of warts at home
Since it is much more convenient to get rid of warts at home than in a medical institution, many people prefer to use various folk remedies. Despite the fact that these methods often give positive results, they should be used with caution, because what helps one patient may harm another. Moreover, with the careless use of aggressive agents - for example, vinegar essence - burns often occur, 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. It helps many with the simplest means.
For example, in the case of young growths, they are removed with dandelion juice, sour apple, daily oiled vinegar essence or celandine juice, preferably close to the root of the plant. The surrounding skin is treated with petroleum jelly to prevent burns. After several procedures, the tissues begin to blacken and die, they are regularly cut with nail scissors. After the procedure, the scissors should be kept in the fire for a while.
Effective, but rather long-term destruction of warts with folk remedies is carried out with onion or garlic juice. After applying the juice, you should wait a while for it to be completely absorbed. For the guaranteed elimination of the defect, it is necessary to treat 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 skin is suitable, its juice is applied externally several times a day.
You can finely grate fresh potatoes with the peel and make a compress in the evening from the obtained cake. It is possible to get rid of the wart in one month. If the potatoes start to sprout, take half a cup of sprouts, cover with water and put on low heat. When half of the water boils, remove the cup from the heat. Lubricate the affected areas with folk remedies once a day, in some cases it is possible to get rid of the wart in a few days.
HPV is treated at home with table salt. Remove the middle from a large onion and fill it with salt. After a while, the juice will not work, they treat the affected area daily. Salt can also be mixed with finely grated horseradish. The extracted juice is used similarly. It is possible to remove warts at home with calendula flower, it is fixed at night. The procedure is repeated until the defect disappears completely.
To remove formations on the skin, you need to steam well and attach a piece of propolis. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. Warts get rid of crushed Kalanchoe leaves. Compresses are applied at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective means of wormwood infusion. Cook 3 tbsp. K. L. Dry worm in a glass of boiling water, insist. Apply compresses until completely removed.
Folk remedies
Recipes using potatoes, apples, and other products that have been used for thousands of years are especially popular among people.
- Take a raw potato, cut it in half, rub the warts on each half separately, then put them together and bury them in the garden.
- Cut a raw potato into 12 parts, rub each part on the wart for a minute, then "pick" the potato, wrap it in a thin cloth and put it in the manure. When the potato rots, the wart will disappear.
- Take a raw potato and cut it in half. Throw one half on your head and the other half on 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 the silk thread and tie a knot in the air on each wart. Then bury this thread in a cut potato and bury it so that no one knows about this place.
- Cut 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 coarse thread. Rub the warts with both halves of the apple, then connect them and tie them with the same thread. Bury me in the ground.
- On the new moon, take a knotted stick, hold it smoothly and put the wart in this place to the moon for two minutes. The wart will go away in a few days.
- Tie as many knots on the 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, then leave it on the wart overnight. Repeat several days in a row. The wart should come out with the root.
- Rub warts with fresh sour apple juice for ten days. After 10 days the warts will disappear.
- Apply a bandage with crushed leaves of Kalanchoe (a houseplant) to the warts. After a day, change the bandage to a new one. The warts should disappear within a week.
- Treatment of urine. Soak the warts with your own urine twice a day.
- Wet the warts with water, and then rub them with ammonia, from which they should disappear quickly.
- Every night before going to bed, put 1 drop of acetic acid on each wart, after rubbing the surrounding skin with oil jelly, because the acid is very caustic. Improper use of acetic acid can cause burns, which are much more difficult to treat than the wart itself.
- Rub clean chalk on the wart, pour more chalk on top and cover 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 stick of wood, put its end on the fire and rub the wart. Repeat several times. In a week, the wart will fall off.
- Dilute wood ash with water to the consistency of thick sour cream. Apply the obtained tincture daily. Such prescriptions in some cases can not only help, but also harm, because there is a possibility of infection of the damaged area of the skin.
- Twice a day, pour aloe, celandine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja juice on the wart. The warts will disappear within 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 obtained 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, it is suggested to treat warts with bean seeds, rub the warts with beans and bury them in manure.
Recipes for the treatment of warts from a traditional healer
Reducing warts on apples or potatoes (they must be wart-like rashes or tubercles; only in this case you can get a 100% positive effect). Cut an apple or potato in half (it is advisable to do this with a strong thread). Rub the warts on the half where the rash is visible (in some cases it is recommended to rub both halves). Then join the halves together and tie them together with a cut thread. Bury apples or potatoes in the ground away from the house. When they rot, the warts will disappear.
A silk thread is knotted in mid-air at each wart, saying, "You can't live here. You shouldn't be here. My word is firm, unyielding". Hide the thread in a freshly cut potato and put it in the ground without anyone knowing. When the potato rots, the warts will disappear. In some cases, just burying the thread is enough.
Find a stem that has a root cut from an ear of grain or a stub from a grass field. With the tip of a straw, crush the warts several times, say a conspiracy or a prayer. After that, immediately bury the straw in a damp place, root side up. When the straw rots, the warts will disappear.
Wang's advice. Take burgu (herb), dry it, grind it into powder and apply it on the wart.
One woman successfully reduced her granddaughter's warts by applying mosquito repellent ointment (dimethyl phthalate) to her skin.
There is an ancient "summer" method of reducing warts. It is necessary to grab the grass and pinch it with the hind legs, the wart will "bite". A locust 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, the other warts will disappear completely.
Fill a 30-40 ml vial tightly with chopped onion skin, pour 9% vinegar. Keep it for 10-15 days in a dark place, shake it occasionally. Soak a gauze or cotton cloth in the resulting solution and apply it to the wart, preferably at night. It is said that after such treatment, the warts disappear in 3-5 days.
There is a simple old way to reduce warts with fungus. Any mushroom is suitable for this purpose and in any form: fresh, pickled, salted and dried (pre-soaked). Attach the mushroom to the wart overnight and straighten it, cover it with cellophane or wax paper. After several procedures, the warts will 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.
- Put fresh oak leaves in shoes instead of soles.
Age warts
Their occurrence is not related to viral infection. They appear in elderly and elderly patients, they look like a flat, sharply demarcated plaque 0. 5-2. 0 cm in size, round or oval in shape, gray, brown or black. Its surface is covered with loose, fat-saturated horny masses.
Older 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 require treatment. Avoid damaging them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed using diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- Apply juice squeezed from freshly cut round-leaf grass to the warts twice a day - morning and evening. After 10 days the warts will disappear.
- Lubricate warts with fresh milk juice.
- Rub the wet warts with ammonia.
- Rub the wart with clean chalk (without impurities), pour more chalk on top, wrap it.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it will reduce warts. " I mean willow bark.
- Lubricate warts with thuja alcohol tincture.