Warts are widespread among humans. According to the latest data, the papillomavirus infected more than half of the world's population. Removing warts with folk remedies can be done easily 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 autografts (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 (juvenile) and pointed (pointed wart).
Common warts are dense, painless, rounded nodules 3–10 mm in diameter, their surface is rough, the color is normal skin or gray-brown.
Their favorite localization is the back of the hands and fingers, the face, the scalp. If the warts are located on the feet, the so-called plantar warts, the patient may feel pain when walking.
Flat (juvenile) warts - small nodules 0. 5–3. 0 mm, flesh-colored or yellowish, rounded, with a smooth flat surface, barely protruding above the skin level. It is found on the face and back of the hands.
Genital warts are pointed, grow quickly, merge and look like a honeycomb or cauliflower. The color of these warts is light to bright pink. They are usually located in the inguinal and intergluteal folds, near the anal area, on the genitals. Their development is facilitated by prolonged irritation and wetting of the skin.
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 habitat is the back of the hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappear on the soles. Plantar warts, unlike ordinary warts, are painful and consist of bundles of filamentous papillae, around which there is a cylinder of strong horny layers. It looks like corn, so it can be confused. The cause of plantar warts is the friction of shoes and frequent pressure.
- flat ants- 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. They usually appear on the face and back of the hands. More common in school 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 methods of dealing with warts: folk remedies and fighting through magic. Let's talk about folk remedies, here are some home treatment options.
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". Having penetrated the body in one way or another, the papilloma virus does not appear immediately. A long time passes, 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 surface layers of the skin.
HPV is transmitted from the mother to the unborn child, as well as through damage to the skin. They can get infected in a public bath, when they visit 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 caused by shaving, waxing, peeling, when more opportunities are created for the virus to penetrate.
If the body's defenses weaken 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 particularly advanced cases, a body cell in which the papillomavirus has changed DNA can become the source of a malignant tumor. The virus gene is often found in tumor cells. As a rule, an examination is enough to make a diagnosis. In the case of 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 observed that the possibility of infection increases:
- when taking contraceptive 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 suggest diathermocoagulation, freezing with liquid nitrogen and any type of fertilization. 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's defenses work 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 a comfortable chair, relax, close your eyes and breathe deeply. At the same time, imagine how the warts disappear. The influence 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 must be used with caution, as what helped one patient may harm another. In addition, with the careless use of aggressive agents - for example, vinegar substance - 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 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, get rid of them with dandelion juice, sour apple, smeared daily with essential oil of vinegar or celandine juice, 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 tissues begin to blacken and die, they are regularly cut with nail scissors. After the procedure is completed, the scissors should be held in the flame for a short time.
An 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 while for it to be fully absorbed. For the guaranteed rejection of the defect, it is necessary to treat it for several weeks.
In the evening, you can make compresses from a thin plate of fresh garlic, so that the garlic does not touch the healthy skin. Freshly cut potato skin is suitable, its juice is applied externally several times a day.
You can grate a clean fresh potato with the peel and make a compress from the resulting pulp for the evening. It is possible to get rid of a wart in this way within a month. If the potatoes start to sprout, collect half a cup of sprouts, fill to the top with water and put on a 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 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, the juice will stand out, 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 process 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 who get rid of warts are performed with a crushed Kalanchoe leaf. Compresses are placed at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective wormwood infusion. Boil 3 tbsp large. dry wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Apply compresses until they are completely removed.
Folk remedies
Especially popular among people are recipes using potatoes, apples and other products that were used many millennia ago.
- Take a raw potato, cut it in half, rub the warts with each half separately, then put them together and bury them in the garden.
- Cut a raw potato into 12 parts, rub the ant with each part for a minute, then "pick up" the potato, tie it in a thin cloth and throw it into the manure. When the potato rots, the ant will disappear.
- Take a raw potato and cut it in half. Pour 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 or rots, then the wart will disappear.
- Take a silk thread and tie a knot over each ant 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 coarse thread. Rub the warts with both halves of the apple, 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 part for two minutes, looking at the moon. The wart will go away in a few days.
- Tie as many knots in 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, then tie it to the wart overnight. Repeat for several days in a row. The ant must 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 of mashed Kalanchoe (houseplant) leaves to the warts. After a day, change the bandage to a new one. In a week, the warts should be gone.
- Urine treatment. Wet the warts with your own urine twice a day.
- Wet 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 skin around you 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 treat than the wart itself.
- Rub the warts 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 cauterize the wart. Repeat several times. In a week the wart will fall off.
- Dilute wood ash with water to the consistency of thick cream. Fertilize 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 skin area.
- Twice a day, drip juice of aloe, felantine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja on the wart. The warts will go away in a week.
- Willow bark helps well: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. "("Health Code of Salerno", XIV century).
- Grind corn kernels, 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 recommend treating warts with bean seeds, rubbing the wart with a bean and burying it in dung.
Recipes for the treatment of warts from a traditional healer
Reduction of warts on an apple or potato (it must be with a protrusion or a tubercle that looks like a wart, only in this case you can get a 100% positive result). Cut an apple or potato in half (it is recommended to do this with a strong thread). With the half on which the protrusion is visible, rub the warts (in some cases it is recommended to rub with both halves). Then we connect the halves together and tie them with the thread that was cut. Bury an apple or potato in the ground, away from your house. When they rot, the warts will disappear.
On a silk thread, knots are tied in the air above 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 no one will find out. When the potatoes rot, the warts will disappear. In some cases, it is enough to bury only one thread.
Find a rooted stem from a cut ear or blade of grass. With the tip of a reed, pierce the warts several times, uttering a conspiracy or prayer. After that, 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 grass, dry it, grind it into a powder and sprinkle it on the wart.
A woman successfully reduced her granddaughter's warts by applying an anti-mosquito 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 "sting" the ant. 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, other warts will disappear completely.
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, the 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-soaked). 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
And now some tips to prevent 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 on your shoes instead of soles.
Senile warts
Their appearance is not related to a viral infection. They appear in elderly and senile patients, they look like a flat, sharply demarcated plate of size 0. 5–2. 0 cm, round or oval in shape, gray, brown or black. Its surface is covered by loose, sebum-saturated keratin masses.
Senile warts are most often found on the cheeks, temples, around the eyes, on the trunk. If these warts are subjected to frequent injury, they may show a tendency to malignant transformation.
These warts do not need treatment. Avoid injuring them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed using diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- The juice squeezed from freshly cut grass with round leaves, 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 milk juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Rub the wart with clean chalk (no impurities), pour chalk on top, tie it.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it will reduce warts. "I mean willow bark.
- Lubricate the warts with thuja alcohol tincture.