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 removed with folk remedies easily done at home. Therefore, you will find the most popular and effective folk remedies in the following article.
Terminations
A wart is a benign growth on the skin caused by a virus. This disease is more common in children and adolescents.
Transmission of infection occurs directly from person to person, through household items and self-grafting (comb, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin injuries, mental disturbances contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
Distinguish between ordinary warts (simple, vulgar), flat (juvenile) and pointed (candiloma punctate).
Common warts are dense, painless, round nodules 3-10 mm in diameter, their surface is rough, the skin color is normal 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.
Bald (young) warts - small, 0. 5-3. 0 mm nodules, flesh-colored or yellowish, rounded, with a smooth smooth surface, barely protruding above the skin level. Located on the front and back of the hands.
Genital warts are expressed, grow quickly, compound and resemble crocus or cauliflower. The color of these warts ranges from light pink to bright pink. They are usually localized in the inguinal and intergluteal folds, near-anal region, of 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 relatively compact nodules of a 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 wartscan be seen on the coins. Plantar warts, unlike the normal ones, are painful and consist of bundles of filiform papillae, around which there is a cylinder of powerful horny layers. It looks like corn, so it can be mixed. The cause of plantar warts is the friction of the shoes and frequent pressure.
- fair warts- These are small nodules that are only 0. 5-3 mm. Its color is the same as the color of the skin, or with a yellow tinge. The surface is strongly flattened, smooth. Usually occurs on the front and back of the hands. Most common in school children.
- Genital glands- This is a special type of wart. They are treated by urologists, gynecologists and venereologists.
How to treat this disease? There are two ways to deal with warts: folk remedies and fighting through magic. Speaking of folk remedies, here are some 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 "constructibility". After entering the body in one way or another, the papilloma virus does not appear immediately. It takes a lot of time, from one month to several months. In this case, the virus carrier may not show any. HPV usually spreads in the superficial layers of the skin.
HPV is transmitted from the mother to the unborn child, as well as through damage to the skin. They can be infected in a public bath, while 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 was 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 obtained during shaving, epilation, peeling, when more opportunities are created for the penetration of the virus.
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 skin neoplasm, in particularly advanced cases, a cell of the body in which the papilloma virus has changed DNA can be the source of a malignant tumor. The virus gene is often found in tumor cells. Usually, 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 noted that the likelihood 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 have given birth.
Traditional and non-traditional therapies
There are many ways to treat warts - both traditional and non-traditional.
The doctor may recommend diathermocoagulation, freezing with liquid nitrogen and all types 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 go away on their own.
Ancient Chinese doctors offered the following recipe: attach a piece of ginger root to the wart, and cover it with smoldering mormon leaves on top. Under the influence of smoldering hormones, ginger root begins to release antiviral compounds.
You can also try homeopathic remedies.
One of the ancient methods of treating warts was to use a conspiracy, 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 carefully, since one patient may harm another. Moreover, with the careless use of aggressive agents - for example, vinegar essence - a burn often occurs, and a scar remains afterwards.
Not all types of warts should be treated at home. Reliable and safe folk remedies can only get rid of simple and fair types. One of the effective ways to remove a wart at home is to act on it with one or another aggressive substance. The simplest ways help a lot.
For example, in the case of young formations, get rid of them with dandelion juice, sour apple, smeared daily 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 that it does not cause burning. After several procedures, the tissues begin to turn black and die, they are regularly cut with nail scissors. After completing the procedure, the scissors should be kept in the flame for a short time.
Effective, but rather long-term disposal of warts is done with folk remedies with onion or garlic juice. After you apply the juice, you need to wait a bit for it to absorb completely. To get rid of the defect guaranteed, 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 healthy skin. Freshly cut potato skin is suitable, its juice is applied externally several times a day.
You can finely grate a clean fresh potato with the skin and compress the resulting slurry overnight. It is possible to get rid of a wart in this way within a month. If the potatoes start 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, remove the mug from the heat. Lubricating the affected areas once a day with the folk remedy found, 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. A wart can be removed at home with a calendula flower, it is tied 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 get rid of warts made with crushed Kalanchoe leaf. Compresses are applied at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective method of infusing Mormons. Brew 3 tbsp. l. Mormons dry with a glass of boiling water, insist. Apply compresses until completely removed.
Folk remedies
Especially popular among the people are recipes using potatoes, apples and other products that were used many thousand years 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 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 cut potatoes and bury it so that no one will know 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 sharp thread. Grate the warts with the two halves of the apple, then put them together and tie with the same thread. Burial in the ground.
- On the new moon, take a stick with a knot, cut it gently and rub the wart with this place for two minutes, looking at the moon. The wart will be gone in a few days.
- Tie as many knots on a thread as there are warts, put this thread in the ground. When the thread rotates, the warts will also disappear.
- Soak the raw onion in table vinegar for 2 hours, and then attach 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 sour apple juice for ten days. After 10 days, the warts will be gone.
- Put a bandage with mashed leaves of Kalanchoe (house plant) on the warts. After a day, change the bandage to a fresh one. In a week, the warts should be gone.
- Treatment of urine. Wet the warts with your own urine twice a day.
- Moisten the warts with water, and then rub with ammonia, from which they should disappear quickly.
- Every evening before going to bed, drip 1 drop of acetic acid on each wart, after smearing the skin around with petroleum jelly, since 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 bandage every three days. Do three times. You can't get your hands wet.
- Take a thin stick of wood, hold its end over the fire and carefully place 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. Lubricate the resulting slurry daily. Such prescriptions in some cases can not only help, but also harm, since there is a chance to infect the damaged area of the skin.
- Twice a day, drip aloe juice, celandine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja on the wart. The warts will be gone in a week.
- The willow bark helps well: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, warts are reduced. " ("Salerno Health Code", 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 the wart with bean and burying it in dung.
Recipes for the treatment of warts from a traditional healer
Reduce warts to an apple or potato (they must have a protrusion or a tuber like a wart in shape; 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 on which the protrusion is visible, rub the warts (in some cases it is recommended to rub with both halves). Then tie the halves together and tie them with the thread that was cut. Place an apple or potato in the ground, away from your house. When they rot, the warts will disappear.
On a thread of silk, knots are tied in the air above each wart, saying: "You cannot live here. You should not be here. My word is firm, without fruit. " Hide the thread in a freshly cut potato andburied in the ground so that no one will know. When the potatoes rot, the warts will disappear. In some cases, just burying a thread is enough.
Obtain a stem with a root from a cut ear of grain or a field blade of grass. With the tip of the straw, favor the warts again and again, saying a conspiracy or a prayer. After that, immediately bury the straw in a moist place with the root up. When the straw rots, the warts will disappear.
Wang Council. Pick up a spur (grass), dry, grind into powder and sprinkle on the wart.
One woman managed to reduce her granddaughter's warts by applying mosquito repellent ointment (dimethyl phthalate) to her skin.
There is an ancient "summer" method to reduce warts. It is necessary to catch the wren and, holding it by the hind legs, let it "bite" the wart. The wren secretes an iodine-like fluid from its mouth that has wart-reducing properties. If you have several warts, it is enough to show only one. After about a week, other warts will be completely gone.
Wrap a vial with a capacity of 30-40 ml tightly with chopped onion skin, pour 9% vinegar. Stands for 10-15 days in a dark place, shaking from time to time. In the resulting solution, wet gauze or cotton cloth and apply to the wart, preferably at night. They say that warts disappear after such treatment 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.
Prevention of diseases
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 in your shoes instead of insoles.
Glands of old age
Their occurrence is not related to a viral infection. They will appear in elderly and senile patients, they look like a flat, sharply limited plaque 0. 5-2. 0 cm in size, round or oval in shape, grey, brown or black. Its surface is covered with loose horny masses, saturated with sebum.
Senile warts are often localized on the cheeks, temples, around the eyes, on the trunk. If these warts are repeatedly traumatized, they may show a tendency towards malignant transformation.
These warts do not require treatment. Avoid harming them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed using diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- Squeeze juice from freshly cut round-leaved sundew grass, lubricate the warts twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. After 10 days, the warts will be gone.
- Lubricate the warts with fresh milk juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Grate the wart with clean chalk (without impurities), pour more chalk on top, tie it.
- Old recipe: "If you soak the bark in vinegar, it will reduce warts. "I mean willow bark.
- Lubricate warts with alcohol tincture of thuja.