Warts are widespread among humans. According to the latest data, more than half of the world's population is infected with the papilloma virus. Removal of warts with folk remedies can easily be done at home. So, in the following article you will find the most popular and effective folk remedies.
Nipples
A wart is a benign growth on the skin 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-grafting (combs, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin injuries, psychological shocks contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
Differentiate between ordinary (simple, vulgar), flat (youthful) and pointed warts (pointed warts).
Common warts are dense, painless, rounded nodules with a diameter of 3-10 mm, their surface is rough, normal skin color or grayish brown.
Their favorite location is the back of the hands and fingers, face, scalp. If the warts are localized on the feet, so-called plantar warts, the patient may feel pain when walking.
Flat (juvenile) warts - small, 0. 5–3. 0 mm nodules, flesh-colored 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 spiky, grow quickly, merge and resemble a cock's comb or cauliflower. The color of these warts is light to light pink. They are usually localized in the inguinal and intergluteal folds, near the anal region, on the genitals. Their development is facilitated by long-term irritation and maceration of the skin.
Types of warts
There are several types of warts:
- common warts- These are rather dense rounded nodules with a rough surface. Size is 3-10 mm in diameter. Their favorite habitat is on the back of the hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappear on the soles of the feet. Unlike ordinary warts, 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 confused. The cause of plantar warts is the friction of shoes and frequent pressure.
- flat nipples- These are small nodules only 0. 5-3 mm in size. Their color is either the same as the skin, or with a yellowish tint. The surface is very flattened, smooth. They usually appear on the face and back of the hands. Most common in school children.
- 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 the fight 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 "contagiousness". After penetrating the body in one way or another, the papilloma virus does not appear immediately. A lot of 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 to the surface layers of the skin.
HPV is transmitted from mother to unborn child, as well as through skin damage. They can get infected in a public bathroom, when going to 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 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 increases.
Despite the good quality of the skin neoplasm, in particularly advanced cases, the cell of the body in which the papilloma virus has changed the DNA can become the source of a malignant tumor. The virus gene is often found in tumor cells. As a rule, an examination is sufficient 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 virus transmission is not well understood.
But it is noted that the probability of infection increases:
- when you take contraceptive pills that reduce immunity;
- during pregnancy, when immunity is also reduced;
- with a violation of the hormonal background in the body;
- many women who have given birth.
Traditional and non-traditional therapies
There are many ways to treat warts - traditional and non-traditional.
The doctor can 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 defense works, 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. 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 an armchair, relax, close your eyes and breathe deeply. At the same time, imagine the warts disappearing. 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 facility, 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, because what helped one patient may harm another. Moreover, careless use of aggressive agents - for example, vinegar essence - often causes a burn, 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 warts at home is to treat them with one or another aggressive substance. Many are helped in the simplest way.
For example, in the case of young formations, they are solved with dandelion juice, pickled apple, daily smeared with vinegar essence or celandine juice, it is better to take near the roots of the plant. The surrounding skin is treated with Vaseline to prevent burns. After several procedures, the tissues begin to blacken and die, they are regularly cut with nail scissors. After finishing the procedure, the scissors should be kept in 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, it is necessary to wait a little for it to be completely absorbed. For a guaranteed removal of the defect, it is necessary to treat it for several weeks.
At night, you can make poultices with a thin sheet 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 finely grate clean fresh potatoes together with the peel and use the resulting mush to make a poultice for the night. In this way, it is possible to get rid of warts within a month. If the potatoes start to sprout, collect half a pint of sprouts, fill to the top with water and put on a low heat. When half of the water boils, remove the cup 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 center and fill it with salt. After some time, 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 procedure is repeated until the defect disappears completely.
To get rid of the formation on the skin, you need to scald it well and attach a piece of propolis. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. Getting rid of warts in humans is done with a crushed kalanchoe leaf. Compresses are applied at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. Effective agent for wormwood infusion. Boil 3 tbsp. l. dry wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Apply the dressings until they are completely removed.
Folk remedies
Recipes made from potatoes, apples and other products that were used many millennia ago are especially popular among the people.
- Take a raw potato, cut it in half, rub the wart with each half separately, then stack them 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 in 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 on the wart, then bury it in a dry place. When the buried part of the potato dries out or rots, the wart will disappear.
- Take the silk thread and tie a knot over each nipple in the air. Then hide this thread in a cut potato and bury it so that no one knows this place.
- Cut the sour apple in half. Eat one half and rub the other half on your nipples, 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 nipples from both halves of the apple, then join them together and tie 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 place for two minutes, looking at the moon. The wart will disappear 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 tie it to the wart overnight. Repeat for several days in a row. The wart should come out with the root.
- For ten days, rub the nipples with fresh sour apple juice. After 10 days the warts will disappear.
- Place a bandage with crushed kalanchoe leaves (house plant) on the warts. After one day, replace the bandage with a fresh one. In a week, the warts should disappear.
- Urine treatment. Moisten the nipples with your own urine twice a day.
- Moisten the warts with water, then rub with ammonia, which should quickly disappear.
- Every night before going to bed, put 1 drop of acetic acid on each wart, after you have smeared the skin around it with Vaseline, because the acid is very caustic. Improper use of acetic acid can lead to burns, which are much more difficult to heal than the wart itself.
- Rub the wart with clean chalk, sprinkle more chalk and tie 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 its end over the fire and burn 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, 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 in a week.
- Willow bark helps well: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. "("The Salerno health code", 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 suggest treating warts with bean seeds, rubbing the wart with beans and burying it in manure.
Recipes for the treatment of warts from a traditional healer
Reducing warts to an apple or potato (they must be with a bump or tubercle that resembles 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). Rub the warts with the half where the bump is visible (in some cases it is advised to rub with both halves). Then join the halves and tie them with the thread you cut. Bury an apple or potato in the ground, away from your home. Once they rot, the warts will disappear.
On a silk thread, knots are tied in the air over each nipple while 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 bury it in the ground so no one knows. When the potato rots, the warts will disappear. In some cases, just burying the thread is enough.
Find a root stem from a cut ear of wheat or a blade of field grass. With the tip of the straw, stab the nipples several times, saying a conspiracy or a prayer. After that, immediately bury the straw in a moist place with the roots up. When the straw rots, the warts will disappear.
Wang's advice. Collect the spurge (grass), dry it, grind it into powder and sprinkle 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 catch the grasshopper and, holding it by its hind legs, let it "bite" the nipple. A grasshopper secretes an iodine-like liquid from its mouth that has wart-reducing properties. If you have several warts, it is enough to show just one. After about a week, the remaining warts will disappear completely.
Fill a bottle with a capacity of 30-40 ml with finely chopped onion peel, pour over 9% vinegar. Insist for 10-15 days in a dark place, shaking occasionally. Moisten gauze or a cotton cloth in the resulting solution and apply to the wart, preferably at night. They say that after such treatment 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). At night, attach the mushroom to the wart and fix it, cover it with cellophane or wax paper from above. After a few treatments, the warts will disappear.
Disease prevention
And now some tips for preventing 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 in your shoes instead of insoles.
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 plaque of size 0. 5-2. 0 cm, round or oval in shape, gray, brown or black in color. 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 trunk. If these warts are exposed to frequent traumatization, they may show a tendency to malignant transformation.
These warts do not require treatment. Avoid hurting them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed by diathermocoagulation or some of the popular recipes.
- With the juice squeezed from freshly cut grass with round leaves, rub the nipples twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. After 10 days the warts will disappear.
- Lubricate the nipples with fresh milkweed juice.
- Lubricate wet nipples with ammonia.
- Rub the wart with clean chalk (no impurities), pour more chalk on top, tie it.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, the warts will shrink. "I mean willow bark.
- Lubricate the nipples with thuja alcohol tincture.