Warts are common among people. According to recent data, the papillomavirus infected more than half of the world's population. Removing warts with folk remedies can be easily done at home. So, you will find the most popular and effective folk remedies in the following article.
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A wart is a benign skin growth 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 shocks contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
Distinguish common warts (simple, vulgar), flat (juvenile) and pointed (condylomas with a point).
Common warts are dense, painless, rounded nodules with a diameter of 3-10 mm, their surface is rough, the color is normal 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 experience pain while walking.
Flat warts (juvenile) - small nodules, 0. 5–3. 0 mm, flesh-colored or yellow, rounded, with a smooth flat surface, barely protruding above the skin level. Localized on the face and back of the hands.
Genital warts are sharp, grow quickly, coalesce and resemble a rooster or cauliflower comb. The color of these warts is light pink to bright pink. They are usually located in the inguinal and intergluteal folds, in the region near the anus, in the genitals. Their development is facilitated by irritation and prolonged maceration of the skin.
Types of warts
There are several types of warts:
- common warts- These are quite dense nodes 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, head.
- plantar wartsappear on the soles. Plantar warts, unlike ordinary warts, are painful and consist of bunches of filiform papillae, around which there is a roller with powerful horny layers. It looks like a 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 the skin, or with a yellow tint. The surface is strongly flattened, smooth. They usually appear on the face and back of the hands. Most common among schoolchildren.
- Genital warts- This is a special type of warts. They are treated by urologists, gynecologists and venereologists.
How to treat this disease? There are two ways to treat warts: folk remedies and war with 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 "stickiness". 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 virus carrier may not have any manifestation. 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 you visit the pool. Penetration is facilitated by dryness or excess 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 injuries received 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.
Regardless of the good quality of a skin neoplasia, 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 virus gene is often found in tumor cells. As a rule, one 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 taking contraceptive pills that lower 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 therapies
There are many ways to treat warts - traditional and non-traditional.
The doctor may suggest 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 disappear on their own.
Doctors of ancient China offered the following recipe: stick a piece of ginger root to the wart and cover it with burning wormwood leaves. Under the influence of the burning wormwood, the 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 exercises: sit comfortably in an easy chair, relax, close your eyes and breathe deeply. At the same time, imagine how the warts disappear. The impact on the extrasensory level is very effective.
How to get rid of warts at home
Since removing 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, as what helped one patient may harm another. In addition, with the careless use of aggressive agents - for example, the essence of vinegar - a burn often occurs, after which a scar remains.
Not all types of warts need to be treated at home. Quite 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 of them are helped by the simplest tools.
For example, in the case of new formations, they get rid of them with dandelion juice, sour apples, 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 Vaseline to avoid burning. After several procedures, the tissues begin to boil 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.
An effective, but rather long-term disposal of warts with folk remedies is carried out with onion or garlic juice. After applying the liquid, you need to wait a little for it to be completely absorbed. For the guaranteed elimination 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. Fresh potato skin is suitable, its juice is applied externally several times a day.
You can finely grate a clean fresh potato along with the peel and make a compress from the resulting juice for the night. It is possible to remove a wart in a month in this way. If the potatoes begin 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 folk medicine taken, in some cases it is possible to get rid of the wart within 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 liquid 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. It is possible to remove a wart at home with a calendula flower, it is attached overnight. The procedure is repeated until the defect disappears completely.
To get rid of the formation on the skin, you need to steam it well and stick a piece of propolis. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. People who get rid of warts performed with a crushed Kalanchoe leaf. Compresses are placed at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective remedy for wormwood infusion. Make 3 tbsp. l. 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 used many millennia ago.
- Take a raw potato, cut it in half, rub the wart on 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 a minute, then "collect" the potato, tie it in a thin cloth and throw it in the compost. When the potato rots, the wart will disappear.
- Take a raw potato and cut it in half. Pour half on the head and rub the other half on the wart, then bury 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 air wart. 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, 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 string. Crush the warts with both halves of the apple, then join and tie with the same string. Bury it in the ground.
- On the new moon, take a stick with a knot, cut it well and rub the wart with this place for two minutes, looking at the moon. The warts 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 and then tie the wart overnight. Repeat for several days in a row. The warts should come out with roots.
- Rub warts with fresh sour apple juice for ten days. After 10 days, the warts will disappear.
- Apply a bandage of crushed leaves of Kalanchoe (house plant) to the warts. After a day, change the bandage to a fresh one. Within a week, the warts should disappear.
- Urine treatment. Wet the warts with your urine twice a day.
- Wash the warts with water and then rub them with ammonia, which should make them disappear quickly.
- Every evening before going to bed, put 1 drop of acetic acid on each wart, after smearing 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 cure 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. Repeat three times. You can't get your hands wet.
- Take a thin wooden stick, hold its end over the fire and cauterize the wart. Repeat several times. Within a week the wart will fall off.
- Dilute wood ash with water to the consistency of thick sour cream. Apply the resulting juice every day. Such prescriptions 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, pour juice of aloe, celandine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja on the wart. The warts will disappear within a week.
- Willow bark helps well: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. "("Salerno Health Code", XIV century).
- Grind the seeds and cornflowers, 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 suggest treating warts with bean seeds, rubbing the wart with a bean and burying it in manure.
Wart treatment prescription from a traditional healer
Reduction of warts in an apple or potato (they must be with a protrusion or tubercle resembling a wart in shape; 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). With the half in which the exit is visible, rub the warts (in some cases it is advisable to rub with both halves). Then we connect the halves and tie them with the cut thread. Bury an apple or potato in the ground, away from your house. When they rot, the warts will disappear.
On a thread of silk, above each wart, knots are tied in the air as they say, "You cannot live here. You must not be here. My word is strong, unwavering. "Hide the thread in a fresh cut potato and bury it in the ground so no one will know. When the potatoes rot, the warts will disappear. In some cases, it is enough to bury only one thread.
Find a stem with a root from a cut ear or blade of grass. With the tip of a straw, 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 spur (herb), dry it, grind it into powder and sprinkle it on the wart.
A woman successfully reduced her granddaughter's warts by applying a mosquito repellent ointment (dimethyl phthalate) to her skin.
There is an ancient "summer" method for reducing warts. It is necessary to catch the shrimp and, holding it by its hind legs, let it "bite" the wart. The shrimp 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 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, moisten gauze or cotton cloth and apply to the wart, preferably overnight. They say that after such treatment, warts disappear in 3-5 days.
There is a simple old way to reduce fungal warts. Any mushroom is suitable for this purpose and in any form: fresh, pickled, salted and dried (pre-soaked). Stick the mushrooms in the wort overnight and season, cover with cellophane or wax paper on top. 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.
- Place fresh oak leaves in your shoes instead of insoles.
Senile warts
Their appearance is not associated with a viral infection. They appear in elderly and elderly patients, look like a flat, sharply demarcated plaque with a size of 0. 5-2. 0 cm, round or oval, gray, brown or black. Its surface is covered with loose horny masses, saturated with sebum.
Senile warts are most often located 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 need treatment. Avoid damaging them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed using diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- 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.
- Coat the warts with fresh milky juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Grind the wart with clean chalk (no dirt), pour more chalk on top, tie.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it will reduce warts. "I'm talking about willow bark.
- Lubricate the warts with thuja alcohol solution.