Warts are widespread among people. According to the latest data, papillomavirus infects more than half of the world's population. Removing warts with folk remedies can be done easily at home. Therefore, you will find the most popular and effective folk remedies in the following article.
Warts
Warts are benign skin growths caused by viruses. This disease is more common in children and adolescents.
Transmission of infection occurs directly from person to person, through household items and self-harm (combs, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin injuries, mental shock contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
Differentiate common warts (moderate, rough), flat (ageless) and pointed (condyloma pointed).
Common warts are solid, painless, round nodules 3-10 mm in diameter, rough surface, normal skin color or gray-brown.
Their favorite localization is the back of the hands and fingers, face, scalp. If the wart is localized on the foot, called a plantar wart, the patient may experience pain when walking.
Flat warts (juvenile) - small, 0. 5–3. 0 mm nodules, flesh-colored or yellowish, round, with a smooth flat surface, barely protruding above the skin level. Localized on the face and back of the hands.
Genital warts are pointed, grow quickly, coalesce and resemble chicken nests or cauliflower. The color of these warts ranges from light to bright pink. They are usually localized in the inguinal and intergluteal folds, the area near the anus, on the genitals. Their development is facilitated by prolonged irritation and squeezing of the skin.
Types of warts
There are several types of warts:
- common warts- This is a rather dense round shaped nodule with a rough surface. Its size is 3–10 mm in diameter. Their favorite habitat is the back of the hands, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappears on the soles of the feet. Plantar warts, unlike the usual ones, are painful and consist of bundles of filiform papillae, around which there are rollers of a strong horny layer. It looks like corn, so it can be confused. The cause of plantar warts is frequent shoe friction and pressure.
- flat wart- These are small nodules with a size of only 0. 5–3 mm. Their color is either the same as the skin, or with a yellowish tint. The surface is very flat, smooth. Often occurs on the face and back of the hands. Most common among 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 to deal with warts: folk remedies and fighting through 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 "infection". Having penetrated into the body in one way or another, the papillomavirus does not appear immediately. Quite a lot of time passed, from one to several months. In this case, the virus carrier may not have any manifestations. As a rule, HPV spreads in the superficial layer of the skin.
HPV is transmitted from mother to child in the womb, as well as through damage to the skin. They can be infected in public baths, when visiting pools. Penetration is facilitated by dryness or excessive moisture on the skin, lack of capillary blood supply.
It turns out that the habit of biting nails is one of the causes of warts on the hands. The need to remove warts on the face is often caused by mechanical damage received during shaving, epilation, peeling, when more opportunities for virus penetration are created.
If the body's defenses are weakened and periodic measures are not taken to strengthen immunity, the possibility of these cosmetic defects also increases.
Despite the good quality of skin neoplasms, in more advanced cases, body cells in which the papilloma virus has changed the DNA can be the source of malignant tumors. Viral genes are 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 damaged cells is examined.
The mechanism of viral transmission is not well understood.
But it is noted that the probability of infection increases:
- when taking birth control pills that reduce immunity;
- during pregnancy, when immunity also decreases;
- with a violation in the body of the hormonal background;
- many women have given birth.
Traditional and non-traditional therapies
There are many ways to treat warts - traditional and non-traditional.
Doctors 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 system works, and the warts disappear on their own.
Ancient Chinese doctors offered the following recipe: attach a piece of ginger root to the wart, and cover it with burning wormwood leaves on top. 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 is the use of conspiracies, in other words, "psychotherapy". For those who do not believe in conspiracies, we recommend autogenic exercises: sit comfortably in an armchair, 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 easier than in a medical institution, many people prefer to use various folk remedies. Although this method often gives positive results, it must 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 the scars remain.
Not all types of warts need to be treated at home. Quite reliable and safe folk remedies can only get rid of simple and flat types. One of the effective ways to get rid of warts at home is to act on them with one or another aggressive substance. Many are helped in the simplest way.
For example, in the case of young formations, they get rid of it with dandelion juice, sour apples, daily rubbed with vinegar essence or celandine juice, it is better to take it near the roots of the plant. The surrounding skin is treated with petroleum jelly so as not to cause burns. After several procedures, the tissue begins to turn black and die, it is often cut with nail scissors. After completing the procedure, the scissors should be kept in the fire for a short time.
Removal of warts that is effective, but takes a long time with folk remedies is done with onion or garlic juice. After using the juice, you need to wait a little for it to be fully absorbed. For a guaranteed removal of defects, it is necessary to treat for several weeks.
At night, you can make a compress from a thin plate of fresh garlic so that the garlic does not touch the healthy skin. Freshly cut potato skins are suitable, the juice is used externally several times a day.
You can grate a clean fresh potato along with the skin and make a compress from the resulting slurry for the night. It is possible to get rid of warts in this way within a month. If the potatoes begin to sprout, take half a cup of sprouts, fill with water to the top and put on low heat. When half of the water boils, remove the cup from the heat. Lubricating the affected area once a day with folk remedies, in some cases it is possible to get rid of warts in a few days.
At home, HPV is treated with table salt. From the onion, you need to remove the middle and fill it with salt. After a while, the juice will stand out, they treat the affected area every day. Salt can also be mixed with finely grated horseradish. The extracted juice is used in the same way. It is possible to remove warts at home with calendula flowers, they are attached at night. This procedure is repeated until the defect is completely gone.
To remove formations on the skin, you need to steam it well and attach a piece of propolis. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. People who remove warts are done with crushed Kalanchoe leaves. The compressor is placed at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective way to absorb wormwood. Mix 3 tbsp. l. dry wormwood with a glass of boiling water, insist. Place the compress until it is completely removed.
People's recovery
Especially popular among the public are recipes using potatoes, apples and other products that were used thousands of years ago.
- Take a raw potato tuber, cut it in half, rub the warts with each half separately, then put them together and plant 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 into the compost. When the potatoes rot, the warts will disappear.
- Take a raw potato and cut it in half. Throw half on 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 or rots, the wart will disappear.
- Take a piece of silk thread and tie a knot on each wart in the air. Then hide this thread in a cut potato and plant it so that no one knows this place.
- Cut sour apples in half. Eat half, and rub the warts with the other, then plant in the ground. When the apple rots, the warts will disappear.
- Cut the apple into two parts with a hard string. Grate the wart with both halves of the apple, then put them together and tie them with the same thread. Burial 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. Warts will disappear in a few days.
- Tie as many knots in the thread as there are warts, bury this thread in the ground. When the thread rots, the wart will also disappear.
- Soak the raw onion in table vinegar for 2 hours, and then tie it to the wart overnight. Repeat for several days in a row. Warts should come out with their roots.
- Rub warts with fresh sour apple juice for ten days. After 10 days, the warts will disappear.
- Apply a poultice with crushed Kalanchoe leaves (an indoor plant) to the wart. After a day, change the bandage to a new one. Within a week, the wart should be gone.
- Urine treatment. Wet the wart with your own urine twice a day.
- Wet the warts with water, and then rub with ammonia, from which they will disappear quickly.
- Every evening before going to bed, apply 1 drop of acetic acid to each wart, after lubricating the surrounding skin with petroleum jelly, as the acid is very caustic. Improper use of acetic acid can cause burns, which are much more difficult to heal than the wart itself.
- Rub the wart with clean chalk, sprinkle more chalk on top and tie 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, hold the end over the fire and burn the wart. Repeat several times. In a week the warts will fall off.
- Dilute wood ash with water to the consistency of thick sour cream. Spread the resulting slurry every day. Such recipes in some cases can not only help, but also harm, because there is a possibility of infection in the damaged skin area.
- Twice a day, drip the juice of aloe, celandine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja on the wart. Warts will disappear within a week.
- Willow bark helps well: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. "("Health Code of Salerno", 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 wart will fall off.
In the Caucasus, they suggest treating warts with peanuts, rubbing the warts with peanuts and burying them in manure.
Recipes for the treatment of warts from traditional healers
Reduce the wart to an apple or potato (it must be with a protrusion or tubercle that resembles the shape of a wart; only in this case you can get a 100% positive effect. Cut the apple or potato in half (it is advisable to do this with a strong thread). With the half whereprotrusions are visible, rub the wart (in some cases it is advisable to rub with both parts). Then connect the parts and tie with the cut thread. Plant an apple or potato in the ground, away from your house. When they rot, the warts willlost
On a silk thread, a knot is tied in the air above each wart, saying: "You can't stay here. You shouldn't be here. My words are firm, don't give in. "Hide the thread in a freshly cut potato and plantin the ground so no one knows. When the potatoes rot, the warts will disappear. In some cases, it is enough to bury just one thread.
Look for stems with roots from cut ears of grain or blades of grass. With the tip of the straw, poke the wart several times, say a conspiracy or prayer. After that, immediately plant the hay in a moist place with the roots up. When the straw rots, the warts will disappear.
Money Advice. Pick up the spur (grass), dry it, grind it into a powder and sprinkle it on the warts.
A woman successfully reduced 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 locust and, holding it with its hind legs, let it "bite" the wart. Locusts secrete an iodine-like liquid from their mouths that have wart-reducing properties. If you have several warts, then it is enough to display only one. After about a week, the other warts will disappear completely.
Fill a bottle 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 a cotton cloth and apply it to the wart, preferably at night. They say that after such treatment, warts disappear in 3-5 days.
There is an old simple way to reduce warts with mushrooms. Any mushroom is 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, covering it with cellophane or wax paper on top. After a few treatments, 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.
- Place fresh oak leaves in your shoes instead of insoles.
Senile warts
Their occurrence is not associated with viral infection. They appear in old and senile patients, they look like flat, sharply demarcated plaques with a size of 0. 5-2. 0 cm, round or oval in shape, gray, brown or black. Its surface is covered with a loose, sebum-saturated horny mass.
Senile warts are more often localized on the cheeks, temples, around the eyes, on the trunk. If these warts undergo frequent trauma, they may show a tendency to malignant transformation.
These warts do not require treatment. Avoid injury to them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed using diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- The juice squeezed from freshly cut sundew round-leaf grass, lubricates warts twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. After 10 days, the warts will disappear.
- Lubricate warts with fresh milkweed juice.
- Lubricate wet warts with ammonia.
- Scrape the wart with clean chalk (without impurities), pour more chalk on top, tie.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it will reduce the warts. "I mean willow bark.
- Lubricate warts with thuja alcohol tincture.