Warts are widespread among people. According to the latest data, the papillomavirus has infected more than half of the world's population. Warts can be easily removed at home with folk remedies. So, in the following article you will find the most popular and effective folk remedies.
Warts
A wart is a benign skin growth caused by a virus. This disease occurs more often in children and adolescents.
The infection spreads directly from person to person, through household items and self-inoculation (comb, etc. ). Sweating, minor skin injuries, mental shocks contribute to the development of the disease. The incubation period is 4-5 months.
Distinguish between ordinary (simple, vulgar), flat (youthful) and pointed (pointed condylomata) warts.
Common warts are dense, painless, rounded nodules with a diameter of 3-10 mm, a rough surface, and the color of normal skin or grayish-brown.
Their favorite places are the back of the hands and fingers, the face, the scalp. If the warts are localized on the feet, the 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, smooth, flat surface, barely raised above the skin level. It is localized on the face and back of the hand.
Genital warts are pointed, fast-growing, fused, and look like cauliflower or cauliflower. The color of these warts ranges from light to bright pink. They are usually localized in the inguinal and intergluteal folds, in the region near the anus, on the genitals. Their development is facilitated by prolonged 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. Its size is 3-10 mm in diameter. Their favorite habitat is the back of the hand, fingers, face, scalp.
- plantar wartsappear on the sole. Plantar warts, unlike common warts, are painful and consist of bundles of filiform papillae surrounded by cylinders of strong horny layers. It looks like corn, so it can be mistaken. The cause of plantar warts is the friction of shoes and frequent pressure.
- flat warts- These are small nodules with a size of only 0. 5-3 mm. Their color is either the same as your skin or has a yellowish tint. Its surface is strongly flattened and smooth. They usually occur on the face and back of the hands. Most often with schoolchildren.
- 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 ways to treat warts: folk remedies and fighting 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 a cosmetic defect on the hands and other parts of the body is their "infectiousness". Having penetrated the body in one way or another, the papillomavirus does not appear immediately. Quite a lot of time passes, from a month to several months. In this case, the virus carrier may not have any manifestationsHPV usually spreads in the superficial layers of the skin.
HPV is transmitted from mother to unborn child, as well as through damage to the skin. You can get infected in a public bath or when visiting a swimming pool. Penetration is facilitated by excessive dryness or moisture of the skin, lack of capillary blood supply.
It turned out that one of the reasons for the appearance of warts is the habit of nail biting. The need to remove warts on the face is often caused by mechanical injuries received during shaving, epilation, peeling, when there are more opportunities for the virus to penetrate.
If the body's defenses weaken and periodic measures to strengthen immunity are not taken, the likelihood of this cosmetic defect also increases.
Despite the good quality of the skin tumor, in particularly advanced cases, the cell in which the papillomavirus has changed the DNA can become the source of a malignant tumor. The viral gene is often found in tumor cells. A test is usually 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 by which the virus spreads is not fully understood.
But it is noticeable that the probability of infection increases:
- if you take birth control pills that reduce immunity;
- during pregnancy, when immunity also decreases;
- with violation of the hormonal background;
- many women who have given birth.
Traditional and non-traditional therapies
There are many ways to treat warts – conventional and unconventional.
The doctor may recommend diathermocoagulation, freezing with liquid nitrogen and all kinds of lubrication. Perhaps no skin disease is treated with such widespread non-traditional methods as warts.
Often the best treatment for warts is to leave them alone. In most patients, the immune system works and the warts go away on their own.
The 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 the smoldering worm, the ginger root begins to release antiviral compounds.
You can also try homeopathic remedies.
One of the ancient ways of treating warts was 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, imaginehow warts disappear Extrasensory influence 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 positive results, they should be used with caution, since what helped one patient may harm another. In addition, the 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 only get rid of simple and flat types. One of the effective ways to remove warts at home is to act with one or another aggressive substance. Many people help with the simplest tools.
In the case of young formations, for example, they get rid of them with dandelion greens, sour apples, daily smeared with vinegar essence or celandine juice, it is better if they are taken close to the roots of the plant. The skin around it is treated with petroleum jelly to prevent burns. After many procedures, the tissues turn black and die, they are regularly cut off with nail clippers. After the procedure is completed, the scissors should be kept in the flame for a short time.
Disposing of warts with effective but rather long-term folk remedies is done with onion or garlic juice. After applying the juice, you need to wait a little until it is completely absorbed. A treatment lasting several weeks is required for the guaranteed disposal of the defect.
At night, you can make a poultice from a thin plate of fresh garlic so that the garlic does not touch the healthy skin. Freshly cut potato peel is suitable, its juice is applied externally several times a day.
You can finely grate clean fresh potatoes with their peels and make a poultice from the resulting residue overnight. This way, we can get rid of warts within a month. When the potatoes begin to sprout, take half a cup of sprouts, fill with water and put on low heat. When half of the water boils, remove the mug from the heat. Lubricating the affected areas once a day with the received folk remedy, in some cases, you can get rid of warts in a few days.
At home, HPV is treated with table salt. Remove the center from a large onion and fill it with salt. After a while, the juice stands out, the affected area is treated every day. Salt can also be mixed with finely grated horseradish. The extracted juice is used in a similar way. It is possible to remove the wart at home with calendula, it is fixed at night. The procedure is repeated until the error disappears completely.
To get rid of the formation on the skin, you need to steam it well and attach a piece of propolis to it. Do not shoot for 3-4 days. People get rid of warts with a crushed Kalanchoe leaf. The compresses are placed at night. In some cases, 4-5 sessions are enough. An effective means of wormwood infusion. Brew 3 tbsp. l. dry wormwood in a glass of boiling water, insist. Make poultices until it is completely removed.
Folk remedies
Recipes using potatoes, apples and other products used many millennia ago are especially popular among people.
- Take a raw potato, cut it in half, rub the wart with each half, then put them together and bury them in the garden.
- Cut a raw potato into 12 parts, rub each part over the wart for a minute, then "collect" the potato, tie it in a thin cloth and throw it in the manure. When the potato rots, the wart disappears.
- Take a raw potato and cut it in half. Throw one half on 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 out or rots, the wart disappears.
- Take a silk thread and tie a knot on each wart 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, rub the other half on the warts, and bury it in the ground. When the apple rots, the warts disappear.
- Cut the apple in two with a hard thread. Grate the warts with both halves of the apple, then put them together and tie them with the same thread. Bury it in the ground.
- At the new moon, take a knotted stick, cut it smooth, and rub the wart with this spot for two minutes, looking at the moon. The wart will go away within a few days.
- Tie as many knots on a thread as there are warts and bury this thread in the ground. When the thread rots, the warts also disappear.
- Soak the raw onion in food vinegar for 2 hours, then tie it on the wart overnight. Repeat for several days in a row. The wart should come out with the root.
- Rub the warts with fresh juice of sour apples for ten days. After 10 days, the warts will disappear.
- Place a bandage with the mashed leaves of the Kalanchoe (house plant) on the warts. After a day, replace the bandage with a fresh one. After a week, the warts should disappear.
- Urine treatment. Moisten the warts with your own urine twice a day.
- Moisten the warts with water, then rub them with ammonia, which should make them disappear quickly.
- Every night before going to bed, put 1 drop of acetic acid on each wart after covering the 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 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 wooden stick, hold the end over the fire and cauterize the wart. Repeat several times. After a week, the wart will fall off.
- Dilute wood wax with water to a thick sour cream consistency. Apply the resulting slurry daily. In some cases, such recipes are not only helpful, but also harmful, as there is a possibility of infection of the damaged area of the skin.
- Apply aloe, celandine, dandelion, pineapple, thuja juice to the wart twice a day. The warts will disappear after a week.
- Willow bark helps: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it reduces warts. "("Salerno Health Code", XIV century).
- Grind the cornflower seeds and mix with fat. The resulting ointment is applied to the wart and bandaged. Change the bandage after three days. After 7 days, the warts fall off.
In the Caucasus, it is recommended to treat warts with bean seeds, rub the wart with a bean and bury it in manure.
Recipes for the treatment of warts from a traditional healer
Reducing warts to an apple or potato (they should have a wart-like protrusion or bump; only in this case can you achieve a 100% positive effect). Cut an apple or potato in half (it is advisable to do this with a strong thread). Rub the warts with the side on which the protrusion is visible (in some cases it is advisable to rub with both sides). Then tie the halves together and tie them together with the cut thread. Bury an apple or potato in the ground, away from your home. When they rot, the warts disappear.
They tie knots on a silk thread in the air for each wart 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 disappear. In some cases, just burying one thread is enough.
Look for a stem that has a root from a cut ear of grain or blade of grass in the field. Prick the warts several times with the tip of a straw, saying a conspiracy or prayer. Then immediately bury the straw in a moist place, root side up. When the straw rots, the warts disappear.
Wang's advice. Pick up the spurge (grass), dry it, grind it to a powder and sprinkle it on the wart.
A woman successfully reduced her granddaughter's warts by applying mosquito repellent ointment (dimethyl phthalate) to her skin.
There is an ancient "summer" method for reducing warts. You have to catch the grasshopper and let it "bite" the wart by its hind legs. The grasshopper secretes an iodine-like liquid from its mouth, which has wart-reducing properties. If you have several warts, it is enough to display only one. After about a week, the other warts will disappear completely.
Fill a 30-40 ml vial with the chopped onion peel, pour 9% vinegar. Insist for 10-15 days in a dark place, shaking occasionally. Gauze or cotton cloth moistened in the resulting solution should be applied to the wart, preferably at night. They say that after such treatment, the warts disappear within 3-5 days.
There is a simple old way to reduce warts with mushrooms. Any mushroom is suitable for this purpose and in any form: fresh, pickled, salted and dried (pre-soaked). The mushroom is attached to the wart overnight and fixed, and covered with cellophane or wax paper on top. After several treatments, the warts disappear.
Disease prevention
And now some tips to prevent the 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 occurrence is not associated with viral infection. They appear in elderly and elderly patients, and appear as flat, sharply demarcated, 0. 5–2. 0 cm, round or oval-shaped, gray, brown or black plaques. Its surface is covered with loose, sebum-saturated horny masses.
Senile warts are more often localized on the face, temples, around the eyes, and on the trunk. If these warts are subjected to frequent traumatization, they may be prone to malignant transformation.
These warts do not require treatment. Avoid hurting them. But for cosmetic purposes, they can be removed by diathermocoagulation or one of the popular recipes.
- Freshly cut juice squeezed from grass with round leaves of sundew, apply to the warts twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. After 10 days, the warts will disappear.
- Apply fresh milkweed juice to the warts.
- Apply ammonia to wet warts.
- File the wart with clean chalk (without contamination), pour more chalk on top, tie it off.
- An old recipe: "If you boil the bark in vinegar, it will reduce warts. " I mean the bark of the willow tree.
- Apply the alcohol tincture of thuja to the warts.