WARTS AND HOMEOPATHIC MANAGEMENT

                                                                      WARTS

                A warts or verrucae are a localized, benign epidermal growth caused by a DNA virus (human wart virus of the group of papova viruses). It is a contagious condition and occurs mostly in children and adulthood.

TYPES:-

                Clinically, warts are of the following types.

1.       PLAIN WARTS (VERRUCA PLANA):-

-          They are round or polygonal, small in size (1-5 mm).

-          These type are occur mostly over the hands or the face.

-          These are usually multiple, smooth, slightly elevated and usually of the colour of skin or slightly pigmented.

2.       COMMON WARTS (VERRUCA VULGARIS):-

-          They are larger in size (even up to 1 cm in diameter).

-          Its darker in colour and occur mostly over the back of the hands or the knees.

-          Their surface is rough and horny.

3.       PLANTER WARTS (VERRUCA PLANTARIS):-

-          They occur over the ball of the foot or the heel.

-          They appear as a small, shiny, horny papule but soon change into a round, flat lesion.

-          In many ways, they resemble common warts in size and shape but these are painful.

-          They differ from corn in that a wart bleeds on scratching whereas a corn does not bleed.

4.       CONDYLOMATA ACUMINATA:-

-          They also resemble common warts in size but differ in shape (filiform or digitate) and the site.

-          They occur either over the mucocutaneous junction of the external genitalia or around the anus region.

-          These are usually multiple and often called veneral warts.

TREATMENT:-

-          A wart should be either destroyed by chemical or electrical cautery or removed surgically.

-          Chemicals that may be used for cautery are phenol (95 percent), trichloracetic acid(50 percent), carbon dioxide snow, salicylic acid, phodophyline (25 percent in spirit) and glacial acetic acid,

-          Recurrences are common.

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT:-

                 In homeopathy we have some wonderful medicines for any types of warts. The medicines names are given below.

1.       BARYTA CARB.

2.       BELLADONNA.

3.       CALCAREA CARB.

4.       CALCAREA SULPH.

5.       CAUSTICUM.

6.       DUL CAMARA.

7.       MERC SOUL.

8.       NATRUM SULPH.

9.       NITRIC ACID.

10.   SULPHUR.

11.   THUJA.

12.   BENZOIC ACID.

13.   BOVISTA.

14.   FLOURIC ACID.

15.   MAGNESIUM SULPH.

16.   MEDORRIHINUM.

17.   NATRUM CARB.

18.   LACHESIS.

19.   PHOSPHORIC ACID.

20.   PSORINUM.

21.   RHUS TOXI.

22.   SEPIA.

23.   SILICEA.