How to remove dry calluses on the toes with folk remedies?

Traditional medicine is the experience of previous generations in the fight against diseases that have existed for decades. The problem of dry calluses is also not new, and over the years of its existence, many recipes for combating it have already accumulated.

In the past, there were no effective medicines whose names themselves spoke of their purpose, and people had to fight painful growths with what nature gave them. Many of these recipes that helped our ancestors have reached us. This means that we can use them if there is no opportunity or desire to turn to pharmaceutical chemistry.

What gifts of nature can help cure dry calluses on the feet:

• Onions and garlic are known for their pungent properties and ability to fight various pathogens.

Recipes based on garlic, onion, onion peel

• Grind unsalted pork fat in a meat grinder, add garlic crushed into a pulp and apply the mixture to the callus for several nights, securing it with film and a bandage.
• Take half a glass of natural wine vinegar, add 2 crushed cloves of garlic and leave the mixture in a dark place for 2-3 weeks. Apply a cotton pad soaked in this mixture to the callus every day for a few minutes, then let the mixture dry on the skin.
• Particularly persistent people apply garlic or onion plates or gruel to the calluses, but in this case there is a risk of burning the surrounding tissues. Which will be accompanied by a strong burning sensation.
• Alternatively, you can regularly apply a piece of cut onion to the callus, after soaking it in vinegar.
• For those who are not fans of sharp sensations, we can recommend a more gentle recipe with garlic. A clove of garlic should be pre-baked in the oven until soft, mashed and mixed with an equal amount of softened butter. The resulting composition should be applied to the callus for a couple of hours, after which it is removed along with the tissues of the growth. If it was not possible to get rid of it in 1 procedure, the treatment is repeated after 1-2 days.
• Washed onion peels are infused for 14 days in nine percent vinegar, covered with a lid and placed in a dark place. At night, the callus is lubricated with Vaseline or another softening agent, the peel is applied to it, bandaged to the foot and left overnight. In the morning, the foot is steamed and the softened tissue of the callus is removed. If necessary, the procedure can be repeated after a couple of days.
• And this method usually helps to forget about the callus after the first procedure. Mix a clove of garlic crushed into a pulp with 1 teaspoon of vinegar essence. Add enough flour to make a soft dough. Make a small cake out of it the size of the callus or a little larger and put it on the callus, fixing it with a bandage and plaster. You can remove the bandage in 2-3 days along with the callus tissue. If necessary, the procedure can be repeated after waiting a few days.

This product is quite aggressive and can damage healthy skin, so before applying the cake, it is recommended to stick a plaster on the skin around the growth, making a cut in the middle of it in the shape of the callus.

• And this recipe is most likely already familiar to readers who were interested in how to remove a wart on the body. An egg with a shell should be soaked in vinegar for 7-8 days until it dissolves and becomes soft. Remove the shell, and lubricate the callus with the resulting mixture or apply a compress of cloth soaked in an egg-vinegar mixture to it. Put a film on top of the compress and bandage it to the leg and put on a warm sock. Periodically change the compress, simultaneously removing the falling parts of the callus.

To treat a dry callus without a core, you can use another option. Mix an egg, 1 tbsp. vinegar essence and the same amount of vegetable oil, mix well and store in the cold. Apply like the previous recipe after preliminary steaming of the callus or corn.

It is more convenient to use these recipes at night, and in the morning remove the ointment and parts of the callus with a napkin.

• To safely remove a fresh callus without a core, you can use regular vegetable oil, petroleum jelly or a greasy cream, which should be rubbed into the callus tissue with massage movements for a long time, which will soften it.
• In medicine, acids are commonly used to combat dry calluses. The same is done by people using sour products: the pulp of sour tomatoes or lemons (you can also use juice, but it is less convenient to use). You can lubricate the callus with juice or soak a bandage for applications in it, and make compresses from the gruel, placing it on the callus and fixing it with a bandage on top. It is better to do compresses at night until the callus gradually peels off completely.
• You can also use the lemon peel, placing it on the outer side of the pre-steamed callus and leaving it for a couple of days. After removing the compress, remove the softened parts of the growth. Repeat at intervals of 2 days until the callus disappears completely. Lemon and especially its peel contain a large amount of vitamin C, which helps to increase local immunity and reduces the activity of viruses, so recipes based on it are useful even for core calluses.

For those who are not allergic to honey, this recipe will do. Scald the lemon peel with boiling water and grind it in a meat grinder or blender. Mix the resulting gruel with 3 tablespoons of natural honey and apply to the callus at night every day for 1-3 days.

• Recipes based on liquid propolis are also used to remove dry calluses on the feet. You can soak a cloth in it and apply it as a compress at night for several days, or use a mixture of propolis and lecithin powder (4 spoons of propolis and 20 g of lecithin, apply for 10 minutes twice a day).
• And for fans of prunes, we can offer a simple recipe based on it. Prunes need to be boiled in milk and hot (not scalding) applied to the sore callus. When the prunes cool down, you need to apply a new hot one, and so on for half an hour for several days in a row, after the procedure, scraping off the softened calluses.

Herbal treatment also helps with dry calluses, although it is not used very often. For example, to treat fresh calluses, you can use marigold compresses. For them, you need fresh flowers that need to be crushed and mixed with a small amount of hot water. The gruel needs to be applied to the callus for 10 days. The treatment is long, but safe.

Aloe juice is also considered a fairly popular remedy, in which you need to soak a napkin and apply it to the callus at night for several days, removing the soft crusts in the morning. Treatment is carried out until the callus completely peels off.

Well, the most common way to remove a callus is to lubricate it with fresh celandine juice, which can be extracted from flowering plants from May to September or prepared for future use. Celandine juice has a cauterizing effect, simultaneously destroying pathogenic microflora around the wound.

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Homeopathy

Homeopathy also does not stand aside from the problems of "calluses", although it does not have many means for external treatment of pathological seals on the skin. Usually, the selection of external means and homeopathic preparations is done by professionals who, for calluses and dry calluses, can recommend a special ointment "From calluses", and for inflammation of calluses - ointments "Belladonna", "Apis", "Brionia", which have anti-inflammatory and antipruritic effects.

For local treatment of corns, you can also use a mixture of effective liquid preparations: thuja, hypericum, ranunculus sceleratus, salicycum acidum. The proportions of such an external remedy should be clarified with a homeopathic doctor, who will additionally consider the issue of prescribing oral medications.

It would seem that dry calluses on the feet are a thickening of the epidermis that occurs with regular mechanical damage (pressure or friction). What do internal medications have to do with this? How can they help cope with such a problem? And is there any point in spending money on such medications, since homeopathic remedies are not cheap, and the course of their use is quite long?

The fact is that homeopaths, like most traditional medicine doctors, agree that the appearance of calluses on the feet is not accidental. It is not without reason that some people do not have such a problem, while others suffer from multiple unaesthetic and sometimes very painful growths. In most cases, there are some internal reasons that contribute to inadequate keratinization of the epidermis (disorders of metabolism and nervous regulation, improper distribution of the load on different parts of the foot) and if they are not identified and eradicated, calluses will appear regularly, and with the development of flat feet, they will also take a chronic form.

The very location of calluses on the feet signals possible internal problems. If a callus regularly appears under the fifth toe of the left foot, regardless of shoes, the person may have heart problems, and calluses along the edge of the heel sometimes indicate vascular diseases. Growths on the pads of the 1st to 4th toes may indicate problems with the nervous system.

If dry calluses and corns are found on the inside of the foot, it is likely that the patient has a poorly functioning colon. And seals on the outside of the big toe may indicate various metabolic disorders.

It turns out that the homeopath is told a lot not only by the fact of the formation of a callus and the conditions that preceded it, but also by the localization of the compaction on the foot, the presence of pain syndrome, the features of the constitution and functioning of the patient's nervous system. Taking into account many factors, a homeopath for dry calluses on the feet can prescribe the following drugs:

• Antimonium crudum (antimony in tablets) is a drug that is prescribed for hyperkeratization of the skin and the appearance of calluses and corns on the heels. It is effective for sharp burning pain that occurs when pressing on a callus.

• For stabbing pain in corns with a core, the following are also effective: Alumina, Bryonia, Calcarea carbonica, Hepar sulfur, Phosphoricum acidum, Nux vomica.
• If the pain in calluses occurs when lowering the feet to the floor, with a change in weather or high humidity and is accompanied by gouty pain, oral administration of Ranunculus sceleratus solution will be more effective.
• If the sharp, piercing pain in the corns is relieved by warmth, and the patient is additionally tormented by rheumatic pains, Causticum may be prescribed.
• But for inflammation of calluses in people with increased sweating of the feet and body and a difference in temperature between the two feet, the drugs of choice will be Lycopodium or Sepia.
• If the patient has sensitive feet and extremely painful calluses, i.e. they hurt like an open wound, you can try taking Silicea. Patients who benefit from this homeopathic remedy are characterized by: coldness and hyperhidrosis of the feet with an unpleasant odor, while the extremities remain cold.
• For dry calluses, which are distinctly yellow in color and appear on the soles of the feet, the following remedies are also suitable: Ferrum picricum, Graphites, Ranunculus bulbosus, Symphytum.

When selecting an effective drug and its dosage, an experienced homeopath takes into account many different points that seem insignificant from the outside. But in treatment based on activating the internal forces of the body, every little thing is important. That is why you need to approach the choice of your homeopath very responsibly.

Many consider homeopathy a pseudoscience, the effect of which is based solely on the belief that homeopathic preparations really help, given that the dosage of active substances in them is extremely small. But practice shows that if a charlatan prescribes treatment, no faith will help to heal, and the correct selection of drugs helps to cure both the main and accompanying diseases. We simply do not yet know all the capabilities of our body and are little familiar with the levers that help it activate its powers.