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Removing a wart with a thread
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Last reviewed: 06.07.2025
Warts are skin growths in the form of nodules, bumps and other benign growths caused by the human papilloma virus. The need to get rid of them arises from aesthetic considerations, the risk of degeneration into malignant ones if they are in a potential injury zone. The safest method is considered to be radical removal within the walls of a cosmetic or surgical office. There are various methods of getting rid of them: burning with nitrogen, electric current, scalpel, laser. There are also many folk methods of combating warts, including removal with a thread.
Is it possible to tie a wart with a thread?
Doctors do not approve of this method of removing growths, but it is quite common among people. Its essence is that by tying a wart with a thread, which is an overgrown epithelium with blood vessels, the supply of nutrition to it is cut off, which leads to its death and disappearance. Drying is indicated by a darkened appearance, wrinkledness, roughness.
How to get rid of a wart with a thread?
If you choose this method of removing a wart, before the procedure you should wash your skin well, treat the area of the body and the thread with which the manipulation will be performed with an antiseptic solution. It should be cotton or silk. How to tie a wart with a thread? This can be done in several ways:
- cover the very base and tighten tightly, leave for a week;
- pre-soak the thread in vinegar;
- Treat the tightened papilloma daily for 7 days with laundry or tar soap.
If the wart does not dry out and does not fall off on its own, and also if the slightest signs of complications are detected (redness, pain, abscesses, changes in color and shape), you should not delay in contacting a specialist.
How to speak to a wart with a thread?
Those who believe in magical rituals can resort to a wart spell on a thread. In order for it to work, you need to know how to do it correctly. To do this, you should follow these rules:
- believe in what you do;
- a wart spell on a thread is performed on the waning moon;
- women should choose women's days (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday) for the ritual, and men should choose men's days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday);
- precede the ritual with peace, silence, and concentration of attention on it;
- The conspiracy should be carried out in a clean, tidy room, with a washed body and clean clothes.
There are various options for actions and spell texts. One of them is this: tie a wart with a thread at night, and in the morning remove it, bury it in the ground with the words: "When the thread rots, the wart will go away", or "Where you came from, go there", or "Young moon, take the warts with you".
Doctors only laugh at such methods and urge not to postpone visits to them so as not to aggravate the situation, but psychologists find a rational grain in conspiracies, because there are known cases of self-hypnosis leading people to healing from incurable diseases. Even the outstanding psychiatrist Bekhterev associated the healing effect of prayer with self-hypnosis, if there is true faith.