Embarrassing Warts? Try Traditional Chinese Medicine Cures

Herbal medicine has been used in Asia for thousands of years to manage and treat ailments of the skin, successfully.

But best of all, Traditional Chinese Medicine does not give you nasty side effects, such as toxins seeping into the skin from “burning” or “freezing” when treating the common wart. It is a gentle, all-natural alternative treatment.

The common wart, (human papillomavirus), comes in many types such as flat, seed, hand, or plantar. These usually appear on the fingers or on the back of the hand. They can also pop up in clusters. Kids are most commonly affected.

But by the time warts show up, some dysfunction or illness has been in place for some time, so experts urge the person to start with a cleansing.

The person must eliminate the build-up of toxins and residue of foods that kill, found in their bodies.

Liver cleansing is the most important, because the liver can contain hundreds of intrahepatic (gall) stones. Those stones will block bile flow, and impair proper digestion.

Your TCM practitioner may then have you try an herbal remedy with instructions. It may include some of these herbs in a cooked solution: viola herb, forsythia fruit, belvedere fruit, rehmanni root, licorice root, oriental wormwood herb, prunella spike.

If you want to try to rid yourself of a common wart at home, try using birch. Birch contains betulin and betulinic acid, (that have antiviral activity), and salicylates.

Tape a piece of moistened bark directly to the wart. You can also brew up some birch bark tea by adding a two teaspoons of powdered bark to one cup of boiling water. Steep for 10 minutes. Then drink it and rub it on the wart.

Or you can look for an ointment containing bloodroot at your local holistic grocer. Bloodroot has enzymes that dissolve warts.

As with any herb, some irritation may occur. Simply discontinue use of the herb.