Onychomycosis is a fungal infection that is particularly dangerous for people with low immunity, so treatment always implies strengthening the body's protection.However, local therapy is further needed and instead of pharmaceutical drugs you can use recipes for effective fungal remedies of the toenails that help to cure onychomycosis without negative effects due to the extremely natural components in the composition.
Treatment of Foot Fungus Folk Medicines
If we are not talking about the sophisticated stages of onychomycosis, when there are almost no healthy nails on the foot and the affected plates are completely destroyed, you can start the fight against fungi using homemade recipes from unconventional medicine.It is necessary to prepare for long-term treatment-in the initial pores will be 2-4 weeks, but with extensive fungal lesions for healing the nails can pass a year (the period of full growth of a healthy plate is also included).
Doctors remind that treatment, even folk remedies, should be:
- External - to eliminate symptoms and prevent the spread of infection;
- Internally - for the overall strengthening of immunity.
What depends on the effectiveness of treatment
The competent course of treatment for onychomycosis of the legs is not only a long list of medicines and folk remedies, whose use is painted peritine.Doctors recall that it is required not only for the treatment of onychomycosis, but also at the same time, to prevent infection, otherwise the effort will be wasted.
During treatment you need:
- For the treatment of shoes with antiseptic agents (even pure alcohol is suitable).
- Visiting the pool, sauna or bathroom, do not forget about the rules of hygiene: do not touch any one else's shoes and towels.
- Do not allow the stopping or excess humidity around them.
- Always walk in clean socks or tights.
- Take sunbathing, if possible: a fungal infection does not like UV rays.
How to organize the therapeutic process properly

The use of a pharmacy and folk remedies from nail fungus requires a clear algorithm of action.Most of the manipulations are performed in the evening so as not to disturb the treated area.However, if you have a weekend, you can practice the use of antifungal ointments during the day.
The general scheme of work is this:
- Perform the procedure of the burning steps.
- Wipe nail plates dry.
- Remove the softened areas of the affected nails and the free edge.
- After application, ointment or compress is applied exclusively to the areas of fungal infection.
- The imposed tool should be fixed with a layer, twist the legs with a film and put on a warm finger.
Folk remedies
In the fight against onychomycosis, non -traditional medicine specialists use mainly natural antiseptics and medicines that have a fungal effect - they can suppress the development of spores/mycelium mushrooms to kill the pathogenic pathogen.The method of their use is externally, on the affected plate and on the skin around for protection.
The most effective folk remedies are:
- tar;
- iodine;
- alcohol tincture of propolis;
- potassium permanganate solution;
- sea salt;
- Sealandine (oil and fresh leaves with stems);
- vinegar;
- Fresh garlic.
Iodine
If your first set has an alcoholic solution of iodine, other folk drugs are not needed - as an antiseptic with strong fungicidal qualities, it deals with onychomycosis in the initial stage (damage up to 30% of the area of the plate).You just have to apply iodine with a cotton swab on infected areas and repeat this procedure every night.However, keep in mind that prolonged treatment is fraught with burning and enlargement of iodine in the body, so after 2 weeks you should rest.The dosage also cannot be changed - 1 drop of iodine on an inflamed plate.
Hydrogen peroxide
As a means of prevention in the first manifestations of onychomycosis, you can use a weak (1-3%) solution of hydrogen peroxide, which Professor Neumivakin wrote a lot about the benefits.The legs should first be stewed well, you can in a bath with baking soda and then treat with peroxide, soak a cotton pad.You should keep such a lotion for 10-15 minutes, repeat 3 times a day.The duration of treatment is not limited.
Potassium permanganate solution
The antimicrobial effect that potassium permanganate has in tandem with its oxidative properties helps to stop the activity of the fungal microorganism.However, the solution should be prepared very weak - for 1 liter of water, take about 1 tsp.It withstands so that no burning occurs.In this fluid (warm!) You should keep your feet for 15 minutes, performing the procedure before going to bed.You can use such a folk remedy for the legs for 2 weeks if there are no skin reactions.
Soda and propolis

The use of baking soda as a folk remedy for nail fungus helps to achieve 2 goals: to destroy the colonies of a pathogenic microorganism and to help all medicines penetrate deeper.If you add to it the alcoholic tincture of the propolis, you can improve the effect of the latter.
At the initial stage of the doctors, it is advised to bathe with soda and a drop of propolis, but with the onychomycosis fired they make soda-prootolis paste (mix dust from a drop of water and 1 tsp Propolis), which is applied to the affected nail for softening.
Herbs
Phytotherapy is also an effective method of treating fungal nail lesions: the legs rinse your feet with a warm decoction of medicinal herbs or vinegar is prepared on its basis (vinegar is poured there).Once the foot and nails are well washed with household soap, wiped dry and apply more effective folk remedies for the night.Herbs can relieve inflammation, act as an antiseptic, but they are only useless.
Doctors advise the use of:
- Sealandin;
- Sagebrush;
- Mountain;
- Yarou;
- Chamomile.
The use of essential oils
In a reliable way, doctors are affected by onychomycosis of the feet are the lubrication of patients with pure tea tree with pure oil: it is a powerful antiseptic that quickly eliminates the nail sponge.However, it should be used neatly because it can provoke burning.You can rub the oil in your nails up to 2 times a day, the course of treatment is a week.
Similarly, doctors advise the use of essential oils:
- rosemary;
- lavender;
- Lemonik.
Tar soap
The oldest folk antiseptic is birch tar, which further has the ability to stop the inflammatory process.You can use the fungus for treatment of both TAR Soap and a clean target sold in a pharmacy.The legs rise well before the procedure and then you can use any of the methods of using soap with tar:
- Adjust a piece of 10 g, mix with a teaspoon of baking soda, drip some hot water.Rub the resulting slurry into the affected nails.Repeat the procedure until the fungus disappears daily.
- Before going to bed, moisten the soap, treat the affected nails with foam, sprinkle with salt.Make a dressing from the dressing at night, wash your feet in the morning.Perform these actions every night.
Tea sponge

To preserve healthy plates and stop the fungal dispute reproduction, you can use a tea fungus, which should be infused for a week into a sweet solution of water.It is mainly used as a means of removing the affected areas by compresses: pieces of mushrooms are applied to the nails and remain overnight.
During the procedure, a feeling of burning and pain is possible.Treatment can be long, until full recovery.
How to treat nail fungus with folk remedies
Doctors distinguish several categories of local agents that can be used to treat onychomycosis, equally effective in damage to the toenails of the legs and hands.The first and basic procedure is the therapeutic baths that help:
- Bake your legs;
- disinfect them;
- Help remove the affected areas after softening.
According to doctors, baths are a predominant preparatory step that should be held before using pharmacy or folk remedies.They are necessarily made when the disease is prevented - they help to stop the spread of the fungi.It is recommended to prepare a bath with salt, vinegar or baking soda.
Once you can apply each of the 3-local funds:
- Make a lotion - often a cotton swab or a piece of gauze that is moistened with a solution of potassium permanganate, hydrogen peroxide, vinegar or even garlic.They hold it for no more than half an hour as the composition is aggressive.
- To apply compress at night, as this must affect the fungus for more than 8 hours.If there are keratolics among the components, in the morning, removing the compress, they should cut the affected areas that soften overnight.
- Use independently cooked ointment that can be used for compresses and during the day.
Folk recipes
In addition to the above tools to combat nail sponge, there are several recipes for combined type that show more efficiency than the use of single products.All listed folk remedies from the nail fungus (compresses, ointments, etc.), it is advisable to alternate so that there is no addiction to any of the treatment methods.
Applications with vinegar essence

It is the acidic environment that does not allow the fungi to continue to spread disputes, which gradually kills it because of the inability to obtain nutrients and prevent relapse.Vinegar is the most reliable acid nail tool, the concentration of the role does not play: Baths are made with trapped vinegar, and 70%essence is used topically for applications.This recipe has no contraindications.
The composition of the folk antifungal agent includes:
- vinegar essence;
- glycerol;
- Vodka.
The components mentioned are introduced in the same ratio (the volume is installed individually, depending on the area of nail damage) mixed to smooth.This liquid should soak pieces of natural fabric or cotton swab, keep it on fungal lesions for 15 minutes.After the feet, they do not wash, but (without application!) Place on top of the socks dissatisfaction.You can apply compresses with vinegar essence every day for a week, it is advisable to perform this procedure after medicinal baths with mass or apple cider vinegar.
Ointment with dimethylphtolate glycerin and vinegar
Equally effectively eliminates the symptoms of onychomycosis on the legs and hands, prevents the development of the infection and its relapse in the folk medicine, which is plus and in the form of long -term storage.You can immediately prepare a large volume for the entire treatment period.The affected areas are lubricated with finished ointment once a day, mainly after vinegar baths and washed the remaining remains after 8 hours.The course of treatment continues until complete recovery, so its duration is always individual.
The folk recipe for ointments looks like this:
- Take 40 ml of apple or a mass of vinegar.
- Add 20 ml of dimethylphtolate and the same amount of glycerol.
- Mix to the condition of the mess and can be used for its purpose.
- The remaining ointments should be stored in the refrigerator, be sure to cover the glass container with a lid.
Compress from a mixture of garlic and onion
A powerful antiseptic effect is the main cause of use in folk recipes against onychomycosis of tandem and onion with garlic.There is only one drawback to the product obtained: During treatment you will need to abandon walks in public places, as the smell emitting from your feet will be constant.Compresses are advised to do at night for a week.
The recipe and method of application are simple:
- Grind a small onion and a few garlic cloves (by weight, their ratio should be 1: 1) to make a mash with juice.
- Gently, with a thick layer, apply the mixture to the nails.
- Put a movie about food or a piece of parchment on top, repair it with a bandage.You can put socks for reliability (so that the compress does not move).
Celandine's decoction
Such a tool is prepared either for the imposition of compresses or for processing the affected nails during the day.However, keep in mind that Celandine is a toxic grass, so after using the decoction, you have to wash your hands well.It is simply prepared: 100 g of raw materials are poured with 2 glasses of boiling water, falling out for half an hour and allowed to cool the liquid.It is filtered before use and then applied topically and wait until the broth is absorbed.You can repeat the procedure up to 3 times a day.
Copper sulfate -based ointment

Copper sulfate is mainly used by gardeners as it helps to prevent wood from rotting due to fungal properties.In medicine, copper sulfate or copper sulfate is a powerful antiseptic, but in view of a moderate degree of toxicity, only low (1%) solutions are recommended or maximum caution with dust is observed.Prepare and use the oily this way:
- 1 tspCuporos should be calcinated in a dry pan so that the blue crystals become gray.
- Pour the dust into the glass, add the same amount of yellow sulfur (also the powder format).
- Pour 1 tsp.tar.Stir gently until the dry components dissolve.
- The product is rubbed into the affected nails every night after the baths, hold for about an hour.After washing the ointment.
Sea salt baths and essential oils
Treatment of the nail fungus on the feet with folk remedies necessarily suggests nighttime baths, the task of which is to stop the activities of pathogenic microorganisms.This is an additional way to combat onychomycosis, so it must be combined with helpful.You should start to bathe when the first symptoms of mycosis appear - itching of the skin, thickening of the nails.
The recipe is simple:
- Dissolve in hot water 1 tbsp.l.Salt and 1 tspLavender oils or tea tree.
- Lower your legs, hold for 15 minutes.
- Rinse with warm clean water, wipe dry.