Onychomycosis is a fungal infection, which is especially dangerous for people with weak immunity, so treatment always implies the strengthening of the body's defenses.However, local therapy is additionally needed, and instead of pharmacy drugs, you can use recipes for effective folk remedies from nail fungus on the legs that help cure onychomycosis without negative consequences due to exclusively natural components in the composition.
Treatment of nail fungus on the legs with folk remedies
If we are not talking about the advanced 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 the fungus using home prescriptions from non -traditional medicine.It is necessary to prepare for prolonged treatment-at the initial pores it will be 2-4 weeks, but with extensive fungal lesions to cure nails, a year can go (the period of complete 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;
- internal - for the general strengthening of immunity.
What depends on the effectiveness of treatment
A competently composed course of the treatment of onykhomycosis on the legs is not only a long list of drugs and folk remedies, the use of which is painted in peritually.Doctors recall that it is required not only to treat onychomycosis, but also at the same time to prevent re -infection, otherwise the efforts will be wasted.
During treatment, you need:
- To treat shoes with antiseptic agents (even pure alcohol is suitable).
- Visiting the pool, sauna or bath, do not forget about the rules of hygiene: do not touch someone else's shoes and towels.
- Do not allow overheating of the stop or excess humidity around them.
- Always walk in clean socks or tights.
- Take sunbathing for feet, if possible: a fungal infection does not like UV rays.
How to organize a therapeutic process correctly

The use of 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:
- Carry out the scorching procedure of the feet.
- Wipe the nail plates dry.
- Remove softened areas of affected nails and free edge.
- After applying, an ointment is applied or compress is applied exclusively on the zones of infection with a fungus.
- The imposed tool must be fixed with a layer, wrap the leg with a film and put on a warm toe.
Folk remedies
In the fight against onychomycosis, non -traditional medicine specialists mainly use natural antiseptics and drugs that have a fungicidal effect - they can suppress the development of spores/mycelium fungi 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;
- celandine (oil and fresh leaves with stems);
- vinegar;
- Fresh garlic.
Iodine
If your first -aid kit has an alcohol solution of iodine, the remaining folk remedies are not needed - as an antiseptic with strong fungicidal qualities, it copes with onychomycosis in the initial stage (damage up to 30% of the area of the plate).You just need to apply iodine with a cotton swab to infected areas and repeat this procedure every evening.However, take into account that prolonged treatment is fraught with burn and an increase in iodine in the body, so after 2 weeks you need to take a break.The dosage also cannot be changed - 1 drop of iodine on a sore 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 Neumyvakin wrote a lot about the benefits.The legs must first be steamed well, you can in a soda bath, and then treated with peroxide, soaking a cotton pad.You need to keep such a lotion for 10-15 minutes, repeat 3 times a day.The duration of treatment is not limited.
A solution of potassium permanganate
The antimicrobial effect that the potassium permanganate has, in tandem with its oxidative properties, helps to stop the activity of fungal microorganism.However, the solution must be prepared very weak - for 1 liter of water, take about 1 tsp.Contecking, so that a burn does not happen.In this liquid (warm!) You need to keep the feet for 15 minutes, performing the procedure before bedtime.You can use such a folk remedy for fungus on 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 pathogenic microorganism and help any drugs to penetrate deeper.If you add to it the alcohol tincture of propolis, you can enhance the effect of the latter.
At the initial stage, doctors are advised to take baths with soda and a drop of propolis, but with launched onychomycosis, they make soda-protolis paste (mix the powder 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 for treating fungal nail lesions: the legs rinse the legs with a warm decoction of medicinal herbs, or vinegar is prepared on its basis (vinegar is poured there).After 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 useless singlely.
Doctors advise using:
- celandine;
- sagebrush;
- plantain;
- yarrow;
- chamomile.
The use of essential oils
In a reliable way, the doctors are affected by onychomycosis on the legs are the lubrication of patients with pure tea tree with pure oil: this is a powerful antiseptic that quickly eliminates the nail fungus.However, it should be used neatly, because it can provoke a burn.You can rub the oil into the nails up to 2 times a day, the course of treatment is a week.
Similarly, doctors advise using essential oils:
- rosemary;
- lavender;
- Limonnik.
Tar soap
The oldest folk antiseptic is a birch tar, which additionally has the ability to stop the inflammatory process.You can use the fungus for the treatment of both tar soap and a pure target sold in a pharmacy.The legs are soaring well before the procedure, and then you can use any of the methods of using soap with tar:
- Grate a piece weighing 10 g, mix with a teaspoon of baking soda, drip a little hot water.Rub the resulting gruel 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 bandage from the bandage at night, wash your legs in the morning.Perform these actions during the week every evening.
Tea mushroom

To preserve healthy plates and stop the reproduction of fungal dispute, you can use a tea fungus, which should be infused for a week in a sweet solution of water.It is mainly used as a means to remove the affected areas through compresses: pieces of mushroom are applied to the nails and left overnight.
During the procedure, a sensation of burning and pain is possible.Treatment can be long, until complete recovery.
How to treat nail fungus with folk remedies
Doctors distinguish several categories of local funds that can be used to cure onychomycosis, equally effective in damage to nails of the legs and arms.The first and main procedure are therapeutic baths that help:
- steam the feet;
- disinfect them;
- Help remove the affected areas after softening.
Baths, according to doctors, are a predominantly preparatory step that you need to take place before using any pharmacy drugs or folk remedies.They are necessarily done when the prevention of the disease is carried out - they help stop the spread of the fungus.It is recommended to prepare a bath with salt, vinegar or soda.
After you can apply any of the 3-local funds:
- Make a lotion - is often a cotton swab or a piece of gauze, which is moistened with a solution of potassium permanganate, hydrogen peroxide, vinegar or even garlic juice.They hold it no longer than half an hour, since the composition is aggressive.
- To apply a compress-mainly at night, since it should affect the fungus of more than 8 hours. If there are keratolics among the components, in the morning, removing the compress, they must cut off the affected areas that softened overnight.
- Use independently cooked ointment, which can be used for compresses and during the day.
Folk recipes
In addition to the above means to combat the nail fungus, there are several combined type recipes that show more effectiveness than the use of single products.All of the listed folk remedies from the fungus of nails on the legs (compresses, ointments, and so on), it is advisable to alternate each other so that there is no addiction to any of the treatment methods.
Applications with vinegar essence

The acidic environment is that which does not allow the fungus to continue to spread disputes, which gradually kills it due to the impossibility of receiving nutrients and prevents relapse.Vinegar is the most reliable sour tool from nail fungus, the concentration of the role does not play: baths are made with table vinegar, and 70%essence is used locally for applications.This recipe has no contraindications.
The composition of the folk antifungal agent includes:
- vinegar essence;
- glycerol;
- vodka.
The mentioned components are typed in an equal ratio (the volume is installed individually, depends on the area of the nail damage), mixed until smooth.This liquid needs to soak pieces of natural tissue or a cotton swab, keep it on fungal lesions for 15 minutes.After the legs, they do not wash, but (without application!) Put on top of the frustration of socks.You can apply compresses with vinegar essence daily for a week, it is advisable to carry out this procedure after medicinal baths with table or apple vinegar.
Ointment with dimethylphtolate glycerin and vinegar
Equally effectively eliminates the symptoms of onychomycosis on the legs and arms, prevents the development of infection and its relapse in the folk remedy, which has 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 wash off the remaining remains after 8 hours. The course of treatment lasts until a complete recovery, so its duration is always individual.
The folk recipe for ointments looks like this:
- Take 40 ml of apple or table vinegar.
- Add 20 ml of dimethylphtolate and the same amount of glycerol.
- Mix to the state of gruel and can be used for its intended purpose.
- The remaining ointments must 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 reason for use in folk recipes against onychomycosis of tandem and onion with garlic.There is only one drawback of the resulting product: during the treatment, you will have to abandon walks in public places, since the smell emanating from the legs will be persistent.Compresses are advised to do at night, for a week.
The recipe and method of application are simple:
- Grind a small onion and several cloves of garlic (by weight, their ratio should be 1: 1) to make a gruel with juice.
- Gently, with a thick layer, apply the mixture on the nail plate.
- Put a food film or a piece of parchment on top, fix it with a bandage.You can put on socks for reliability (so that the compress does not move).
A decoction of celandine
Such a tool is prepared either for imposing compresses, or for the processing of affected nail plates during the day.However, take into account that celandine is toxic grass, so after using the decoction you need to wash your hands well.It is prepared simply: 100 g of raw materials are poured with 2 glasses of boiling water, languishing for half an hour and let the liquid cool.Before use, it is filtered, and then applied locally and wait until the decoction is absorbed.You can repeat the procedure up to 3 times a day.
Copper sulfate -based ointment

Copper sulfate is mainly used by gardeners, since it helps to prevent rotting of wood due to fungicidal properties.In medicine, copper sulfate or copper sulfate is a powerful antiseptic, but in view of a moderate degree of toxicity, only solutions of the low (1%) concentration are recommended, or to observe maximum caution with the powder.Prepare and use the ointment like this:
- 1 tsp.Cuporos must be calcined in a dry pan so that blue crystals become gray.
- Pour the powder into the cup, add the same amount of yellow sulfur (also the format of powder).
- Pour 1 tsp.tar.Stir carefully until the dry components dissolve.
- The product is rubbed into the affected nails every evening after the baths, hold for about an hour.After the ointment is washed off.
Baths with sea salt and essential oils
Treatment of the nail fungus on the legs with folk remedies necessarily implies nightly baths, the task of which is to stop the activities of pathogenic microorganisms.This is an additional way to combat onychomycosis, so it should be combined with more powerful.You need to start taking baths when the first symptoms of mycosis appear - itching of the skin, thickening of the nail plate.
The recipe is simple:
- Dissolve in hot water 1 tbsp.l.salt and 1 tsp.Lavender or tea tree oils.
- Lower your legs, hold for 15 minutes.
- Rinse with warm clean water, wipe dry.