Oxine AH
(Waynesboro, Va, Usa)
06/06/2013
Potatoes
★★★★★
Pulse Generator
★★★★★
After the skin healed up a small metal pin was placed between the little and fourth toes. The negative electrode was connected to the pin, the positive electrode was placed in the mouth with enough saliva to increase the area of conductance. A small protrusion of pus came to the surface. Charge flow was increased to 20-25mA at 5V. White staphylococcus aureus necrotizing fasciitis became visible right below the surface of the skin.
This infection would have and probably has gone unnoticed for years. Antifungal creams sometimes with corticosteroids were prescribed in the past never completely curing the infection. Possible eczema and sensitivity to fungi were the only conclusions.
For the necrotizing fasciitis a 10 day course of 30 amoxicillin/clavulanic acid pills (500mg/125mg) were prescribed. To increase treatment effectiveness a blue light-emitting diode was directed at the site of infection (blue light phototherapy kills Staphylococcus aureus).
P.S. Treatment with lytic bacteriophages is also possible but mainly for multidrug resistant bacteria. Staphylococcus aureus resists human defensins by production of staphylokinase. Fungi evade the immune system of their hosts by secreting extracellular protein 6.
Rubbing Alcohol
★★★★★
Rubbing Alcohol
★★★★★
I put the alcohol in an eye-dropper and was careful to get as much under the nail as possible; I also cleaned out dead skin if necessary. I did this twice a day, and also at any time when my feet got wet. I saw progress very soon, and the fungus was completely clear in 6 months. I did not lose the nail as had been predicted. I did not change my diet, stop drinking, or take any special supplements - just the external rubbing alcohol directly on/under the infected toenail.
Worth a try for a month; if you are diligent you will see progress and this has to be the cheapest, easiest way to handle the problem.
Sea Salt
★★★★★
Add 1/4 to 1/2 cup or more of salt to the foot bath depending on how much water you have. Think salty like the Dead Sea - this will kill the fungus.
If hot water hurts your toes you can use warm water. But you might want to dissolve the salt in hot water first so the water becomes super saturated then let cool.
You can go to a local feed store and buy bulk fine mineral salts which are the same thing as the some of the more expensive mineral baths salts(mined from the same place). This way you can get a lot of high quality salt cheaply. Hope this helps you.
Sea Salt
★★★★★
My routine: At night, pack the affected toe(s) in salt, (less than 1/8 of a teaspoon is plenty! ) making sure to get it well under the nail. You can add a drop of water so some of the salt will get into all the crevices the fungus can grow. In the morning, I use baking soda and a nail brush to scrub it clean and then dab some coconut oil on it to keep the nail from becoming too brittle.
First, I noticed that the fungus stopped advancing down the nail. As the nail grew in, it came in white for a bit and then little by little, I saw pink, healthy nail bed growing at the base of the nail, it is firmly attached to the skin and continues to grow in normally.
Sea Salt
★★★★★
(West Cov, CALI USA)
02/21/2009
(Lbi)
02/17/2016
★★★★★
No, you pack the salt under the nail bed.
First, clean it out as much as possible with a nice soak and scrape out any gunk under there. Then cram as much salt under the nail as you can. Use some coconut oil on your skin so the salt doesn't burn it. Repeat each day. Wash, clean out, pack with salt. Within a couple days, you will see new pink nail bed growth. It really works!
Shoe and Sock Tips
(Rustenburg, North West South Africa)
11/16/2011
Shoe and Sock Tips
Sugar-Free Diet
★★★★★
Twice the infection appreared to be gone, but later my heart sank as I saw the fungus returning.
Finally I ended up getting a prescription for an antifungal to be taken orally for 90 days. Expensive stuff, about $1000 USD. It did the trick... for three months! I decided to go it again. I got a second prescription, same stuff, thinking it might finish off the fungus 100% this time since it was a smaller infection than the first time. Well it worked... For three years. When I saw the infection returning, I almost cried.
I got online and started searching madly for causes of the fungus. That's when I first learned of the concept of candida, and intuitively felt there was something to it for me. I adhered to a strict diet (Google Candida diet), most importantly NO SUGAR. Worked like a charm; I saw results with my toe in a couple of months.
Over the following ten years fungus reappeared three more times... But at the top of the toenail, whereas before it was the base of the nail. The good news about that was that now I could get a topical medication to it without removing my nail.
The medication I used was bleach. I used the bleach pen, applying a line of it twice a day under the toenail. All three times this killed the fungus within a week. I realize this would not be a popular remedy with naturalists, but stubborn infections call for desperate measures.
Everytime it had appeared I had realized my sugar consumption had gradually increased over time, resulting in another fungus outbreak. So along with the bleach, I also cut out sugar during the treatment phase.
Finally I accepted that I am more sensitive to sugar than most people, and adopted a low sugar diet as a lifestyle.
I have been fungi-free for four years now! My toenail looks normal, as if it had never suffered 15 years of infection.
Hang in there! You have no choice but to be patient with the process, and you too will soon be fungi-free.
(Palmer, Alaska)
09/25/2012
Sunlight
★★★★☆
This is the link to his article. Scroll down to the paragraph titled "Using Sunlight to Treat Chronic Toenail Fungus Infections"
EC: Interestingly, the Mercola article also references Blue Light and Sunlight for antibiotic-resistant infections. Earth Clinic happens to have a Remedies page on this, created years ago! Click the link above to check it out!
Sunlight
★★★★★
(Grand Prairie, TX)
08/12/2014
Topical Acidophilus
★★★★★
(Champaign, Illinois, Usa)
05/19/2013
★★★★☆
I also stumbled upon this cure. I had been taking a triple probiotics capsule every day to fight the fungal infection from the inside out. One day I broke open a capsule and brushed the contents directly on my infected nails. It worked! I have been doing it every day for a few weeks and my nails haven't looked this good in 2 years. I had tried dozens of treatments, including going to a podiatrist, and nothing else worked.
Turpentine
★★★★★
ONYCHOMYCOSIS.
From the Book: Hand-book of Skin Diseases, p. 431-433, By Isidor Neumann · 1877
By onychomycosis we understand an affection of the substance of the nail, produced by fungus, which presents the following appearance : The nail generally assumes the shape of a claw, curved over the end of the finger, and ends anteriorly in a thickened extremity. Its surface becomes rough and un-even, the color dirty-yellow, and the whole nail is readily movable in its bed. We find also transverse fissures, of more or less light color, and yellowish spots in the centre and on the under surface. The nail flakes off readily, and is shed in crumbling masses.
The cases hitherto observed, whose number is very small, appeared both on the fingers and toes, and were associated, some with favus and some with herpes tonsurans. It would seem that the crusts or scales get beneath the nails from frequent scratching of parts thus affected, and that the fungal elements, finding there the proper conditions for their development, penetrate the nail-substance, whereby the latter is loosened, and suffers the alterations described. As the fungi grow exceedingly slow in this situation, it may readily happen that the herpes tonsurans or the favus has entirely disappeared from the spots where infection took place, while the onychomycosis continues.
Both the powdery and crumbling masses, as also fine sections of the yet dense nail-substance, show chains of conidia, with clearly-marked nuclei, and here and there free cells. The terminal joints of the chains are sometimes club-shaped.
Various views still prevail as to the nature of this fungus.
VIRCHOW (Archiv, IX. Band) describes a dense net-work, from which single broad threads shoot out, whose ends expand into small chains of oval spores ; he also found umbelliferous structures. He concluded that different forms of this affection occur, related both to favus and to herpes tonsurans. The fungi are related to the botrytis or peronospora and penicillium.
BÄRENSPRUNG identifies onychomycosis with herpes tonsurans ; KÜCHENMEISTER and HALLIER with achorion ; KöBNER describes two cases, which he classes with herpes tonsurans. He represents round cells with short concatenations, which, moreover, enlarge clavate, or branch, and finally may end in delicate threads, bearing on their extremities several elliptical conidia. KÖBNER also once discovered a puccinia.
If we examine a portion of diseased nail by making thin sections with a razor through the yellowish portions, we find its substance penetrated by short-jointed branched fungous threads, somewhat compressed, resembling, slightly, a tape-worm, whose sections, scarcely longer than they are broad, have generally a nuclear cell in their interior ; we like-wise see roundish cells of fungus scattered between the lamellæ of the nail, or arranged in groups, most of them likewise containing a small spherical secondary cell in their centre. Here and there we meet with the arthrococcus. The contents appear in other respects to be watery. These cellular fibres display a firm power of cohesion, and, after maceration of a portion of nail in water, they may be moved, hither and thither, by slight pressure on the cover of the slide, without falling into their composite elements, and should therefore be considered as mycelial threads. We do not find any especial collections of micrococcus or bacteria upon or between the cells of the substance of the nail. In cases where the mycelia are less numerous, they may be more clearly seen after soaking the section in a solution of caustic potash (one part to ten).
Treatment. The treatment consists in removing the loose lamellæ of the nail, and employing local baths of **caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) commonly known as “red devil lye” and corrosive sublimate (two grains to the ounce), and in repeated frictions with turpentine.
**Note: Treating Nail Fungus or Infections (Medical Caution)
Turpentine Pure Gum Resin oil possesses natural antifungal properties that can combat toenail fungus. Nail fungus can also be killed when turpentine is applied topically in the area of infection.
Soaking human fingernails or toenails in lye to treat fungus or medical conditions:
DO NOT DO THIS. Lye (sodium hydroxide) is a caustic, corrosive chemical that will cause severe chemical burns and destroy skin and nail tissue.
Vinegar Soak: Soaking nails in a diluted vinegar and water mixture (1 part vinegar to 2 parts water) is a common folk remedy for mild nail fungus, as it creates an acidic environment that can stop fungus from growing.
