Can peppercorns soaked in vinegar cure onychomycosis?

For onychomycosis that has not been cured for a long time, you can try a small folk remedy, which may be very effective. For example, you can use the method of soaking pepper in vinegar to treat onychomycosis. For some patients, it can achieve a good therapeutic effect. Onychomycosis is a relatively common disease caused by fungal infection. Sometimes this disease is more stubborn and can easily recur, causing patients to feel particularly distressed.

There are generally 3 methods for treating onychomycosis clinically.

1. Oral: Most oral drugs are antibiotics, which have relatively large side effects. In Xi'an, there are patients who developed liver disease due to taking oral medications to treat onychomycosis. Oral medications are used to treat the nails at the ends of the body, but the effect lasts for a long time and is not recommended.

2. Topical medications: The effects of topical medications vary. Because nails grow slowly, fingernails take about 100 days, while toenails take about 300 days. Therefore, the cost of topical medications is not low and is relatively expensive. On the other hand, onychomycosis infects the area under the nail and at the root of the nail. General topical medications need to corrode the nail, like polish. Although it is possible to treat it, the price and pain make it difficult for most people to stick to it.

3. Surgery: Surgeries include laser therapy, etc., which are also too expensive.

The small prescription I introduce here not only has good efficacy, short treatment course, few adverse reactions, but also low treatment cost. It is the pepper, garlic and vinegar solution.

Sichuan pepper is warm in nature and has the effects of warming the middle, dispersing moisture, relieving pain, killing insects, and having very strong antibacterial and antifungal effects; vinegar contains acetic acid, which has the effects of reducing swelling, anti-inflammatory, and astringent;

Garlic is a natural antibacterial plant. The sulfides it contains have a strong inhibitory and killing effect on fungi. It can kill many cocci, bacilli, fungi and viruses. It is one of the most powerful natural plant antibacterial plants discovered so far.

The combination of the three has a strong ability to kill fungi. Scholars Guo Yingchun and Liu Wei once studied the clinical efficacy of pepper, garlic and vinegar solution in treating onychomycosis. The results showed that among 1,682 diseased nails, 1,582 were cured, 98 were effective, and 2 were ineffective, with a treatment efficiency of 99.88%.