| Genital warts also known as Condyloma,
Condylomata acuminata,
or venereal warts, anal wart or anogenital wart. G.W. is a highly
contagious sexually transmitted infection caused by some sub-types of human papillomavirus (HPV). It is spread through direct skin-to-skin
contact during oral,
genital, or anal sex with an infected
partner. Genital warts are the most easily recognized sign of genital
HPV infection.
Genital warts may be small, flat, flesh-colored bumps
or tiny, cauliflower-like bumps. In men, genital warts can grow
on the penis, near the anus, or between the penis and the scrotum.
In women, genital warts may grow on the vulva and perineal area,
in the vagina and on the cervix. Genital warts vary in size and
may even be so small that you can't see them. They can lead to cancer
of the cervix in women or cancer of the penis in men.
ETIOLOGY
- Causative organism- Human papilloma virus.
- Transmission- sexually transmitted.
- Common in- sexually promiscuous young adults,
homosexual.
- Occurrence common in children suggests sexual
abuse.
- Associated with other sexually transmitted diseases.
CLINICAL FEATURES
LOCATION
Males
- Urethral meatus.
- Frenum or coronal sulcus.
Females
- First appear at posterior introitus.
- Spread to vulva.
- Perineum.
- Anus.
Homosexuals
LESIONS
- Starts as soft moist papule.
- Papule grows rapidly.
- Becomes lobulated and pedunculated(cauliflower
excerscence).
- Adjacent warts become confluent.
- Large fungating masses form.
- Surface is eroded.
- Discharge of sero-purulent,foetid matter.
COURSE
- Chronic,progressive course.
- Prognosis good,with effective treatment.
- Obstinate tendency to recur.
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
- Education.
- Reassurance.
- Maintain strict hygiene.
- Keep affected parts dry
Homeopathic Treatment for Genital Warts
Homeopathy treats the person as a whole. It means that homeopathic
treatment focuses on the patient as a person, as well as his pathological
condition. The homeopathic medicines are selected after a full individualizing
examination and case-analysis, which includes the medical history
of the patient, physical and mental constitution etc. A miasmatic
tendency (predisposition/susceptibility) is also often taken into
account for the treatment of chronic conditions. The medicines given
below indicate the therapeutic affinity but this is not a complete
and definite guide to the treatment of this condition. The symptoms
listed against each medicine may not be directly related to this
disease because in homeopathy general symptoms and constitutional
indications are also taken into account for selecting a remedy.
To study any of the following remedies in more detail, please visit
our Materia Medica
section. None of these medicines should be taken without professional
advice.
Homeopathic Remedies
REPERTORY
- APIS.
- ARG.NIT.
- BELL.
- CALC.CARB.
- CINNABARIS.
- GRAPH.
- LYCO.
- MILLEFOLIUM.
- MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS.
- NITRICUM ACIDUM.
- PHOS.ACID.
- PSORINUM.
- SEPIA.
- STAPH.
- THUJA.
ARG.NIT.
It tends to develop warts on palate, near anus, the
appearance is brownish & hard to touch. The wart tends to ulcerate
easily. Tendency to develop warts in patient with mental & digestive
symptoms.
BELLADONA
It plays a very useful role whenever warts are inflamed
with burning pain. They are hot & tender to touch with characteristic
throbbing pain.
Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions;
persons who are lively and entertaining when well, but violent and
often delirious when sick.
CALC. CARB.
Warts are present on face, neck & upper extremities,
male genitalia, canthi, fingers. They are black & fleshy, hard
& horny, sometimes inflamed & painful; the warts tend to
suppurate. Giving an odour of stale cheese. The skin is icy cold
to touch with cold & profuse perspiration. Development of warts
in patient having history of suppression of eruption & perspiration.
Development of warts in individual with scrofoulous diathesis with
faulty development of bones. It has a typical physically constitution,
i.e. fat, flabby, fair, perspiring, cold & damp.
Warts : round, soft at base, almost the colour of
skin; upper surface hard, rough, whitish, horny. Wart appears, itches,
bleeds & disappears. Warts : inflamed; stinging; suppurating;
form ulcers. Warts thickly studding mouths of sheep. Calc. suits
phlegmatic people; large head & features; pale skin & chalky
look. Better dry weather, from being touched. Worse milk: from suppressed
perspiration.
Leucophlegmatic, blond hair, light complexion,
blue eyes, fair skin; tendency to obesity in youth. Psoric constitutions;
pale, weak, timid, easily tired when walking. Disposed to grow
fat, corpulent, unwieldy.
GRAPH.
Warts are present around female genitalia. They
have cauliflower shape. They discharge sticky exudation which smells
like old cheese or herring brine. The appearance of skin is dry,
rough, irritable that breaks easily & exude a gluey moisture
which is worse in folds. Warts are present in persons who have tendency
to develop erysipelas. The patient is extremely sensitive to cold.
Digestive symptoms are important concomitant symptoms to warts.
LYCO.
Lycopodium has two types of warts (1) isolated
warts, (2) warts in crops. Warts are situated especially on face,
tongue, male genitalia, upper limbs and fingers. Warts are associated
with terrible itching. They are large, jagged furrowed, splitted
& pedenculated; they exude moisture, surrounded by a herpetic
areola, with desquamation. The warts have tendency to bleed easily.
MILLEFOLIUM
It has tendency to develop sycotic warts which
bleed very easily.
NIT. ACID
The warts appear on female genitals, anus, cervical
region inside nose, external throat, sternum, eyelids, canthi. They
usually develop after abuse of mercury. The following are the characteristics
: moist, cauliflower like, hard, rhagadic, large, indented, inflamed,
pricking pain < night. They emit foetid discharge, they bleed
on touch.
Warts : sticking & pricking : on upper lip. Smart
& bleed on washing; painful to touch. Soft with thin epidermis
and moist: large, jagged, often pedunculated, exuding moisture &
bleeding readily : condylomata, etc. splinter – sensations anywhere.
Worse : touch, jar, cold at night.
PHOS. ACID
Warts are present in mouth, male genitalia. They
are hot to touch. They are large, jagged, indented in appearance.
PSORINUM
Warts are situated on canthi, around mouth, near
male genitalia. There is a sensation of itching < heat of bed.
The appearance of the skin is dirty rough, scabby, greasy. It breaks
out in folds.
SEPIA
Warts are situated on male genitalia, upper lips,
fingers, face. They are small, flat, hard, dark colour and sometimes
brownish in colour with a horny excrescences in centre. There is
a sensation of itching. Appearance of skin blotched, raw, rough,
hard or cracked. Tendency to form induration and warts from constant
pressure.
Warts on hands, neck, face with horny excrescences
in centre : small, itching, flat. Large, hard seed warts : dark
colour; painless. Sepia is indifferent : with emptiness, with nothing
satisfied. Bursting pains or cramping and drawing. Internal pulsations.
A left sided medicine, generally. Worse from music : milk, fat pork,
perspiration, snow, washing, getting wet. Better : motion; walking
quickly; when alone.
STAPHYSAGRIA
Warts are situated on iris, on tongue, on male
genitalia. They are moist, pedunculated & are extremely sensitive
to touch. Warts appear after abuse of mercury & suppressed eruption.
Warts in syphilitic individual.
THUJA
Warts are situated on back, cervical region, upper
limb, face, nose, eyebrows, eyes, eyelids, external throat. They
are broad, conical, flat pedunculated, indented, fan shaped in appearance.
They are reddish in colour, bleed easily. The warts have a tendency
to split from their edge or from the surface.
Warts on any part of body, with little necks called
fig warts; tubular warts; i.e. long warts of the same size all the
way out. Wart-like excrescences on back of hand, on chin and other
places. Warts and condylomata, large, seedy & pedunculated;
sometimes oozing & bleeding readily. Effects of vaccaination.
Dreams of the dead : of falling.
Adapted to hydrogenoid constitution of Grauvogl.
Acts well in lymphatic temperament, in very fleshy persons, dark
complexion, black hair unhealthy skin. Ailments from bad effects
of vaccination; from suppressed or maltreated gonorrhoea. Fixed
ideas: as if a strange person were at his side; as if soul and body
were separated; as if a living animal were in abdomen; of being
under the influence of a superior power.
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