1. Cut a little upside-down triangle in the middle of your ingrown toenail - this encourages the nail to grow back together - away from your toes outside edge. No need to enter the 'quick' - just a little triangle and make sure it is in the center and upside down.
2. Soak your ingrown toenails in a basin of warm water or dark beer. Both will soften the nail - especially the warm dark beer. You can keep the beer in your home for a few days before you have to toss it out. After three days, toss it and open a new bottle. Soak for 10 to 15 minutes.
3. Take a rounded toothpick or something which can lift up the ingrown toenail outside edges. Then push in a small piece of gauze or cotton. under the outside ingrown toenail edges - this encourages the ingrown toenail to grow up and out again - not down and under...change the cotton or gauze daily so it doesn't harbor bugs and fungus.

• Poor Dietary Choices consisting mainly of refined sugars and simple carbohydrates


• Weak Immune System due to poor nutrients, lack of sleep, stress and dietary choices


• Poor Footwear


• Chronic re-injury to the nail bed from sports or work


• Yeast Overgrowth in the Digestive Tract

1. Cut a little upside-down triangle in the middle of your ingrown toenail - this encourages the nail to grow back together - away from your toes outside edge. No need to enter the 'quick' - just a little triangle and make sure it is in the center and upside down.
2. Soak your ingrown toenails in a basin of warm water or dark beer. Both will soften the nail - especially the warm dark beer. You can keep the beer in your home for a few days before you have to toss it out. After three days, toss it and open a new bottle. Soak for 10 to 15 minutes.
3. Take a rounded toothpick or something which can lift up the ingrown toenail outside edges. Then push in a small piece of gauze or cotton. under the outside ingrown toenail edges - this encourages the ingrown toenail to grow up and out again - not down and under...change the cotton or gauze daily so it doesn't harbor bugs and fungus.

Should you have questions, please comment. I'm here to answer them and help your nails recover!

A mild headache may occur while taking the sachets internally. Taking vitamin C usually helps. The headache is usually due to the 'die-off' reaction from unhealthy bacteria being killed by the healthy probiotic found in the sachets.

• Poor Dietary Choices consisting mainly of refined sugars and simple carbohydrates


• Weak Immune System due to poor nutrients, lack of sleep, stress and dietary choices


• Poor Footwear


• Chronic re-injury to the nail bed from sports or work


• Yeast Overgrowth in the Digestive Tract

• N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine: This nutrient is commonly shortened and known as NAC. NAC is found in high amounts in healthy liver and lung tissue. However, when the liver is under attack, NAC levels are typically very low. Add NAC to support liver health and help process toxins.


• Taurine: Taurine is an essential liver nutrient which can only be used by people with gall bladders. If you have no gall bladder, take only NAC. Taurine is the major amino acid needed to help remove toxic chemicals and their metabolites from the body,

• Vick's vapor rub - this may be effective if on infant toenails and in only the mildest of cases. I'm not impressed with it though.
• Tea Tree Oil - alone it is garbage. If it is mixed with another ingredient, it will be more effective in the beginning stages. Look below.
• Topical creams, oils, lotions in pharmacies and drugstores - crap. They may claim to work but they do not. Save your money. Read the fine print. Even if it is called Toenail Fungus Blaster, the back of the package will read, 'not for toenail fungus.' Go to there and read yourself - I'm serious!
• Copper ionotophoresis - forget it. All you are doing is driving toxic copper into your bloodstream. Plus, it is costly.

Toenail Fungus Treatments That Work

Now do not get all excited. It takes commitment on your part to get an effective treatment. More often than not, a month of daily effort is needed to rid yourself of the toenail fungus. It is also a matter of severity. If your toenail fungus is so bad that your nails are 1/4" thick and curling, you will need to have them surgically removed.

I will provide the effective toenail fungus treatments in order of most severe to least severe:

Surgical removal of nail --> Lamisil --> Acidophilis Beer Soak --> DMSO/Tea Tree --> Vicks

Surgical Removal of Toenail Fungus: This is the worst case scenario obviously. If you toenails are so thickened and curling, it is nearly impossible to effectively treat these nails with anything. You can try the other treatments I suggest but the likelihood of success may not be what you want.

Lamisil: This stuff is not just extremely expensive. It is extremely hepatotoxic - liver damaging. Don't trust me on this? The FDA put out a Lamisil warning. Read it. I took it as I didn't know about the other treatments. I didn't need surgery as the toenail fungus wasn't so gnarly but Vick's didn't work and Tea Tree oil didn't work. So while in Russia, I bought up enough Lamisil to fix me up and swallowed it for 2 months daily. Ouch. Luckily I only paid about $125 for the Lamisil. Here in the USA you are talking about $1500 dollars plus for enough Lamisil to effectively treat the fungus. That hurts - especially when insurance doesn't cover it. What else hurts is one's liver. The metabolites of Lamisil are truely damaging to the liver so I recommend talking with a trained Naturopathic physician about how to repair your liver during and after the Lamisil treatment. Luckily, the liver is one tough organ. Did you know that you can lop off 1/3rd of your liver and it will grow back!?! Truely.

Acidophilis Beer Soak: Sounds hilarious and like a gimmick but believe me, the little fungal critters under your nail start running when they taste bacteria-riddled Guiness Stout. I would never believe in this remedy had it not come from a respected professor/doctor of mine. He has used it effectively all but once. That one time was due to him using capsule acidophilis, lite beer and apple cider vinegar. That won't work.

What to do:

1. Buy dark beer, white vinegar, sachets of acidophilis
   
2. Get a tub big enough for the treatment area (cat boxes are good - new ones please!)
3. Add 1 liter of room temperature dark beer, 1 liter of white vinegar, 50 billion acidophilis bacteria.
4. Soak feet in this solution for 20 minutes before turning in at night.
5. Repeat using the same solution but add just enough hot water (not boiling) to make the solution warm.
6. After every 3rd day, dump out the solution and make it new from scratch using the remaining 1/2 of the sachet, 1 liter of dark beer and 1 liter of white vinegar. Making the solution every 3rd day is key as the bacteria and beer must be maintained fresh in order to be successful.
   
7. Do this daily for 30 days or until you see normal healthy toenail growth appearing.
8. You may also repeat the soaking in solution two times a day.

This will work. If you follow the directions as I've written them, your toenail fungus, tinea unguinum, onchomyosis - whatever you want to call it - will be dead and you again will have pretty nails. I promise.

DMSO and Tea tree oil treatment for toenail fungus: This may work but only in situations when the fungus is not severe. If the nail just shows sign of being infected, then give this a shot.

What to do:

1. Go to your local store and buy some DMSO and tea tree oil.
2. Clean and scrape your nails really well with water and soap.
3. Apply in equal parts [with a cotton ball or swab] a light layer of DMSO (99%) and tea tree or thuja essential oil to the toenail fungus.
4. Put a bandaid over the nails.
5. Repeat three times a day. Yep. 3x a day. Want the fungus gone? Good. 3 times a day
6. Remember - this only is effective if the tonail fungus is not severe. If you want it to really work, do the beer soaks.

Vicks Vapor Rub treatment for toenail fungus: I haven't seen it work but pediatricians claim that it does. Little kids' toenails are not so thick and supposedly the menthol penetrates and kills the fungus. My 2 year old had toenail fungus and this didn't kill it. It helped slow it down that's all.

So that is it. Those are the effective treatments. You can send a hug in the mail when you see your fungus gone. And you can also tell people about this awesome blog entry - I truely want to help the public gain health without drugs and this entry should definitely help.

All the ingredients written about are easy to obtain except the urea paste. This has to be prescription from a physician. Key Pharmacy in Renton, Washington sells it and ships it all over the world. They also add tea tree and DMSO in it. Advise your physician about this awesome pharmacy.

If you have a fungal infection of any other type on your body such as: tinea versicolor, tinea crura, tinea pedis, jock itch, atheletes foot, cradle crap, then I recommend Saprox Natural Antifungal Treatment. Saprox is a natural antifungal mud from the Czech Republic. It works quickly and effectively. Simply apply it, let it dry and wash off once or twice a day until the fungus is gone. Saprox has not been proven to eliminate toenail fungus but if mixed with DMSO, it just may.

If you have any questions about what I have written about, do email me. I'll help you.

In health,
Ben