1. The Remedy: This one works - don't give up now - Try it - you've tried everything else that didn't work like I did - now finally try THE LATEST TOP SAFE NATURAL HERBAL and ESSENTIAL OILS NAIL FUNGUS CURE that does work.N.B. Please follow all advice to the letter.

Equipment:

1 dish ( I use a stainless steel one (13.5 cms x13.5 cms x 6 cms high which is fine). Large enough to contain your toes and fingers comfortably.(You won't be soaking your hands and feet together - too uncomfortable!)

2 glass or crystal nail files - can be sterilised with Alcohol 96%. Each time you use the nail files use a swab of cotton wool soaked in alcohol to wipe the file first, file nail while still wet with alcohol, then wipe the nail. This will prevent clouds of spoor floating into the air and constantly reinfecting your nails and whoever elses who may be in the room!.(Refer to my Hints and Tips section about possible reinfecting).

2 nail clippers - large (toes) small (fingers) (sterilise with Alcohol 96%).

Paper towels - (as required)

Anti Bacterial - (the strongest you can find) soap gel for washing hands and showering/bathing with whenever required.

A clock - to time soaks duration.

Anti bacterial talc for use on feet when wearing closed shoes.

Ingredients:

TO BE USED IN THE ORDER I GIVE YOU:

1. Oil of oregano.(Essential Oil). High in thymol and carvacrol. Thymol is a constituent of Vicks and blue Listerine.You can use Thyme Oil or Amoresse thymol but the aroma is overpowering and I have found oregano oil to work just as well and not as expensive.Oil of Oregano tablets (capsules) - easier than measuring out drops etc... (Please check with your doctor about taking these first).

2.Tea Tree oil.(Essential Oil)..

3. Neem skin oil.(100% pure, not the hair oil)(Don't forget to shake really well). This eliminates the need to mix oregano oil with a carrier oil and reduces the possible irritation caused by oregano oil without reducing the strength. Neem oil oil has amazing healing properties and leaves your skin soft and healthy.

4.Silicea tablets (drops or gel will do). Take as per prescribed dosage. (See Hints and Tips).

Place one drop of oil of oregano on your thumb nail/big toe nail - massage into each affected nail until absorbed.

Repeat this process with the tea tree oil next, finishing with Neem oil. Massage the residue - after applying - of Neem oil into your hands and/or feet. This will prevent any slight irritation caused by the other two oils.

Repeat this process three times a day - every day.( I started off with five times a day - too expensive and impractical).

The oil of oregano seems to be the stronger of the three oils , a has deep penetrative capabilities but applied in this order seems to be the most effective. There has been some query as to whether mixing these three oils may reduce their efficacy so do them one at a time to ensure purity and strength.

Now we NEED to add sulphate to the mix:

Magnesium sulphate has the propensity of drawing out moisture and drying out the area under the nail in so doing starving the fungus of its' moist habitat:

Ingredients:

Hydrogen Peroxide - 3% strength,

Magnesium Sulphate (Epsom Salts).

Place two slightly heaped tablespoons of Epsom salts into a dish large enough to contain your foot comfortably and pour over 110mls of Hydrogen Peroxide.Check every day to ensure the nails are covered with the solution. I keep this solution in the fridge covered with a plastic food cover and toss out once a week usually Friday is new solution day.

Soak for at least half an hour each day. When I first started soaking in just hydrogen peroxide it felt as though I had hit my nails with a hammer it was so painful but this goes away after a very short period I think about a week or so - so persevere (I do the soak before the last application of the oils which I do just before I go to bed at night). Maybe you could do your hands together to cut down on the time spent soaking. Do not wipe the Epsom/Peroxide solution off simply let your hands and fingers dry naturally -Place your feet on a folded paper towel and wipe your fingers leaving the nail and finger tips to dry naturally.

THE OILS WILL LEAVE A BLACK RESIDUE OF DEAD SKIN CELLS UNDER THE EDGES OF THE NAIL AND WHERE THE INFECTION IS - DO NOT PANIC THIS IS NORMAL AND DO NOT TRY TO DIG THE BLACK OUT THIS WILL ONLY ENCOURAGE THE INFECTION BACK INTO THE HEALTHY NAIL GROWTH AND SET YOU BACK. THE BEST WAY TO HELP GET RID OF THE BLACK IS TO MAKE UP A SOAK OF WARM WATER WITH A FEW SQUIRTS OF ANTI -BACTERIAL GEL SOAP AND SOAK FOR A WHILE - 10 TO 15 MINS IS USUALLY GOOD ENOUGH THEN FILE AWAY THE BLACK WITH YOUR GLASS NAIL FILE AND DRY NAILS WELL WITH A PAPER TOWEL.DO NOT BLEACH YOUR HANDS AND FEET UNLESS YOU HAVE SCRUPULOUSLY WASHED THE HYDROGEN/EPSOM SALTS OFF YOUR SKIN AND THEN FOR ABOUT 5-10 MINUTES MAX ONCE A WEEK - WASH AFTER BLEACHING THOROUGHLY AND DRY WELL WITH PAPER TOWELS - IF YOU DON'T THOROUGHLY WASH BEFORE AND AFTER BLEACHING, YOUR SKIN WILL BURN AND LEAVE YOU VERY UNCOMFORTABLE FOR ABOUT TWO WEEKS! (PERSONAL EXPERIENCE!).THE MOMENT YOU SEE WHITE OR YELLOW DISCOLOURATION/CLOUDS FORMING FROM THE TIPS/EDGES OF THE NAILS UP FILE AS MUCH AWAY AS YOU CAN. ALSO BUFF YOUR NAIL SURFACES ONCE A WEEK IF YOU CAN - THIS MAKES NAILS A LITTLE BIT MORE POROUS, GETS RID OF THE CLOUDY WHITE AND ENABLES THE OILS AND SOAK EASIER PENETRATION.

Do these two processes for at least 6 months or until your nails have grown out to the ends of your fingers/toes and you see that there is NO MORE discolouration in them. If not, do not give up - I believe that may be why the other treatments I have tried didn't work.We have this affliction so just keep on keeping up this treatment. When the nails are looking normal again reduce applications of oils to twice a day and do the soak every second day for another three months - reducing again until you are only soaking once a week then once a month.When you start reducing the oil treatments then try mixing 10 mls of each oil into a dropper bottle so you don't have to repeat the process three times - the healing should be good enough to risk mixing them and reducing the strength of the oils (if this does happen on mixing).So you are eventually then applying oils once/twice a day and and soaking once a month. The moment you notice any regression or recurrence of infection revert back to the original dosage.

HINTS AND TIPS:

Use rubber gloves for dish washing, dyeing your hair and any other activities involving getting your hands wet.

It's a good idea to get your leather gloves professionally treated and swab all closed shoes and boots with bleach (ammonia) on a well soaked ball of cotton wool also religiously use anti - bacterial talc every time you wear your shoes/boots.

N.B. Very important: Bleach your washing up gloves once a week in ammonia bleach hot water and soap granules used for washing your clothes. Leave in for at least and hour turned inside out and make sure they are completely dry before using.

If you cut hair (I cut my husbands hair and he has always had dandruff which is caused by the candida fungus ergo I'm sure I've been reinfecting myself all these years! Use disposeable gloves.

Wear gloves when gardening and I have now started using cotton gloves when I use my ceramic hair tongs.(I don't have dandruff by the way!)

I take two Silicea tablets per day to encourage fast growth of nails. This stuff has an amazing side-effect. My hair grew from just above the back bra strap to waist length in about six months! (My husband is 65 years old and these tablets have really thickened his beautiful hair up well - He is well pleased!)

I also take Maca capsules to help with menopause symptoms - excellent and has magnesium in it which I'm sure contributes to the cure.(Three per day).

Now to the "Holy Grail" of wrinkles.This is my Facelift in a bottle! I have started using Vichy Liftactiv Retinol HA skin and eye creme as well as their Cellebiotic creme and this stuff really rocks. Known in USA as Restilane - it really is better than Botox and can be ordered on the web.HA (hyaluronic acid is the stuff that we lose from our skin when we get older that keeps it elastic).I saw a news article when this stuff first came out about a year ago that it is better than Botox and I must admit I agree - facelift in a bottle and a shed load less costly to!

Another great thing I've invested in is a "Leg Magic" excercise machine. Wow! Get addicted to this baby - work out a few excercises for your top half (facial accupressure points -check the internet for the best ones for you and bust increasing exercises -place your palms together at breast height and press together really feeling your boobs jump and the muscles in your chest and upper arms work and you will notice your " bingo wings" - "chicken wings" and "muffin tops" dissappear!) and within a year you will have a figure to be proud of! The fitness value alone is worth it and it has been such a paragon against menopause side-effects! The adrenaline hit I get after excercising really helps the muscular stress attacks and headaches I endure. I've worked my routine up to four sets of five minutes per set a day so that's only twenty minutes of excercise but what a difference- Get addicted now! - Well worth it.

While I'm on the subject of excercise - don't forget to do your "Kegel's" excercises - look them up on the internet and follow them strictly to the rule - especially after childbirth. They do work and I have got into the the habit of doing them every time I visit the "little girl's room".

Suppliment the above with a good healthy diet of loads of fruit veggies and steamed or grilled meat (in moderation!) as well as OOLONG TEA - at least 8 up to 10 cups a day and the weight will melt away - talk is they are thinking of recommending OOLONG TEA to morbidly obese folk in the USA to help them lose weight - It apparently has the power to break down fats in the stomach before they are absorbed into the system so start off with at least two cups prior to eating and continue through-out the day - well I'm all for that! - it really works too!

I use sweet almond oil on my arms and legs as a moisturiser - careful, your fungal friend loves this stuff and thrives on it when applied! The reason for me taking so long to publish this remedy! Took about two weeks to solve the problem but yet another learning curve.

Because I have had such a good reaction to the Neem oil in the fungus cure, I've recently started using Neem hair oil which has rosemary in it to jumpstart the hair follicles - excellent response and use it regularily now.

I noticed that after using this fungal remedy process a marked improvement the second week and by the end of the second month an amazing improvement so I have included this into my hygiene regime and accepted that I have this disgusting fungus thing and I now firmly believe this process is working.

I always had blue/white nails before this fungus and for the first time in twenty years have noticed the blue/white tinge growing back - yep it works for me!

If you find you are getting white "layering" or "shadowing" - don't despair - I did! - keep up the treatment as this whitening of the nails will fade - this has happened twice now and both times has faded.

If for some reason this cure does not work for you, I can offer you two possible options: 1.Give it six months if no improvement then oxidate (soak in pure hydrogen peroxide 3% for six months) then start the cure over again.2.Take Neem and oil of oregano capsules as well as doing the oils and soaks. If after one year I find myself in the same boat I intend to try taking the Neem and oregano capsules myself however at the moment I'm taking enough clinically and so far the topical treatment after only just over two months is working to my satisfaction so I am prepared to wait and see.

I have been using this recipe for 3 months now and am truly delighted with the results. I am now gearing up for mixing the ingredients so I can cut down to 1 application per day. I have added 3 small coffee spoons (approx 1 teaspoon) of Epsom salts to the Neem oil. My first experience with this was not good as the Epsom salts do NOT dissolve in the oil (obviously) and so I invested in a small porcelain mortar and pestle - the type used to crush herbs and spices and ground the Epsom salts to a fine talcum powder consistency after which adding it to the Neem. This has proved to be really successful and I am keeping up with the Epsom/peroxide soaks daily.

Well, just to let you all know the latest update on my saga - we have experienced several mini heat waves this summer - a real test of whether the cure works or not and the last few days have been unbareable. I woke up this morning fully expecting a serious comeback of the fungal infection and nothing just a warm tingly glow and crystal clear pink nails! I really believe in this remedy now as I have had the proverbial book thrown at me weatherwise and for the first time in 20 years have managed to keep this fungal thing totally under control and seemingly GONE! I have had slight clouding a few times and have just filed away as much as I could and carried on the oil applications and soaks as per description above. I must admit I have forgotten or been too tired on a couple of nights to do the last oil application and have found no difference in my nails the following morning. I have included at the bottom of this hub a site for the purchase of Vichy products in the USA as well.So please check it out!

One thing that I've noticed is that I've become very clumsy with my fingers over the years. I'm always dropping bottle tops and small things like that and have frequently been called "Butterfingers"! I do think this is due to the fungus as now I'm constantly feeling a tingle in my fingertips gradually decreasing with the sensation of normalcy returning as I continue with the remedy. I seem to be returning to normal and the "Butterfingers" effect is going at last! I have read that this condition may affect the ligaments in your joints and can even effect your heart. I can't iterate enough the need to try this remedy as I have experienced so many worthwhile differences since I started and as the benefits and improvements far outweigh the total costs - it's well worth a try! Go on - you have nothing to lose but a few cents and everything to gain - clear nails at last the healthy way!

I have noticed that when you soak your nails in pure ammonia bleach you are left with a white shading of the nails that seems to take about two weeks to fade - so I have stopped bleaching.

Another update on The Cure! - I have always had the question at the back of my mind that when I eventually find a cure will my nails grow back normally - as they were before this infection? Normal shape - colour etc. Well the answer is a definate YES! I now have six normal nails on my hands - with the nail and quick or nail bed growing passed the tip of the fingers and also the shape of the nail is more curved and not flat as it was when the infection was present. The other four - pinkie and ring fingers still have a slight bit of infection there and I have been filing back the nails ruthlessly on those fingers. All my toe nails except the two big toenails are clear and there is just a slight line of black under the nail of two remaining infected toes - the colour and shape of the clear part of the two big toenails is pink and rounded - this NEVER happened with any of the other so called cures!

UPDATE:

I woke up this morning with a tingling sort of burning/glowing sensation in my finger-tips and noticed the white clouding totally gone. The colour is now pink with no other yellow or white staining present.The four remaining nails that had a slight bit of black under the edges have now started growing out and so have my big toenails! I remember someone saying a while back that to get rid of nail fungus - you need to take a pill - I think it was Dr Oz on one of Oprahs' shows - well NONE of the pills I took worked, even the Leucatin ones but this is really working well. I believe now that by trying to strengthen your immune system and constantly hammering this fungus with anti-fungal treatments is the only way to deal with it properly. I have not yet reduced to my intended maintenance course but feel that I'm not too far from that day!

UPDATE:

For the last 3 or 4 days I've noticed slightly swollen fingers and toes - the weather has been quite warm lately so that may have something to do with it. This morning however I woke up with a breathtakingly irritating burning sensation deep down in both the fingers and toes. After getting in a few more hours sleep (It was really early!) I woke up and the sensation had gone as well as the swelling. It almost felt as though the battle royale was taking place - for want of a better phrase! - and all nails look surprising clear in fact I have set my goal for Christmas as being able to sport a french manicure on all nails! I AM NEARLY THERE!!!

UPDATE:

For the last couple of weeks, I have woken up with an intense tingling in the finges and toes - it goes away after a few minutes and reminds me to do my first oil application of the day. I can't believe how pink normal nails should be ( it looks unnatural!!!) and the pure joy of being able to feel through my finger tips again! I look at y nails now and realise just how evil this thing is as it is a stealthy affliction taking over slowly and sometimes barely noticeably - only when it really starts dying back do you notice the true difference and feeling as well. After 20 years of this thing I wake up every morning now and study my nails under the sidetable light for ages before reporting back to the better half the state of their health! My toes arelear and there is juste line of dark under the tips of the big toes. This "tight" swollen feeling comes and goes less frequently now and we are going into the cooler weather season at last. I have always worn sandals even during the cold weather and now am really feeling the cold on my feet and firmly believe the return of sensation to my feet (toes) has made this possible. I am still keeping to the original 3 oil applications and soaks and when all the naigrown with the quicks over the tips and only then will I start reducing the apps of oil. Many times I've become so frustrated with having to oil and soak but when I've seen such a vast improvement it has become incentive to carry on - sort of like losing weight - when you lose and feel and look good it encourages you to lose more! I only hope that if anyone readsing this does not give up to soon and sticks with it as it works and I can only wish the same pleasure I have from the results and looking forward ttto the next summer wearing sandals safe in the knowledge that your nails are healthy and above all look and feel good! It's been a day or two just over FOUR months and my fingers haven't fallen off, developed tumors or anything else other than get better!

UPDATE:

Just another update. Last night I sat for hours researching comments on sites about Oil of Oregano etc.. and discovered that oregano oil tends to make your fingers a bit swollen so that's par for the course! I was overwhelmed by the amount of people turning away from the over the counter topicals and hard-core organ damaging drugs that do nothing but cause harm and empty your bank account and using essential oils and trying other natural remedies. This tells me that 1. There are many many people out there with this problem that they have found no workable cure for like me and 2. The so called "tried and tested" cures offered DO NOT WORK! I also read on one site someone (alleged doctor) talking about people having the fungus infection before going on to develop cancer and after doing several years research on this subject found out that one gets fungus through a weakening of the immune system by being ill from the cancer and that knocks your immunity for six. The fungus then finds it easy to take hold and the battle begins. People who have cancer go through so much in the way of chemotherapy and the like and that is why fungus takes hold in their systems as their immunity is compromised through this regime of treatments as well as the disease. This so called doctor should not be allowed to comment on this site as I'm sure he is causing uneccessary stress to people like us who will probably never suffer from cancer and have enough to deal with trying to cure the fungus thing.His suggestions for curing fungus are laughable as how are you supposed to function normally with Vicks, plasters etc over your nails all day unable to wash or do anything for that matter especially for those of us who have fungus in both the finger and toe nails - really!!!! I believe covering your nails with a substance the consistency of vaseline as well as plasters is not a good idea as it seals the area off and air needs to get into the fungus to help with drying it out - hence the use of Epsom salts - great astringent and drawing medium.P.S. Hyaluronic Acid is found naturally in the human and animal body "Dr. T" and is used to improve mobility by being injected into the synovial fluid of joints. It is also found in the eyeball and every cell of the human body and harvested by either using a chemical process or from umbilical cords. It is not commonly found in foods unless you are prepared to go to Japan and climb a mountain there where a tribe of people are purported to consume a root rumoured to contain the stuff! Hard call that one don't you think? P.P.S. We finally have a stem cell treatment clinic here in Europe (I stand corrected) - it is in Belgium and I think that is such an exciting development! (Approx E8000 for treatment for Diabetes).

UPDATE:

I would like to iterate the importance of how to treat recurring outbreaks: FILE BACK AS MUCH OF THE INFECTED NAIL AS POSSIBLE SPECIALLY WHERE YOU NOTICE THE DARK IS FORMING AGAIN AND CARRY ON TREATMENT AS PRESCRIBED - DO NOT GET FRUSTRATED AND GIVE UP THINKING IT'S NOT WORKING - IT IS AND YOU WILL BE BACK ON TRACK IN A FEW DAYS!

Update:

I have decided to record the true measure of this cure as I would want that from a hub or blog claiming to be THE CURE myself and as I've tried everything available to man on this earth that hasn't worked I want you all to share this with me as I intend to be as honest as possible. I woke up this morning, after trimming my nails down to no traces of black last night, with practically no tingling and sensation almost fully returned to both my finger tips and toes. I've also noticed the lines, wrinkles and bumps have gone and the nails are now smooth and their NORMAL thickness. The colour is normal pink and the treatment has left them hard and shiny - Whoopie!!!! They have all grown down to the ends of the fingers and toes and now I'm going to wait until they together with the quicks, grow over the ends of the fingers then I will start reducing the number of oil apps per day. For just over four months, the quickest cure I've ever tried! I, like everybody, have got so frustrated many times but because you notice the improvement quite quickly,have soldiered on on I will not give up now.

After using Leucatin, the infection returned with a vengence the following summer and devastated me yet again so I am going to continue updating for at least a year letting you all know the progress! In it for the long haul without letting up!

UPDATE:

I'm filing/clipping my nails down a little bit every third day now - I suspect this is due to the the silicea - and the tingling has definately gone.When you feel the nails tingle I think the infection is trying to get the upper hand - so to speak - but it tends to come and go. Oil of Oregano - I have discovered - is the strongest anti-fungal agent known to man and I have hit on the recipe thar works. I get more excited about this treatment every day as it works so well and am holding myself back from reducing the apps as I intend to hit the six month period first before letting my fingernails grow out. Twenty years of this makes you cautious and you finally realise there is no rush - so - on with the routine and away with the fungus I say!

BREAKING NEWS:

I have managed to clear the infection from all my nails bar 3 finger tips. It keeps on returning to these nails which leads me to believe Dr Oz is right. You need a pill to really hit it on the head. I am delighted with the results I've achieved so far and will continue to apply the recipe as required but have now invested in a bottle of Oil of Oregano tablets as well. I am starting off with 2 tablets per day and will increase accordingly if needed. I tried to get hold of Oregamax but could not find it here in Holland and found instead Biotics which seem to have a good review so will keep you posted.

UPDATE:

I have been taking these tablets for 4 days now and I am firmly back on track so I have included them above in the list of ingredients required but once again please check with your doctor before starting the course.

UPDATE:

Great great great news! The oregano tablets have put me right back on track!! I now have seven totally normal nails where the nail has grown over the nail bed and the colour is a normal healthy pink and three totally normal coloured nails just not yet quite over the nail bed but down to the end of the finger! My toenails are all fine but the big toenails is still growing out and the others are normal.The use of the oregano tablets has been a bit of a juggling act but I have finally mastered it. I found that taking oregano tablets with maca, silicea and efamol a bit much as I felt billious and got indigestion so I have stopped taking maca and now take one oregano tablet in the morning when I get up, one at lunch time, one efamol at about 5:00 in the evening and two silicea when I go to bed. This regime is working fine and obviously adjust the tablets according to your own needs. If you need to take them with a meal as prescribed on the bottle, a banana or fruit of choice is fine as I am weight conscious and don't need to eat three meals a day but prefer small prtions of fruit (mangoes bananas pineapple and nectarines being the favourites) and veg or veg based soup with a small amount of cheese throughout the day so keeping healthy and slim at the same time!

UPDATE:

The one thing I regret is that I never took before, during and after photos of my fingers and toes but there are several reasons why I didn't. 1. I wasn't sure, at the onset whether my cure would ABSOLUTELY work. 2.There are already so many disgusting photos of this disgusting affliction already out there that I don't feel the need to add to and 3. I, like most of you, am infinately sensative and embarassed about having this 'THING' that I'm rather adverse to admitting it even albeit, to myself let alone the whole world! All I really can do is to iterate to you to try it and above all keep it up for at LEAST a year. Yes I've had setbacks and frustrations but I really am glad I persevered as I am now looking at beautiful pink normal nails and GROWING after 20 years of devastation and dissappointment. My husband has bought me beautiful gold rings with diamonds over the years that I've never worn and I promise you at Christmas I WILL be wearing them!!!! ALL OF THEM!!!

UPDATE:

I tried, recently, a little experiment on my one fingernail that still has a tiny bit of infection at the tip and that was to use a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in the soak. I didn't work at all in fact the infection went crazy and clouding crept half-way up the nail. Another interesting observation - it negated the action of the hydrogen peroxide and no bubbling occured so stick to original recipe - it's taken me a week to get the nail back to what it was before I tried the acv but, yet again we're back on track. Surprisingly, with so much good news out there about acv, it did not work and only made it worse. Wondered though whether it was the combination of chemicals or just the type of fungus I have.

Put it on: Get it gone!!

Patience Perseverance Partnership Positivity and Pay-off - may The Cure work for you!

DISCLAIMER:

Please be fully aware of all remedies on the internet and seek medical advice before trying them. I am NOT a medically qualified person therefore no medical malpractice suits here I have just garnered experience over the years that I am sharing with you. If you are allergic to any of the ingredients described in this remedy - do not use. Please read all instructions on the bottles,containers,packages etc included in this remedy carefully and fully as well as reading all dosages and instructions on oils, pills and chemicals purchased by yourself. Do not orally take any herbal or chemical item that is not specifically intended for consumption and once again seek medical advice before starting any cure, remedy or claim to curing any health issue and you should be safe.

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