• Suhail Rashid Mir
• Syed Tanveer

sodium bicarbonate-NaHCO3 has many domestic, traditional, medical, and empirical uses; only little scientific documentation of its activity is available. In present study anti-wart activity of sodium bicarbonate was studied. The warts were spread over lower facial and upper neck area (fig 1.1-1.4). The warts were cut at the base and applied with a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and castor oil in 1:1 proportion (fig 1.5). After 24 hours of the procedure the treated area was completely clotted (fig 1.6). After 48 hours of the procedure the area showed recovery with wounds completely dried up (fig 1.7). After 60 hours of the procedure the area showed only small scars (fig 1.8). After one weak, whole area was cleared of warts without any rudiment scar or black or brown spot (fig 1.9). No recurrence of the infection and any wart development were observed after a period of three months (fig 2.1). The study revealed the anti-wart activity of sodium bicarbonate which may be due to alkalization of the infected area which makes it unfit for the human papillomavirus and HPV infected cells to sustain, grow, and divide. It may be also due to release of CO2 by sodium bicarbonate and making the wart area oxygen deficient and killing the wart cells by anoxia and pH variation. Treatment of warts by sodium bicarbonate could be a cheap, affordable and easily available remedy to patients. It may result as a relief to millions of people suffering from warts. It also suggest sodium bicarbonate a valuable anti-cancer agent, however only little scientific documentation of its activity is available. There is need to study these properties of sodium bicarbonate in controlled experiments.

Sodium bicarbonate, warts, scar, anoxia, human papillomavirus, alkalization.

" Treatment of skin warts caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) by sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3).", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.1356-1364, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR180Z090.pdf

" Treatment of skin warts caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) by sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3).", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp1356-1364, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR180Z090.pdf