Home remedies · Mouth, teeth, eyes & feet
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Soak the foot for ten minutes in lukewarm water, then thin the hard spot carefully with pumice or a file — only as far as it does not hurt. Apply cream. And the decisive part: put a felt ring around it and look at the shoe that presses there.
A corn is not a disease but the skin’s answer to pressure at always the same place: it horns inward, and the core presses on the tissue beneath — hence the pain on standing. That is why taking the pressure away is the part that really changes something. Filing alone lets it grow back as long as the shoe stays the same.
It takes weeks, not days. Do not cut, no blade, no sharp tools — the wound is worse than the corn. Salicylic plasters soften the callus and irritate the healthy skin around it. And: what is hard and does not go is not always a corn. A plantar wart looks similar, carries black dots and hurts when squeezed from the side, not when standing.
With diabetes or a circulation problem this does not belong in one’s own hands — there any callus is removed by a foot-care professional or in the practice. Likewise with redness, warmth, pus, or if the spot is numb.
To the doctor or dentist: facial swelling with fever, toothache with trouble opening the mouth, a knocked-out tooth — that is an emergency with a short window. For the eye: sudden loss of vision, severe pain, flashes of light. Sore places in the mouth lasting beyond three weeks.