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KMID : 1147820130020010001
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Journal of Naturopathy
2013 Volume.2 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.11
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Naturopathic Effects of Wood Vinegar Treatments to the Superficial Mycosis
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Kim Yoo-Bok
Lee Hyung-Hwan
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to clinically examine the sterilizing capacity of wood vinegar a natural material to use it for the natural therapy. The sterilizing (antimicrobial activity) capacity of wood vinegar was proved with an experiment and the clinical result was obtained with the foot soaking into it. The wood vinegar is made from the liquid obtained by natural cooling of smoke coming out when the wood becomes the charcoal or by dry distillation of wood chips. For this study, 6 types of wood vinegar (sample 2, 2.2, 3, 4, 5 and 5- 1) were prepared. The study subjects were 167 male dermatophytosis patients and 83 female ones, of whom the patients with dry athlete's foot(psoriasis) were 90(36%), ones with complex symptoms were 60(24.8%), ones with eczema were 42(16.8%) and ones with blister were 41(16.4%). These were separated into 3 groups of A, B and C and the experiment was carried out for 20 months. As the result, 80.8% of them were fully cured, and 19.2% were not. Among them, group C was fully cured up to 90.0%, group A to 84.0% and group B to 73.0%. In the diseases, the psoriasis showed the highest cure rate of 96.6%, the blister 87.7%, 2 or more complex symptoms 74%, the eczema 69% and the toenail 26.6%. In the group A, the blister was fully cured up to 92.8%, the eczema 80%, the psoriasis 95.1%, the toenail 40% and 2 or more complex symptoms 70%; in the group B, the blister was 66.6%, the eczema 55%, the psoriasis 97.3%, the toenail 22.2% and 2 or more complex symptoms 72%; in the group C, the blister was 94.4%, the eczema 100%, the psoriasis 100% and the complex symptoms 82.3%. There was one patient with the toenail in the group C, but the clinical experiment was stopped with 10 treatments. In the group C, the full cure rate was 90% in total. In conclusion, the wood vinegar was demonstrated as a clinically effective agent for healing dermatophytosis soaking feet in the wood vinegar of a plastic bag and also it is possible to develop as a antimicrobial agent.
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KEYWORD
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wood vinegar, fungus, superficial mycosis, eczema, psoriasis
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