big toe swelling, then nail is rotting off and toe is starting to turn black.?

Question

About a month ago my boyfriends big toe started to hurt, now it is so bad that the nail seems to be rotting off and his toe is so swollen and is beggining to turn black (from the tip to about 1/2 inch back) i'm very worried but he still wants to see if it'll heal on its own. What could it be??

Answer 1

Hi MP

Here is the best remedy/cure you can use (in my opinion). It's called hydrotherapy. Using hot and cold water to generate blood circulation where the body needs it most. THis process has been used for thousands of years and proved to be one of the most productive. Hot water brings blood to the surface and cold water surpresses it downward, in turn generating new blood cells into the diseased part of the body. Ideally, you also want to use pressure (like strong showerheads) to penetrate the body's depths for quicker results. Also intaking cayenne pepper is the internal king circulator. Moves blood like no other.



I would start by getting a bucket of hot water (hot as you can take it) and an ice filled bucket of water. Just go back and forth with each bucket about a minute each. Do this 10 times or so. Do this 2-3 times a day for as long as it takes to heal.
You could use the showere for this method with the hot and cold water, but most people wont do that.

Here is more information about Hydrotherapy and some testimonials for curing big diseases (including gangrene).



How you can use hydrotherapy at home to SPEED - UP any cure.

The best and cheapest thing any human can do to cure their disease is use water therapy.

You need to do two basic things :

1) Apply hot and cold water, as hot as possible and as cold as you can get it, to a diseased area.

2) Take hot and cold showers, or a hot shower, then jump in a bathtub of ice-cold water, or water with 20 - 40 pounds of ice in it.

The purpose of these two techniques is not torture. It is to BLAST blood into sick areas that are not getting enough blood. Until you do that, expect to stay sick.

There was one man who tired the programs for skin cancer, and they did not work. But he omitted one thing: the hot and cold showers. As soon as he did them, his skin cancer went away.

Simple Rules : For those who are frail, use common sense and start slowly. For instance, on babies, use warm water and cool water. Obviously, be gentle.

To get the most results, work yourself up to using as hot as you can stand it - without burning your skin - and as cold as you can stand it. When I do it at home, I don’t just use cold water. I found it works much better with bags of ice.

You do this at least twice a day. Once is a hot and cold shower, perhaps three of them if you are real sick. You do seven repetitions of hot and cold. If your shower doesn’t get real cold, use ice cubes in a bathtub. If you don’t have a bathtub, perhaps rub yourself with a wet, icy towel. Do your best.

Then, always use hot and cold directly on the sick or injured area - not just all over. This is essential.

For the cayenne oil, here is a simple formula.

A Formula for a cayenne heating oil.

Here is a formula anyone can make.

In a glass jar with a tight leakproof lid, place...

5 tablespoons of the HOTTEST cayenne powder you can find (over 250,000 heat units is suggested.) 20 ounces of Jojoba, Olive or Almond oil.

Make it on the New Moon and let it sit until the Full Moon, making sure to shake it every day. On the Full Moon, press or strain off the liquid.

Caution, this can be extremely hot. Start with a little and work your way up in amount.

Common mistakes made by readers who try hydrotherapy.

Due to timidity, readers under use this treatment. They don’t do it often enough, and they don’t do it strong enough. They don’t like to shiver, or they find it uncomfortable. Forget that. To me, continued sickness is more uncomfortable.

For example, when you are really ill, people should do hot and cold showers as much as 30 minutes a day, three times a day, 2 minutes cold and 5 minutes hot.

For people less ill, try 15 minutes once a day, 7 repetitions each of hot and cold.

Use your imagination. One reader saved his wife from a colon operation by using extremely hot and cold wet towels, back and forth, over her intestinal area.

For people with heart problems.

You can put really hot water, in the shower, or with hot towels, right on the chest, and then alternate with ice cold water or ice, and then go back and forth for seven times.

Start mild, depending on the person’s strength and vitality. Do not overshock them when they are weak. Use good judgement in everything. You can add hydrotherapy to the herbal compresses for serious heart disorders.

Hydrotherapy cured GANGRENE.

Several months ago, a man in the South had gangrene developing. He is an older man, a diabetic. His doctor said if it wasn’t better in days, his right foot was coming off.

He took 6-8 teaspoons a day of extra-extra hot cayenne pepper, in divided doses day and night. He took them in a cold beverage, or it is too hot to get down. The powder form of cayenne is what he used, never capsules. Forget capsules.

Then, he filled two large buckets, one with hot water and one with ice water. He did this and went back and forth. Then he applied a cayenne heating oil to the sick area when he was done. His leg healed, all signs of gangrene are gone.

What he could have done, if he needed to, was to add herbs to the treatment. Here is what can be done, for those who need to know.

Fill a large tub with hot water, add 4 ounces of cayenne pepper powder, 4 ounces of Ginger root powder, and 4 ounces of mustard seed powder. Put these herbs in a dish towel, tie it closed, and put it in the bath like a big tea bag. You will see the water turn orange.

Then, fill a large bucket with cold water plus 10 pounds or more of ice in it. Plastic garbage bins and wash baskets work well for this. Put the leg, or whatever, into the very hot bath for 5 to 10 minutes and then immediately into the cold for at least 2 minutes, but 5 to 8 minutes is much better. Do at least 5 repetitions of this.

A Final word

One of the things that helps out a lot of you reading these old documents and realizing that even if you go to the extreme, you won’t be reaching what was done a hundred years ago.

As far out as it appears you are not even approaching the intensity of what the old healers knew they had to do.

These old people had no choice. It didn’t seem to extreme because, to them, it was much more extreme to die. So nothing they did seemed extreme.

Again, it is more powerful than herbs - because it is the therapy that gets the herbs through the blood to the sick area.

Best of health to both of you

Answer 2

Black?!!
He'll be lucky if the doctors can save the stump of what's left.

This is obviously an infection gone very, very wrong. Tell him to get to a ER ASAP - gangrene can not only kill a digit or limb, but a person with a weak immune system can wind up dead or with permanent heart damage from blood poisoning.

As tissues begin to die, dry gangrene may cause some pain in the early stages or may go unnoticed, especially in the elderly or in those individuals with diminished sensation to the affected area. Initially, the area becomes cold, numb, and pale before later changing in color to brown, then black. This dead tissue will gradually separate from the healthy tissue and fall off.

Here's a link: http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/gangrene.jsp


If he were MY boyfriend I'd start looking for a new one just as soon as I dropped him off at the hospital. If he doesn't take his own health seriously, how can you expect him to take YOUR well-being any more so?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Sounds like gangrene to me. If he wants to wait until his toe falls off, that's his worry. It could be a sign of Diabetes, or because of smoking, if he smokes. He really needs to see a doctor. If any part of you turns black, that's because it's dying. If it turns out he's diabetic and he does't get it taken care of soon, he might lose the entire foot, or half his leg.
Tell him that and see if he's still happy to wait.

Answer 5

It sounds like he has a really bad infection in his toe. He needs to seek medical help as soon as possible. Because it sounds like gangrene is starting to take place. That needs to be taken care of immediately before he looses his toe.

Answer 6

Here's another answer that says 'he should see a doctor'. if that may help you persuade him. This question caught my attention because I've had so many ingrown toenails removed. I suppose they could have got that bad if ignored. But they SURE DON'T tend to get better on their own if they get very bad.

Answer 7

it may be an ingrowing toe nail, tell him to see a doctor

Answer 8

he really needs to see a Doc as soon as possible before whatever is wrong causes sepsis to spread throughout his body. the turning black is evidence it's not going to heal on it's own. is he diabetic?

Answer 9

not sure, all types of things. fungus, infection, bacterial.......best bet is to get him to see a foot doctor. Sorry to say though is more or less they'll wanna remove the nail so they can get under it and treat it.

Answer 10

dying.

he needs to go to a hospital, get on anti-biotics, and HOPEFULLY the doctors can do something to save the toe.

GO NOW!!!

Answer 11

my dad stubbed his toe once, and 10 years later he ended up having to have his foot removed, because he had chipped the bone, and it had gotten infected. same exact symptoms..... it was bone infection. he needs to go to the doctor asap..... he almost lost his entire leg...