He was treated…
Skin ointment formed a "hole" in the head of an Australian
Copper news based on the materials of the Daily Mail:
Man left with an inch-wide HOLE in his head after using 'quack' ointment to treat skin cancerA 55-year-old resident of the Australian city of Brisbane had a hole with a diameter of 2.5 centimeters on his head in the area of the right temple after using an ointment (black balm) for several months, which he hoped would rid him of skin cancer, according to the Medical Journal of Australia (Ong et al., Use of unlicensed black salve for cutaneous malignancy).
A snapshot from the journal with the results of the "treatment" is given at the end of the note. We do not recommend looking at it for the faint of heart – VM.
Black salve is used in alternative medicine as a remedy for the treatment of damaged skin (including skin cancer), applied to moles and scars. As a result of regular use, a black scar forms on the surface of the skin, which subsequently subsides. Black ointments were popular in the early 1990s, but in 2004 they were classified by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as fake remedies, and therefore measures were taken to prohibit their distribution in the United States.
The Australian Medicines Administration (TGA) recognized black balm as unsuitable for the treatment of skin damage only in 2012, but so far its distribution and use has not yet been banned. "There is no reliable scientific evidence that would confirm that black or red balsam can cure cancer," a TGA spokesman said. However, the warning of the Ministry of Health does not stop the widespread use of black ointment in the country.
The victim, hoping to cure skin cancer, used a black balm for four months and did not seek medical help from doctors until a black "hole" with a diameter of 2.5 centimeters formed on his head. The ointment he used, also known as "drawing salve", contained the alkaloid sanguinarine from the poisonous medicinal plant of the erect foot (Latin Potentilla erecta, or blood root), as well as zinc chloride.
To relieve severe headaches, the patient used narcotic painkillers, and the doctors at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, where he turned in September last year, initially thought that an operation would be required, however, after weighing all the pros and cons, they decided that they could do without surgery. The patient was prescribed medications and sent home, and three months later the hole in his temple was tightened.
"People use such ointments much more often than we think,– the Daily Mail quoted dermatologist Erin McMeniman as saying. – Patients often hide this fact, and doctors discover cases that already have serious complications. As a rule, the tumor is not cured, and even a year after the start of using the ointment, it continues to grow under the scar formed as a result of the use of black balm."
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