Woman left with massive hole in her nose after using herbal treatment she though would cure skin cancer

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES The patient rubbed black salve - an ointment which burns skin tissue - onto her face and forehead after opting to 'go the natural route' but it backfired horribly. photos after the cut.

A woman has revealed her horrific wounds after being left with a gaping hole in her nose when she left a herbal treatment she thought would cure her skin cancer.

The patient rubbed black salve - an ointment which burns skin tissue - onto her face and forehead after opting to 'go the natural route'. 

But the treatment backfired disastrously within just a few days when green scabs appeared as the salve ate away at her skin.

The damage became even more severe after the continued destruction of skin tissue left a gaping crater in her nose.

The hole became so bad she was able to draw air through it.

lack salve was more commonly used in the early 1900s on moles and scars.

The U.S.Food and Drug Administration has listed it as a 'fake cancer treatment' and is currently trying to ban it.

Describing her ordeal she said the alternative treatment had left her 'sickened and freaked out'.