Old-School Wart Removal Technique

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SifuPhil

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I was electronically thumbing through a home-remedy paper last night and came across a section on wart removal techniques.

I was familiar with many of the techniques mentioned - hydrogen peroxide, various herbal and vegetable poultices, laser surgery, cryogenic removal - but there was one that I had never heard of before, for which the author claimed great success.

Menstrual blood.

It was claimed that a drop or two of menstrual blood placed on a bandage and placed over the wart will remove the wart within two or three daily applications.

Anyone ever hear of this cure, or tried it?
 

I don't think the wifey can help me there. However, back to duct tape.....I read if you cut small squares of tape and apply to wart, it will remove, in time, the wart. Also, I have used New Skin Liquid Bandage to remove those little dangling things we older folks get and it works. Just apply daily for a few days and it will dry up and fall off. I think they call them tags or something like that.
 
Pappy said:
I don't think the wifey can help me there. However, back to duct tape.....I read if you cut small squares of tape and apply to wart, it will remove, in time, the wart. Also, I have used New Skin Liquid Bandage to remove those little dangling things we older folks get and it works. Just apply daily for a few days and it will dry up and fall off. I think they call them tags or something like that.
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Yep, skin tags (we always called them "polyps") - the main difference being that they're actually benign tumors. With those I've heard of people just using nail clippers and a Band Aid, tea tree oil and, of course, the good ol' duct tape cure. I hadn't heard about Liquid Bandage, though - thank you!
 
SifuPhil said:
Yep, skin tags (we always called them "polyps") - the main difference being that they're actually benign tumors. With those I've heard of people just using nail clippers and a Band Aid, tea tree oil and, of course, the good ol' duct tape cure. I hadn't heard about Liquid Bandage, though - thank you!
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You can also use acetone - purchased from your local beauty supply. Be careful to get the cotton ball or swab really wet, without dripping. Acetone evaporates quickly and can ruin your furniture and/ or clothing if spilled.

Some face cremes, formulated for acne and containing benzoylperoxide, desiccate skin tags as effectively as hydrogen peroxide freezes them off. Aspirin, dissolved in a very tiny bit of water, also dries skin tags and warts but not as well as acetone or benzoylperoxide.

There are so many effective wart removal home remedies that It seems a shame to visit a doctor for wart removal unless the treatment area is impossible to reach without help or the wart is secondary to a more complex and/ or virulent infection or illness.
 
When I was a teenager, I had several on the bottom of my right foot. The treatment then was to put foot in water and apply electricity to the foot. This went on for several weeks and each time the doctor had to scrape them with a scalpel which hurt like the devil. I think the name was plantar warts or something like that. Took many weeks to get rid of them.
 
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I remember having those plantar warts on my feet.
Another way (which I do NOT recommend) to remove them, is to walk barefoot on extremely hot pavement in the summertime. All I did was walk across the road to get the mail out of the mailbox, and could barely make it back across the street, I burned my feet so bad.
However, soon after, the warts disappeared off the bottom of my feet, and that was the end of that.
Previously, I had been applying that corn and wart remover from Dr. Scholls, which didn't do anything at all.

Later, I read that using clear fingernail polish would work, and I am sure it would be a lot less painful than blistering ones feet on hot pavement.
 
I had a wart on my finger when I was about 5 or 6 and it really bothered me as I couldn't hide it. Grandma gave me an old rotten potato and told me to rub the wart with it, then bury it and don't tell anyone where. So I did and I swear, the wart went away. She said as the potato
rotted the wart did too. Funny thing was that I buried it under the front door step and we ended up having a few taters grow there.
 
A very good way to get rid of warts is to rub them with
the white sap of a Dandelion, this works really quickly.

I don't know if they grow World Wide, bu they are a
weed here in the UK.

Mike.
 
I was covered in warts as a kid, aged about 11 and my parents tried every cure imaginable but no luck. In desperation they took me to a faith healer who asked to touch each wart as he mumbled some sort of healing prayer. He told me they would fade within a week and, lo and behold, they all did - except the one on my right thigh that I forgot to tell him about - it's still there today on my 66 year old leg! How about that for proof if worked.
 
kel397 said:
I was covered in warts as a kid, aged about 11 and my parents tried every cure imaginable but no luck. In desperation they took me to a faith healer who asked to touch each wart as he mumbled some sort of healing prayer. He told me they would fade within a week and, lo and behold, they all did - except the one on my right thigh that I forgot to tell him about - it's still there today on my 66 year old leg! How about that for proof if worked.
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I guess faith healing is one of those things you really have to experience yourself, and could never take anyone else's word for.

The former magician in me says that your healer might have had a little cotton-ball dipped in Wartz-Off palmed in the classic Thumb Palm position and merely wetted each wart as he touched it.

Not saying it didn't work - just questioning the mechanism. I've seen too many false faith healers and know too many of their tricks to suddenly believe in miracles.
 
SifuPhil said:
I guess faith healing is one of those things you really have to experience yourself, and could never take anyone else's word for.

The former magician in me says that your healer might have had a little cotton-ball dipped in Wartz-Off palmed in the classic Thumb Palm position and merely wetted each wart as he touched it.

Not saying it didn't work - just questioning the mechanism. I've seen too many false faith healers and know too many of their tricks to suddenly believe in miracles.
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Ah Phil - then you wouldn't want to hear my story about playing squash in my early 20s after an horrific car accident at 19 that put me in The Royal Melbourne Hospital for six months - they took out my shattered kneecap (among other injuries) and about every three games of squash I would go down in a screAming heap and would be back on a walking stick for three days. Then as a reporter for channel 10 I interviewed British faith healer Doris Stokes who touched my knee during the interview and told me it would get incredibly hot. It did and I'm not the type to be hypnotized so I believe the heat was real. What I can tell you is that I was then about 27 and now I'm 66 and that knee has never clicked out since. I've just had the knee replaced and the surgeon couldn't believe I'd been 47 years (since the accident) without a kneecap! I'm normally a sceptic like you but there's two examples in my life where faith healing has helped me - and I didn't seek out either one!
 
Again, I can't fault results, but I can question methodologies. Stokes had been exposed as having routinely "padded" her audiences so she would know ahead of time what questions and answers to provide. She also claimed credit for solving murders in both the UK and the U.S., but it was later revealed she had added nothing to the investigations.

With someone like that, if they did indeed have real abilities then they wouldn't need to fake them. Perhaps your knee was ready to become whole again and Stokes provided the psychological boost. Maybe she had warm hands and you were in the proper frame of mind to receive healing touch (something very different than reconstructing a shattered patella with a mere touch).

Like I said, I'm glad that you haven't had problems with that knee since. I spent a good part of my life practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which is a field rife with fakers. A large portion of them are expert-level psychologists and know how to put on an act so that a willing participant heals themselves. But the folks that ignite a piece of paper with their fingers, or repel 20 stout men with a flick of their shoulder? No, it doesn't work that way.

Qi (Chi, Ki, Prana) is to me a very real thing, but it isn't the Hollywood special effect it's often made out to be.
 
This from the same woman whose advice for ED was to place a vibrator on the highest branch of an elm tree while reciting:

From top of this tree
To the highest rock cliff
May my Johnson be
Bigger and wider and stiif

:rolleyes:
 
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