Has anyone a remedy for removing warts?

Question

I have one on the knuckle of my thumb. It seems to have appeared from nowhere

Answer 1

banana peel cut a peace a little biger than the wart hold it on with a plaster replace the peel every three to four day's after 2 weeks or so it will disappear

Answer 2

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Answer 3

My Mom removed a wart using the duct tape treatment. There's no real proof that it works, but at this point, it is worth a try. She was freezing it with the Dr. Scholl's kit, but then she started using the salicylic acid on it, and then she covered it with a strip of duct tape around her finger. Your mileage may vary, based on the location of your warts, but put the duct tape on each day, removing only long enough to shower and change the tape. There's different methods, but that's the one my Mom used. It's on all the time until the wart goes away.

Answer 4

Put a piece of duct tape on it until it goes away. I didn't believe it would work, but I got this advice from my dermatologist and it got rid of my wart in less than a week. It didn't hurt at all, the wart just dried up and fell off.

Answer 5

Compound W works wery well, but you have to follow the instructions properly. It takes about a week to get rid of a small one. If you can have it frozen off at your surgery that's even better - but can be painful.

Answer 6

There is something in the chemist called Compound W, its a liquid and you put it on every day, it sort of burns it away. I used it and it never came back. Its painless and works very well.

Answer 7

See a surgeon or dermatologist. Do not try over the counter remedies.

Answer 8

Warts

Freshly killed chicken gizzard rubbed on the wart. The gizzard may have been sliced open. After rubbing it on the wart, you were to bury the gizzard and never look at it again. This worked on my little brother's warts that had resisted conventional medical treatments. Maybe it was the power of persuasion. Sabrina Barton

Some of these old remedies do seem to work. When I was a kid ( back in the 1940s) I had large warts on my hands. My grandmother told me to cut a potato in half and rub the raw potato on my hands several times a day. Before I knew what was happening, those things just disappeared. Sure make a believer out of me !!! Connie Humphrey

It is really not an old time cure, but it's a cheap alternative. Two years ago my little girl got a bad case of plantar warts on the bottoms of her feet. We have no health insurance and my husband had lost his job, and I thought "what am I going to do?" I began researching on the web and found a bulletin board, and several people posted that Tea Tree Oil had made their plantar warts disappear.

Well, Tea Tree Oil is a great antiseptic and we keep it in the house all the time. Several years ago I had a large wart on my face, and the doctor wanted $100 to remove it. I used the Tea Tree Oil every night, and in two weeks the wart was gone.

So, I used the Tea Tree Oil on my daughter's plantar warts. It worked great! The warts were gone in about two months. A doctor would have used expensive treatments or lazer surgery. All it took to get rid of them was a couple of $6 bottles of Tea Tree Oil from the Natural Health
store, and some patience.

Tea Tree Oil is from Australia. I purchase mine at the local Natural Health and vitamin store, for about $6 a bottle and it lasts a long time (we've had our current bottle for about two years). The one I like best is in a dark brown bottle and is by a company called NOW. Tea Tree Oil is great for lots of things --- warts, acne, etc. Maggie Hays

A friend of my mother's has a set of twin girls. One of them had a problem with warts on her hands. So, every night before bed, she'd put petrolium jelly (vasoline) on her hands and then put rubber gloves over them so she wouldn't get the stuff all over the bed linen. After several days (not sure how many), the warts were gone. Leanne Evans

Take a vitamin A gelcap...split it open and rub the oil on the wart......will see results 3 to 6 days..completely gone. KissKi88

My brother had a hugh wart on the little finger of his right hand ,,it covered the second section of the finger and stuck out at least 1/4 inch or more. Nasty looking thing. He had tried all kinds of wart removers to no avail. He worked in a gasoline station/garage, as they were called back then. He was restoring an old car and had just bought a new wrench,,well somehow it got knocked into a vat of acetone, and without thinking my brother just plunged his hand into it to grab the wrench before it went to the bottom,,and luckily he grabbed it. He cleaned of his hand and the next morning at breakfast our Mother asked what had he done to get rid of the wart. He said he hadn't done anything. Mom said,,well, it is gone,,what did you do? He told Mom about the acetone saying that was the only thing he could think of that was unusual that had happened. Mom said,,go upstairs and see if it is in your bed. Sure enough it was,,it had fallen off during the night. Not long ago, I had a wart on the back of my hand. I had tried several remedies and nothing got rid of the wart. Then remembered what had happened with my brother. I went to Wal Mart,,got some fingernail polish remover with acetone. I would saturate a quetip with the nail polish remover with acetone and dab it on the wart for about three or four times every day for about a week,,and every day I could see the wart shrinking, it finally just flaked off. Works,,don't ask me why,,although I have a theory,,don't know if it is correct. If warts are caused by a virus maybe the acetone freezes the virus and kills it ..don't know, just guessing. Acetone is cold. Works faster if you can find acetone. Alice Cokus

There is nothing better to get rid of warts than plain old duct tape. Make sure you get the type that has cloth fibers in it. Just cut a small piece and place it over the wart. In about a week the wart will die. If you feel silly running around with a piece of duct tape stuck to yourself, just cover the whole thing with a Band- aid. Ed Bayer


For warts: rub with dandelion milk; just pick flower and rub on wart. Chas


I am 63 now and three or four times during my life I have been afflicted with numerous warts on my hands. When I was a boy with the warts my grandmother told me to pick up a smooth, round pebble and rub the stone over each wart a few seconds, saying at the same time "wart, wart, go away". Then I was told to bury the rock. All the warts disappeared in a few days. Although this procedure sounds silly, I have performed this rite several times with positive results. I believe it is an illustration of the power of the mind to heal the body. Don Joliff


I read in a book of Grandmas home remedies when I was a teenager (this cure) and tried it. It worked on me, and since then, my daughter, son, sister-in-law, and several friends. Unfortunately this cure is seasonal... Take a pod from a milkweed plant, and apply the white milk seeping out of the pod twice daily for two weeks, and bye bye gone gone. No more warts...and they don't come back, ever! We found this to be somewhat sticky so we applied the milk to the pad on a bandaid and then to the wart. This worked great!

Answer 9

LICK THE END OF UNUSED MATCHSTICK AND RUB IT ON THE WART ,, HAD A WART ON MY KNEE FOR YEARS AND IT WAS THE ONLY THING THAT WORKED

Answer 10

go to your doctor's and have him freeze them off with a liquid nitrogen gun. It will hurt like you can't believe, but this is the only tried and true way.