To the "OLE TIMERS", Grandmas Wart TRTMT.?

[Beetree]

What did your Grandma do for warts? I have heard many things from burying a dishcloth, to rubbing the wart with broom straws on the full moon. I am sure, according to research many of them work. It is interesting to hear the different methods. I had a Dermatologist tell me that a study at John Hopkins I believe it was had a 98% cure rate with using cod liver oil on plantars warts. I tried it and it worked on mine (after 13 surgeries)! Oh and have a great and Blessed Thanksgiving!!!!!! Bee

 

[SmartAZ]

Vitamin E sometimes works on warts. You can buy "Pure Vitamin E Skin Beauty Oil" at any drugstore for about $10 an ounce, or you can poke a hole in a capsule and squeeze the vitamin out. I always have a bottle on hand. I use it on any cut or scrape to prevent scars from forming, and occasionally I dab a bit on any suspicious spot I see.

 

[Beetree]

Vit. E

Vitamin E is very healing, and I will tell my niece (has a small one on her hand) to try that. We'll see if it works!

 

[hummer]

What did your Grandma do for warts? I have heard many things from burying a dishcloth, to rubbing the wart with broom straws on the full moon. I am sure, according to research many of them work. It is interesting to hear the different methods. I had a Dermatologist tell me that a study at John Hopkins I believe it was had a 98% cure rate with using cod liver oil on plantars warts. I tried it and it worked on mine (after 13 surgeries)! Oh and have a great and Blessed Thanksgiving!!!!!! Bee

I am definitely going to try that on my plantar warts....on both feet. Also, when I was a kid I had warts all over my hands and knees....many, many warts. My folks took me to old Doctor Critchfield and he prescribed this "stuff" that the druggist had to mix up and put into a small white jar, about the size of a small Vicks jar. It was a gooey black tar; that's the only way I can describe it....Each night my folks would take a q-tip and dab some of that stuff on every wart on me, and then we would cover them with a band-aid or a piece of gauze cut from the roll....that was to keep that tar stuff off the sheets and my pj's. All my warts disappeared within a few weeks of using that stuff. I wish I knew what it was because it worked miracles! You know, as I am writing this I can actually smell that stuff!

 

[Beetree]

What are Warts anyway?

What are these pockets that form outside our normal skin coating? What if the amazing body has a way of taking bad terrorists attacks and eliminating them by extracting them and sealing them off? What if cancer is detected in the body and then extracted and sealed off outside of the body? Wow. Maybe warts are our friends. They are maybe the way the body gets RID of cancer! Has anyone researched this? Even plantars warts could possibly be the body saying " you aren't getting in this foot, I am sealing you off!". "You EVIL thing!".

 

[rafter]

I am definitely going to try that on my plantar warts....on both feet. Also, when I was a kid I had warts all over my hands and knees....many, many warts. My folks took me to old Doctor Critchfield and he prescribed this "stuff" that the druggist had to mix up and put into a small white jar, about the size of a small Vicks jar. It was a gooey black tar; that's the only way I can describe it....Each night my folks would take a q-tip and dab some of that stuff on every wart on me, and then we would cover them with a band-aid or a piece of gauze cut from the roll....that was to keep that tar stuff off the sheets and my pj's. All my warts disappeared within a few weeks of using that stuff. I wish I knew what it was because it worked miracles! You know, as I am writing this I can actually smell that stuff!

Sounds like black salve. Was it oily and smelled like tar? I found some over the counter...a pharmisist turned me on to it for a boil.

I'll have to go dig it out of the medicine cabinet to give you the "correct" name.

 

[summerthyme]

The black salve is ichthammol (and that's probably spelled incorrectly.... but my tub of it is in the barn). Never heard of it being used for warts, but it's often used as a "drawing salve" to help infections and boils come to a head.

Beetree- warts are viral. Probably more than one virus causes them, I suspect, because of the different way they manifest... I don't believe plantar warts can be spread to other parts of the body, for example.

We have problems with them on the teats of dairy cows. I'm experimenting with a tea tree oil based salve... too early to tell if it will help. They are contagious, but not every animal in the barn gets them. Which leads me to believe that there is an immune system component in there.

The "official" method which has been proven to work on warts is to starve them of oxygen. Duct tape works (really!)... wash the warty area of the skin well, dry it thoroughly, and apply a piece of duct tape large enough to completely cover the wart and seal it off from the air. Leave it on.... replacing it when needed to wash or because it's getting ratty. But leave it on for a couple of weeks, day and night.

At some point, the wart will fall off when you remove the tape, and it won't come back in that spot.

Summerthyme

 

[ceeblue]

Warts need air. Starve them of air and they'll die. At least that's the theory. I have one that always comes back, even after burning or freezing. But it will die off after being deprived of air with a bandage, duct tape, cod liver oil, triple antibiotic cream, petroleum jelly. Just starve it of air with grease and a tight cover.

Grandma said to cut a potato up, take a piece with an eye and rub it on the wart and bury it under a full moon. As the moon waned the wart would die. At least it's also a good time to plant potatoes.

Back in my teenage years I stared one away, just looked at it and concentrated on the good skin around it until it disappeared from my vision. Did that a few times a day for awhile and it turned into a little brown spot that didn't catch on my watch band. Probably a coincidence.

Another thing that's supposed to work and makes mine tingle is juice from a milky plant like dandelion or milkweed.

 

[Beetree]

Well..

Hummer, those are so painful! It is like walking on a rock! Then sometime they burn when you have running shoes on! I hope you can irradicate them! My Dr. said that he did not want to cut on my foot anymore, after cutting so many holes. That is when he gave me the cod liver oil cure. Duck tape seems successful for many folks. I have read about that in the news (no links sorry). Duck tape on the foot though??? I don't know how airtight that would be. Do you have potatoes?
Summerthyme, what a delicate spot (cow teats) to have to put anything strong. So sad that the cows have them there. Then you have the milking or calves sucking there to further chap the already perhaps aggravated area. I am praying for those warts to go away!
It makes sense that some things would work on some warts and not on others if they are different viruses. It was funny that as soon as I touched the Cod Liver Oil to the Plantar Wart I had; It immediately stopped hurting. The oil must have been exactly what was needed to kill the virus. Then there might be stronger forms, or different types of virus that the oil would not have worked on. It is a matter of perhaps finding just the right thing, which is a real bummer because it perhaps means trying many things. It can be downright discouraging. The right thing to do is to be aggressive and do not give up. Keep at it until the darn thing is gone! An image comes to my mind that is not appropriate but I must share it now. It is an image of a photo I saw in the news last week of the girl with a 16 pound growth on her face that is being removed by surgeons. But that was not a wart. Warts don't get "that" big! Okay sorry! I am somewhat bored tonight and I think I will go and try to get the tsumami special on Discovery that was talked about on the board tonight.
Thanks for the conversing on here about the cures! I hope more conversing comes! And Summerthyme I AM praying for the cows! Thanks, and yall have a great week!

 

[fruit loop]

Duct tape

Works wonders. Sometimes those pads used to treat corns work too

 

[MtnView in WA]

Just as Ceeblue mentioned, I've always use a potato. It doesn't have to have eyes and it can be a red potato or an Idaho baking potato. I cut it up in 8 pieces and rub the wart - where ever it may be - with each side of the potato. I left the area air dry before putting socks and shoes or other clothing back on. Then I put the other pieces in a bag in the frig and repeat each day until all the pieces are gone. Worked like a charm everytime. Wish I heard about this years ago when I had to have some plantar warts sugically removed.

 

[ceeblue]

It really works? Grandma wasn't pulling my leg?

Gee, sorry Grandma.

I'll try it.

 

[MtnView in WA]

Yep, it really does work. It may take a week to see some change, but after that it heals up pretty quick. I've used it for plantar warts and for warts that pop up on my hands once in awhile. Sometimes the folk remedies are the best.

You know, I need to go buy some potatos this week - I usually don't have them in the house because then I have to have butter, sour cream and bacon bits.

When it's the rainy season like it is now, the dogs tend to have warts show up around their paws.