Ridding the hands of warts, naturally..

[inishindie]

Hi

I was just putting together some information on warts on the hands. Here are a few ideas, has anyone else had any success with other ideas?

Hand warts are very common and are caused by a virus called The Human Papilloma virus (HPV). This virus is not just responsible for hand warts. It is the cause of all warts. Hand warts make up a few strains of the wart virus. There are over 80 different strains of the warts virus and therefore warts can be found anywhere on the body. HPV is contagious and can be passed from one person to another, without the carrier of the virus actually having any hand warts or any other type of warts. The virus can lay dormant in the body for months without any warts surfacing. This makes HPV one of the fastest spreading viruses known today.

Getting rid of warts can be a bit of a trial and error. Here are a few ideas.

Warning: Even though these ideas appear harmless be very careful, as there could be side affects. Consult your doctor if you have and doubts. Never use any products with bleach in them

SIMPLE REMEDIES TO TRY

Lime juice: Drink diluted lime juice for a week or two.

Potato skin: Rub potato skin over the wart for a few weeks. Eventually the wart will drop off.

Sticky tape: Any form of sticky tape will do including sellotape or plasters. The tape is bound around the wart to cut off the air supply. Keep changing the tape until the wart disappears.

Clear nail varnish: This is also to cut off the air supply. Someone I knew used super glue to do it but this could prove to be a bit difficult to get off. I stuck my fingers together the other week with the stuff and it took a day washing in soapy water to get them unstuck!

Apple cider vinegar: Take the little cotton bit off a cotton bud and roll it into a ball. Soak it in the apple cider vinegar, apply it to your wart and tape it on. The first two days you might notice that your wart gets really big, but don’t worry- this happens to everyone because the vinegar is soaking in your wart. Normal white vinegar could be just as effective.

Raw garlic: Cut a section of garlic in half and rub it on the warts. After a couple of weeks they should disappear.

Witch hazel: Rub into the wart a couple of times a day until it disappears.

Banana skin: Rub in the same as above

Vitamin A and E: Increase these vitamins in your diet, this is said to help.

Dandelion’s milk: The white liquid that comes from the stem is rubbed on the wart a few times.

Tea tree oil: Rub oil on wart two times a day within a week or so it will be gone. Use good quality 100% tea tree oil.

Echinacea. Health shops stock this plant extract. Use as per the instructions on the bottle. The plant is said to increase your immune system and comes highly recommended by those who try it.


Power of thought: People can cure their ailments with the power of positive thinking. This might be just as effective as any of the remedies I have just mentioned.

Cheers

Ian

[eccentric_emma]

The power of thought definitely works, as my mother in law always used to 'buy' other peoples warts off them and they would disappear (she would never get them), but she would give the afflicted person a coin for each wart and within a week they would be gone! Can't explain it but its worked for several people. Must just be the power of belief!

[Silver Ether]

found it ... Dogs mercury is another remedy

Dog's mercury is poisonous in the fresh state, though thorough drying or heating is said to destroy the poisonous principle[4]. The fresh juice of the whole plant is emetic, ophthalmic and purgative. It is used externally to treat women's complaints, ear and eye problems, warts and sores[4, 9, 21]. A lotion made from the plant is used for antiseptic external dressings[4]. A homeopathic remedy is made from the plant[9]. It is used in the treatment of rheumatism, dropsy, diarrhoea and disorders of the gall bladder and liver[9].
Other Uses

[Louiseh]

Just thought I would add my natural remedy for the curing of warts!

My husband suffers from them and doing some research for something else, I came across a treatment using Neem Oil.

Simply rub the neem oil over the infected area, soak a cotton poultice in the Neem Oil as well and wrap over the area, do this for approx a week, and re apply daily, and there should be an improvement.

Certainly worked for my husband.
Hope this may be of interest.

[Thurston Garden]

As an evil child I mocked a mate who had a wart on the knuckle of his thumb. I still remember being in the Cubs, sitting in the front pew of the church on Remembrance Sunday and pulling a Midget Gem out of my sweetie poke, balancing it on the knuckle of my thumb pretending it was his wart.

It was clearly a foolish thing to do because months after, I was rewarded for my nastiness - I got a wart...you guessed it - on the knuckle of my thumb.

Over the years I tried most of the above remedies (and other, definitely more hopeless attempts like burying meat in the garden!) and 30 odd years on it's still there.

I am now kind of attached to it. And vica versa.

[ina]

Oh dear. Maybe you could get rid of it by some kind of atonement - massive apologies to the child in question, who is now of course not a child any more, but has probably suffered all his life from your mockery...

[Thurston Garden]

massive apologies to the child in question, who is now of course not a child any more,

Married with three children!

but has probably suffered all his life from your mockery...

Nah, I learned my lesson that day, in more ways than one.

[ina]

Nah, I learned my lesson that day, in more ways than one.

What - did he give you a good hiding after church?

[red]

I was goiing to suggest 'time' as a cure.. as I found in time they went away by themselves... but given TGs story of his 30yo wart...maybe not

I have heard that if you get ill, your immune system kicks in and wipes out the warts too.. but that seems a bit extreme.

[Thurston Garden]

but given TGs story of his 30yo wart...maybe not

It's very small. Hardly noticeable.

[ina]

A friend's son had a wart under a toe nail! That had to be removed surgically... Well, I don't know whether they tried any "natural" methods. He was still a child then.

[Sky]

Don't they just go away by themselves, the body builds an immunity against them and they never come back?

[Hawthorn]

No.

I had a wart for 15 years, and tried allsorts, including over the counter medication.

I worked at a carehome, and my dad suggested I rub it on a corpse, so I did. It went within a month

[Sky]

Oh I thought they were caused by a virus and the body beat it unless the immune not strong enough

[ina]

Oh I thought they were caused by a virus and the body beat it unless the immune not strong enough

I think that's the theory - but nobody told the warts they have to behave in this way...