My Wife Gave Me Warts

[IdahoHerbalist]

and I need to figure out how to get rid of them.

Someone on another forum suggested holding a frog facing true North and licking the South end three times. 🙄 Not my idea of a great remedy.

So, what to you herbal experts have to say for a newbie?

[Dr. Patrick JonesHomestead Instructor]

That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. Everybody knows you face South and lick the North end.

Seems like my my daughter Merri had warts that we cleared up somehow years ago…black walnut tincture maybe? I’ll have to try and remember what we did. Maybe I wrote it down. I’ll call Merri and ask her. She’s young and her brain still works.

Speaking of warts…

About 20 years ago I was working for a dairyman that had a serious wart problem in his cows…big ugly suckers you could twist off. Anyway, I decided to collect a bunch so I could send them off to make an autogenous vaccine* for his herd. We spent the afternoon collecting the warts from cows till we had a pretty good bucket full. We stopped to look at one cow that was sick and when we were finished we went to get the bucket of warts. It was completely empty. We stood there scratching our heads for a minute and realized his boxer had eaten every last one. He looked really happy about it. The happiness was short-lived though. He apparently barfed them all onto the front porch later that evening. The guy called me to ask if we could still use them. I said “Only if you’re willing to gather them up”. He elected to get some fresh ones the next day. 😕

Take home message: Never kiss a dog.

Patrick

* An autogenous vaccine is made from samples taken from a specific population to be used for that population.

Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.

[IdahoHerbalist]

Doc Jones wrote: Take home message: Never kiss a dog.

There is more than one reason to not kiss a dog. Mostly because they can lick places most people don’t dare talk about in mixed company.

[MightyMom]

I came across this today its not all herbal lots of different things you could try. I have not tried any of these, but I figured I would pass it on and you could tell us if you try any and if they do/don’t work.

[kddock]

My daughter had warts that the Dr. “burned” off and they came back and brought friends. I went to the local health food store and got Thuja for warts, this is a sublingual tablet made by Borin. They come in a little blue tube and they just taste like sugar. Her warts were gone in about a week.

[Dr. Patrick JonesHomestead Instructor]

kddock wrote: My daughter had warts that the Dr. “burned” off and they came back and brought friends. I went to the local health food store and got Thuja for warts, this is a sublingual tablet made by Borin. They come in a little blue tube and they just taste like sugar. Her warts were gone in about a week.

Thuja is a homeopathic. I just read an interesting study on the use of homeopathic thuja on cows with warts. Within a couple of weeks, the treated cows’ warts fell off. The control group had no change.

Successes like these in veterinary homeopathy are pretty hard on the “placebo effect” theory for explaining homeopathy.

Patrick

Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.

[IdahoHerbalist]

So, do we have to act like cows to be treated then?

[Dr. Patrick JonesHomestead Instructor]

IdahoHerbalist wrote: So, do we have to act like cows to be treated then?

Hmmm, well I typically prefer my human clients to be “sick as a dog” before I work with them but I suppose if you made good cow noises it’d be OK too.

Patrick

Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.

[rhodehamel]

These are the 2 remedies I have used. Paint clear nail polish on them to suffocate them. They fall off soon. And put some apple cider vinegar on cotton tape it on the warts. The cider eats them up, I suppose. They both work. I had so many of them that the children in nursery at church were afraid of me! It was time to get rid of them! They fall off & don’t usually leave scars unless you have clusters of them.

[Dr. Patrick JonesHomestead Instructor]

I’ve been doing some reading on this, apparently fresh garlic juice or dandelion sap are also very reflective. Working on a case now. Will advise.

Doc

Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.

[HighlyHerbal]

Pau D’arco may help kill the germs that cause warts

I use it in wounded soldier:

EVOO = extra virgin olive oil (Gallo)

VCO = virgin coconut oil (Grace, cold pressed)

WS: Wounded Soldier: Heals wounds, moisturizes skin and scalp: 20 herbs, 6g X 20 herbs in 330ml EVOO, 330 ml VCO, 330 ml Shea butter, 180g beeswax. Apply into wounds and onto skin and scalp.

Aloe, burdock, calendula, chamomile, chickweed, comfrey, geranium, horsetail, lavender, lemon balm, lemon Peel, marshmallow, mullein, oat straw, pau d’arco, plantain, slippery elm, st john wort, witch hazel, yarrow.

🙂

[IdahoHerbalist]

Warts are caused by a virus.

[HighlyHerbal]

I should add star anise. Wonder how that would feel in the wound?

:yahoo:

[HighlyHerbal]

Its great stuff!

:big grin:

[HighlyHerbal]

an ingredient used in tamiflu for H1N!, a virus! :love:

[HighlyHerbal]

Apple cider helps when applied externally to problem skin conditions. I could make a variant salve of wounded soldier using apple cider vinegar. This will kill warts!

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