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Warts

If you pick up any old herbal text, or even just Google ‘warts and herbs’ you will find a wonderful smorgasbord of possible remedies and cures. In fact you can see some of ye olde folk medicine at its most colourful when it comes to warts; the various treatments on offer ranging from the possible all the way to the bizarre.

As much as I would like to claim that there really is a sure-fire herbal cure for warts I just can’t. Some things will always work for some people but the thing about warts is that if whatever you do isn’t up to the job then the evidence is going to stare right back at you saying “…ah nice try, but no”.

Rather than add to the list of maybe and possible herbal cures I am going to humbly grit my teeth and pass on a strategy that, at this point in time, seems to have the highest success rate out of all the available options. 

Several years ago, Dr. Dean Focht, a medical resident at Madigan Army Hospital in Tacoma, Washington, had 51 individuals, who were aged from between 3 to 22 to use either standard liquid nitrogen freezing therapy or "duct tape therapy" for wart removal.

Of the 25 individuals using duct tape, 85 percent had their warts disappear, usually within a month. In the 26-member liquid nitrogen group, only 60 percent of the warts went away.

The duct tape therapy is very straightforward: simply cut the duct tape to a size that fully covers the wart and stick it on for six days. Then remove the tape, soak the wart in water, and buff it down with a piece of pumice or an emery board. Give what is left a chance to breathe for a little bit but if there is any appreciable amount of wart still left then twelve hours later re-apply a new piece of duct tape and repeat the whole cycle until the wart has fully disappeared.

Depending on where you have placed the tape you might find that it keeps falling off, or you might just like to disguise it better, in either case using the right sized Band-Aid to cover the duct tape may make things easier and will not interfere with the treatment at all. 

Do make sure you get the right material to start with. Duct tape is a little different to other adhesive tapes in the way that it makes a ‘seal’ over what it covers and this is obviously a key to the treatment working.

All that said in terms of the ‘getting rid’ of part; there may be a deeper issue going on with warts that needs to be looked at.

Warts happen because a virus gets past the immune system’s defences and makes itself at home. If you are keep warts and they don’t quietly go away no matter what you do then this is your body trying to tell you that you need to build up your immune health. If that is the case then find a good herbalist to help.

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