Can I do a wart remover challenge? :)

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Duct tape. Worked for hubby when nothing else would.
 

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For what it's worth an old remedy was to go to an oak stump and use the water/ dew/ rain that collected on the stump and apply it to the wart. I think it was the tannins.

Warts are caused by viruses and most probably just run their course with remedies being linked to the cure and disappearance.
 

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My mom said that her sis had numerous warts on her hand when she was little. An old man told her to put a paper bag over her hand and whoever took it off would get her warts and hers would disappear! Mom said it worked! :p I've heard tales like this before and never believed them, but Mom wouldn't tell me a lie~especially about something that silly. Wonder what really happened there! ;)
 

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I am still collecting these, btw. My intention is when I stop working, to begin with the remedies that require me to walk around with stuff stuck to my head. Then, if none of those work to buy that $30 tube of stuff.

I thought of using clear fingernail polish and trying it now, but I think it would make my hair stick up funny. What do you think? LOL

Cassandra
 

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I had one on my finger when I was about 16. Vitamin E 2x day and in a few weeks, I looked down and it was gone. The vitamin E was great because it's clear and doesn't turn white like the store bought wart remover. My friend's aunt is the one that told me about the vitamin E.
 

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OK, here goes. When I was a kid, I had a wart on my knee, and my mom was not one to run to the doctor or buy stuff at the store. Somewhere or someone told her that if you take a Y shaped twig off of a maple tree, rub it on the wart, and then put it back into the tree. Now, don't just put it where it can fall right back out, make it a little "stuck" and when it blows out your wart will go away. I don't know if it was just going to happen anyway, or what, but I do know the wart went away and I never had another one. You might want to try this instead of cutting it right now . . .OUCH!! I know cutting them off does do it, but gee whiz, what a way to do it!Keep us posted on the wart saga!!:p
 

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I use frankincense oil(essential oil) to remove warts. One drop every day and it goes to the happy wart hunting ground in the sky:)
 

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What my grandmother explained to me, and I haven't researched to see if it's true, is that warts are a vitamin A deficiency. Assuming my grandmother was right, that would be why this worked for you.

Asparagus is high in vitamin A! ;)
This is legit! I had a couple plantar warts that nothing worked on. I was desperate and saw vitamin A time delay video on youtube. Too crazy to not try it!

I added a lot of vitamin A to my diet and applied vitamin A to the warts twice daily. Worked completely, they havent come back.

Apparently, vitamin A limits replication of the virus that causes the wart.
 

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My mom said that her sis had numerous warts on her hand when she was little. An old man told her to put a paper bag over her hand and whoever took it off would get her warts and hers would disappear! Mom said it worked! :p I've heard tales like this before and never believed them, but Mom wouldn't tell me a lie~especially about something that silly. Wonder what really happened there! ;)
Children are very susceptible to placebo effect for removing warts!! Jealous! Too bad that doesnt work for adults!
 

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My husband had a wart growing on his back. It was about the size of my thumb. Doctor wasn't worried about it but I didn't like it. I tried a remedy I found online. I sterilized a needle and poke the wart a couple of times. I then took an ACV-soaked cottonball and taped it into place. I replaced it every night for 4 days. (My husband couldn't take the smell anymore) The wart was gone and the doctor was amazed.
 

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