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Warts: Ways to Get Rid of Them Naturally, and Not so Naturally.

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Warts can be painful, disfiguring, and difficult to get rid of.

The following information has been gathered and compiled through personal experience, while traveling, teaching classes that include T’ai Chi, Qi Gong, herbal information, martial arts and other health related subjects.  The article also contains feedback from students and anecdotal information from readers of my columns.  The following are my opinions and deductions from those sources.

If you’ve had your warts frozen, burned, bathed in acid, electrocuted, covered with lotions and creams, radiated and/or been told to howl at the moon when it’s full, all of which have failed to get rid of them, you might find these natural, and semi-natural, treatments beneficial.

One of the more common warts are Plantar’s warts.  What are plantar’s warts?  Plantar’s warts are the ones that grow on the planter surface of the feet.  They can be quite painful and can make it difficult to walk even short distances. 

I’ve used banana peels, the inner white portion, on other warts and have read accounts where others have success using the following methods on the Plantar’s variety.  After the banana has turned brown on the outer peel, turn it inside out and tape enough of the inner white portion to cover the desired area, to the wart.  Using this same procedure worked for me with warts on my elbow.  You have to change the peel daily and trim away the dead portion of the wart on a weekly basis.  The wart takes from a week to a few months to be completely gone.  The time necessary depends on the size of the wart, but usually requires a couple of weeks.

What do you do with the over ripe bananas?  You can make banana nut bread.  If you freeze the bananas first you don’t need to add sugar, which lowers your immune response, and warts are thought to be prevented, in part, by a strong immune system.  Frozen bananas make a delicious and healthful dessert.  Just put about ten pieces in a bowl with some nuts, and maybe a few blueberries, and your dessert is ready and there is no long list of chemical additives.  Play with the ingredients, just forget the sugar.

some people find that applications of vitamin A, E, castor oil, or cod liver oil will remove warts.  This seems to be somewhat hit and miss.  One of the ways that seems to be very successful is applying a drop of fresh milkweed sap directly on the wart, two or three times daily.  The sap can cause a slight burning or make the wart swell slightly.  I was told that one shouldn’t pick at or trim the wart or scab, and that the wart will fall off leaving a nice smooth surface.

A semi-natural remedy involves aspirin.  Very slightly moisten a regular aspirin and tape it to the wart.  It’s best to use a band-aid since you’ll need to keep the aspirin moist for three or four days.  After that time, remove the aspirin, and the wart will begin to turn a dark color in a few days and fall off.  The difficult part would appear to be keeping the aspirin moist, day an night for a few days.  It might be possible to put a small gauze pad and bandage over the band-aid.  A stretch bandage, like what’s used on ankles and knees, might make the whole process less time consuming and make the explaining easier.

I’ve been told by some that they’ve used duct  (duck) tape to get rid of warts.  You just put the tape over the wart, change it every two days and in a week the wart is said to fall off.  I haven’t tried it, and some of the people I talked to had varying timeframes.      

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I was born in Los Angeles in 1940. My father was a fighter pilot instructor during WWll and we moved from coast to coast, maybe that’s where I got the nomad in my blood. After graduating from high school in 1958 I joined the Marines. That lifestyle wasn’t for me and upon my discharge I went on with my life, and have never looked back. I worked briefly for a Caterpillar dealer in Riverside, CA before moving back to N. California where I was a welder and truck driver for a chemical company. Truck driving wasn’t my calling anymore than being in the Marines, and I went back to work for another Caterpillar dealer steam cleaning dirty tractor parts and welding. They sent me to schools, lots and lots of schools. I spent as much time going to trade schools as I did at work. I went from cleaning parts to apprentice field mechanic, to mechanic to the parts department to satellite store manager in less than two years. They wanted me to move to Sacramento and be a salesman: I moved to Oregon to learn to commune with nature. I went to work for another heavy equipment dealer and was later contacted by the World’s largest Lorraine Crane dealer and offered the position of purchasing agent and general parts manager. In 1967 I was offered a line of automotive parts and supplies and went into business for myself. My business revolved around eleven race cars that we maintained for others, driving race cars professionally and maintaining high end sports cars. I was a championship and regional champion driver. My business was the largest import parts and service, non dealer, in the state until I sold it in 1979. We went sailing in 79, first to Mexico and then Hawaii. I was an award winning Trans-Pacific sailor and sailor of the year, Hawaii, Island of Kauai. An opportunity presented itself in Hawaii during 1981 and I was back in business, importing Japanese auto body and hard parts. I also felt the pull to write and began freelancing for magazines and newspapers in 1982. My main focus in my articles is, and always has been, health, wellness and fitness. Most of us have heard the saying, “Time is all we have.” I disagree. Our health is all we have, because without our health, we have no time. I was a US Olympic team hopeful in racewalking and held all the records for the state of Hawaii. As a sponsored athlete in my forties, I finished first in nine marathons in a row in my division, qualified for the Ironman® and was the state USCF cycling champion five times in Hawaii and Oregon. Celinda and I were married in 1988 after a three year engagement. We sold our businesses and organic farm and sailed back to Oregon. After our sailboat boat was sold, we moved to Joseph, Oregon, two miles from the trailhead into the Eagle Cap Wilderness. We were caregivers for my mother the last ten years she was alive. We moved to New Mexico in 1995 because it was too cold for my mom in Oregon during the winters. Celinda designed, and I engineered and built our strawbale house. I began writing the weekly health column for a local newspaper in 1996, and still do. In 2000, I took the summer off to do a four month, 4000 mile, hike, bike and kayak odyssey. I’d been writing health, fitness and sports articles since 1982 and the journey produced a full-length, nonfiction, first person adventure book, Yol Bolsun, May There Be A Road, which can be bought from Amazon.com and others over the Internet. The summer of 2001 was spent hiking. kayaking, fishing and exploring the southwest. In 2002 Celinda and I spent the summer in Canada learning the hospitality business at a resort in preparation for doing promotion for the resort in the US. Most of 2003 was spent reestablishing the trees and landscape that had died during the stay in Canada. We had a house sitter and the house sitter had an ex-husband, and that’s a long story. In July of 2004 I did a solo kayak trip on the Snake River, taking pictures, writing articles and pencil sketching the journey. I hope to do another kayak adventure on the Snake River during the summer of 2008, on the section I missed in 2000 and 2004. In 2005, I returned to Canada to the resort where we’d spent 2002. I was supposed to be there for the month of June. I’d contacted people I’d met in 2002 and they came back to Canada to fish, hike and spend time at the resort, Echo Valley Ranch and Spa, while I was there. My one month became five and then it was off to Spain to do the El Camino de Santiago as a travel companion with one of the guests who’d returned to Canada in June. During the summer of 2006 a friend from Ireland, who I’d met in Spain the year before, came to visit in NM and we fished, hiked and explored the White Mountains of AZ. He’d never slept out in the wild in a tent before, and it was quite an experience, for both of us. My newspaper articles were put on the Internet beginning in 2002. I was asked to give public speaking engagements, photo and video presentations, on various subjects for the library in Deming, NM and continue to do so. In 2006 I videoed and produced a DVD for the Smithsonian Institute’s travel exhibit “Between Fences.” NMFILMS had a conference by invitation only, which I attended. While attending the conference, I realized that film making wasn’t what I wanted to do but I still wanted to use my sixteen years of experience and enjoyment of videoing and photography. During the winter of 2005, I discovered that no one on record had ever run from the Arizona border to the Texas border, a distance of 165 miles. During the spring and summer of 2006 I trained for the run and the run was completed in October, 2006. In late 2005, I began building and maintaining websites incorporating all the things I enjoyed about video, photography, travel and the out of doors. 2007 has been a summer of upgrading the home and property which resulted in a downgrading of my enthusiasm for being located in one place. If we don’t like what’s happening in our life, we need to change what we’re doing. Celinda and I are ready to pull up roots and move on. I guess I’ve come full circle. I’m ready to revert back to my childhood, and a nomadic lifestyle.

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