Folk remedies for warts
Examples of folk remedies for warts include:
- Putting a banana peel or garlic on a plantar wart at night.
- Rubbing a wart with a bean.
- Applying milkweed juice, lemon juice, castor oil, or vinegar to a wart.
- Washing a wart in morning dew.
- Wishing a wart away.
Although there is no scientific evidence that these methods are effective in curing warts, there is no risk in trying them.
| Author: | Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS | Last Updated: September 11, 2008 |
| Medical Review: | Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine Alexander H. Murray, MD, FRCPC - Dermatology | |
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