Warts
Show 1396: Home Remedies That Work
This week, Joe and Terry Graedon welcome your calls about your favorite home remedies. Which ones really work to solve common health problems? You can share your experience at 888-472-3366 between 7 a…
Tagamet for Warts and Shingles!
Cimetidine (Tagamet) was the first prescription H2 antagonist to ease symptoms of heartburn and heal ulcers. It was introduced in the U.S. in 1977 as a prescription medication. This drug became a gian…
How to Get Rid of a Wart with Tagamet
Warts can affect almost anyone. For reasons that are not clear children seem especially susceptible. But adults can also develop warts. Sometimes a single wart on the sole of the foot multiplies and …
How Can You Remove Warts With Duct Tape?
If you've ever tried to remove warts from your own skin or from a child's, you know that they can be capricious. Sometimes they will disappear quickly after you apply salicylic acid. That's the standa…
How Can You Make Plantar Warts Disappear?
Most warts don't hurt. However, a person with plantar warts, those that develop on the soles of the feet, may find walking painful. A dermatologist could perform surgery or cryotherapy (freezing), but…
Fascinating Strategies to Get Rid of Warts
Warts are caused by a near-ubiquitous virus, human papillomavirus. But nobody knows quite why they pop up at certain times and are absent at others. Doctors can offer a variety of treatments for warts…
Did COVID Vaccines Erase Warts?
In early October, 2021, a reader of our syndicated newspaper column alerted us to a most unusual reaction to the Moderna vaccine. This person reported that a persistent wart disappeared after vaccinat…
Does Castor Oil Get Rid of Warts and Scars?
People have been using the castor bean (Ricinus communis) for thousands of years to treat an amazing number of maladies. The seeds are also a source of ricin, one of the most toxic chemicals known to …
Show 1340: Were the Old Wives Right?
This week’s episode begins with an interview. We talk with Dr. Craig Hopp of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health about why doctors so often dismiss home remedies as old wive…
10 Favorite Wart Remedies That Work!
Warts are mysterious. They raise more questions than answers. We do know that warts are caused by a virus (human papilloma virus or HPV). How that virus penetrates the skin on fingers, hands or knees …
How to Make Warts Disappear by Buying Them
Warts are mysterious growths on the skin that are caused by the human papillomavirus. If you wonder why we term them mysterious, just think back to a case of warts you have witnessed or experienced. W…
Can You Cure Your Plantar Warts with Hot Water?
Plantar warts are those that appear on the soles of the feet. You might catch the human papillomavirus that causes plantar warts if you go barefoot in a shared locker room or swimming pool area. Likew…
Show 1304: Fixing Your Foot Problems
In our nationally syndicated radio show this week, we have a guest live in the studio. Podiatrist Jane Andersen will be ready to answer your questions about foot problems and what you can do about the…
Unexpected Benefits and Risks of the Moderna Vac…
When most people think of COVID vaccines, all they are interested in is how well they will protect them from being hospitalized with COVID-19. After all, that is why these shots were invented. We now …
How Could Heartburn Drug Help Plantar Warts?
Plantar warts, those that appear on the soles of the feet (and occasionally the palms of the hands), can be devilishly difficult to remove. Doctors sometimes use freezing or laser therapy, but even th…
Castor Oil Helped Prevent Knee Surgery
Castor oil is an old-time remedy. The oil comes from the seeds of the Ricinus communis plant, which has been used for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians used castor oil in their lamps because i…
Can You Cure Warts With Vitamin A?
Warts are an overgrowth of skin cells triggered by an infection with human papillomavirus, or HPV. Why certain people are especially susceptible to these bumpy outcroppings is mostly unknown. Doctors …
Will Dandelion Root Banish Plantar Warts?
Most warts are painless, but plantar warts, those on the soles of the feet, can become painful and interfere with walking. Unfortunately, people may have a difficult time treating them. They can be ex…
Can You Cure a Plantar Wart with Silver Nitrate?
Plantar warts are those that appear on the sole of the foot. They can become tender and make walking painful. Over the years, we have heard of many different home remedies to get rid of plantar warts.…
Can You Get Rid of Warts with Super Glue?
Warts are bumps on the skin caused by a virus, the human papillomavirus (HPV). Even though you can't actually get rid of the virus, you can get rid of warts. A wide range of home remedies and over-the…
How Can You Get Rid of Plantar Warts?
Plantar warts that appear on the soles of the feet ("foot warts") can sometimes be stubborn. When they show up on the soles, toes or heels they can cause discomfort when a person is walking or running…
Did Eating Olives Really Make Warts Disappear?
We have been collecting wart remedies for over 40 years. Some of our favorites include banana peel, bacon fat, duct tape, garlic, Listerine, potato, turmeric and vinegar. We have never heard of olives…
How to Use a Banana to Cure a Wart
How do you cure a wart? Doctors can burn, freeze or cut them off, although they often come back. There is a dizzying variety of home remedies used against warts, and most of them have several supporte…
Using Vicks VapoRub Against Fingernail Warts
Warts are at the same time a very simple complaint and also somewhat mysterious. They are a tissue reaction to a virus, human papillomavirus (HPV). That has been known since before antiviral me…
Heartburn Drug (Tagamet) a Last Resort Against S…
Q. Please tell me more about treating warts with Tagamet. Do you make a paste of the Tagamet and put it on the wart, or do you swallow the pills? A. You are not the only person who wants to know about…
Dead Sea Salts Vanquished Resistant Warts
When a wart refuses to go away, frustration grows with each passing day. There are many ways to treat warts, from liquid nitrogen to freeze them off (don't try this at home) to simple home remedies li…
Dead Sea Salts Banished Wart
How do you get rid of warts? There are dozens if not scores of home remedies. Which ones might work for a huge wart? What to Do about a Huge Wart? Q. I had a huge wart on my index finger and other sma…
Where Do Warts Come From?
Let's be very clear about this interesting question. No one really knows for sure how people "catch" warts, but it's NOT from frogs! What doctors do know is that they are caused by a virus called HPV …
Turmeric Overcame Stubborn Wart
How do you get rid of warts? Sometimes they go away by themselves in due time, just as doctors say they will. But some warts are exceptionally persistent. Plantar warts that appear on the soles of the…
Unusual Approaches to Fighting Warts
Warts are, in many ways, a medical mystery. Scientists know that they are caused by viruses, and the viruses responsible have even been identified and catalogued. Doctors have many therapies for warts…
Wart Remedies Defy Logic
Warts are one of the great mysteries of medicine. They appear almost magically for no apparent reason. They often disappear just as mysteriously. When these ugly growths appear on fingers or hands der…
Hot Water Cures Stubborn Warts
Q. I saw a question about warts on the toes of a 7 year old. My daughter had the same problem 20 years ago when she was that age. We tried everything and none of it worked. The doctor was going to rem…
Aloe Vera Gel Heals Witch Wart
Q. I have been stressing out over a wart on my face. I have tried every treatment mentioned in your column for over two years, including banana peel, vinegar, Listerine and duct tape. Nothing worked, …
Will Flu Medicine Fight Warts?
Q. I wanted to share a method that I have used several times for killing warts, and am curious if you have any insight that differs from mine. My doctor gives me a recurring prescription for the antiv…
Heartburn Drug Conquered Warts
Q. My daughter had so many warts on her hands that there was nothing the doctor could do. He said freezing or burning them off was out of the question. He suggested Tagamet. That sounded weird, but …
Lemon Juice Liquidates Warts
Q. My daughter had several warts on her hands and was able to kill them quickly with lemon juice. She dabbed the warts with a sliver of lemon three or four times a day and all of the warts fell of…
Heartburn Drug Conquers Stubborn Wart
Q. I had a wart surgically removed, but it came back. I then spent a nine-month period seeing a dermatologist and trying many different treatments he recommended. I had finally given up and told him I…
Potato Against Wart
Q. I had a wart on my finger for 15 years. A few doctors said they could cut if off, but I don't like the idea of surgery. My mother told me of an old gypsy remedy, but I would never try it. It was to…
Duct Tape for Getting Rid of Warts
Research on duct tape was published in the *Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine* (Oct. 2002). Parents were told to cover the wart with a piece of duct tape for six days. If it fell off, they…
Duct Tape Remedy Beats Freezing Warts
Who says home remedies don't work? When it comes to warts, even dermatologists sometimes use unorthodox approaches. For years such doctors have whispered the tricks of their trade. Some have claimed t…