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I used to have a list of possible wart treatments from a military hospital thanks to trying to resolve a treatment-resistant wart. It included: 1. Tape a piece
by DoreenMichele 2y ago
I used to have a list of possible wart treatments from a military hospital thanks to trying to resolve a treatment-resistant wart. It included:
1. Tape a piece of potato over it.
2. Tape a copper penny over it.
3. I high dose of vitamin A for a month.
4. Vitamin E topically and/or orally.
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- adolph 2y agoThe apparent juxtaposition of the first two lead me to conjecture that a mild current from skin capacitance disrupts the wart. https://www.instructables.com/Potato-Battery-Understanding-Chemical-and-Electric/ https://www.instructables.com/Potato-Battery-Understanding-C... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_capacitance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_capacitance
- DoreenMichele 2y agoI have no idea why the potato supposedly works (it didn't work on the wart in question), but copper is known to kill microbes "on contact" though it takes a bit of time.
- mrguyorama 2y agoOr the reality is that the vast majority of "remedies" for things that average people experience are nonsense and have no method of action. Or are worse than nonsense, like all the people over the centuries who have insisted on treating a burn by applying butter to the area.