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Funny. I had a plantar wart on my foot for years and nothing could touch it. I found an old book that mentioned to put a slice of eggplant on it every night b
by zikduruqe 2y ago
Funny. I had a plantar wart on my foot for years and nothing could touch it. I found an old book that mentioned to put a slice of eggplant on it every night before you go to bed and it would be gone within two weeks. Sure as shit, after two weeks, it had shrank, then went away.
Those old wives tales have some truth to them. (or having grown up in the deep south, we just blindly believed them)
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoWell, eggplant (aubergine on my side of the pond) is a member of the nightshade family, so I wonder if that's got something to do with it.
- UncleOxidant 2y agoYes, lots of alkaloids, polyphenols, anthocyanins, phenolic compounds. It was apparently an old cure for early stage skin cancers as well.
- dorfsmay 2y agoI heard potato (and you had to burry the part you didn't use) and garlic (with no magical ritual), and they both worked well. Back when the duct tape study came out, one theory was that anything irritating the area enough to get the immune system to kick in would work. For people who haven't ready the article, duct tape worked twice as well as cryothérapie.
- zikduruqe 2y ago> I hear potato (and you had to burry the part you didn't use) We were told to cut the potato in half, rub it on the wart, put the potato back together and bury it.
- ekelsen 2y agoEggplant has a lot of nicotine in it (relative to most plants not a cigarette). Maybe that has something to do with it?
- zikduruqe 2y agoI have no clue. I read it in an old book that I read maybe 40 years ago. And for the life of me, can't remember what book it was... it wasn't the Foxfire series, but it was something old Appalachian home remedy related. Not a lot of references that I have found. https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/eggplant-banished-wart https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/eggplant-banished-w...