OK- gross! But I had to write this post simply because it fascinated me. Warts are yucky, pesky, and can be super painful! But who knew that they could be so easily removed- without chemicals?

So my sister is a runner. Recently she developed a plantar wart on her big toe that made her favorite activity really painful. She tried all kinds of over-the-counter remedies for 5 weeks with no success, just peeling skin and more pain.

After that she moved on to a more holistic approach and started putting tea tree oil on it. She ran out of it before she saw any success.

Finally, she decided to try CASTOR OIL:

She soaked a piece of cotton in the castor oil and covered it with a band-aid for just over 24 hours. 12 hour later, all 3 of her warts (including the big plantar one on her big toe) PEELED off. I know it’s true because I saw the before and after…AND she’s a kindergarten teacher after all. As honest as you can get!

The most amazing part is that she had had one of the warts for over a year and it was gone in. a. DAY!

Sometimes keeping things naturally simple is better than all the man-formulated chemistry in the world.

***UPDATE*** June 7, 2014

I wanted to spend just a minute updating this post, as we have had another pesky wart issue within our family: molluscum contagiosum. If you’re not sure what this is, click HERE. I can tell you what they are in one word: ANNOYING. And painful too for my little one.

My daughter came home with 3 of the tiniest little wart-like bumps on the back of her legs one day and within just a few months she had DOZENS all over her body. These little buggers spread when you scratch them and touch other parts of your body or other people.

My advice to you if your child only has a few of these bumps is to be aggressive immediately. They will spread quickly!

After over a year of trying several natural remedies, these are the results of our treatments:

1. Castor Oil: There were way too many bumps to soak and cover them, so this one didn’t work for Molluscum Contagiosum.

2. Apple Cider Vinegar: Really painful for my overly-dramatic 4-year-old, but on the larger bumps this treatment does work! After a bath, soak a piece of cotton in the ACV and apply to the skin with medical tape or band-aid. The problem with this treatment was, most of her bumps were simply just tiny and itchy (causing the spread of more tiny bumps) and couldn’t be soaked in the ACV without causing irritation to the skin around them.

3. Thuja Occidentalis 30cc, 3-5 tablets 3x daily: (homeopathic remedy): This solution worked at first. Many of the bumps on her abdomen and arms disappeared, but the primary infection site never healed. I think if I would have used this immediately when she first developed the bumps, it would hav worked. I have read many testimonies of moms who treated their kids successfully with Thuja Occidentalis.

4. Prayer: in the end, I never successfully treated my daughter for Molluscum Contagiosum. The infection spread so rapidly that it was on her elbows, knees, back of her legs, armpits, and abdomen. I was so sad for her at times, especially when we were at swim events or gymnastics and she had to wear long pants and shirts to prevent spreading them to her friends. It was my husband who suggested we pray and teach our daughter to pray and ask God to take her “bumps” away. We prayed every night for three nights before we noticed her CM bumps began to dry up and flake off- first in the most severe areas, and then in the primary location. Within a week, they were almost completely gone. My faith tells me that the final 3 small bumps on her right leg will be gone, too. I’ll keep this post updated!

***Update 8/2015: Within a few weeks of teaching our daughter to pray for her bumps to be taken away, they were all gone. So cool, huh?! But again, my bit of advice would be to be very aggressive against molluscum contagiosum when you begin to notice a few. Cover them with circular band-aids until you have a plan of action, but do something quickly so that your child doesn’t spread them.

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