:rolleyes: Hi Gang!
Has anyone here ever used Castor Oil (medicinal type) to cure Planters Warts? The old home remedy recomended by Granny is to rub this oil onto the afflicted part several times a day until it is cured. Will this work?
I have been using this remedy for two weeks and am not sure yet if it is working. I hope so because I am wanting to get rid of this planters wart in a less invasive manner.
Thanks for any serious help!
Hiya neighbor! Well, first it’s “plantar” wart, which means “a wart found on the bottom (plantar) side of the foot.”
Second. I’ve never used Castor Oil, but I did use Compound W with pretty good success.
I’m sorry, but I’ve never heard of Castor Oil reliably working. Compound W does work very effectively, with often…gravely disturbing results. :eek:
(It made a hole in my foot where the wart fell out, so deep and wide that I nearly passed out when I saw it. No pain whatsoever, and it healed very nicely and completely, but it still looked…WRONG! Like the time I stuck the locust tree thorn all the way through my foot and out the top of my shoe. Or the time I pulled the piece of broken glass out of my foot and saw bone.
You know, on second thought, maybe the Compound W experience wasn’t so bad after all…)
Why not go to a doctor? I’ve had plantar warts a few times, and most times the doc just gave me various compounds to put on them. They gradually went away.
There was only one, a particularly deep one, that needed to be cut out - and that was because I let it go too long before going to the doctor, making the compounds ineffective. So, relying on a dubious home remedy may increase the chance of needing the knife…
Go to a doctor, rather than relying on medical advice from a message board.
I think you might do better going to a podiatrist than to a medical doctor. Plantar warts can be treated efficiciently by digging them out with blunt instruments. This is a skill that is probably fairly commom among grandmothers, hopefully common among podiatrists, but probably not common at all among medical doctors (at least in the U.S.).
You could always try duct tape.
Warts are funny things. I had them up to the ninth grade or so, on my feet and fingers, and my doctor said that now that they’ve gone, they’ll never come back. Sorta like the chicken pox, he said, but benign.
Warts are removed by rubbing them down, cutting them off, washing them with mild acids, or (my favorite) putting drops of liquid nitrogen within and THEN cutting then off. I think my podiatrist just wanted the use the N2 so she could start a new bottle - she’s a professional with the knife, so she could done it anyway.
In nay case, it IS disturbing to see the hole the things leave. I mean, it’s not like there’s much TO the botttom of the foot - thick skin and some cushioning fat under the bones and muscles.
Castor oil? Maybe it helps, but I doubt it.
As Tuckerfan suggests, duct tape has been shown to be an effective method of combating warts. Some doctors resort to the use of liquid nitrogen. IANAD, but I tried the liquid nitrogen method once. We have a Nitrogen Plant where I work, so I went over and got myself a little nitrogen in a coffee cup. I dipped a cotton swab in the liquid and dabbed it on the wart (it was on a knuckle of my left hand). DANG! I felt the pain all the way to my toenails! It was a deep-down pain. The wart went away. Either I have changed something in my life that prevents warts from appearing or my body just decided not to get punished like that anymore, because I have not had another wart for something like fifteen years.
I shelled out for those little round white stickies that you put on affected area and the plantar warts went away like magic. I was quite amazed, as they seemed to be quite deep and had been there for a fairly long time; scraping them helped, but didn’t eliminate them like the little stickies did. They haven’t returned, and it’s been several months or more.
I think there is some kind of mild (salicylic?–whatever that is) acid in the stickies.
That’s aspirin, cleops. It, too, has been shown… etc.
Yes, radar ralf, you are right. But it was something like that. I’ve thrown away the wrapper, but I’ll check it out next time I am in the medicinal aisle at the supermarket.
Aspirin is acetylsalacilic acid, not salicylic acid.
Yes, Yeah, you are right… 
As a child I had a wart on my foot. My mother said to apply castor oil and I did for some period of time. The wart dropped off. I can’t say it was cause and effect, but maybe mother knows best.
: ) Thank you friends for all of the suggestions and your personal experience with solving this problem. I am not sure how long I’ll stick with the castor oil. The plantar wart has been there for some time, but is quite annoying. Since it is not a life threatening problem I will do the home self doctoring for a while longer. I was hoping to find out if others had heard of and know of any success with using the castor oil for solving this problem.
I truly appreciate all of the input. …JimBob