At the age of 15, my brother Jeremy was limping like an grizzled war veteran with an old leg wound because of the cluster of plantar warts he had on the sole of his right feet. His morning started with the painful struggle of slowly making his downstairs to the kitchen, clutching desperately at the railing and wincing in agony with every other step. His life became a complete misery when his classmates found out about his condition and started keeping their distance in locker rooms and refusing to shake hands with him.
Jeremy was desperate - and, since he was terrified of surgery, we all decided to help him by looking for a natural plantar wart treatment. We tried several methods and quickly realized that it can be very difficult to choose the right one, as plantar warts are much more difficult to treat and remove than ordinary ones.
1.Garlic
Garlic was the first method we tried. We mashed it up and applied it to his feet, attaching it in place with band-aids. However, after several days, Jeremy complained of swelling, irritation and uncomfortable burning sensations. When we removed the band-aid, we were horrified to see that the skin around the wart was red and swollen - and the wart itself was still there. Although we've had good results with using garlic to treat the warts on Jeremy's hands, garlic as a plantar wart treatment was proving to be completely ineffective, not to mention extremely uncomfortable to use.
2. Banana Peels
Banana peels was another method that we unsuccessfully tried. The method was similar to garlic - we took a banana peel and rubbed its softer inner side against the wart, then firmly fixed it in place with a band-aid. Unfortunately, that made walking just as uncomfortable for Jeremy, especially as the wart was already hurting him a lot when walking. Worse still, when afterwards we attempted to cut off the thin layer of dead skin that now covered the wart, we found it very difficult to do without injuring Jeremy (and, in fact, his wart ended up oozing blood at one point). With this injury and given Jeremy's fear of scalpels and surgery, we decided against using banana peels as a plantar wart treatment method.
3. Wood Ash
Wood ash was the third and last method of plantar wart treatment we used before we finally stumbled on one that worked for us. We diligently rubbed wood ash into Jeremy's feet on a daily basis, but, several days later, we realized that not only had the wart itself showed no signs of disappearing, but it looked red, swollen and irritated, and so did the skin around it. Jeremy was complaining about barely able to walk at all. We quickly resolved not to try this approach ever again, especially after Jeremy started complaining about minor bleedings shortly afterwards.
Our eventual solution was so simple that we could not believe we missed it. All of the ingredients were in ample supply around the house, and we wasted no time in using them to take care of Jeremy's wart. After about two months, we were pleasantly surprised to see that that the wart had disappeared! Better still, during all this time, Jeremy was still able to walk, run and do all the things he used to before his wart treatments started. We have since successfully used this plantar wart treatment method to also remove Jeremy's hand warts. Today, Jeremy is happy and wart-free - all thanks to natural remedies.
By: George Blackwell