16 Natural Remedies for Warts–Including a Crazy One That REALLY Works!
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Are you burdened by a stubborn wart? Here’s an assortment of natural remedies for warts, including one unbelievable one that really worked!
Would YOU try it?
I’m always on the hunt for natural remedies to treat ear infections, sinus infections, headaches, and more.
I’m just not a fan of prescription meds, or even OTC medications, mainly since one of the things that contributed to my health issues (including candida) is the overuse of meds and antibiotics in general.
So when warts surfaced in our home, I was not about to just run to the store to get an OTC wart remover – and I for sure wasn’t ready to pay $30 (how did it get that high?!) for a physician copay to have it removed from my son’s foot.
Warts are not a pleasant topic.
If you’ve ever had a wart, you know how hard it can be to get rid of it.
And it’s worse if you’ve got more than one wart. Once they start spreading they can really be tough to get rid of.
About 1 month ago I was helping my youngest get changed for bed. I don’t remember now what happened or why I noticed it, but I saw two small “somethings” on the sole of his foot, near the heel.
I wouldn’t have thought much of them, except for the fact that I remembered having a plantar’s wart when I was a young girl.
It was painful and it took a long time to get rid of it.
I think we went to the store and got an over-the-counter wart remover and I applied it over and over again.
And they’re gross.
Back to my son.
I took a closer look at his foot and scraped a little of the surface off of the skin.
It felt hard underneath, and I could see the tell-tale little brownish-black dots in the center of a pattern.
The dots are called wart seeds sometimes, but they really are little blood clots.
Blech.
Anyway, he clearly had two of them.
Then, my son showed me a “callus” on his toe.
Hmmmm…..
It was a big one. But was it really a callus?
I went to the internet and found a site with great diagnostic information to find out if he had a callus or wart on his foot.
How to Know If You Have a Wart or a Callus
To tell know if you have a wart or callus, you will need to press down on the thing (whatever it is) and find out when you have pain.
- If it hurts pushing straight down on it–it’s a callus.
- If it hurts putting pressure on the sides (by squeezing it)–it’s a wart.
Sure enough, we had a wart. No pain pressing down, but when I squeezed it, my son wasn’t happy.
Now it was time to try to get rid of warts.
Time to Get Rid of the Wart
A long time ago, we had tried using oregano oil before on a wart on my husband’s finger.
One day we were on a road trip. I put the oregano oil on it and within 3 hours it went from being a raised wart to being level with the rest of his skin.
It really worked great for a natural wart remedy, but we weren’t consistent enough to get rid of it, so it’s still there.
So I tried the oregano oil on my son’s foot for several days.
Again, I wasn’t consistent enough and no surprise–nothing happened.
I really wanted to be consistent with the oregano oil, but life was getting in the way.
So I hopped back on the internet and even asked my fans on my Facebook page for their ideas. (hop on over there if you haven’t already, K?)
Well, let me tell you, there were loads of ideas….
Natural Remedies for Warts
Following are some remedies that others suggested, plus some others that we didn’t get to try.
OTC Topical Treatments
(not going there again)
Super Glue
Doesn’t sounds very healthy to me.
Organic Apple Cider Vinegar
I did this once for a wart on my hand. It ended up burning the surrounding skin and was super painful.
Banana Peel
The inside of the peel. It turns out that the inside of the banana peel has some kind of enzyme that can help address warts.
Cutting
Some people try to just cut their own warts off (Not an option. No way.)
Removal By a Physician
Sounds like a good option, but I’ve read over and over that the wart often comes back. This was the case for one of my son’s friends.
Thuja
Thuja Oil, Thuja Extract, or Thuja Homeopathic pellets. A reader mentioned that this worked well, but I haven’t tried it yet.
Vapor Rub
It’s true. Some people report that using Vicks® or a Homemade Vapor Rub works great for addressing warts.
Tea Tree Oil
I didn’t try this one, but a friend told me that she tried it and it worked great!
Echaveria
One reader wrote in to say that this plant, also known as the common garden ‘hens and chickens’ and often grown in succulent gardens and rock gardens. Simply break off a leaf and squeeze the juice onto the wart morning and night!
Garlic
One reader mentioned that a slice of garlic on the wart worked well. That makes sense since warts are caused by a virus and garlic is antiviral.
Milkweed
Milkweed juice applied daily has been reported to help with warts.
Milk Thistle Extract
Since milk thistle is also antiviral this has been successful for some as well.
Basil
This is another antiviral plant that works for some to get rid of warts. You can crush a few leaves of fresh basil and rub the paste on the warts, or apply the crushed leaves over the warts and cover that with medical or duct tape.
Aspirin
The main ingredient in aspirin is salicylic acid, the main ingredient in wart remover. One reader told me that putting a paste of aspirin on the wart for 2-3 days with tape over it caused the wart to come off and never return!
and other concoctions of all sorts. However one option really caught my eye.
Urine.
Yeppers. You all remember my post on natural ear infection remedies, right?
Well, at the time I tried that in my son’s ear (of course, after reading all over the internet that urine therapy has been used by many cultures for many years and there was even an international convention on it–so don’t think I’m just so crazy that I’ll try anything that I read on the internet–’cause I’m not), I was already trying this on my son’s warts.
But I wasn’t sure if it was going to take care of the more stubborn ones so I didn’t want to share it yet.
Well, now you can see how well this natural wart remedy worked and judge for yourself.
How to Use Urine on a Wart
Basically you just urinate in a cup, put the urine on a small piece of cotton ball or pad.
Squeeze to remove the excess.
Put the soaked pad or cotton ball on the wart.
Cut medical tape in the appropriate size to cover the wart and the cotton. At least you need the cotton to stay put.
Repeat daily.
We did this for a few weeks. It would have gone faster if I’d remembered to change the cotton daily, but sometimes I forgot.
But every day we noticed an obvious change in the big wart.
This is what his toe looked like after the “pee pee treatment” was done!
All gone except for some peeling skin.
And the other warts are gone as well.
Even while we were treating the first 3, one more showed up on the other foot (lovely) and that one is gone as well.
Now, I am thinking the oregano oil would have worked if I had been more diligent, but I would forget sometimes and frankly, urine is a lot cheaper.
But if you’re squeemish about the urine therapy, then hop over to Rocky Mountain Oils and get some oregano oil. It’s great stuff and is anti-bacterial and anti-fungal. I’ve even heard of folks treating MRSA successfully with it. Now that’s something to have on hand, you know?
If you’re curious about what essential oils company I recommend, you can read my series on Which Essential Oils Company is Best.
One Amazing Testimonial About Urine on a Wart
But I tried the urine also because the testimonials were so emphatic.
One was even pretty hilarious.
A man said his whole family had been plagued by plantar warts–except for him.
He thought it was because he had the habit of urinating in the shower, so he thought his feet were getting a natural anti-wart treatment every day.
I don’t know, but interesting, huh?
Urine Therapy for Warts–Is It Crazy?
Likely you think this is just gross and NUTS, right?
Well, check out this book – it’s got some very nice reviews.
I say – if you can get things done naturally and inexpensively then it’s worth looking at :).
Another Great Option
A lot of people get great results with Rowe Casa’s Feet and Nail Salve. It’s full of antiviral ingredients. Check out the reviews. You’ll see a lot of positive results on warts and fungus too!
Which of these Natural Remedies for Warts will you try?
Since here we are talking about different methods that won’t require a doctor visit, it is first important to figure out if what you have is actually plantar warts. This must be a very confusing time for you and you are just filled with so many questions. If you aren’t sure if what you have is plantar warts, that is your first clue. It is small, fleshy, rough and grainy growth. A spot made up of hard thickened skin. It has a very small black dot aka wart seeds (these are clotted blood vessels). Like what was mentioned above, there are many (and easy) ways to get rid of foot warts. So I would like to add that you may buy many various medicines in modern pharmacies for removing blisters and callouses. It doesn’t necessary to sort out in it, at the first, active agents in the heart of these preparations are often identical or similar, therefore any pharmacist can provide a mini-consultation. At the second, it doesn’t exist absolute recipe from anything, one preparation will arrange someone, someone will suit another. Somebody can be treated by one medicine, someone else can be treated by another medicine. Here more details https://pinkycloud.com/away-with-the-pain-at-every-step-how-to-get-rid-of-plantar-callosity-calluses-and-plantar-warts.
Here are also some general instructions/tips when using home remedies to get rid of your plantar warts. Wash your hands thoroughly before and after each time you touch your warts. If you choose an option that comes with instructions, read and re-read that and follow the steps to the tee.
Thanks!
my daughter had many warts on her feet and hands. we brought her to a hypnotist. after a couple of sessions and listening to a tape made by the hypnotist, the wart disappeared and never returned!! That was 20 years ago!
Fascinating. I don’t know why that would work, but glad she is wart free!
After trying everything including having them frozen by professional, we tried oregano oil…. 1 treatment overnight and they were gone by the morning. The skin still looked funny, but the lump and pain were gone. We did 2 more treatments just in case.
Did you expose the warts first before applying oregano oil? Or can u just put in on the wart and cover with tape.
I use FRESH garlic on my son’s wart. It has to be fresh tho. First 2 bulb (4 tries ea bulb at least) tries even tho I just bought them from the store wasn’t fresh. The 3rd time ws the charm tho.
Dice the clove, cover just the area where the wart is. Over night with them tiny round bandages.
Tbh I 4got about only putting it on the wart itself(by that time) and sliced the clove and applied it. It blistered his skin where the whole sliced laid.
SO PLZ PLZ PLZ just apply to the wart. After the blister healed yes the wart ws gone also!
Learned hard way and son paid for it. He doesn’t have scar but momma felt bad for long time.
When you used the urine did your son feel any burning sensation? I feel slight burning on mine but this might be because I picked at it with tweezers earlier. Also, did you leave the urine soaked cotton on all day and all night or just for a certain amount of time? Mine is on my toe and I just want to get rid of it as quickly and painlessly as possible. I tried vinegar which has been working but gosh does it burn, it keeps me up at night which is why I was worried when the urine started burning as well.
No burning and we left it on round the clock. Hope this helps.
this is very interesting. I know as a child I had several on my hands, and after i had them frozen several times with no improvement, my dad had a friend tell him to cover them with duct tape. Just to soak with soapy water at night and wrap it back up as soon as it dries. the skin just gets so soft that eventually the wart will just stick to the tape one day and leave a small hole behind. I had a very large one on my knuckle that my dermatologist called the “mother wart” & once it fell off, the others disappeared as well. I have a plantars wart now though, and am not sure that the tape would stick to the sole of my foot. may try this!
I hope it works for you!
Duct tape does work by suffocating the wort!
Duct tape does work by suffocating the wart! Most cream for burns contain UREA! 🙂
I had a wart on the side of my finger. I tried OTC remedies which seemed to make the wart grow, and when you tried to trim it, eventually I would get to close while cutting; and it would bleed. Then, a couple more appeared on neighboring fingers. I googled solutions, and one person said to rub the warts with a COPPER penny. Cheap enough, I found a wheat/Lincoln penny and rubbed each wart vigorously.. It actually seemed to ease any pain from them, and in a very short period of time (without repeating the treatment) the warts shrunk , and then disappeared completely, 20 years later they have not returned. I’m not sure if it was a mental thing or the real copper has some property that kills the virus, but be that as it may, it worked for me!!
Apparently copper does have antimicrobial properties. Thanks for sharing!
I have had a plantar wart for years on my big toe. I once had it surgically removed and it was sooo painful. I had a hole in my toe for weeks. Then, like you said, it came back. Couldn’t believe it! Now my daughter has a plantar wart in the EXACT same place on her big toe as mine. I just cant believe it. We will be peeing in the shower!! and following your advice!
Oh no. Hope you can get rid of it!!!! Please do let us know.
This may seem like a weird question, but, does this method work for genital warts? The apple cider vinegar really burns my intimate parts and I’m forced to stop after a couple of days.
I’m sorry but I have no idea. Hope you can get better.
Interesting! I have been plagued with plantars warts for years. Have had one cut out to have it return within a year. Bloody socks for weeks! The freezing did nothing to these painful warts. I tried garlic for the next one and it worked well – but again the consistency thing is what kills successful treatment. I now have my third and have been fighting it for a while. Consistency is not going so well AND smelling like garlic is not the thing either.
I have heard of the urine earache cure but this is a first for the warts. There may be something to it! Maybe the peeing in the shower makes sense to try!
Hope it works for you if you try it!
I have been plagued with plantar warts on my right foot since I was about 12. I got my original 3 frozen off and it scarred my foot and they came back 10 fold! I now have 2 mosiacs and several warts (approx. 13) all over my foot and toes. I want to try this to get rid of these irritatingly painful warts but bandaids and tape don’t stick to my feet well at all. Any other suggestions?
Have you tried duct tape?
I, too, was plagued with a plantar wart for over a decade. When I tried to get rid of it via freezing, expensive pharmaceutical concoctions, natural oils, electrical shock treatments, and various other remedies, the warts spread exponentially over both feet. It was horrible, and painful. I tried for several years to get rid of them. Finally, I hit jackpot. It was completely natural and ridiculously inexpensive: Vitamin A and Lysine supplements. I started by taking 50,000 IU of fish oil Vitamin A per day for 2 weeks straight, before backing off to 30,000 IU per day for another 8-10 weeks. In addition to the Vitamin A, I took a 500 mg Lysine supplement every day. Every so often, I would take a second Lysine capsule at night. Probably just impatience on my part. Anyhow, after a few weeks, I noticed that the warts seemed smaller and I didn’t have to grind down the skin on my feet as frequently. Fast forward another month, and most of the smaller warts were gone, and the large, painful ones were now much smaller…and no longer painful when pressure was applied. For good measure, I have kept the treatment going another month, and I have no trace of warts on my feet!
Oh, one other thing I did initially: I used an electric callus remover (grinder/sander) to grind the skin on my warts down as far as I could, including to the point of some minor bleeding. Then I broke open some of the Vitamin A capsules and applied the oil topically to the warts. I only did this twice.
I bought my supplements online and for 500 qty 10,000 IU capsules of Vitamin A and 240 qty capsules of 500mg Lysine only cost me $10-12–a far cry from the hundreds of dollars I had spent over the years to get rid of my plantar warts.
I have no scarring on my feet at all. In fact I can’t even tell that I had warts. My feet look completely health and normal now.
Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t include the fact that I really starting engaging my faith also and confessing healing scriptures over my feet.
So, hang in there. Complete recovery from persistent plantar warts is possible! I hope this helps you.
Thanks for this – sounds like internal work is crucial when dealing with stubborn warts. Makes sense since they are a virus.
I had a HUGE plantar wart that covered the top of my little toe when I was in 6th or 7th grade. We went river tubing, and I overshot the exit area. I didn’t know you were supposed to wear shoes on the ride, and the part I had to climb out of back to the exit was covered in sharp rocks. You guessed it, the wart got ripped off entirely. I remember getting to the beach, looking down and NO wart! I don’t remember any blood, but it was sore. I waited for months, but it never came back!
About 2 months ago, I had a weird bump on the side of my pinky finger and came across your page. I was to squeamish to try urine, but I had oil of oregano and I faithfully applied it daily and kept it covered with a bandaid. Gone in 2 weeks. Having grown up in a Midwest family who had never eaten a bagel, let alone heard of natural cures, I was amazed! Please know that you can affect someone’s life in big and small ways, and all are good!
Thanks and glad to hear it worked for you!!!