Pumice stones are used to rub off plantar warts, salicylic acid to "dissolve" warts, incense or laser to burn warts, freezing the warts which is known as cryotherapy, and suffocating the plantar warts using duct tape. These are the most common and tested treatments to remove plantar warts or warts in general. The best thing with the plantar warts treatment methods mentioned above is that it is backed up by a science. But there are native treatments of warts which are quite hard to scientifically explain.
Let us learn some traditional and mythical ways to treat plantar warts from the many countries of Asia. Aside from plantar wart treatment, we will also discover some causes of warts. You may find these native plantar wart treatment methods funny but many claims it actually work.
How do you get plantar warts or what causes warts?
Rat Blood Can Cause Warts. Some people in Asia believe that touching the blood of a common rat can cause warts. It may sound scientifically correct but what is the relationship between blood and warts? Wart virus ( HPV or Human Pappiloma Virus ) is indeed contagious specially having your open or cut skin in contact with body fluids of an infected individual or object.
If so, rats could be the host of the HPV. This native belief about plantar wart infection isn't medically proven and minorities in Asia still believe on this myth about common warts or specifically plantar warts.
Touching Frogs. This is a common belief around the world. My mother used to tell us not to play with frogs when we were young because they can cause wart, but still we did secretly and never had warts. Frogs cannot be directly linked to having infected with warts. Some say that plantar warts are caused when you get your feet wet on a pool of frogs. Yes there is a truth there because warts virus thrives on dirty and wet areas but, frogs are not the sole cause of warts.
Blood of a Plain Colored Chicken. It is a popular believe in the Philippines and Thailand that warts are caused by touching the blood of a butchered plain colored chicken. Native chickens in Asia are of mixed colors and seeing a plainly colored chicken is rare and special. These special chickens are used for sacrificial offering to spirits.
Blood of the plain colored chickens are also pointed out to have caused warts on children playing with it. This is not true, broiler chickens are plain white and do you blame those chickens for your plantar warts?
These are some of the most popular myths about the cause of plantar warts or common warts. The culture in Asia is rich with traditions and myths. Plantar warts are no exemption to be excluded in Asian myths and beliefs. Below we will discover some traditional and mythical treatment of plantar warts or common warts.
Myths About Plantar Warts Treatment
Long and Thick Human Hair Can be an Effective Plantar Wart Treatment. Yes! hair is used as an effective plantar warts treatment. It is so odd to think that warts can be effectively removed by plainly using hair. My aunt strongly agree with this wart treatment as she had her raised warts effectively removed with her own hair. How did she able to remove the warts? Here's how.
Removing Plantar Warts Using Human Hair
1. First is to get three strong strands of hair and clean it with alcohol.
2. Have your warts cleaned with soap.
3. Tie your warts with the three strands of hair.
4. Tighten the hairs once in a while. Leave the warts "choked" with the strands of hair until it dies.
5, As the warts die out, rub the warts with pumice stones to completely remove it.
Removing plantar warts with tying strands of hair can only be used for raised warts but not for flat and sunken warts. This is just a myth about wart treatment and its up to you to follow the procedure above to remove the warts.
Let A Praying Mantis Eat the Warts. Funny how this little creature is used as a natural plantar warts treatment. Praying mantis eats flies and tiny insects and warts too?! Uhuhhh! many countries in Asia have these mantis' eat and remove the plantar warts away. It is discomforting to think that an insect if going to eat your warts but this method has been traditionally followed for hundreds of years by many cultural minorities. Painful wouldn't it? But many claimed that the insects' bite is minimally painful as compared to enduring a lifetime wart suffering. So here's how its done.
Praying Mantis to Feast on Warts
1. Capture live praying mantis. (Buy if there is available)
2. Wash your plantar warts with water and let it dry.
3. Hold the praying mantis as if it is facing opposite of the fingers you use for holding.
4. Let the mantis eat the warts gradually.
5. Do this on a daily basis until the warts will die out.
6. Rub the dead and dry warts with pumice stones to completely remove it.
Would like to try to have your warts eaten by a praying mantis? That is just how cultural minorities in Asia use as a plantar wart treatment.
Another traditional and mythical treatment of plantar warts is very very odd. I don't personally see this as legitimate and could never be scientifically explained. Traditionally, some people believe the power of nature to heal ailments and rejuvenate health. And removing plantar warts using this method may mean nonsense to the majority of people who are concretely aware of science. I hardly could believe this would work as my math teacher told me he got his warts removed by following the procedure below.
Lightning Strikes Can Remove Warts
1. This will only work during thunder storms and when lightning strikes. So just watch for lightnings to strike. Or just be alert when there is a chance of hearing a lightning strike. (I feel stupid when I am letting you wait for a lightning to strike)
2. As you hear a lightning strike,just TWACK your warts off three times.
3. Wait and your warts will die out in two to three weeks.
4. As the warts dry and die out, rub it with a pumice stone to completely remove the warts.
This may sound stupid but a lot of educated people claimed that they had their warts removed using this method. I myself doubt the efficacy of this procedure in removing plantar warts but why not try and you got nothing to lose in trying to remove your warts.
Effective plantar treatment relies on science. But traditional and mythical ways of removing plantar warts still thrives and being practiced world wide. The above mentioned plantar wart treatment may not be backed up by science, there are a lot of educated folks still believe its efficacy. It wont hurt you to try following the traditional methods mentioned earlier in removing plantar warts. And if you wont like to try, there are great products sold at amazon to effectively remove and treat your plantar warts.
