PS>One remedy which I swear by is to ring your doctor and arrange for her to
  >burn it off with liquid nitrogen in 3 days' time.  When you get to the
  >surgery, peel off that designer sock that you purchased just for this
  >moment, you will find that the wart, which was defiantly staring at you
  >last Friday, has now vanished completely!

My daughter had a similar experience.  She had warts removed from her
hands with the liquid nitrogen, which was extremely painful.
Meanwhile, we did some reading on visualization.  When a new set of
warts appeared some time later, she "told" them that if they didn't go
away, she would go back for the treatment - and within a week they
disappeared!

I have read about warts since then, and there seems to definitely be a
relationship between warts and stress states, etc., which would explain
some of the spontaneous remission stories you hear so often.

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Just fool with the damn thing! Warts are caused by human papilloma
viruses(HPV) and the body does--as we all know--sometimes rid itself of
these. This happens on the cervix all the time. We often see under a wart
in the papillary dermis a T cell response. The body has to sense the
antigen of the HPV-involved cell in order to mount a T cell response. This
is why so many things sometimes work. What I do is everything you people
suggest. Heat it. Cool it. Rub it with {*filter*}. Stick a pin into it(never
use the same pin somewhere else. Guess why?). Put a low voltage through it
(like 12 volts). Get a tuberculin syringe. Mix up some slightly hypertonic
saline (3% like sea water). Inject this. Hit it with a book.Keratolytics.
Preparation W. Pinch it with pliers. Have a dry ice party and put some
on(do not get the surrounding skin white...this is called necrosis and
another name is frost bite). Shave it a little and put salt on it. Procain
injections. Very dilute formalin injections (.01%). Inject it with very
dilute Vodka. Get the picture?  

What you want is for an apc(antigen presenting cell) to carry some of the
virus-cell antigen into the upper dermal soft tissue, where the body's own
immune system can take care of it. While you are at it, write down what
works, patent it and become rich! Good luck. Bill Palmer

--
William Palmer
Anatomic Pathology Institute
Oakland, CA 94618

Mark_D

1.  I think the liquid nitrogen is the slickest, best, fastest, with
maybe one exception (later).  Usually, unless you've had the warts a long
time and they have gotten larger and deep, one zap of the liq nitrogen will
do it.  Ok, so maybe a little pain, but no bid deal.  

2.  When I was about 15, I had longstanding warts on my fingers, esp the
index finger where the pencil/pen would hit when I wrote.  My mother took
me to our family doctor; he was a swell fellow, but a _surgeon_. He used an
electric cautery and scapel.  Big mistake I (and sister) still have scars.

Lesson.  Better go to a dermatologist for skin related problems.

3.  These hand/finger warts were still with me when I was a para-medical
related student at a hospital.  A dermatologist used salicylic acid plasters.
Very prolonged and painful, but the warts were entrenched.  They finally
relented.

4. Warts (you all know this?) are a virus.  Some people are more apt to get
them than other people.  If you go picking at them, you can spread the virus
to other parts of your body -- say to other parts of your hand or feet.  
They usually hang out in calloused areas (heel, finger pressure points).
Some doctor will read this and let us know WHY this is?  (?protection?)

5. If you get a wart, the sooner you treat it the better.  That is, get
it while it is small, stay on top of it.  If you are succeptible to the
wart virus, be sure to wash your hands if you are poking around someone
else's warts  (you know, like looking at one of your kid's warts).

6.  I know some folks will argue with me hear (maybe).  But, there
appears to be some ill-understood, partial relationship between the mind and
warts (some folks think that the mind, stress, etc can affect other skin
ailments; like excema).  Years ago my neice had a wart on her hand. I told
her I could make it "go away".  I did a "ritual" sort of thing.  Maybe it
was the bean thing (rub bean on wart, toss bean away), the penny trick,
I don't recall. Point is, I (think I) sounded authoritative and definite and
calm. She was young. Her wart was gone within two weeks.  (I did this to my
self when I was 8 year old and it "worked").   Later, I did it to an
older friend. Some ritual sort of thing:  "WART BE GONE"!  His wart went
away.  Maybe would have gone regardless.  Warts can be like that -- they
can just up and go away.  As if your immune system finally gets the hang
of beating it.  Who knows.

I suspect though that the wart virus is particularly easily beat. So maybe
just a little change in something that maybe enhances your immune system --
like more rest, hope, etc.

I also think the "home remedy voodoo majic" sort of thing will work, but is
more apt to (like hypnosis maybe) on people who can momentarily get engrossed
in something; then let it completely slip from their conscience.  For the
"majic" to work, you _don't_ want the subject to keep checking on the status
of the wart. You don't want a scientist/analytical type that knows there is
no logical reason for this to cause a wart to disappear.  It is sort of in
the realm of "tooth fairy", intuition, hope, faith, charisma.... intangible.

Sorry I have gone on.  But I've played with this a bit.  However, I am a
skeptic about most things ("show me").  If I get a wart again, I'll go
to a nice doc and have it zapped with liquid nitrogen.  I almost treated
myself with liquid nitrogen, but thought better of it.  I lacked the
courage and wondered if I might not end up going too long or too deep
-- leaving a scar on my foot that would be worse than the wart (plantar).