Banana Peel for Warts

After a year of dedication to using store bought remedies, I searched online and tried this banana solution. I used a piece of banana peel that probably measured an inch by an inch. I overdid the width just to be safe, and I rubbed the inside of it across the surface of the wart before taping it onto that area with moving tape to hold it in place. After just one night, the wart on the underside of my foot came off. I continued applying banana peel just in case; three days later, it was completely gone and the skin began to rejuvenate. Wonderful! :) Relief!!! (I kept the banana peel in a baggie and put it in the fridge). Good luck everyone!

I had a cluster of warts on the bottom of my foot and nothing seemed to work. The duct tape was tried the longest at no avail. Superglue did the trick in a couple of weeks.

I used to use duct tape all the time. I was in and out of the doctor's office with several treatments that never kept the warts away when a nurse told me about the tape. Duct tape works, but you can't just use it at night, you have to leave it on for a week or so. Your skin will turn really soft as well, but it doesn't hurt. I would put band-aids over the duct tape to avoid questions of why I had duct tape stuck to me. After a year of treating any and all warts that way, they never came back.

My son plays collegiate golf and is 20 now. He had warts on his thumb and both index fingers for years. The dermatologist had tried numerous times to burn or freeze the warts. They always grew back. A couple of months ago I read about the banana peel and decided to try it. He is now wart free.

I just read about another wart remedy: rub a piece of potato over the wart, and bury the potato in the yard.
Really. I read it in the Oregonian, I think.

I just have a question: how do the banana peels cure the warts? What's in the banana peels that cure them? Please...anyone. Anwser as soon as you can. Thanks.

I am trying this with my daughter now. I read that it has to do with the high concentration of pottasium in the banana peel.

An answer to Sally: apparently, there is salicylic acid in banana peels which causes the warts to dry and fall off. I've heard that the warts don't come back, so I suppose you could call this a cure. I'm trying it right now but I've only done it for one night so far.

I have tried duct tape and athletic tape, neither worked after 2 mo solid use each. Tried getting it frozen off by doctor, didn't work. Tried the potato, didn't work. In fact they all seemed to make it worse after making it a little better at first.

Another use of the banana: as an intercoastal fisherman I am often attacked by yellow flies, which sting ferociously. I wipe the soft interior of the banana on my bare spots and OLA!, no yellow flies will bite. (Now and then I feel one "bump" but no stings.)

I had a wart surgically removed. It came back. I then spent many days over a nine-month period in a dermatologist's office trying many different treaments. I had finally given up and told him I would not be returning. After hearing this, he suggested I try Tagmet the antacid. I began taking the generic cimetidine (200mg per day), and the wart went away in less than 2 weeks and has never returned.

My son had a wart and the doctor couldn't remove it. I put a slice of aloe plant on it and it left. I wonder what causes warts.

My pediatrician says that warts are caused by a virus... and are contagious, just like any virus.

PLEASE wash your hands after touching the wart, at all.

This truly works. I had over 10 warts all over my feet. It definitely wasn’t a pleasant site and I had great difficulty walking at times too. I tried all kinds of treatments from over the counter plasters, banana peels, burning and laser treatments. But they just kept coming back and even expanding.

Finally a friend of mine recommended that I try homeopathy and it was MAGIC. It is totally non-invasive and painless. Although it is a time consuming treatment it is the most effective.

I had a cluster of plantar warts which I had treated by a dermatologist. She used a liquid nitrogen spray. It was excruciatingly painful; my ureteral stone was less painful. The warts persisted after treatment for 3 months.

treated them with warm water soaks followed by use of a pumice stone, and duct tape which I kept on 24 hrs./day. The warts went away and stayed away after about 6 wks.of treatment.

I made a paste of fresh-scraped turmeric root, and just taped it on a gently filed wart, and it just disappeared... and I mean that, the skin must have fallen off with the removed paste one time, but it was gone in three pastes. Bright pink fresh smooth skin grew in the black specked hole that was left behind after the third bandaid was removed. Impressed me.

We had tried salicylic acid tape from the pharmacy and it always burned off all the good skin around it and left the wart intact. Duct tape didn't work even with filing the wart with a soft nail file made for pedicures before putting the tape back on. Tried MANY cold freezes at the doctor's office. Many, many cold freezes at home. Not a lot of warts, just the three, but they were the most stuborn three warts you have ever seen on the bottom of my daughter's foot... and they hurt her terribly. After they fell off they never came back.

Try the turmeric from the health food store, fresh from the root, just a little lump like a pea size of scrapings, and tape it on and stick it in a sock (the stuff is neon yellow and stains bedding) at night, and keep on as long as possible. Change next night. It's worth a try... And no, I have no idea why it works, I was just told by someone at work that it worked for them.

My mum had a wart on her foot long ago, and told me the story of a lady telling her to cut a potato in half, and then digging a hole in her backyard to bury it. It went away for her, and shortly after she told me this story, mine went away too. I have about 3- 4 on each foot and I had tried many drugstore options, but nothing seemed to work. If you ask me, it's mind over matter.

Banana peels work the best! Even though my one and only wart has to be treated twice a year, it goes away after taping the banana peel on that spot overnite for about 5 nites. It is so cool! I read this remedy in Ann Landers about 5 yrs ago. Leave it to Ann.

I'm bothered by many skin tags all over my body. Has anyone tried the banana peel for this?

I believe it is 100% mind over matter. My husband and I went to California and our trip was being ruined by a plantar wart he had on the bottom of one of his feet. I convinced him that if he put his bare foot in the lake nearby that it would go away. Guess what??? It is gone, never to return.

My dermatologist told me he removes small skin tags by just picking them off with his fingernails. I've tried it successfully. Just be sure your hands are clean and you do it as soon as you see one growing. Also, larger ones can be removed by tying a string around them. Tie it tight and remove the excess string. If the tag is large, it might take a few days. This has been confirmed by another derm. My grandpa used to do the same for warts.

I had a horrible case of warts on my hands years ago, must have had hundreds of tiny warts. And I am positive I got them from picking up a toad frog. Some say that can't happen, but I have read on the internet that they carry this virus on their skin. I had them burned off in several sessions and they kept coming back. It was very painful.

Finally my doctor gives me a script for a cream to treat vaginal warts. Very embarassing to fill it, the pharmacist gave me a strange look. It was very expensive, but my insurance paid for it. I think there were seven packs of it and my doctor told me to use it everyday but put in the freezer so it won't go bad. It worked but took about a month. She said it would build an immunity to them, so far so good.

My son has had them, but not as bad. I am going to have him try the banana peel, I hate to put him through the pain of getting them burned off. Especially when it doesn't always work. He wants to try the over the counter treatment to burn them off. I don't think it will work. I tried the potato thing when I was a kid, and it worked one time but not the next. I think it is in your head, and if you believe it will work, it will. The banana sounds like there is a little more science then a rotting potato.

I have a wart below my underarm, and it feels uncomfortable when I wear my bra. Can anyone tell me how to remove it?

I have had this plantars wart for a good year. This is my 1st and nothing has worked so far. I've bought dr scholls, clear away, used the duct tape, had it frozen twice, you name it! But I read an article on bannana peels and how it will work to remove the p. wart, and so today I tried it. I don't know if it will remove it, but it's doing something right; I cut a piece and put it on my foot w. duct tape, and as soon as I put it on, the pain went away. This is the first time I've been able to stand on my foot, and I mean completely on my foot, all weight with no pain, and if you have ever had one you know the pain that comes with a plantars wart, so that was amazing to me. Like I said, I don't know if it will remove it, but if u want the pain gone, go in the kitchen and grab a banana. It really works. Hope I could help.

What about fungal toe nails (onychomycosis)?
Any home remedies for this vexatious and endemic malady?

I have a wart on my finger and used the medicated acid bandages, but they just killed the skin around it. I began to peel back the dead layers to find a nasty yellowish circle deep inside the wound. I guess this is the root of the wart and now I have applied the bananna skin... we shall see the progress!

i have had the banana peel on for almost 3 days all the time even at night. when i change the peel in the morning or at night my finger really hurts and the wart and the area around it is very white and wrinkly. is this normal and how long do i keep doing this??

When I was about 12 I had a triple wart on my little toe. Mother took me to the dr. and had it diagnosed. then she took cinnamon oil and dropped it with a tooth pick just on the wart. She did this several times a day for about three days and the wart went away.

For toe nails with fungus, soak feet daily with a few drops of tea tree oil.

Banana will also work on scars and some other skin imperfections.

The banana approach was mentioned long ago in a book on tropical folk medicine. A family member had an unevenly healed patch on his forehead from a fall -- and, after three days, the skin surface was clearly more level and the color was uniform.

So, my recommendation would be that you should try a banana compress on other skin conditions, at least where there is no open or unhealed wound.

What do you do if the "wart" is in a difficult place...such as right over/slightly on your upper lip? It is whitish, small but bothers me alot. (I'm assuming it's a wart).

Should I try the banana peel? Any help would be greatly appreciated~~~

I have several warts on many of my fingers right by my nail bed. They hurt terribly when I accidentally hit them. I've tried burning them and freezing them at the doctor. I can't keep doing this because I'm afraid it will destroy my nail bed; and I will no longer have nails on 5 of my fingers. Plus they are way too painful to keep freezing them over and over. I have even tried duct tape. This banana peel remedy sounds too good to be true but I'm willing to give it a shot. At this point, Im desperate.

All you have to do to cure warts is think them away. Many years ago I had several painful warts on my fingers, went to a dermatologist to have them burned off. Not only did that hurt, it left scars. During this process he told me that he was able to rid *children* of warts by subjecting them to some hocus-pocus ritual which they believed, and so so the warts went away by themselves. Why? Because the kids *believed* it would work. So it did. He burned off two warts for me, but I *thought* away the remainder. Works, folks.

hello,
I have read your articles and am very anxious to try the banana peel on my daughter's foot.She has had a plantar's wart on her heel for years and yes, we have tried it all.
Will keep you posted to see how it works!

I had never had a wart until I moved to Maine at age 49. The kids got them at school and eventually I got them too. I had one on the joint of my thumb that was painful. In desperation, I soaked a half sheet paper towel with balsamic vinegar, folded it up as small as I could and taped it in place. The tape gave up after two days, but the pain was gone, so I removed it. All that was left was a hole with some black spots and this disappeared with no further treatment in less than a week.

i have a wart on the side of my finger and on my palm . i'm thinking of trying the banana peel. how long does it usually take for it to go away & what do you do ? change it every night or what ?

Try Vicks Vapo Rub for toenail fungus. Be patient and it will work. The fungus should never return. I applied Vicks liberally to my toenails (top, bottom and under the nails) every single night and wore socks. I also applied it at other times during the daytime, whenever I had the chance. Make sure you get it up under the nails too. The fungus disappeared completely and has never returned.

This is for Stacey, who posted a request for a solution to fungal toenails. The solution that has worked in my family and for others I've suggested it to is Tea Tree Oil. Soak your feet (or hands if the problem is in you fingernails) in nice warm water for about 10-15 min. Gently clean out all of the "gunk" that a fungal infection creates under the nail (I always disinfected the nail file after each cleaning). Take the Tea Tree oil and apply it where the nail meets the skin.

Let it soak in. Do this for even just a couple of days and you will start to see a dramatic change. I asked my Dr. why he hadn't told me about it and he said that because it hasn't been approved by the medical association, Dr's aren't allowed to suggest it. Try it and you will be very pleased with the results.

I recently went to the doctor to inquire about the toe fungus - she stated for me to try Tea Tree Oil. Now that I have read the home remedy with the 50/50 mixture of Listerine I will definitely try it.

Thank You

I have several small moles
on my neck and face. they seem to form a cluster, like an archipelago of islands. I had a v. large mole the size of a penny on my neck and one day it became quite brittle and came off in the shower!! The others are still around. Any
thing that has worked for you??

Voila!!!Yes, Vicks VapoRub it is for toenail fungus. I had a bad case in both large toes for years. Every night for almost four months,
(oral Lamicil takes about a year for serious infections)I scraped out 'gunk', scrubbed toes clean with antibacterial soap and a.c.vinegar, dried toes,
applied liberal Vicks up, down, esp. under nail and skin and applied plastic sandwich bags over entire toes and lower foot w/ fairly snug rubberband or hairband around instep for overnight sleeping .

Nails began to soften in two weeks, and the 'half moons' began reappearing in three to four weeks. I suffered great shoe pain with this infection but it has left me, about nine months now. Definitely must be patient, but it works!!

I have tried so, so, so, so very many things for the warts on the bottom of my foot. They stretch from my large toe to the balls of my feet, and I hate them! I went to the doctor for cold freezes (never, ever go for those; they are a waste of money and time), I've tried aloe vera, I've tried duct tape, and...well, just name something; I've tried it all!
I am going to try this banana peel solution. I've seen so many others with supposedly "miraculous" results, I don't know if I fully believe it. But, if this really does work, you'll hear from me again.

had a wart on head and under the nails. what should i do.

I used a bananna peel to rid my small dog of a wart on his face. Every day for about 2 weeks I just rubbed the wart with the inside of a bannana peel. The wart turned black one day, the next day it fell off. It has never returned, and it sure was easier than having it removed by a laser which the vet had recommended.

Here is a question.. I am developing like 5 warts in my eyes area, where I put my makeup. It doesn't look nice; I cover with the makeup but I am afraid it will spread all over my eyes later. Is it safe to try the banana peel in my eyes? It's in the area under the lashes. Thank you. Maria

PEOPLE'S PHARMACY RESPONSE: ANY LESION ON THE EYES OR EYELIDS DESERVES MEDICAL ATTENTION.

I have a wart on my upper lip, I've tried garlic w/olive oil.... an old remedy.
Didn't work,never went to the doctors, I'd rather use home remedys. Will the banana peel be safe to use on my lip?

I am using vicks vapor rub for the toenail fungus. It seems to be working very well. My dermatologist even said to try it. I've also heard Listerine helps. I use vicks at night and Listerine during the day. Toenails look much better!

Warts, one on the bottom of each foot, were with me at least through college and grad’ school. They were quite tender once in a while, but not a big problem.

A few years later I was a therapist at a child guidance clinic. Our psychiatrist director was a wonderful older gentleman who seemed happiest when he could treat a patient for a cut or bruise. I never knew him to lie or even stretch the truth.

In his desk, in a ornate walnut box, resting on red velvet, he had a magic gold ring. The ring cured warts. After receiving very specific instructions as to where and when and how long to wear the ring, a young patient would be allowed to take the ring home for a week or so. I witnessed one cure. He said that, over the years, it had a success rate of at least 90%.

So one night, after everyone else was sound asleep, I spent about half an hour lying on my back in bed talking to my warts, telling them they were not wanted and should go away. I checked on the warts for a few weeks, saw no change and forgot about the whole deal.

Much later, maybe six months later, I noticed the warts were gone.

And for almost 50 years, no warts. Then, about three months ago, I got scared because a pencil eraser size lump/sore in my beard just was not healing. My Doctor declared it a wart and froze it. So far so good.

But the story does not end there. Suddenly, as if in retaliation for the freeze job on a close friend or relative, a wart appeared on the bottom of my left foot. It quickly became very tender and painful.

Talking to it, telling it to leave appears to not have done the job. Hello banana peel.

I find myself prone to plantars warts. I'm always afraid to go in public pools or showers as I seem to contract them very easily. For years I suffered. The specialist froze and scraped which worked but always came back. I went through treatment for years until I got fed up. What worked for me was putting Dr. Scholl's plantar wart solution and then securing it with a cloth band aid. This worked for my son as well and just after only a few treatments. The warts never came back again. The secret is having the sticky cloth bandage over the solution...will not work without it.

I have 3 warts on my nose. They've been there for about 4 years. At first they were only slightly raised but later on they got bigger. I went to a cosmetic surgeon to get them removed via laser. First treatment, they came back. Second treatment, they came back. I kept applying the ointment he gave me for two weeks but they didn't get any better. One day i was on the internet and I was getting pretty desperate for a cure.

I found websites with loads of testimonials that said that banana peels worked for them and their warts.
I was skeptical but thought what could it hurt; and so here I am with a piece of banana peel band-aided to my nose. This is my first night trying this, I hope it'll work. I'll post back for updates.

It will be the 3rd night I am doing this. What is the approx. amount of time that you see results?

(I use frozen peels)

I've been treating plantar warts on my feet (5 total) with just the duct tape for about three weeks now. I re-apply the duct tape after the shower daily. Smaller warts (3 total) started turning into small holes in the skin after about two weeks. However, one small wart is just sitting there without much change. From day to day I noticed that they look different. It seems they gradually die off on one day, but then try to re-grow another day. One medium size wart got bigger, but then started becoming like a moon crater in the skin, it seems to get a little deeper day by day, but then re-grow a little on another day.

Why did the May 9 last report not continue? Did it work? Please report back, what was your experience?

I am trying the banana peel on a wart on my thumb near the joint that I have had at least 20 years. It is smooth not cauliflower like plantars warts. I was told the usual remedies would not work.

Compound w will get rid of them.

I've had plantar warts on the bottom of my right foot for a year or two. Started off as one, tried to treat it with cold freeze, did nothing.

Saw my doc the other day because I felt pain & there's a whole cluster of them now :(

She suggested banana peel. Banana peel at night and during the day use the medicated Scholl's plantar wart strips. Plus you must pumice stone the wart away between treatments.

I'm onto day 4 right now. Can feel pain sometimes - am hoping it's the wart dying. Area looks pretty horrible due to banana peel softening skin. Will report back on how treatment goes.

My 8 year old daughter has warts that were diagnosed as molluscum. They started on her legs, but have now spread to her chest and arms. She must have over 100 now. I am very concerned they will spread even more. Please let me know if anyone has experience with this particular type of wart and how you treated it. Thank you.

PEOPLE'S PHARMACY RESPONSE: MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM IS A COMMON PROBLEM IN CHILDREN. IT IS CAUSED BY A VIRUS AND SPREADS THROUGH DIRECT SKIN CONTACT. IT ISN'T USUALLY TREATED, BECAUSE IT WILL EVENTUALLY GO AWAY ON ITS OWN (BUT WHILE SHE HAS IT, SHE CAN SPREAD IT TO OTHER CHILDREN). YOU WILL FIND A VARIETY OF REMEDIES IN THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE, BUT YOU SHOULD ASK YOUR PEDIATRICIAN BEFORE DOING ANYTHINIG DRASTIC.