The People's Pharmacy® with Joe and Terry Graedon

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.