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Garlic
Posted by Maja (Vancouver, Canada) on 09/14/2007
★☆☆☆☆WARNING!
Thanks so much for creating this forum. i was diagnosed with genital warts 3 years ago and have podophyllin, liquid nitrogen, and attempted to use Aldara but was too scared after i bought it and read side effects. i'm now going to try home remedies. i attempted to put garlic on the wart however i felt a crazy burning sensation. has anyone else experienced this? i could only manage to keep it on for 5 mins before i started sweating. i will continue with ACV, Hydrogen Peroxide, and everything else...i want this chapter of my life closed. thanks!
Apple Cider Vinegar, Garlic
Posted by Victor (Srakaew, Thailand) on 07/14/2007
★★★★★
I've been trying the ACV treatment on my warts for about 1 week now. And I am happy to say that it works! I've been struggling with this since about January when I got my first outbreak. I didn't want to go to the doctor because I was embarassed, so I checked on line. I found this product called "Warts No More". IT DOESN'T WORK. It did, however, help spread my 4 or 5 warts to something like 30. It was a waste of money and very frustrating. I also used Compound W "Freeze Off", and that took care of one of the bigger ones, but about a month ago it came back as two smaller ones. I also tried salycilic acid (Wart Stick), which is the highest content of salycilic acid I could find over the counter (20%), but it was way too rough on that sensitive of an area. So I stop after a week, and let all the skin heal--no scars thankfully. So, this brings me to ACV. I read something about a "Vinegar Test" doctors use to determine if someone has GW. Still in denial, I tried it out a couple of times-I saw no results. However it appeared that the warts had gotten smaller. That's when, on a web search I found this site. I've been taken 3 3 Garlic Pills a day (jury's still out on that, I don't know how much effect its having, they do appear a bit more under control, and they are getting smaller) for about a week now. I have also been doing an ACV wash twice a day after my showers, as well as applying ACV directly with a swab for 10 minutes twice a day on the two warts mentioned above. I've been doing the direct application for 3 days, and today, I see only two scabs where those hideous things had been. I'll keep you all posted on the progress of this treatment for the other warts. But, for once, I think something is truly working. Save your money! Go buy some ACV at the supermarket, and pop some garlic pills for good measure. You will be pleasantly surprised. I was! Good luck to all of you.
Garlic, Red Wine Vinegar
Posted by N.D. (Montclair, NJ) on 06/16/2007
★★★★★
Red Wine Vinegar and Garlic cured my genital warts. I recently discovered bumps around my vagina and thought they were pimples, but when they didn't go away for 3 weeks, I went to my doctor and was told I had genital warts (HPV). I was devasted. I felt nasty and dirty. I was actually crying in the office. My doctor gave me a perscription for Aldara cream. The medicine had so many side effects. I used the medicine for one night and to my surprise, I discovered MORE WARTS spreading....that was one of the side effects listed on the instruction sheet! After searching online, I read on this site about garlic and apple cider vinegar for genital warts and wanted to give it a try. I started off by doing a cleaning of red wine vinegar every time I went to the bathroom, dabbing each wart with a q-tip or cotton ball... it stings like crazy... but afterwards if feels like it's working. I washed my vagina 2-3 times a day with "neem"(a healing plant from india) soap. I also bought a bottle of liquid garlic, I puntured one capsule and applied the liquid garlic on each wart before bed. I also began taking 3 capsules of liquid garlic in the morning and 3 before bed (6 a day). By the fourth day, the warts were extremely small. My confidence in these remedies are soaring and I am continueing on this regime until I am healed. For added bonus, I have also applied the essential oil Tea tree oil to each wart at least 3x's a day with a q-tip (3 drops on the q-tip). I was careful to keep my hands and nails very clean while treating myself. For the future I plan to share these remedies with my doctor and I plan to practice safer sex with my life partner.
Coconut Oil
Posted by Mike (San Francisco, CA) on 04/30/2007
★★★★★
After extensive research on the web when I discovered I had genital warts I decided to give coconut oil a chance. I couldn't bare the thought of going to a doctor and asking them to look at a growth on my butt, worse, there were some just inside my colon (which is typical with genital warts on the anus). After 6 weeks of 2xdaily enemas and massaging in a tablespoon of coconut oil over the warts... they are completely gone. A lot of information on the web says genital warts don't go away without serious treatment (burning off, laser, freezing, etc). I am a believer in coconut oil. It worked on me. It also made my skin glow and feel baby soft. I found myself caressing my skin, amazed at the pleasant silky feeling. Rubbing it in my hair made it super shiney and healthy. I want to fill my hot tub with coconut oil and marinate in it for days.
White Vinegar
Posted by Deb (New Jersey) on 11/30/2006
★★★★★
I had a recent outburst of a vaginal wart. It looked like a raised bumpy mass and it kept on growing, fast. It got to the size of a thumbnail and raised about 1/4 inch. I did not want to use traditional medications so I saw that Apple Cider vinegar worked on regular warts. Well I had no Apple Cider vinegar, how about regular white vinegar. I soaked a q-tip in the vinegar and treated the wart directly for 10 minutes a day. After about 8 days the wart started to disappear, more and more each day. Then the area would bleed where I applied the vinegar, something was happening. As it bled the wart was disappearing. I treated the area every day until it bled. Eventually the wart was gone and a hole was there. The vinegar ate away the wart. This took about 2 weeks. If the wart threatens to come back I re-treat with vinegar for a few days, and its gone again. I hope this helps someone else.
Garlic
Posted by JJ (Monroe, Georgia) on 05/20/2006
★★★★★
After being let down by so called genital wart treatments online I searched up home remedies and found one that actually works. So i went out and bought it that night and tried it with myself and with my husband. Garlic liquid pills. We took about 6 a day. 3 in am and 3 in pm. After 3 days they got smaller and smaller. In about a week, if that, they were so tiny it was unnoticeable. I was so scared, didnt wanna have any sexual contact or look at my husband. I was so afraid my kids would contract it. But now im so happy I learned what wonders garlic does. Its a virus killer so it attacks the virus inside. Its also alot better then having to tape something on your vagina! How are you supposed to do that?! So just swallow some garlic pills until theyre gone, which is about 2-3 weeks the latest, then drop down to 2 or 3 to be safe they don't come back. I have not seen another wart or have felt one in about 2 months. It makes you feel good again and brings back your esteem. Pretty sure this aint a cure cause theyre are no cures for this virus,so just play it safe when you do have sex and always wash your hands after going to the restroom. This virus is very catchy so please be careful. Do not use same towels or wash cloths with others.
Garlic
Posted by TC (USA) on 01/28/2006
★★★★★
Garlic really works on genital warts too. I didn't know about banana peel or potato so i bandaged crushed organic garlic [the strongest garlic] every night before bed and if i stayed home during the day too, sure it's gonna smell down there but who cares, it works! I also eat a few raw garlic cloves every day until symptoms, and did a whole body detoxification for 30 day- herbcleansing capsules u can find in every health food store.. in a few days this garlic and cleansing pushed the wart out from the skin, it got really big and it seemed like it stopped growing now i just had to figure out how to dry it off, i was reading a lot about sulfur for warts that it dries any wart off and i remembered i have a sulfur acne cream from an acne complex kit the "acne spot treatment", 3% sulfur..and put this on a bandage all day, change it about three times or so a day until it dries off compleatly leaving a small hole where the wart was. then disinfect the hole with hydrogen peroxide until it heals. It took about 3 weeks and the wart was gone in 3 weeks.
ps:i was also applying an oxygen facial mask on it and the oxygen helped too push the wart out too and i think probably just pure hydrogen per., could do the trick too since it creates an oxygen reaction if applied but i didn't know that than and i heard fluor toothpaste dries off acne maybe it dries of wart too- i don't know this for sure but i know it works for pimples for sure.with this emberassing problem i didn't even show this to a doctor, i just cured it at home, without telling anyone, but i'm telling this now to anyone who is reading this site, no worries there is cure for genital warts too, u can do it..
ps2: this what i wrote down it only worked on a wart that looks like a bug bite or has that big pimple look, it didn't work on a wart that looks like a skin tag or "roosters hair", with that i did have to go for nitrogen treatment. [maybe the banana peel,potato or hydrogen peroxide works on that too..]
ps3: oxygenate your body with with drinking oxy water every day, or put oxy drops in your water from health food stores,or doing the baking soda -citric acid mix half and half will oxygenate your body or hydrogen peroxide in your water-why oxygen? because no virus can live in an oxygen rich body, helps to destroy viruses and bacterias as well.
ps4: I also think that going to a tanning salon during the outbreak helps. I noticed after tanning it pushed it out even more. [i think this is because Uv light also kills viruses and bacterias]so it helped to push the virus out. BUT PLEASE IF YOU HAVE THE OUTBREAK ONLY GO TO A STAND UP MACHINE-NO BEDS!- so your genital will not touch the machine-who knows if they clean it properly, for your protection also, with an open sore you can pick up something.So if the stand up machine is busy when you go, just wait for it, don't use the bed! Do the tanning maybe 2 times a week [or 3, if you don't burn], naked-don't cover the wart, don't touch it make sure your genital don't touch the bulbs. You'll see doing this too will help to speed up the healing process.
Castor OIl
Posted by moxie (Kansas) on 09/20/2024
★★★★★
I've had a wart on the inner labia for literally years. I tried various things and nothing worked. ACV was too painful for this old gal. Lately, the wart started tingling and was getting bigger. I decided to try castor oil. It worked. Seriously worked and no pain. I put some in a dropper bottle so I could put a couple drops on my finger and rub it on top of the wart several times a day. The wart got smaller really fast and because of the 'traveling' of the oil, I found a small wart that I didn't even know I had.
It's been a couple weeks since I started using the oil. The little wart was gone after the first week and I can barely feel the bigger one today. I'm going to keep rubbing on some oil for a few days after the wart is gone just to make sure.
Bee Propolis
Posted by Jeje (Usa) on 10/08/2020
Can you tell me the regimen of use and which tablets did you use?? I have some but I can't apply anything on them:( its inside! But I will try increasing my immune system hope it will work with me💔
Tea Tree Oil
Posted by Chop (Taiwan) on 11/26/2017
★☆☆☆☆
Had my first genital wart outbreak exactly 10 years ago, defeated it with tea tree oil in about 3 months time. Had been cleared and free until just recently. Located on the dark side of the penis head, didn't do anything about it until its full blown. Went back with tea tree oil and was unsuccessful. Tried the over the counter imiquimod 5% cream for 4 weeks, during which no spread and didn't get bigger. However, my patience run dried when side effects become overbearing. So I stopped using it for a week, decided to finally try ACV. This is my first day using ACV, will report back in a week ~ wish me luck!
Malt Vinegar
Posted by Jay (London) on 11/14/2017
★★★★★
I developed genital warts after shaving my vagina smooth. I had it before years ago and I also treated it with vinegar that time. Both of the times I've treated my out breaks with malt vinegar. Its important to protect the skin that is not effected with a barrier cream. Vaseline, sudocreme ECT. Apply the vinegar using cotton balls broken down into correct sizing or a q tip or small bits off tissue. Once on the warts they will burn like hell, the only thing that got me through was feeling like the burning sensation is the virus dying. Because I caught the warts early they fell if within 2 applications of vinegar. Along side this I sat in small Epsom salt and vinegar baths. And drank vinegar mixed with water/juice doesn't taste nice but helps to kill the virus from the inside. I aslo used aloe vera gel to help repair the skin once done with the treatment as it can leave areas quite raw. To manage this condition I find that drinking a spoon of vinegar mixed with juice or water. Or regularly wiping the genitals with diluted water and vinegar may stay on top of this. The early you catch the warts the easier they are to get rid of. The natural way is definitely the best way. I would also like to remind people that any vinegar will work as they are all acidic. I want to encourage people to fight through the pain and persist with treatments. Your confidence will sky rocket.
Oregano Oil
Posted by Daniel (Los Angeles ) on 10/30/2017
★★★★★
Hi everyone. I love earth clinic and a love all the courageous people stepping out of the medical box/trap/money grab that has been set up for us. I was suffering from genital warts other wise known as hpv, I had what I think can be said was a mild case of a few to a dozen small flatwarts slightly raised confined to my pubic area with a few on the base of the shaft of my penis. I had them removed by a doctor but they came back. I used Apple Cider Vinegar but the pain was unbearable and did not seem to work. I used diluted oregano oil and had a little luck but they were still there. I then bought pure oregano oil (make sure it's pure and not diluted) and I had success and have been free of all warts for close to a year. I applied 4 drops and spread it by making circles with my finger to my shaft base and pubic area massaging it in for a few minutes. It burns a lot but it's more bearable then Apple Cider Vinegar and the pain subsides. After a few applications over a few days my skin peeled kind of like a lizard, I was still showing signs of warts though so what I did next as cut them of by grabbing them with nail clippers and removing as much as I could, it's slightly painful but try to grab the wart and not the healthy skin and no I'm left with no scarring, after cutting I would apply oregano oil in the same way as mentioned previously. After what was I guess now about a month I was having no return of warts. I applied a maintenance dose for a few months after a few days a week. And I am in my opinion and of the doctors since they can't actually check on a male unless he's showing actually signs of warts, free of hpv. If you have them on you balls or shaft it will hurt more I imagine, as well if your a woman since I believe the vagina is more of a mucus membrane. You could slightly dilute with say coconut oil.
Well I hope this helps someone. Bless you all, I love you. Take care and be careful who you sleep with. Please ask if you need clarification. Peace and love.
Tea Tree Oil
Posted by Kim (Milton, Ma) on 09/26/2017
★★★★★
I am trying tea tree oil for genital warts. I've had acid and podofilin at the Dr.Office but it hurts like you can't believe and it never really cleared the warts and they just came right back. I have used tea tree oil for four days now. I bought a spray bottle and just spray it on them after I shower and leave it on all day. The first day it stung a little but not nearly as bad as in these. Office. So far it looks like that are shrinking to about 1/2 the size as when I started. I can't believe this might work and will send updates. So much easier than in the dr office and much less painful and humiliating. Doctors need to spread the word about this. None of my dr.s have ever suggested this.
How to Diagnose GW with Vinegar
Posted by Angel (Michigan) on 07/02/2017
★★★★★
If anyone's ever unsure if their bump on their genitals is a wart or not, just apply vinegar. If it turns white it is definately a genital wart. I was told this by a doctor.
How to Diagnose GW with Vinegar
Posted by Cory (Usa) on 02/05/2018
Ok. I want to say thank you to all who have posted their experiences. It helped a lot during this awful process. I'm still treating. I lost count of days. I do know it's been a little over a week now. I've been targeting two clusters. One below the shaft, and one on my inner thigh... Next to the sack.. I've been going downstairs as often as possible and soaking a cotton ball in acv, and applying to the warts. Maybe 20-30 mins every couple hours. No treatment at night. I'm sure it would make things go faster, but I'm not duct taping my balls. One cluster is down to craters in my skin. Still treating. The other cluster by my thigh doesn't seem too affected by the treatment. I'm going to go another week on it. The first cluster took about a week. Right when I was ready to stop, they turned dark red/black. Keep with it. After the first goes, it feels so liberating. Like yes, this stinky stuff actually works... Yes! Anyways, good luck guys/girls. Share your stories and help another.
Banana Peel
Posted by Anon (Ny) on 06/09/2020
I am reading this today, and I have had genital warts since I was a teen. I have tried just about everything the doctor has recommended and most of it has not worked. I have an appointment set up to discuss surgery. I am going to cancel now that I have read all the positive responses. I will update this post during and after the treatment. For the first time in my life I have real hope that these can be fixed by this solution.
Banana Peel
Posted by Linda (New York ) on 05/09/2022
Can you tell me more about banana peel and vaginal warts please?
Thank you
Linda
Multiple Remedies
Posted by Christina (California) on 01/25/2017
★★★★★
ACV, H2O2, supplements, vitamin E, tea tree oil, aspirin, squirt bottle for water
Not sure which of this exactly worked but it was probably the ACV.
Directly treated the warts with just ACV (for Day/Night 1 and 4) and a mix of ACV with some vit E, tea tree oil, and aspirin (Day/Night 2 and 3). Soaked a cotton ball and pad with this and applied on the warts. There was a very large clump of warts on me so I just surrounded the whole area with the ACV/ACV mixture. I noticed that it burned really badly the first time but a lot, lot more so when I began the ACV + vit E + TTO + aspirin. I'm not sure if it burned more because of the other stuff or because the skin was just burning the more I exposed it to ACV.
I would try to tape this on me and leave it on the night or leave it for hours on the day. I used a cotton ball soaked with H2O2 before and after applying the ACV and other stuff. I would let my skin breathe at other times though. Anyway it looked really bad, one of the warts turned black after the second night. Afterwards it just looked so strange, like grayish white, and I wasn't really sure if the ACV was making the skin worse or increasing the warts' size because it looked a lot worse every time.
Eventually I got super discouraged after the 4th night so I decided to just wait for my doctors' appt which was 2 days after that. I just stuck with using a soaked cotton ball to prevent bacteria from spreading. When I went to the doctors, she told me she didn't really see active warts. I told her I was prescribed aldara but it was hardly working so I used the Apple Cider Vinegar treatment instead.
Initially she thought the aldara caused my skin to look bad, but after I told her I stopped using aldara since it was quite ineffective for me, she thought I might have had herpes because my skin looked really bad. I told her it might just be the ACV treatment but she was quite surprised since she doesn't think the ACV could do this skin damage. After about 2 days from the Doctors' appointment, my skin looks completely normal now and no sign of any warts. It's been almost a week now and still no sign of warts.
I got my test results back and tested negative for STDs, including herpes. I would have to go again in a few weeks to get re-checked for herpes but I highly doubt it was herpes, I really think it was just skin damage from ACV. Nonetheless, my skin looks completely healed. Totally time for treatment (about 4 days) + healing (4 days) so only a little over a week. I'm really happy with the results. I was so miserable about having warts but I'm glad that I tried these things. At first it seemed like it wasn't working, just made my skin worse, but the healing time was so short so it's fine. Although others reported black things/seeds/warts falling off, I didn't really notice this (maybe they did but didn't look like them when I washed them off). But it DID work so even though it seems like you have different results (like how I did), don't give up. Make sure to also wash with H2O2 and to give your skin a break. Try it for a week and get checked after.
Another thing I did was a round of supplements. Not sure how effective this is (I ended up getting a cold right after seeing my doctor so not sure how well my immune system was holding up, lol) but it's worth a shot. Here are some of the supplements I had:
- Vit A
- Vit E
- Vit D3
- Folate and Vit B12
- Vit C
- Echinea goldenseal
- Zinc
- L-lysine
- garlic
- omega 3 fish oil
Hope this helps.
Apple Cider Vinegar, Coconut Oil, Tea Tree Oil
Posted by Lexi (Chicago, Il) on 01/17/2017
★★★★★
Hi guys!
First let's take a deep breath because as frustrating as this is, there is a way to treat this embarrassing problem. After tons of research I decided to go the organic apple cider vinegar route. This whole process took me about 4 days to a week (can't remember because this was a couple of months ago) the first day I soaked a cotton ball and covered the affected area and secured it with a ton of bandaids. The angling was definitely very difficult, but I made sure as best as I could that each one was getting exposed to the apple cider vinegar. I did this at night so I could just lay down and not have to worry about any shifting of the cotton balls. I kept it on for a few hours while sleeping until I couldn't bear it any longer. I repeated it the following night. The second time around I woke up in agony and found that I badly burned the skin that surrounding the warts, my butt cheeks where the vineagar dripped down to looked like scabbing. This was very painful. The warts definitely were a bit raw too. Since I was in so much pain I slathered the whole area with a mixture of coconut oil and tea tree oil.
From then on out I did not use the apple cider vinegar. I continued to use the mixture of coconut oil and tea tree oil. I Would slather it on very well in the morning and at night. I forgot to mention during this whole process I was taking a shower at night and would put the mixture on the clean skin.
In the morning I'd use a peroxide soaked cotton ball to clean affected area and put the mixture on.
My diet all throughout was immaculate. If you don't eat well then you're not serious about seeing results. I drank a green juice everyday. I didn't eat anything processed. I ate lean organic meats, but stuck with a mostly plant and fruit based diet. Every morning I eat a table spoon of coconut oil and a shot of the apple cider vinegar. Eating healthy for a week can be difficult for some but it's crucial!!!!
It's just one week for getting your lady parts looking good and back to normal. Be persistent and don't give up hope if you don't get immediate results. I felt defeated when the first three days didn't give me the same results as other reviews. Everyone's body is different. HAVE FAITH AND GOOD LUCK!!!
Apple Cider Vinegar, Coconut Oil, Tea Tree Oil
Posted by Bm (Puyallup, Wa) on 01/06/2018
How exactly did you do the combination of coconut oil and tea tree oil? Do you know what the ratio was? Did you mix it together before applying or apply one and then the other?
Thanks!!
