Talking Acne

Banana Peel Wart Treatment

Question:

You can kill bugs growing on roses by just laying some banana peel on the earth around the roses. the reason is that the banana peel contains so much insecticides – so that the bugs living on the rose die (at least that is what I have heard – I have not actually tried it). Could it be that banana peel is so poisoning that it kills the cells in the wart??

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   *Because*, the "smelly medicine that worked on his brother failed to do    the job" on him! I haven’t been able to convince those who adhere to    "sweeter" remedies for personal rather than medical reasons any more than    you were successful with your ‘alternative’ son. Puzzling, isn’t it?    JB    I’m not sure if you mean "puzzling that the remedy works anyway" or    "puzzling that I haven’t been able to convince others," I’m neither puzzled by the "effectiveness" of the Banana Peel Remedy nor by peoples’ resistance to appreciating why Alternative Physiology and Pathology is preferential to "smelly medicine."    I find it fascinating that we are able to heal ourselves with placebos.    Its almost as if there is something we’re missing despite all our    alternative gropes or scientific mumbo-jumbo, and that something can    manage to cure just about anything. hmmmmmm…… JB

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The removal of warts by banana peels is a placebo effect. Warts are notorious for being responsive to the placebo effect. For a good discussion of the placebo effect with relation to warts, see Andrew Weil’s book "Health and Healing". — Bernie Simon                    Homeopathy: the safer medicine

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Healing is a spiritual process as well as a physical process. Though the allopathic medical world view disavows the spiritual dimension of the healing process, it is forced to acknowledge it in the form of the "placebo effect". For what is the placebo effect but the power of faith, a virtue that every spiritual tradition has said is an important part of spiritual life? — Bernie Simon                    Homeopathy: the safer medicine

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –   : I should also mention that I previously removed a wart on my left thumb   : by applying tea-tree oil to it every night.  It was gone in about 10   : days.  I doubt the tea-tree oil had anything to do with it; I simply   : convinced myself it would work and, voila!   : Dan   But how did my child become convinced about banana peels when the smelly   medicine that worked on his brother failed to do the job?  I haven’t been   able to convince him of anything else! *Because*, the "smelly medicine that worked on his brother failed to do the job" on him! I haven’t been able to convince those who adhere to "sweeter" remedies for personal rather than medical reasons any more than you were successful with your ‘alternative’ son. Puzzling, isn’t it? JB

I’m not sure if you mean "puzzling that the remedy works anyway" or "puzzling that I haven’t been able to convince others," but I find it fascinating that we are able to heal ourselves with placebos.  It’s almost as if there is something we’re missing despite all our alternative gropes or scientific mumbo-jumbo, and that something can manage to cure just about anything.   Dan

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: I should also mention that I previously removed a wart on my left thumb : by applying tea-tree oil to it every night.  It was gone in about 10 : days.  I doubt the tea-tree oil had anything to do with it; I simply : convinced myself it would work and, voila! : Dan But how did my child become convinced about banana peels when the smelly medicine that worked on his brother failed to do the job?  I haven’t been able to convince him of anything else! -Barbara

No idea.  It’s an interesting puzzle.  I’m almost hoping I get another wart so I can try the banana peel trick myself! Anyone know what banana peels have in them that could remove warts? Dan

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   : I should also mention that I previously removed a wart on my left thumb    : by applying tea-tree oil to it every night.  It was gone in about 10    : days.  I doubt the tea-tree oil had anything to do with it; I simply    : convinced myself it would work and, voila!    : Dan    But how did my child become convinced about banana peels when the smelly    medicine that worked on his brother failed to do the job?  I haven’t been    able to convince him of anything else! *Because*, the "smelly medicine that worked on his brother failed to do the job" on him! I haven’t been able to convince those who adhere to "sweeter" remedies for personal rather than medical reasons any more than you were successful with your ‘alternative’ son. Puzzling, isn’t it? JB

Response:

My son was plagued by warts on his leg.  He was too fidgety for the usual acid treatment (just try to dab this stuff on a child who can’t stand still) and developed an new crop of numerous tiny warts near the site of the original two.  Then we read in Ann Landers’ column about using banana peels to treat the warts.  All he did was rub the inside of a banana peel on the warts before bedtime.  He didn’t even do it regularly.  We even froze a peel so that he would have a supply even if we ran out of bananas.  And guess what!  They’re gone!  Can anyone explain it?   Another recommendation from her column:  using egg yolk dabbed on pimples to treat acne?  Any ideas on whether this should work?

Lewis Thomas, in _The Medusa and the Snail_, wrote an excellent expose "On Warts."  In it, he discusses the mystery of how warts are created and how dissolved.  Basically, he suggests, no one knows.  On thing if for certain: something in us is able to both grow a wart and get rid of one.  He cites studies where warts were removed through hypnosis, and implies that various home remedies (potato skins, banana skins, etc.) merely work the same way: through the power of suggestion.   One doctor he mentions used to treat warts with purple die; it worked more often than not. Dan

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I should also mention that I previously removed a wart on my left thumb by applying tea-tree oil to it every night.  It was gone in about 10 days.  I doubt the tea-tree oil had anything to do with it; I simply convinced myself it would work and, voila! Dan

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: I should also mention that I previously removed a wart on my left thumb : by applying tea-tree oil to it every night.  It was gone in about 10 : days.  I doubt the tea-tree oil had anything to do with it; I simply : convinced myself it would work and, voila! : Dan But how did my child become convinced about banana peels when the smelly medicine that worked on his brother failed to do the job?  I haven’t been able to convince him of anything else! -Barbara

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My son was plagued by warts on his leg.  He was too fidgety for the usual acid treatment (just try to dab this stuff on a child who can’t stand still) and developed an new crop of numerous tiny warts near the site of the original two.  Then we read in Ann Landers’ column about using banana peels to treat the warts.  All he did was rub the inside of a banana peel on the warts before bedtime.  He didn’t even do it regularly.  We even froze a peel so that he would have a supply even if we ran out of bananas.  And guess what!  They’re gone!  Can anyone explain it?   Another recommendation from her column:  using egg yolk dabbed on pimples to treat acne?  Any ideas on whether this should work?

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: My son was plagued by warts on his leg.  He was too fidgety for the usual : acid treatment (just try to dab this stuff on a child who can’t stand : still) and developed an new crop of numerous tiny warts near the site of : the original two.  Then we read in Ann Landers’ column about using banana : peels to treat the warts.  All he did was rub the inside of a banana peel : on the warts before bedtime.  He didn’t even do it regularly.  We even : froze a peel so that he would have a supply even if we ran out of : bananas.  And guess what!  They’re gone!  Can anyone explain it?   Barbara – Warts respond quite well to suggestion.  Quit a literature in hypnosis re: removal via suggestion.  An example of a profound physical effect of "placebo" interventions.  – Jerry Wesch  -  Health Psychology Consultations – Evanston, IL | "The GOAL is to become so aware of all of the levels of all of the forces determining your behavior that you can make a Real Choice."|

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