Plantar Warts – My Clove Oil Experiment

Note the update on this post. The Clove Oil seemed to kill the wart, but it came back early Spring 2011. I am sorry for not updating sooner. I am playing around with Calcium Bentonite Clay poultices, as that is supposed to be very effective. You can read more here:Calcium Bentonite Clay Update.

I have this plantar wart on my right foot. It has been frozen and burned out three times and it came back again. This time I searched the discussion board of the Holistic Moms Network. One member recommended Clove Oil for treatment of plantar warts, and it worked. Painlessly and easily. Somehow the clove oil just attacks the wart and the slightly raised painful area declines and the dark wart roots slowly make their way to the surface.

I treated my wart with clove oil twice a day, morning and night, and covered it with a band aid. Sometimes I rubbed the area with a pumice stone in an effort to expose more of the wart and then put clove oil on it, but I don’t think that was necessary. Clove oil – who’d of thought?

Comments

[AnneS]

Any special brand, or just whatever I find at the healthfood store?
And is it specific to plantar, or works on all warts?

[Laura Combs]

Hi Anne. I use Aura Cacia clove oil. I imagine that other brands would work as well. I am not sure how it will work on other warts. If you try, please let me know how it goes if you think of it.

Thank you for reading!

Laura Combs

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[treatment for warts]

Plantar warts are self-explanatory in their location. Here there are many ways to remove plantar warts. Better to treated it Homeopathy medicines. It's really quickly cure to it.

[TX Hopeful]

Hi. Just wondering how much time did it take the clove oil to work? I don't see much after 3 days but feel a hard knot when I put my toe on the floor. I was told around 4 days.

Thanks

[Laura Combs]

Thank you for reading, TX Hopeful. I probably went a week applying the clove oil. Perhpas I overdid it. I notice that I wrote the post in August 2010. I can say that the wart is gone, but what is surprising to me is how long it takes for the raised, hard area to even out. Five months after treating it, the raised area is about gone. One person suggested using a razor to peel the skin away when treating it, but I am too much of a chicken. Perhaps if I did that the raised area would have been gone months ago.

Good luck!

[Richard]

If your Going to use a razor to 'peel' some skin off put a little clove oil on the area first as clove oil has natural analgaesic and antiseptic properties. Dentists used to use it