HEALTH: Re: Wart Removal

From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 07:34:02 MDT


>From: Alex Ramonsky <alex@ramonsky.com>

>Yip. ...The common or garden 'wart remover' in little paint-on
>bottles, is nothing more than salicylic acid...Willow tree bark
>works just as well.

An old folk cure for warts involved rainwater taken from the stump
of willow or aspens, both contain salicylic acid in theraputic
quantities.

Brian

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