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Topic: Banana skins

We first tried this on my sons verruca he had picked up from swimming.
I taped a small piece of banana skin (pith side down) on the verruca overnight and it had drawn the entire verruca out next morning leaving a hole in his heel about 5mm cubed.

I had a nasty splinter in a finger that was too painful to get out with a needle (wimp that i am) and did the same trick and next morning enough of the splinter popped out for me to get the tweezers on.
should work for drawing poisons out of wounds too, i think its down to enzymes in the banana skin having a powerful drawing action.

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  • Lono
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Re: Banana skins

What is a verruca?  Is it like a boil?

3 Reply by Barefoot Doc (edited by Barefoot Doc 2007-03-30 07:33:44)

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Re: Banana skins

Lono wrote:

What is a verruca?  Is it like a boil?

Warts really and are fairly common among children usually picked up from swimming pools, school changing rooms etc, reckoned to be a virus linked to HPV. They can be a bugger to get rid of using allopathic methods though.

more info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_wart

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4 Reply by Lono (edited by Lono 2007-03-30 07:48:12)

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Re: Banana skins

Oh!  Yeah, I used to get those a a kid.  I'd never  heard of them being called verrucas before.  Is that where Verruca Salt In Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory got her name?

5 Reply by Barefoot Doc (edited by Barefoot Doc 2007-03-30 07:52:43)

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Re: Banana skins

Lono wrote:

Oh!  Yeah, I used to get those a a kid.  I'd never  heard of them being called verrucas before.  Is that where Verruca Salt In Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory got her name?

Verruca must be more common UK term i suppose, funny, i was just thinking of Verruca Salt too, maybe thats an old cure  smile

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