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Article: Topical garlic extract heals warts and corns.
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Twenty-three patients with 2 to 96 warts (all on the hands except for two cases with plantar warts) and 9 patients with 1 to 2 corns on the feet applied a lipid extract of garlic twice a day until full or best recovery was seen. Complete recovery was seen in all cases with warts after 1 to 2 weeks of treatment. Seven of 9 patients with corns showed complete recovery after 10 to 20 days and the other 2 patients showed marked improvement, with no further improvement on continuation of treatment. In a control group of patients treated with the vehicle (chloroform: methanol (2:1) solution), no improvement in warts was seen. In patients who had numerous warts, when only 1 or 2 ...