[WiseWomanHerbal] Garlic and skin taggy things

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That's about it...! But I have a question, for Doc or anybody else who's

ever Garlic-Slabbed a Skin-Taggy Thing:

 

Last night was, what, night Five I think that I've stuck a garlic slab on

that annoying thing on the back of my neck (the skin-tag, not the WTF?

bump...dang, I'm sprouting lumps all over the place, *lol*). The STT

(Sara's new shorthand for Skin-Taggy Thing) started getting irritated and

pinkish (it was the same color as my skin) two days ago; yesterday it

began to itch slightly, and in the course of my itching it (I forgot to

restrain myself for a minute there), I ripped a chunk of it off! It bled

all over for a short time but didn't really hurt. I went ahead and put

the garlic on it again last night, figuring garlic is an antibiotic

anyway, and I'd have put some sort of antibiotic cream or something on it

even if I wasn't trying to remove it, after all that bleeding. Well,

today it's a little *more* reddish and tender--it doesn't hurt really, or

look infected or anything--and parts of it are hard like scabs, and feel

like they may come off. (Rather, they definitely would if I pulled on

them, but I'm trying not to!)

 

Just wanting to know if all that's normal...?

 

Thanks all,

Sara

 

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:40:02 -0500 Ginger DeWeese wrote:

 

> Neat! So you smell for a few nights, alienate your spouse, and smell up

> the sheets : ) It's still better than going to the doctor! The garlic

> certainly isn't going to hurt you. I'm sure the garlic seeps into your

> skin and circulates through your body and garlic is good for you so

> there may even be health benefits along with removing ugly little skin

> tags. My husband has a lot and while they aren't harmful or anything

> they bother me. (don't think hubby really cares one way or the other

> but <I'm> annoyed by them) They're just ugly! Now, if I can just get

> him to try the garlic....

>

> Thanks for posting it! This is definitely going into my files.

>

> Ginger

>

 

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At 2:55 PM +0000 4/29/02, tv_is_a_drug wrote:

> That's about it...! But I have a question, for Doc or anybody else who's

> ever Garlic-Slabbed a Skin-Taggy Thing:

>

> Last night was, what, night Five I think that I've stuck a garlic slab on

> that annoying thing on the back of my neck (the skin-tag, not the WTF?

> bump...dang, I'm sprouting lumps all over the place, *lol*). The STT

> (Sara's new shorthand for Skin-Taggy Thing) started getting irritated and

> pinkish (it was the same color as my skin) two days ago; yesterday it

> began to itch slightly, and in the course of my itching it (I forgot to

> restrain myself for a minute there), I ripped a chunk of it off! It bled

> all over for a short time but didn't really hurt.

 

garlic has some very caustic oils and I do nto recommend people put it

directly on their skin. I ahve seen cases of it causing a " burn " which did

not go away for Months

 

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