OT for our Ozzie friends

I was introduced to the "magic" properties of Tea Tree Oil about 30 years ago from a friend who was from India. It's been a standard healing cure all for them for centuries. Tea Tree Oil is unique in that it "attacks" fungus, bacteria and viruses. Warts are caused by a virus so that makes sense to me. Good for chicken pox too. I had a fungus under my toe nail (very painful) that had defied 6 months of expensive prescriptions that weren't working. She gave me a bottle and told me to put it on my toe twice a day....it completely cleared up in less than a week. I also used it to swab out my retrievers ears that got infections all the time, especially during water fowl season. Cleared it right up and didn't come back. The boys dabbed it on their acne spots at night and cleared them up as well, also heals up cold sores FAST.......good stuff! It *IS*, however, somewhat odiferous. Glad Polly is down wind of me. LOL

Val

I have had some in my medicine cabinet for some time Polly. It was the only thing that got rid of headlice completely. Now the kids detest the smell. I was using it before the commercial products became available. I have also used it on bites and as a fungicide on feet.

I have never heard of it used on warts before. I wonder if DS could be persuaded to use it on the wart that he currently has on his thumb, we will see.

Dee in Oz "Polly Esther" wrote

Mix it with a bit of hair conditioner and water in a 500ml spray bottle and then spray on kids hair - helps to keep those little creepy crawly bugs away (ie head lice). It is a good thing to keep around - same as Eucalyptus Oil.

Some people are snesitive/allergic to it though, my father is. He had a fungal problem on his feet and tried Tea tree oil and it burned his skin.

We have marshes nearby so have midges on summer evenings. DSisIL uses it on the insect bites when she comes to stay. It reeks!

I always offer her some Anthisan which she always refuses.

Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)

Dee > I have had some in my medicine cabinet for some time Polly. It was the only

Yes sireee! Staying downwind of everybody is something I'll be kind enough to do. What a great discovery. Thank you all. Pheweee Polly

Polly, I have used Tea Tree Oil with success on various skin thingies. As long as your spots aren't skin cancer it whould be ok.

hey Thanks Polly for bringing this up in convo. of course i know of tea tree oil but never thot to check all the uses for it. heres a few links of various uses i found online.

site says when using on a diaper rash not to mix the tea tree oil with baby oil as it contains mineral oil which depletes the body of Vitamin A. all these years i thot baby oil was so good for the skin too. we need vitamin A for our skin, well i always thot so. so why would they use it as the main ingredient in baby oil on their sensitive skin??? the mind boggles. iirc, it is also has a laxative effect. so i'm taking all that to mean i should not use baby oil ever on anyone.

In our newspaper, we have a doctor column that often tells us about assorted

I can second this. I have eczema, and when I tried a shampoo with Tea Tree Oil, it gave me a massive rash on my neck. I had to give the rest of the bottle away.

-- Jo in Scotland

Please DON'T use the stuff on babies - there's a good chance you might sensitize them to it (which might in turn mean they'd end up allergic to a whole lot of other volatile compounds).

You can't remove vitamin A from the body through the skin. Mineral oil in the diet can do that (Olestra, for example).

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I like the smell. I've used Melaluca products for years.

Cindy

This is all good to know! I have a periungual (sp?) wart on my thumb that has been there for years. It has resisted every treatment I have tried, including being frozen by a doctor. I will give the tea tree oil a chance.

Thanks to all of you who contributed to this subject!

Oh great, Carolyn. I was surely hoping that some of you would need to know about this possible home remedy. DH and I (as well as our children and grandchildren) have paid for our dermatologist's building, paved his parking lot, educated his children and probably financed several nice vacations for him. The Tea Tree Oil should also be quite effective for birth control and preventing assorted contagious diseases. Ain't nobody going to come near you. I'll probably have to replace my pillow but that's a small price to pay to have the ugly spot gone. It seems like Dr. Gott's column suggested applying it twice a day for about 3 weeks before you decide whether it is effective or not. I found my oil over in the pharmacy section of the store - NOT in the beauty stuff where it would possibly be diluted or just an ingredient. Polly

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And, Polly, I bought some today to try on my fingernails. My nails have started peeling off in layers. Ugh. Not nice looking at all. Some internet research says nutrition and fungus are two major causes. I eat fairly well and take vitamins with biotin, so I'm going to try the oil to see if maybe it is indeed a fungus and the oil might help. I also have a strange wart on the side of my little finger that's resisted all treatments over about 20 years- much like Carolyn's. I'll try it there, too. Hope my furbabies can stand the stink. If not.... well maybe I'll get my bed back from them! VBG

Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO.

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A friend once told me how she had taken her son to a doctor to have a bunch of warts frozen to remove them from his hand which worked but then heard of a cheaper way. He had more warts on the other hand so she thought she 'd try a different treatment as it does take some time for that area to heal after the wart is frozen. Someone had told her to just rub a cut open onion on a wart when ever you thought of it. Well, it worked ! So I tried it for two diff. warts on my hands and it has worked ! Also worked on my son's wart. One of mine took about two weeks to just keep getting smaller and the other took less time . I'd had one frozen years ago and can still feel something where it used to be but where I had the other warts nothing can be felt there--the onion did a better job in my opinion !!! My dd tried garlic but all it did was make her wart black !!!

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Thank you for the warning. Comes to mind my 5th grade teacher who had a moustache as well as a big black wart on her nose. I will stick with smelling like a lumberyard and forego the garlic. If we have an influx of vampires, we'll have to think of something else. Polly

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She probably hadn't read the warning on the garlic bulb about certain appendages liable to turn black on application of garlic juice.

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Certain appendages ? Mercy. I am not going to touch that. In fact, I will bid you all goodnight and leave you on that one. Polly

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