Hi all! this forum really helped me when I was suffering from a bad Bartholin's cyst for two weeks. I tried Pheobe's cure, sitz baths and the heating pad every day for a long spell and no luck. What worked for me was going to the health food store and getting a drawing salve, mine was called Wise Ways, Black Blood Root drawing salve, I applied that to the gland opening several times a day while taking the homeopathic silica, and Epsom Salt baths with lavendar. The cyst finally started to shrink the day after I started that regimen, and reduced slowly over the next 4 days until it was gone.