I hate to add something so mundane to this beautiful thread, but I had an awful growing wart or series of warts that was beginning to take over a finger. Nothing helped until I begged for help on an herbal list. Someone suggested crushing the needles from a cedar tree (north american) and keeping that applied on the wart. I tried it and refreshed the bandaid/cedar mixture several times a day for oh, maybe a week or two. The wart came right off.