Plantar Wart Removal: The Rosewood Method

07/11/2024

Gone, gone, gone!

I could have removed my plantar wart faster than I did, had I known what I do now, when I started. I was worried about damaging my skin with repeated filing and vinegar applications!

What I learned was that I could have treated almost every day (if I treated carefully, with awareness). I learned that this method of plantar wart removal never damaged my skin, not even at the deepest level.

I could have removed my plantar wart faster than I did, had I known what I do now, when I started. I was worried about damaging my skin with repeated filing and vinegar applications! What I learned…

25/10/2024

What's left after plantar wart wart removal using filing and vinegar?
Not much!
Eventually the skin pattern lines will return.

Not much! Eventually the skin pattern lines will return.

15/10/2024

The plantar wart's main structures, nerves and blood vessels were removed without damaging any of my skin, even at the deepest levels.

Figure 986 shows some faint scarring formed under the structure called the Big C. All that remains to be removed is the furthest east section of the main wart, and bits of spread that had tried to establish around the wart in the other directions.

My plantar wart was removed without damaging any of my skin, even at the deepest levels. Figure 986 shows some faint scarring formed under the structure called the Big C. All that remains to be rem…

06/10/2024

Wowzee!! Exciting!! If you are following these posts, you know that, at long last, the bottom layers of my plantar wart are being revealed by my gentle excavation process. In figure 983, you can see what I believe is the main nerve's entry point into my plantar wart. It is in the last remaining section of the pink structure called The Big C....

If you are following these posts, you know that, at long last, the bottom layers of my plantar wart are being revealed by my gentle excavation process. In figure 983, you can see what I believe is …

01/10/2024

We are looking at the deepest layers of my plantar wart's foundation in the skin. The active parts of the wart were removed a long time ago. Some interesting "starburst-like" formations are to the west of the main wart. How much deeper will those go? A small trace of the pink "Big C" remains. Something new is happening to the right of "Big C": note multiple, small, roundish shapes clustered on the east side of the main wart. Those look less like plantar wart and more like my skin.

We are looking at the deepest layers of my plantar wart’s foundation in the skin. The active parts of the wart were removed a long time ago. Some interesting “starburst-like” form…

29/09/2024

Buyer beware.

Today, in a Reddit plantar wart group, a person shared that after two years of no success removing her plantar wart, she had success this summer, when a doctor shaved the wart down and prescribed a silver nitrate pen for a week.

I learned many things about plantar warts and plantar wart research over the past five years. I want to help folks be more critical about what they read about cure rates. I have included a study on the use of these silver nitrate pens on this post to point a few things out. I am not "picking on" this treatment in particular. In my experience, plantar wart research is flawed for all treatment methods. This one came along today so here I am and I want to discuss it a bit.

The attached research abstract does not tell us what it means when a plantar wart is "partially healed." I consider a partially healed plantar wart, a failed treatment. When a part of a plantar wart is left behind, it is possible that it will regrow.

The abstract says that 69% of participants's wart's were affected by using this treatment (that statistic includes the "partially healed" ones. The way I see it, just 21% of participants had a positive result. But what does it mean to be "completely healed?" Does it mean that the skin has healed over? How did they prove that the plantar wart was gone for good?

Guess what?: a plantar wart can reappear up to a year after a failed treatment. (That's what happened to me a year after cryotherapy.) So a plantar wart can appear to be completely healed... and yet it is still growing underneath. So, research studies need to come back and interview participants a year later to determine if the treatment really was effective.

That is what I loved about using the Rosewood Method. You can see from my photos, that all parts of my plantar wart and its spread, were removed.

Common warts are an important issue, especially in children and young adults. The methods proposed for common wart treatment are painful, destructive, and require special experience and devices. The chemical cauterization effect of silver nitrate on warts is noted in the classical pharmaceutical tex...

21/09/2024

Duct tape anyone? If you receive these posts, you know that I was able to remove my plantar wart using a foot file and vinegar over a longer period. During the process, I learned about the physiology and behaviour of my plantar warts. For these reasons, there is a lot of value to the Rosewood Method experiment.

However, if I could have removed my plantar warts in a few months, would I have done that instead? Oh yeah!!

This morning I googled "plantar warts" again, hoping to find an article I haven't read yet. In this one that I attach, I noticed the most encouraging and detailed information yet, on the "duct tape" cure. (To be clear, I don't agree with the statistics for different removal cure rates, that are offered in this article.)

But here's the information on the duct tape cure. What I really hope is that a number of people will try it as described, document the process as carefully as I have for the Rosewood Method, and then share the results. Only by doing this, will we the people, find a home remedy that is effective and works for all at a price we can afford. Here it is, and the link, follows:

DUCT TAPE CURE.

Noting the increasingly common practice of using duct tape to treat plantar warts in clinical practice and among laypeople as well, Focht and coworkers compared duct tape to cryotherapy in a 2002 study.8 Having warts on all parts of the body, 61 patients aged 3 to 22 years old received either cryotherapy treatment every two to three weeks (up to six sessions) or duct tape application once every six days for up to two months. Eighty-five percent of the warts resolved in the duct tape arm versus 60 percent in the cryotherapy arm.

The mechanism of action remains unclear but may be related to local irritation caused by the adhesive or the act of occlusion that duct tape causes. However, in the aforementioned study, it was difficult for the patients with plantar warts to keep the tape on consistently due to hyperhidrosis and shoe gear.8 Although duct tape may be a cost-effective therapy for those who are unwilling or unable to see a physician, more research is necessary to determine the true efficacy for plantar verrucae.

A challenge at times for clinicians to diagnose and manage, plantar verrucae may cause pain and cosmetic issues for patients. Accordingly, this author surveys the literature and discusses a wide range of treatment options ranging from salicylic acid and cimetidine to bleomycin, duct tape and laser t...

18/09/2024

Exciting! Now it's even easier to see that not much is left of Priscilla, my ex-plantar wart. And I can feel it too. See the Sept. 18, 2024 photo.

It's funny to think that when I began to use this removal method five years ago, I thought I would remove my plantar wart every week... Well, I was wrong about the time it would take. But there was one thing I never doubted—that this gradual method would work. That's because I could verify the progress with my own eyes.

09/09/2024

This dark purplish blotch was interesting because I knew it was not part of my plantar wart. What had caused it? Eventually, I concluded that it was undigested blood which had been caused by burning the plantar wart with liquid nitrogen (cryotherapy) at the doctor's office in 2015. You can see some jagged scarring a week after the pool of old blood was observed, in figure 39.

Yes, the cryotherapy of 2015 failed to remove my plantar wart, even though it appeared "gone."

My plantar wart reappeared in the same location, one year later. Darn it! Now it was bigger. And soon I learned that it had spread...

04/09/2024

I'm back after a three month hiatus. I will post regularly from now on.

To bring you up to speed, I published two books showing how I removed my old, stubborn plantar wart using only a foot file and vinegar over five years - with minimal discomfort and no damage to the surrounding skin.

I published them at the end of May 2024, despite the fact that the the plantar wart "scab" still remained. It was clear to me that my plantar wart was dead- you can see for yourself.

We all know how amazing our skin is, and how it will heal the deepest wounds in time. But that's the thing- it takes time for the skin to repair itself perfectly and painlessly.

See the three photos below. The last one is from today. You are looking at my plantar wart's "scab." My skin's nerves and blood vessels are under this scab. So I have to wait until the skin heals itself underneath and then causes the scab to separate and fall off without discomfort. Well, that's my best guess, because this experiment is a first! Right now I have really slowed down on the removal process. I don't use vinegar anymore (I don't want to take a chance on intense stinging because I don't like pain!) and I file lightly and infrequently, from 1 - 3 times a week max.

The filing causes any nerves to recede in a gradual way so it is a comfortable process. Eventually, my skin line patterns will return and you won't be able to tell the plantar wart was there.

I have included three photos to show how the crusty plantar wart scab is coming closer to the surface. I can also "feel" that the width of the scab is lessening. I used to be able to feel the plantar wart foundation as hard and thick. Now I can feel how little is left to remove.

Stay tuned for more plantar wart excitement! :)

10/08/2024

Stay tuned... sorry for the lack of updates

I will be posting regularly starting in September.

In figure 194, the lumpy areas to the left of the main plantar wart, indicate that it had spread at deeper layers of skin. But I wasn't really sure about that, at the time.

Plantar warts spread at deeper layers first. They are like icebergs- what you see at the top is just "the tip of the iceberg."

22/06/2024

This "bird's eye view" of how my plantar wart was removed, is included in the Instruction Manual, Vol. 1.

I want to give you an overview, something you can understand in one glance. I created a “bird’s eye view” of how my plantar wart was removed. It is a one-page summary in pictures. A chart with phot…

31/05/2024

Finally, Volumes 1 & 2 are available for purchase. If you have a plantar wart, you will want to read these books. Learn about plantar wart structure and behaviour (how they spread) and a gentle home remedy to remove them. Documented for the first time.
On sale now on amazon:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1775250431?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_0&storeType=ebooks

or see my website
https://rosewoodmethod.com