8 reasons women whose second wart came up on the next finger have stopped picking it
Dry skin does not grow back from a hole, and it does not move to the next finger. The note on the last page was three lines. This is the bottle that matches them.
The tape looks like a cooking burn. It goes on before you leave the room. You have not told the office. The first one is on the side of a finger. You thought it was a splinter, then dry skin. You picked it. It bled. It came back thicker, with a black dot you could not wash off. Then one on the finger that held the tweezers. Then a small one on the thumb.
1. You did not catch three. You made two of them
The oldest one is the one you picked. The other two are in the skin you opened. A wart sits in the top layer of the skin, in the lump and in the skin around it that still looks like yours. Picking breaks the skin and carries it to the next finger. You were not unlucky with your hands. The tweezers were aimed at the drop, and the pen was still open. The lines on dry skin run through. Yours stop, and swirl, around the dot. Dry skin does not come back from a hole you already picked clean.
2. What picking actually does
Acid on a plaster peels the drop. It looks better, then thicker. The tape covers it for work and does not close it. The next one does not need the tweezers. It moves through the skin beside the one you opened, onto the hand you cook with, while you are still calling the first one dry skin. You did the careful thing. Careful was how it spread.
3. The morning people describe, when the body finally notices
The dot goes dark. A week later the fingers are clear, with nothing on them that week. It never entered the blood. It never swelled. Nothing raised the alarm, which is why you do not feel ill and the dots are still there. The body was not weak. It was blind to this one. If it had met the infection on the Sunday you picked it, you would not have three fingers now.
4. The three lines are how the skin around it gets reached
A capsule, so it goes through the blood and not onto the drop. 500 milligrams of bee resin, nothing else in it. Three months, because that is how long it was given. Miss one and you are back to the tweezers.
Bee resin, propolis, is what bees seal the hive with. Swallowed, it is in the blood within the hour, and the blood goes to all three fingers at once, and to the place the fourth was going to come up. On 500 milligrams a day the white cells began releasing the signals that call a response, from the fourth day. It does not burn the lump.
Three dermatologists gave 135 people propolis, or another herb, or an empty capsule. After three months, about three in four on propolis with common or flat warts were clear. The other groups did worse. These are the warts on hands. A finger is in that group.
Moskira Propolis is those three lines. Ninety capsules. One a day. One bottle is the three months.
5. You do not clear the cabinet
One capsule with water. Keep the tape on for work for the first weeks. Put the tweezers in a drawer. Stop picking. Three months, not Friday. One photo a week, same light. The newest one flattens first. Then the dot on the oldest goes, and the lines start to run across. The mistake is stopping in week two because you cannot see anything.
6. The discs were the tweezers, with a label
A month of acid discs. Freeze spray. Hand cream. All of them went on the drop. The airport chemist has another box of the same. A blend misses the second line. A bottle that is not three months misses the third.
7. Less than another year of tape
The discs are cheap. The hand in the pocket is not. Two years, three fingers, a roll of tape that looks like a burn. Three months of this is $34.99. Free shipping. Two bottles and a free gift, $54.99. Three bottles and two free gifts, $79.99. You can buy one. The guarantee is the same on all three. The thing the tweezers never gave back: the tape left in the bag, and the hand out of the pocket.
8. If they are still there, you write
One capsule a day. If they are still there after three months, write within 100 days of delivery. We refund you. You do not send the bottle back. Not every finger. That is what the refund is for. Do not take it if you are allergic to bees or bee products. Adults. If you are pregnant or nursing, ask a doctor first.
Where to get the bottle that matches the note
You buy another pair of tweezers. You already know which finger the next one lands on.
Or you give the course its three months. One capsule. A photo on Sundays. Money back if they are still there.
A capsule. 500 milligrams of bee resin, nothing else. Three months. $34.99. Free shipping. Free gifts with two or three bottles.
Good to know
Sources
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- Ring wart after cryotherapy: Loyola University dermatology atlas; Patient Care, How to cope with ring wart.
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- Autoinoculation by picking, biting and shaving: Practical Dermatology, November 2021.
- Gardana C et al. Journal of Chromatography B 2007 (propolis compounds in blood). Brätter C et al. 1999 (immune signals at 500 mg a day). Shimizu T et al. 2011 (propolis by mouth against a skin infection, in mice).
- Telling a wart from a callus: University of Utah, dermatology teaching pages, Diagnosis of warts. A wart on the sole growing inward under a callus: Mayo Clinic, Plantar warts.