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Your Health: Lemon juice or banana peels can help in plantar wart removal

By The Graedons
Feb 11, 2009
Feb 11, 2009

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Q: My daughter had several warts on her hands and was able to kill them quickly with lemon juice. She dabbed the warts with a sliver of lemon three or four times a day, and all of the warts fell off within four days.

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