Day 1

So I take the cotton ball from a Q-tip and dunk it in vinegar. I place it on the wart and then secure it with a band-aid. This is what happens.


Hmm. Turns out that I actually have four warts. Warts are known to spread, sometimes quite rapidly. I guess I hadn't realized their presence prior to applying the vinegar. The upper circle in red shows a case of mosaicing, where the warts grow right next to each other and get a mosaic-type pattern. The wart in the lower red circle already sports a dark brown center.


This is a picture taken right after the first one. The lack of flash shows what's going on with the main wart. You can tell it's quite swollen, and it's taking that "white" look that some people have remarked on. The depression in the center is due to my cutting out a portion of the wart prior to applying the apple vinegar. A scabrous, hard outer layer protects warts, so I got rid of it prior to applying the vinegar.

The scabrous part is supposedly not the living virus that causes the wart (and indeed, cutting it out hurts no more than cutting your hair), so it makes sense to get rid of whatever stands in the way of the virus making contact with the vinegar.