I was recently in Eureka Springs and on one of the one hundred year old bath houses was written in stone, "Over 90 percent of Eureka's cures". People 100 years ago and still today believe in curative powers of natural spring waters, dead sea waters, etc. I have ZERO scientific evidence to support any of these types of claims. None exists.
When I was in high school I had plantar's warts on my feet. A seriously annoying problem. I had roughly 6-10 of them, mostly small. Some were big enough to cause pain and I had to walk on the outside edge of my feet. There are plenty of over the counter treatments, mainly types of acid preparations to melt them away. But they keep coming back, so you never really go back to normal. In extreme cases you go to a podiatrist and they cut them out. This is quite painful and you have a really difficult time walking for many days afterwards. I had treated them with over the counter acid for more than a year and never made any headway. My mother then told me of a time that she had a wart and "prayed it away", I started praying for them to leave my feet...
Several weeks go by...
I went fishing in the cold spring fed waters of the Blue River in Oklahoma. We were fishing for trout with flies and needed to wade in the water to get the flies critically delivered to prime trout habitat. I didn't have specially designed waders for this, I did it Okie style. My feet were submerged in this water for 4-5 hours.
I am a skeptic. I do not buy into homeopathic remedies. I am a "western medicine" advocate. I need to see controlled studies. but... you can't argue with results. 2 days after my fishing trip I attempted to treat my plantar warts only to find there was NO trace of any. After more than a year of failed treatment by conventional medicine... I had a bonified miracle cure.
David (dngilb md)
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