Tea tree oil.

When I was growing up, I would occasionally get plantar warts on my feet which would necessitate a trip to the foot doctor. The foot doctor would put some liquid nitrogen into a Styrofoam cup and burn off the wart buy using a Q-tip which was dipped into the liquid nitrogen and applied to the wart.

I was always amazed as to how quick and painless it was. In fact, it looked so simple that I could even do it. I could easily get a Styrofoam cup and a Q-tip. All I needed was access to some liquid nitrogen.

When I started working at Calvin College, the missing element appeared.  Up in the Physics lab, was a large tank of liquid nitrogen. The Physics department used the liquid nitrogen to keep their nuclear diodes cold. And since I didn’t need much liquid nitrogen, the Physics department didn’t mind me using a little for the occasional wart. Ah, but all good things must come to an end and I left Calvin, trading my title in for something more tangible like money.

All was fine with my new HMO until I needed a wart removed. The doctor examined the wart and told me to buy some tea tree oil at the local health food store and apply it to the wart 2 times a day. He wouldn’t even write a prescription for the tea tree oil so I had to buy it out of pocket.

Tea tree oil? Never heard of it so I looked it up on line. I found a web site for a tea tree farm in Australia. I was amazed at the uses for the product. Among many things, it is good for athletes foot, acne, bad breath and yeast infections which I guess are one in the same according to the website. It is also good as a bug repellent. So, I decided to give it a try. If nothing else, at least it would repel mosquitoes.

Day after day, week after week, I applied the tea tree oil to the wart. And day after day, week after week, the wart held it’s ground. Drat!

Since the HMO was getting a little weird and my insurance now covered a local practice, I changed doctors. The new doctor looked at my wart and returned with a Styrofoam cup of liquid nitrogen and a Q-tip. A few seconds later, the wart was dead.

Liquid nitrogen may not be as easy to obtain in a store as the tea tree oil, but at least it did what it was suppose to do. Maybe I can use the remaining bottle tea tree oil for repelling insects.

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