A: Blister beetle juice (cantharidin) has been used to treat warts for decades. This compound also is known as Spanish fly and was mistakenly thought to be an aphrodisiac.

Eye of newt, toe of frog — and blood of pigeon? A recent ad in the Brooklyn-based, Yiddish-language Di Tzeitung newspaper boasts a use for the city’s most ubiquitous bird as a cure for warts ...

Blood blisters can appear in the mouth due to injury, oral herpes, stress, and oral cancer. Learn more about the causes, home remedies, prevention, and when to consult a doctor.

Warts are an unpleasant and unattractive skin condition, typically appearing as small blister-like growths on a person's hands or feet, although they can occur on other parts of the body as well.

Freezing a wart off, or cryotherapy, can be done by a doctor or at home. If freezing involves liquid nitrogen, a healthcare professional should perform the procedure. One way doctors can remove ...

Your doctor will examine you or take a biopsy (a sample of the wart) to see if you have genital warts. They might draw a blood sample to test for HIV and syphilis.

Q: I had a plantar wart on my heel. The dermatologist had her nurse scrape off the top of it and then painted it with beetle juice. The beetle juice destroyed the wart, but a month later I still ha… ...