What causes warts? Does touching a toad cause warts? What about a warthog? There are some theories, but none that hold up to scientific scrutiny. What cures warts? Apparently, we have no idea. In 1996, ten percent of warts were cured in a clinical study. Nobody cares. Two years later, in 1998, the study was replicated. Nobody cares even less. What’s going on?
Dr. Andrew Weil says – everything cures warts, but nothing cures warts. Weil often asks doctors for their cure stories. Every doctor – according to Dr. Weil, has seen warts cured by the strangest things. But officially, there is no cure for warts. Warts cured is not medically defined. Was it always like that? It’s an interesting question.
Why can’t clinical studies cure warts? In 1996 the published research study titled: Homoeopathic versus placebo therapy of children with warts on the hands: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial documented 6 cures of warts in 60 children. Ten percent of the patients were cured.
However, the study’s conclusion did not mention the cures: “There was no apparent difference between the effects of homoeopathic therapy and placebo in children with common warts under the conditions of this study.”
How is this possible? It’s a perfect case of medical bureaucracies in action – a common feature of clinical studies. The study was not designed to find cures, so cures were not important. The goals of the study were, “to evaluate the efficacy of homeopathy in a prospective, double-blind randomized trial.” The measure of “efficacy” did not include “cure”. They didn’t dare. When cures are accounted for, the study was a bust. The homeopathic arm of the trial found 5 patients were cured, but the placebo arm of the trial only saw one cure. So… Cures were not accounted for. The study measured efficacy of treatments: their ability to “shrink warts“, and the desired conclusions were found. The homeopathic treatment was proven “no better than a placebo“. Hypotheis proven.
But, what if somebody notices? Is there any danger that someone might call out the nonsense? People who read clinical studies might ask embarrassing questions. Maybe somebody did ask embarrassing questions? I don’t know. I do know what happened next.
The study was “replicated”. It’s a common technique of science (and of bureaucracies in this case) to validate the results of a study. Some of the same researchers and a few others published a new study, in 1998: “A double-blind, controlled clinical trial of homeopathy and an analysis of lunar phases and postoperative outcome“. Reading the title, you might assume it’s a study taken from Mad Magazine, or some other satirical publication – but no. It was published in the prestigious scientific journal: Archives of Dermatological Research.
What did the study find? How many cures? None. The study conclusion: “Statements and methods of alternative medicine–as far as they concern observable clinical phenomena–can be tested by scientific methods. When such tests yield negative results, as in the studies presented herein the particular method or statement should be abandoned. Otherwise one would run the risk of supporting superstition and quackery.”
What? That’s not a study result, it’s a propaganda statement against “statements and methods of alternative medicine”. What did the study actually find?
The second study contained the exact same number of children with warts – 60 children. The study used the exact same treatment protocol as in the 1996 study, 30 children received a placebo, and 30 received a specific homeopathic treatment. “Nine of 30 subjects in the homeopathy group and 7 of 30 subjects in the placebo group experienced at least 50% reduction in area occupied by warts“. The previous study, in 1996 reported exactly the same result: “Nine of 30 subjects in the homeopathy group and 7 of 30 subjects in the placebo group experienced at least 50% reduction in area occupied by warts“.
But cures? How many cures did the second study find? Cures were not reported. The second study, although it appeared to replicate the 1996 study, did not count “cured”.
As a result, the study results were now perfectly clear, with no “cures” to muddy the water. The study conclusions and the medical bureaucracies were safe.
Cures were lost. And now, even today, clinical studies can’t find wart cures. Clinical studies are not allowed to cure warts. Why not?
If we are scientific about searching for cures, about learning to cure, we should look closely at each and every patient who is cured, until we understand how they were cured. Over time, we could begin to understand cures and find better and better cures. That would be scientific.
Clinical studies are not scientific, they are bureaucratic. Cures? Not on the list of objectives of most clinical studies. Cures are ignored, swept under the rug. And nobody notices.
In 1996 a clinical study observed cures in 10 percent of patients with warts. And today? In 2019, over 20 years later, we still can’t cure warts. Not only that. We’re not even trying.
ClinicalTrials.Gov contains 54 clinical studies of warts. When we search for the word “cure” within those studies, there are only 12. An examination of the word CURE those 12 studies (see notes below) reveals that there is no consistent, much less scientific definition of “cured” for warts, and as a result, none can determine scientifically if a cure has been accomplished. The words used for cure range from prevention, to treated, to clearance, to management, to lower recurrence rates, to cure rate (the inverse of recurrence, not cured), to objectively assessable cures, to cured, and to completely cured. We should not be surprised. Cured is not defined in many medical dictionaries, not defined in any authoritative medical reference.
Why is it so difficult to understand wart cures? The answer is trivial. Many doctors and many researchers know the answer. Cured cannot be part of most clinical studies in the current state of medical research, medical publications, and medical bureaucracy. Because…
Health is the best cure - the Healthicine creed. #cure Click To TweetWarts are cured by health. Health is the best cure. Warts might persist for a short or a long time. And then suddenly, something about the patient’s health changes, and the warts are cured. Andrew Weil is right. Wart cures are common. Every doctor has seen them. But none can explain them. No doctor studies health.
Clinical studies cannot cure warts. Clinical studies attempt to kill warts, not to health them. Most clinical studies measure “treatments” of warts, and ignore warts cured, especially if they occur on the placebo side of a trial. Clinical studies cannot account for wart cures, cannot even notice many wart cures when they occur. Clinical research studies illness to death, and ignores health.
An cancer? It’s the same but worse. ClinicalTrials.GOV currently lists 67,382 studies for cancer. When we search for cancer studies that contain the word cure, the number drops to 2092. Most clinical studies of cancer do not use the word cure. When we look closer, we can see that most uses of the word cure are marketing statements, not research objectives.
The problem has little to do with disease, little to do with cures. It’s our corporate and government medical bureaucracies in action. Cured is not defined for cancer. When a cure occurs in most – perhaps all – clinical studies, it cannot be recognized, much less documented.
Clinical trials cannot cure warts, and they can’t cure for cancer.
To your health, tracy
Author: The Elements of Cure
Notes: Clinical Trials of Warts containing the word CURE
Intralesional Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) Vaccine Versus Cryotherapy in Treatment of Multiple Common and Planter Warts Cure warts with injections of MMR vaccine.
Efficacy of Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine to Prevent Relapses of Genital Warts After Initial Therapeutic Response Prevent warts in patients who are cured with HPV vaccine.
Efficacy of Laser Versus Cryotherapy in the Treatment ofWarts Laser Therapy: Warts was considered cured if they was no longer visible and could not be palpated anymore by hand
Betaglucin 0.2% Versus Imiquimod 5% in Treatment of Ano-genital Warts: Combined Results From Triple Blind Controlled Study Efficacy of Betaglucin 0.2% in gel vs Imiquimod 5% cream: After three months of follow-up of all individuals, will be classified as clearance, partially cured and not cured.
Effect of Laser in Treatment of Vulval Warts applying laser for treatment of vulval warts:The number of women who will be completely cured by laser beam
The Efficacy of Intra-lesional Bleomycin Versus Intra-lesional Purified Protein Derivative in Treatment of Palmoplantar Warts The Efficacy of Intra-lesional Bleomycin Versus Intra-lesional Purified Protein Derivative in Treatment of Palmoplantar Warts: The cure rate of patients
Efficacy of Intralesional MMR Vaccine,Intralesional Candidal Antigen&Topical Podophyllin in Treatment of Genital Warts Assess cure rate of MMR vaccine and candida antigen and topical podophyllin in treatment of genital warts (complete disappearance of lesions) in 45 days duration
17% Salicylate Versus 17% Salicylate-Ethyl Pyruvate for Plantar Foot Warts improve cures of common foot plantar warts
Comparison of Five Treatments in Patients With PlantarWarts Supplementing this basic therapy with a physical (standard cryotherapy), chemical (5-fluorouracil; Efudix®) or immunological adjunct (imiquimod; Aldara®), to achieve the desired effect of increasing the frequency and/or rapidity of complete cure, has never been examined in a large randomized-controlled trial.
Pulsed 1064nm Nd:YAG in the Treatment of VerrucaVulgaris Versus Conventional Therapy With Liquid Nitrogen Cryotherapy Lasers offer the potential for decreased treatment associated pain, fewer office visits, higher cure rates and lower recurrence rates
Biofields Therapy on Warts Many healers in good faith are exercising their magnetism as a “gift” often inherited from elders.:a study of the effect of magnetism on the wart disease whose cure is objectively assessable.
Evaluation of Viral Status of Patients With Plantar WartsIncluded in VRAIE Study, Non-responder to Study Treatment the evaluation of the role of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in plantar warts (prevalence, genotype), resistant or not, treated or not, cured or not. This epidemiological study is an ancillary study of the prospective, randomized controlled, clinical study VRAIE (sponsor: APHP) comparing 5 usual strategies in the management of plantar warts.
