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In the early stages, it is probably impossible to tell whether an actinic keratosis is going to develop into what is called a keratotic horn or a squamous cell carcinoma, which is malignant. Commonly, these excessive growths of epidermal cells, keratinocytes, are usually called keratoses. Often, even without a biopsy to prove the point, they are called early or advanced skin cancers. Non-physicians often make the diagnoses themselves.

A woman from Boulder, Colorado, wrote me about her experience: “I had a skin cancer on my nose, near my right eye, which has disappeared after three days of applying castor oil first, then sprinkling baking soda over the spot! I had had the cancer for two years, trying every natural method I had read or heard about. I had previously tried castor oil and a small amount of baking soda in a mixture with no success.”

One of my favorite patients is ninety-three years old (his wife is ninety-five). Both have a tremendous sense of humor. George had a large growth on his right earlobe—a keratosis—which was disfiguring, although not malignant. He had been treated by several other doctors before I saw him, but the keratosis persisted. I instructed him to rub castor oil thoroughly on the earlobe twice daily, and clean it off with a soft cloth. After he returned a year and a half later, the ear was completely normal—no keratosis. He was still using the castor oil, he reported, because it made his ear feel so soft.

An out-of-town friend wrote us about her experience with a similar difficulty. “For about ten years I had a large keratosis (diagnosed by a dermatologist) on each side of my face just in front of the ears. They were removed by the doctor—the one on the right was treated surgically three times—yet both enlarged again each time after treatment. So I just lived with them until finally I realized they were both spreading.

“I began saturating them with castor oil on cotton, covered with a Band-Aid^®. I did this every night and noticed that they were changing in color and size. The center parts began erupting, scabbing over, then peeling off—until finally, after about a five-month period, they were both completely gone! The skin is now smooth with no scars that can be seen.”

We have routinely advised our patients to use castor oil on the skin for keratoses, for acne, stretch marks in pregnancy, and general care of the skin. One of our patients rubbed castor oil on her abdomen to prevent stretch marks, and then, noticing that she was developing acne, added treatment to those lesions to her skin-care routine. The acne cleared up and her face was so smooth that she told us that people took her for being twenty-three or twenty-four instead of thirty-five—her real age.