Polyps are known as "pre-cancerous" or "benign" tumours, and are a likely risk for eventual cancer. Polyps in some areas such as the nasal passages and the bowel are well known to usually lead to cancer. Skin polyps often seem to multiply: those who have a few often find after some years that they have many. Polyps in any area can metamorphose into dysplasias sooner or later, and thence to local, then systemic, cancers. Curing cancer before it becomes cancer is much better than waiting until it is an obvious or imminent threat to life. Then, treatment is difficult and it is often already too late.
Of course you can go to a doctor and have polyps frozen off or cut off, but this damages nearby healthy tissue as it kills the polyp tissue, and-or does not kill the entire polyp. The safest and effective way is to use a method originally proposed for warts by Edgar Cayce. I found that it works better on skin polyps than on warts, having an almost certain success rate.
The technique is:
1) Mix some castor oil and baking soda into a paste. A little lasts a long time. Keep some on hand, in your bedroom, bathroom, and any other place that may be convenient. I kept mine in shallow empty cat food tins without a lid. Castor oil may be obtained at most pharmacies and many health food stores. We both used "cold pressed" castor oil, which may possibly be better... or necessary... or irrelevant. Any grocery has baking soda.
2) Three, four, or five times a day, rub this mixture gently on the polyp and surrounding skin, until the polyp withers and falls off or vanishes. If it gets too sore, quit for a day or two. To be successful, you must be more persistent than the polyp, or it will recover. I usually did another treatment or two after it was gone to make sure.
The exact proportion of castor oil to baking soda is not important, so long as you are gently "grinding" the oil in with the baking soda. They don't stay mixed very well, and you will develop a feel for how much soda to scrape up from the bottom to match the amount of oil on your finger. The time to remove a polyp can be three or four days to two or three weeks, depending on its stubbornness.
This treatment doesn't damage healthy skin while it kills the entire polyp, and it lets you deal with any new or newly discovered polyps yourself, whenever they appear.
This mixture and technique can also work well on a number of other skin conditions such as rough, scaly skin and, of course, warts. (A wart I once had responded only to a dual treatment: "Compound-W" treatment, followed by the oil/soda paste treatment.) Castor oil without baking soda can occasionally remove certain brown skin moles. Using it with soda on moles is not recommended. Whatever you're treating, if there is no sign of progress in 2 or 3 weeks, give up. I've heard a few people can get a temporary skin rash from castor oil. My suggestion if this happens is to try not to get too much on the surrounding skin, and to wipe any excess off after each treatment. By the way, although castor beans contain the poison ricin, there is none in commercially prepared castor oil. Whatever castor oil's magic ingredient is, it is not ricin.
Once I had some skin polyps and a mole frozen off by my doctor. When I started to realize I had an awful lot lot of skin polyps again some years later, I tried the castor oil and soda. I just dealt with a few at time, rubbing them fairly gently with the paste for 10 or 15 seconds each, 3, 4, or 5 times a day. Sooner or later, be it a few days or a couple of weeks, they all died or came off. If you just do the few worst ones first, even 3 or 4 at a time, it won't be overwhelming. I did the ones on my neck first, and then started on the armpits, where there were a lot. After I thought I was done, I kept finding one here, one there, and I treated them. I must have had 100! Any time I find a new one - only one or two tiny ones in the last 2 or 3 years now - it gets dealt with immediately. (It pays to check yourself over occasionally to see what's there!)
A lady I know has recently used this treatment method at my suggestion and the dozen or more large, ugly and irritating polyps on her neck, and she says many more under her armpits and elsewhere, were "miraculously" gone last time we met. She was very pleased. This is essentially the end of the polyp story for her, as it was for me. Another lady with as many is procrastinating. If she waits too long, her skin polyp story may make more interesting reading, but have an unhappy ending!