Cold Sore Home Remedies - Powerful Help For Cold Sores

Apr 11
08:37

2008

Denny Bodoh

Denny Bodoh

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Cold sore home remedies have proven themselves over time as the best solution to the cold sore problem. In this article, you will discover eight of the best cold sore home remedies.

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Cold sore home remedies usually are more effective than store-bought treatments. 

And they are quite a bit cheaper,Cold Sore Home Remedies - Powerful Help For Cold Sores Articles if not totally free. 

Drug companies want you to continue spending money on their products.  But now you do not need to - with your own cold sore home remedies listed here.

In recent years, thanks to the internet, we have learned quite a few new home remedies for cold sores - from every corner of the world.  Some are very simple and provide great results. 

A few are a little more complicated and must be used correctly to achieve success.

Below, you will learn a few clear, powerful and effective cold sore home remedies that will work for you time after time.  And you will now discover how to use them for best results.

Quite likely you already know about one or more of these remedies.  But now you will gain some new ones that you can use for even a higher level of success.  The truth is - many folks use several remedies, depending on their personal needs and the current stage of their sore.

- LYSINE - The herpes virus that causes cold sores reproduces by using arginine stored in the cells.  Lysine replaces arginine and makes herpes reproduction impossible.  During an outbreak, sufferers can take up to 8000 mg. daily of supplemental lysine.  Between cold sores, as a preventative, 500 to 1000 mg. daily is common.

- FLOUNDER - Many have reported eating one pound of steamed flounder in a single day and totally wiping out their cold sores.  The key here - flounder is extremely high in lysine.  Flounder has about 14,000 mg. (14 grams) of body-ready lysine per pound.

- SAGE and GINGER - A paste or tea made from sage and ginger, applied frequently with a cotton ball, often clears up sores quickly.  If you can find sage and ginger in a herbal tea bag, just wet it and hold it to the sore.

- BAKING SODA -  The herpes virus cannot replicate in an alkaline environment.  A paste of baking soda, when applied, will raise the pH and often stop or slow down the virus activity.

- WALNUTS -  make a salve by grinding up walnuts into walnut butter.  This is said to heal a sore in 7 days or less.  It seems to be an unusual remedy since we generally avoid eating nuts with cold sores - because of their high content of arginine.

- HYDROGEN PEROXIDE - Great for cleansing cold sores.  Use a cotton ball or tissue.  Works as well as alcohol, but also bathes the sore in oxygen.  This not only stops the virus cold, but greatly speeds healing.  Peroxide is excellent to use from the very start.

- HONEY - No germ or fungus can survive in honey.  Antiviral, antifungal, antibiotic - honey is excellent to put on your sore when nothing else works.  Honey has been used thousands of years for treating wounds.

- OREGANO OIL - This oil is noted for being a very strong antiviral for both internal use with gel-caps and external application.  Can be found at most vitamin stores.  Gel-caps are handy and can be cut open and the oil applied when and where needed.

Cold sore home remedies are many.  These are just a few of the very best.  You will find, as others have, these cold sore home remedies will work better, and for less cost, than expensive commercial remedies.

You are an individual and, as such, may find that not every remedy works for you.  For best success, it is wise to combine several remedies.  In this way, you will quickly create your own best-performing cold sore home remedies.