Cold Sore Treatment – Lemon Balm Ice

Copyright 2005 drbodoh
A good cold sore treatment can really be a blessed relief for
cold sore victims like you and me
And, if you’re like me, you want a cold sore treatment that will
not only give you a lot of comfort right now, but will hopefully
shorten the healing time so you can get on with your life
That’s the beauty of this well proven cold sore treatment
I’m always searching for a better cold sore treatment I have
many good friends at Mayo who I’ve partnered with for research
purposes over the past 33 years But it’s important to keep in
mind that the following cold sore treatment methods are not
presented as medical advice – only as information for your
consideration There is no substitute for a one-on-one
relationship with a medical professional
By far, the most popular cold sore treatment is the application
of ice It slows down metabolism, numbs the area, discourages
the virus from replicating, and is readily available Apply ice
for 10 minutes at a time to your cold sores, maybe 3 times an
hour, as a very basic cold sore treatment
With this cold sore treatment, if I could catch the cold sores
at the first tingle and apply the ice, it delayed – and
sometimes prevented – the cold sores from actually moving into
the blister stage If a blister does form, this cold sore
treatment still works great for providing blessed comfort
Because it does slow down metabolism, it also will slow down the
healing of your cold sores Best not to use it as much during
the healing phase of your cold sores as a cold sore treatment
A fishing buddy of mine – a Mayo doctor – while on an outing on
the Mississippi, revealed his secret cold sore treatment
His cold sore treatment involves the use of lemon balm tea
These tea bags can be found for cheap anywhere you find
specialty teas If the lemon balm is not “stand alone” but in a
blend with other herbs, that will usually be just fine too – as
long as lemon balm is the primary
Dr W explained that he discovered lemon balm herb has
anti-viral properties and is a natural cold sore treatment He
took a 16 – 20 ounce container of bottled water He then brewed
a strong batch of lemon balm tea using one tea bag per 4 ounces
- then froze the tea bags – using these in place of the plain
ice cold sore treatment
You get the comforting effect of ice plus, as the tea-bag melts,
the application of the anti-viral properties of lemon balm He
stored the tea back in the original bottles for convenience and
further cold sore treatment
Additionally, Dr W – to supercharge this cold sore treatment -
would sip the lemon balm tea and apply the tea liquid to the
cold sores with a cotton ball between lemon balm ice sessions
If you’re the rare person who gets cold sores inside the mouth,
you’ll find they are very difficult to deal with This may be
exactly the cold sore treatment for you Use the lemon balm tea
as a mouthwash, then swallow for an additional boost Listerine
has worked well as a cold sore treatment, both in the mouth and
applied externally, but it stings like crazy
I also found that freezing the tea and sucking on the lemon balm
ice chips is very effective and comforting as an in-the-mouth
cold sore treatment
I tried his cold sore treatment and it worked great for my
family too, back when we used to get cold sores frequently
Quite a vast improvement on the old ice method
This cold sore treatment, using lemon balm frozen tea bags, is a
much better choice than plain ice during the healing stages of
your cold sores Although you are slowing metabolism, you are
also killing many viruses with this cold sore treatment
There are many other reported highly effective cold sore
treatment methods that you can try These include tea tree oil,
dmso, olive leaf oil, lysine, zinc, yogurt, aloe vera and more
Lysine and zinc do not work well applied directly because the
size of their molecules are too large for effective absorption
Lysine and zinc are better used as internal support supplements
We have tested every over-the-counter cold sore treatment – at
least all that we could find We found they are great for
comfort but none of them did anything to actually kill the virus
or speed healing
Keep in mind that the best and most effective cold sore
treatment will be topical – directly applied – for any open
surface lesion like a cold sore
I hope you, too, will find this to be an excellent, cheap, and
useful cold sore treatment

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