Cold Sore Treatment - Lemon Balm Ice

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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.

About the Author:

Denny Bodoh is a 33 year newspaper veteran and a health and

nutrition research writer. If you desire to know more

about cold sores, and what you can do about them, visit

Denny's wildly popular website:

http://www.be-cold-sore-free.com