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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 38 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.  A very basic but powerful cold sore treatment.

With this cold sore treatment, if you can catch the cold sores at the first tingle and apply the ice, it delays - and sometimes prevents - 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.
 

But keep in mind - because it does slow down metabolism, it will also slow down the healing of your cold sores. It is best not to use ice during the healing phase.

A fishing buddy of mine - a Mayo doctor - while on an outing on the Mississippi, revealed his secret cold sore treatment.

His 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 in it.

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 during the early period of a cold sore.

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.

 

After the blister opened up, he would apply warm tea bags to the area.  This improved healing time greatly because it brings more blood to the wound.

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.

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. And using the hot tea bags during the healing phase really was a vast improvement over store bought remedies.

I hope you, too, will find this to be an excellent, cheap, and useful cold sore treatment.

Denny Bodoh is a 38 year newspaper veteran and a alternative health and nutrition research author. If you want to know more about cold sores, and excellent cold sore treatment tactics, be sure to visit his outstanding web site right now!
http://www.be-cold-sore-free.com/