Cold Sore Treatment - Lemon Balm Ice
Posted: Thursday, December 01, 2005
by Denny Bodoh
http://www.3daycoldsorecure.com
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)I agreed, whatever you wrote in this articleHi Naseem
Great to hear from you, Naseem. Thank you so much for the 5 stars. It means a lot to me.
I have very pleased that my article agrees with you. I know there is a lot of misinformation about cold sores out there and it is truly a shame. I see a lot of it and usually those articles are written by people who know absolutely nothing about cold sores but just are trying to get you to go to their web site to sell you some crap cold sore treatment.
The trouble is, cold sores are real for millions of people and they are very painful and ugly. They cause a lot of suffering. You and others do not deserve this.
If you visit my web site above (3daycoldsorecure) you will get all the information you need for free, along with the latest in cold sore remedies.
Take care, Naseem. Thank you so much for writing.
Have a great weekend.
Denny
Hi Denny
Really enjoy your articles and especially your 3daycoldsorecure website. I have learned so much about cold sores and especially cold sore treatment plans.
I have shared your web site on my facebook pages and many of my friends have thanked me for it. You have helped many people that you probably don't even know about. It is refreshing that you offer this info and don't try to shove some expensive remedy.
My big problem that I would like your opinion - I seem to get cold sores all the time. Barely get rid of one before I get another during our long winters here.
Is there something I can do or not do that would stop this cycle?
Thank you from me and all my friends for caring and help.
LisaHi Lisa
Wonderful to hear from you Lisa, and thank you so much for the 5 stars and for your many kind words. I am so happy to help you and your friends.
This hatred I have for cold sores has caused me to do a lot of research over the years. I have felt compelled to share this information freely with others such as yourself. There are so many folks that suffer from cold sores needlessly. When and if my research helps you and gives you a better social life, I am very, very happy to have helped.
Early in my research, I would go to cold sore web sites looking for information, only to find them selling some "miracle" treatment oil or salve. They would have very little helpful info on their entire site - just enough to give them a good spot with Google search results.
And, a lot of the information was just copied from articles I had published from my research.
I am an avid fisherman. One of the first thing you learn quickly are all the fancy baits available out there. Most of them are designed to catch the fisherman, not the fish.
Same is true with cold sore remedies.
Seldom do these over-the-counter treatments help the prevention or healing process. Usually they just give a little blessed comfort. In most cases the people and companies that create these remedies know they do not work - how can they not?
At any rate, I have shared many home remedies from nature that work better than anything you can buy. These remedies work as well today as they did 2000 years ago.
Sorry, Lisa, but I really do love helping folks and it makes me so mad to see companies and web sites that are victimizing the cold sore victims every day.
REPEATED COLD SORES:
Lisa, you certainly can end the cycle of constant cold sores.
I recently wrote an article about repeated cold sores and posted it to my web site (3daycoldsorecure link above) that you really should read. It really could end your cold sores for life - seriously. It is FREE. I just put it there so you may have wrote this before you saw it.
Lisa, please let your friends know they can comment here and ask any questions they may have and I will try to answer them. I appreciate so much everything you have done to share my web site with others.
Take care Lisa and have a great weekend.
Denny
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