Home Remedies for Curing Cold Sores

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Trina Sims of Green Star Herbs and today I'm going to give you some ideas for home remedies for cold sores. In the first place we need to address diet. Remove coffee, chocolate, nuts, peanuts and other legumes and oatmeal from your diet, add yogurt, make sure you are getting a B complex supplement that emphasizes B 12 and folic acid. Be sure you have enough calcium and zinc in your diet. Probiotics encapsulated or in powder or liquid form can also be added to help stave off outbreaks. Brewer's Yeast can be very beneficial and then there are some herbs that can help stave off an outbreak in the first place or once one occurs or is about to flare up can help to shorten the duration and lessen the intensity of the outbreak. Among those herbs that are useful for this are the common aloe vera, the nice green secular plant that we all know, the juice of the leaf can be used directly from the live plant or many aloe vera juice preparations are available on the market. Some of the other herbs that are useful in preventing or shortening cold sore outbreaks are Chaparral, clove, lemon balm, licorice, lavender oil and also Vitamin E oil and Murr Extract. I hope this has given you some ideas about nice natural ways to approach the miseries of a cold sore outbreak. Thank you."