The Ultimate Guide to Homeopathy

Dealing with cold sores is no walk in the park. The pain and discomfort that they cause is something that is enough to make anyone want to find a way out of the problem for good. Add to that the social issues and embarrassment that typically go along with a disease that causes such noticeable outbreaks and you have a one two punch that puts many of us down for a while. Fortunately there are ways that you can treat the cold sores at home, and these homeopathic remedies for cold sores do not carry the problem side effects that many of the medical hocus pocus creams and pills carry. Here are some of the top homeopathic remedies for cold sores that you can try at home.

They say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and this is true with diseases like cold sores as well. Did you know that, according to some estimates, that up to 80% of the population is already infected with the herpes simplex virus that causes the cold sore outbreaks? Fortunately for most of those people the virus simply lays dormant in their bodies for a lifetime, but you just never know when the virus will become active. The first remedy is for both the natural treatment of an existing cold sore outbreak as well as for preventing future outbreaks. This is through the use of the amino acid lysine. Lysine has been proven in some tests to help with cold sores and to keep the recurrence of an outbreak minimized. You can apply a lysine cream typically, but you should also supplement with lysine on a regular basis. It can be found in brewers yeast, a supplement that I would recommend anyone without an intolerance should take.

Another thing that can be done to help with cold sore outbreaks is by supplementing with vitamin C. You can also do this in conjunction with the brewers yeast and some zinc. This has seemed to help some people to not only deal with the cold sores that they have, but has also been shown to keep them away.