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Deciding on cold sore remedies can be quite confusing because of all the hype and inaccurate information today. Hopefully I can cut through the clutter and brighten your life with some excellent cold sore remedies that will work every time.

Commercial cold sore remedies you buy at the drug store are considered mostly comfort treatments. They relieve your discomfort with oils and numbing agents such as lidocaine. And that is good.

But, commercial cold sore remedies do little or nothing for getting rid of cold sores quickly. Natural home remedies still will give you the best results.

The following are some top cold sore remedies that have proven to be excellent at curing your sores. Give them a try. They will out-perform most store-bought remedies.

1. GARLIC OIL.

Garlic is a very powerful and easy cold sore remedy. Under a microscope, you can watch viruses flee from just the smell of it.

Garlic also has the unique ability to pass right through the skin and attack the virus underneath. Rub fresh garlic on the bottom of your feet and it will be on your breath in about 20 minutes.

Fresh garlic, either cut or crushed, will give you the very best results.

When it is not convenient, you can buy gel-caps at the vitamin store designed for internal use. Just nip the gel-cap and squeeze out the oil directly on your cold sores.

Take garlic orally too as it will greatly speed the results of topical treatment. Plus, you will be more resistant to cold and flu virus too.

2. PEPPERMINT OIL.

Mint has been discovered as a powerful healer of cold sores. It has shown to be able to stop cold sores and heal them in a hurry. Of course, it does not have the garlic odor.

The best way to obtain peppermint oil for safely applying directly to the sore is to buy peppermint gel-caps at the vitamin store. Just as you would with the garlic gel-caps, you prick them and squeeze the oil directly on the sore.

There is also available peppermint oil for aromatherapy use. These essential oils are very strong and not for putting directly on your skin from the bottle. Get aromatherapy instructions and follow their directions for diluting it with olive oil.

You can also mix garlic and peppermint oil for an exceptional topical cold sore remedy.

3. TEA BAGS.

Heat application speeds up the healing of any wound. This is the case with cold sores that have blossomed open too. It gives you a flood of extra oxygenated blood to the wound.

Your best way to do this is by applying heated tea bags. Common black tea works great. If you can find black tea with lemon balm or mint it will work much better and faster.

Caution. Never heat a tea bag directly in a microwave. Heat the water first, then use the hot water to heat the bag. The microwave radiation ruins the special healing nutrients in tea.

4. LYSINE.

Lysine is one of the most effective and well-proven treatments you will find. No matter what other cold sore remedies you use, this should always be part of your plan.

Lysine is a common protein found in dairy and fish. It works by reducing the amount of arginine in your cells. Arginine is the protein fraction needed by the herpes virus to create new viruses.

By stopping the herpes virus from creating new virus, you can avoid - or quickly eliminate - any cold sores. Lysine really discourages the herpes replication process.

Folks start taking it the minute they feel an outbreak coming on. They continue to take it until the skin is again clear. Common dose during this time is 3000 to 4000 milligrams spread out each day.

Lysine is quite safe. For example, a large serving of Flounder contains about 10,000 milligrams of lysine. For me, I prefer lysine capsules. They are cheap and very convenient to use.

You will find these to be some of the finest cold sore remedies around.

Be sure to try them. You will get awesome results and return to your social life quickly when you use these potent cold sore remedies.

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