I formerly had a lot of trouble with cold sores and sun blisters in my lips
(herpes virus) until years ago a naturopathic doctor prescribed 500 mg capsules
of l-lysine. I took a maintenance dose of one capsule a day unless I had an
outbreak of sores or blisters. Then I would increase the dose to 8 capsules a
day: 3 in the am, 2 at noon, and 3 more in the evening. This worked well,
shortening the duration of painful blisters considerably and the maintenance
dose worked quite well at keeping me free of blisters.
The doctor explained to me that l-lysine creates a climate in the body that the
virus doesn't like and the virus will withdraw into its hiding place in the
body and stay there. L-lysine did a good job of keeping the virus under
control but it did not get rid of the virus.
CS had gotten rid of the virus like a charm until recently when it seemed to
stop working. I was just dabbing CS on the sores with a cotton ball. Then I
discovered that if I used CS straight from the brown bottle instead of the
little plastic sprayer I had been using, the CS worked like a charm again. It
was the plastic sprayer that made the CS ineffective. Faith G.
----- Original Message -----
From: faith gagne
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Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: CS>EIS Immune system booster?
And shingles is a viral conditon as is herpes. Too bad you didn't have CS at
the time.
Faith G.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dee
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Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: CS>EIS Immune system booster?
I had heard that it was a B12 and or folic acid deficiency can cause
this. My own theory is that it is a manifestation of the herpes virus as I had
a fairly bad case of this, although not nearly as bad as you Kirsteen. I had
awful 'stabbing' pains in various places; under the flabby bit of my arm;
around my ribs, and across my middle back. The pain was quite excruciating and
my skin would be so tender I couldn't touch it. My doctor said it was
shingles, which I poo-poohed as I had no lesions at all. I had to live on pain
killers and amitriptylene an anti depressant which doctors use for this
condition. I now think he was right as when I *did* get shingles i.e. With
lesions, I used tons of CS plus l-lysine and all the vits and minerals I could
ingest! I also had a bad case of sciatica, which also went with this regime.
Dee
