Guest guest Posted February 23, 2004 Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 Hi, Is there any remedy for cold sore in ayurveda. If so could you please explain the same. Thanks Kumar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 Dear Kumar, I had cold sores also. I ate more pitta pacifying food. Especially cut down on citrus and anything in the nightshade family. The pitta pacifying tastes are salt, acid and pungent. GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 > I had cold sores also. I ate more pitta pacifying food. Especially > cut down on citrus and anything in the nightshade family. The pitta > pacifying tastes are salt, acid and pungent. > > GB yikes! sour and pungent increase pitta! some kinds of salt reduce pitta, e.g. saindhava, but salt can also aggravate pitta cold sores are related to a variety of factors, including diet, nervous function, and immunity; even excess sunlight can cause eruption in some people specifically, cold sores can be related to an excess of arginine-containing foods in the diet (e.g. peanuts, chocolate, cereals and grains) vs. lysine ratio (e.g. meat, eggs, etc.) - i often see recurrent cold sores in vegetarians for this reason, and note that they decrease in frequency and even disappear with this shift in diet please note that cold sores (occurring on the lip and about the mouth) are not the same as canker sores (apthous ulcers, occurring in the mouth) for cold sores, treatment is supportive and preventative - once you have the herpes virus it permanently lives in your spinal cord, occasionally "blossoming" out to replicate itself when conditions are right for topical treatment try essential oils of lemon balm and/or sandalwood mixed with a base of zinc oxide cream - these oils have potent antiviral activities; to dry out the vesicles try something like alum use antiviral remedies internally like guduchi, bhunimba, st. john's wort and echinacea and vitamins A, C, E and zinc to heal up the skin otherwise correct the arginine:lysine ratios in your diet, get plenty of sleep, destress, and use immune-supportive remedies, including a good b-vitamin, amalaki, ashvagandha, astragalus etc. Caldecott phyto http://www.wrc.net/phyto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 Todd Caldecott <phyto wrote yikes! sour and pungent increase pitta! some kinds of salt reduce pitta, e.g. saindhava, but salt can also aggravate pitta ........ ........ You are right. I changed the statement in an earlier posting. GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 28, 2004 Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 Dear Doctor, I am 22 years old. I have been regularly reading your Digest and the ayurvedic medicine you have been prescribing for different problems. I have been suffering from cold sore past couple of years. I get the blisters around my lip areas and after 3 to 4 days after using allopathic cream they dry out and fall. But off late, for past 6 to 8 months I am getting the attack of cold sores every other month. Can you prescribe some ayurvedic medicine in your Digest, which can kill this problem from the root and will not have any side effects on me? I will be thankful to you for helping me solve this problem keeping me away from this embarrassment. Thank you once again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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