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Lemon Balm is the best known natural herbal healing remedies for herpes cold sores. Lemon Balm can also be used on other viral skin conditions as well.

Lemon Balm contains the natural chemical eugenol, which both kills bacteria and also helps to calm and numb tissues for pain relief. It also contains tannins that contribute to its antiviral effects. The natural terpenes that lemon balm contains is what makes it so soothing for sore lips.

In scientific studies, lemon balm’s herbal properties has been shown to combat and heal cold sores due to the herpes virus. Applied to the affected area, lemon balm helps heal cold the sores in about 2-4 days. It also helps double the time between outbreaks.

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The herbal healing power of lemon balm is in a portable lip balm tube. The anti-viral properties of lemon balm help heals cold sores and other skin issues as it cools and soothes irritated or inflamed skin. Even if you have no lip issues, it’s just a great lip balm for regular use and maintaining great lips.

The ingredients are quit simple: Lemon balm herb, beeswax, almond and apricot oils, shea butter. That’s it! And all ingredients are natural. Discount available for 3 or more.

Lemon balm should be avoided by those on thyroid medication as it is believed that the herb inhibits the absorption of this medicine.

Native to the Mediterranean region, lemon balm has been cultivated for herbal healing for more than 2,000 years. It’s Latin name of Melissa, is derived from the Greek word for bee. The ancient Greek author Pliny the Elder and John Gerard a 16th-century both observed that lemon balm is useful in attracting and keeping bees. Officinalis refers to its place in the official apothecary. The common name ‘‘balm’’ is shortened from balsam.

Lemon balm is one of over 3000 members of the mint family of plants. The plants healing powers were well known throughout history. Dioscorides, an ancient Greek physician used the leaves steeped in wine to treat snakebites and scorpion stings. In 1931, Maud Grieve wrote in her book, A Modern Herbal,

It is now recognized as a scientific fact that the balsamic oils of aromatic plants make excellent surgical dressings: they give off ozone and thus exercise anti-putrescent effects. Being chemical hydrocarbons, they contain so little oxygen that in wounds dressed with the fixed balsamic herbal oils, the atomic germs of disease are starved out, and the resinous parts of these balsamic oils, as they dry upon the sore or wound, seal it up and effectually exclude all noxious air.

Lemon balm’s history, popularity and use continued through the years. Today, lemon balm is now found in both England and North America. It was brought by colonialists who had come to rely on it for teas and flavoring. Thomas Jefferson’s gardens were filled with lemon balm for both it’s medicinal healing benefits, but also it’s culinary usefulness.

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