It’s the morning of your big presentation and you have an ugly cold sore on your upper lip. Why do cold sores always seem to appear when you have something important to do? Is it just bad luck?
What is a Cold Sore ?
No. What causes the cold sore is a virus called herpes simplex type 1 or type 2. Almost everyone in the whole world carries this virus. Stress is the main trigger for causing the virus to become active and appear as cold sores to break out.
How? When your body’s stress level is high, your body’s ph level is low, below 7, and your immune system is compromised. This provides the perfect acidic state for that virus in your body to become active. And it’s all due to the fact you are stressed over this oh-so-important event.
Acupuncture for Cold Sores
Case studies in scientific journals reveal that acupuncture releases the body’s restorative hormones (known as endorphins) that stop the anxiety that lowers your ph.
In addition, acupuncture studies also show that acupuncture can assist the immune system by stimulating the production of white blood cells. Alpha, Beta and Gamma Globulins also increase after acupuncture therapy, which fight infection and produce immune antibodies. So that is another way acupuncture can reduce the length of time of a herpes outbreak and decrease your chances of recurring cold sores.
Acupuncture, which is more than 3000 years old and originated in China, has been refined by practitioners from all over the world, by combining old texts with new scientific studies and integrating it with some western concepts.
People use acupuncture to treat a wide variety of conditions ranging from pain management to infertility. Regardless of what your condition is, acupuncture treatment restores homeostasis in the body.
Help for Cold Sores
For more information on acupuncture treatments for cold sores & stress, please call professional acupuncture physician Dr. Richard Browne at 305.595.9500 for a FREE consultation
