A Natural Remedy

I do not claim to know very much about natural healing in the least. However, after some experimentation and casual research and accidental discovery, I think I've found a way to greatly lesson the length and hurtiness of fever blisters and canker sores.

Fever blisters are just dreadful! They hurt terribly and are so ugly. They feel like a volcano on your lip. I rarely get these but whenever we in stressful situations I watch out for them and usually am terribly disappointed but not surprised when they show up.

Well, not surprisingly, two popped up on my lips a couple of weeks ago. These were a bit different, they were on the inside, so perhaps they were not really fever blisters but canker sores, also brought on by stress. I also got a sore on my tongue and the roof of my mouth. :( On top of emotional strain, I had been doing a lot of baking for a tea I had, involving lots of sugar that I don't normally eat. So had my mother, who sent us a batch of goodies, and my mother-in-law, who brought a batch of goodies for Christmas. So here is what we had in the house - ginger snaps, fudge, a chocolate torte, snickerdoodles, white trash, turtles, graham cracker delights, a graham cracker cereal chocolate bar thing that we loved, a homemade batch of cinnamon rolls, and homemade Chex mix. If you know me well, you know that this is way more sugar than I ingest in a year, really! We started eating it and didn't quite until it was done. In the midst of eating all of this was when the sores popped up and boy did they hurt!

I pulled out a remedy I had tried earlier in the year and it worked again so I wanted to share it with you. I use Burt's Bees lip balm on my lips as often as I can remember, even on the inside, though I don't know how well it goes on. It needs to be the kind with mint. Also, this time around I drank mint tea a lot. It really helped to soothe it. Also, I eat a lot of yogurt when they pop up. And, almost the next day that all our goodies were gone, one of the worst sores was virtually gone, no doubt stopping all the sugar combined with the other remedies helped tremendously.

So, if ever you find yourself with one of those nasty, unwelcome visitors to your lips, get out the yogurt, invest in Burt's Bee's lip balm and pure mint tea, and stop eating sugar, at least for a while.

The picture is from this website - http://whatscookingamerica.net/mint.htm