Tagamet is a T-supressor cell agonist.... good for cold sores,

[HysteryDiagnosis]

perhaps as good as prescription drugs for less dinero.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. Tea Tree oil is best for cold sores

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Best?? You sure?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. I'm talking about a "global" immune response modification.... and

tea tree oil taken topically is a direct attack so to speak... perhaps more effective, but I am speaking about not getting them in the first place.

[Avalux]

4. Can you provide a link with some hard info?

Thanks! :hi:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Why certainly, it is what I like to do... and mind you, there is nothing

I am trying to sell here.... don't want to get locked again.


First you have this... from 1980... then you have the whole enchilada at LEF at link below... the role of tagamet as a t-supressor agonist is explained within that article. Make sure you read the article at the Life Extension Foundation link, and you should mark their homepage in your faves for future reference....

1: S Afr Med J. 1980 Jul 19;58(3):112-6. Related Articles, Links


Cimetidine in the treatment of herpesvirus infections.

van der Spuy S, Levy DW, Levin W.

In August 1977 a patient developed herpes zoster just before she commenced a course of cimetidine (Tagamet; Smith, Kline & French) for a chronic gastric ulcer. She experienced both rapid relief of the ulcer symptoms and, rather unexpectedly, dramatic relief of the herpetic pain and rapid disappearance of the eruption. On the basis of this observation cimetidine was prescribed to 21 patients with herpes zoster. The results continued to be encouraging in all but 3 patients. The trial was therefore extended to other herpesvirus infections. In all but 1 of 7 patients with herpes labialis the blisters were aborted, and in 1 patient with herpes keratitis the result was also encouraging, the attacks being markedly shortened in duration and reduced in frequency. The results of this preliminary trial warrant a systematic scientific inquiry into the potential role of cimetidine in the treatment of hypesvirus infection, as well as a study of the mechanisms involved.

Publication Types:
Case Reports

PMID: 6250237

http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-164.shtml