Natural Herpes Treatment

People who have herpes but don’t know it can still be passing along the infection - or “shedding” it, Reuters news service reports. One in six adults in the U.S. has genital herpes, making screening for the disease very important. Genital herpes not only causes painful blisters but it can increase your risk of contracting HIV/AIDS.

“The people who are symptomatic are really the tip of the iceberg,” said Dr. Christine Johnston, of the University of Washington in Seattle. “We are not having any impact on the epidemic by ignoring it.”

In Johnson’s study, researchers followed 498 people who had antibodies in their blood against genital herpes. This shows they had all been infected, even though about one in six never had any symptoms. Although it is unclear how much virus is needed to infect someone else, Johnston said, the amount of virus shed in the absence of sores was the same for people even without symptoms. Doctors recommend frank conversations with your partner about herpes.

A “magic” herb, Carissa Edulis,  that drew thousands of people  to a remote Loliondo village in Tanzania was identified by Kenyan scientists a few years ago as a cure for a drug-resistant strain of a sexually transmitted disease, gonorrhoea. This herb also is believed to cure many other diseases besides gonorrhoea.  The Kamba refer to as mukawa or mutote and use it for chest pains, while the Nandi boil the leaves and bark to treat breast cancer, headache and chest pains.

Researchers discovered the plant could be used for the treatment of the  herpes virus. Led by Dr Festus M Tolo of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), the team from the University of Nairobi and the National Museums of Kenya found the herb could provide an alternative remedy for herpes infections. 

“An extract preparation from the roots of Carissa edulis, a medicinal plant locally growing in Kenya, has exhibited remarkable anti-herpes virus activity for both wild type and drug resistant strains,” they reported in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology.

In a new report, scientists revealed a previously unknown way  the immune system attacks infections, a finding that offers a new approach to treating diseases caused by viruses.

“Doctors have plenty of antibiotics to fight bacterial infections but few antiviral drugs. Although these are early days, and we don’t yet know whether all viruses are cleared by this mechanism, we are excited that our discoveries may open multiple avenues for developing new antiviral drugs,” said Dr Leo James, leader of the study at the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

The body fights infections by unleashing antibodies that stick to viruses as they circulate in the bloodstream. For many years, scientists working on immunity generally believed this made it harder for viruses to get inside healthy cells and spread the illness through the body.

But the new study has shown that for many viruses,  antibodies follow the invader inside the cell and co-ordinate an immune attack from within.

Immunologists once believed  that antibodies went to work only outside cells. Once a virus had invaded a cell, it was thought to be too late for the immune system to do anything.

Viruses are responsible for influenza, the common cold, smallpox, chickenpox, shingles, herpes, polio, rabies, Ebola, hanta fever, Aids and various forms of cancer.

The new study shows that once inside an infected cell, antibodies attract a protein called TRIM21. This turns on the cell’s equivalent of a waste disposal machine, a large cluster of proteins called a proteasome. The proteasome  latches on to TRIM21 and goes to work, dismantling the virus piece by piece, often before the virus has a chance to cause harm. The discovery, which is reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could pave the way for a new generation of antiviral drugs that fight infections by supercharging the body’s own defences.

Future treatments based on this research are  expected only to work against a class of viruses that do not shed their protein coats when they invade healthy cells. Those that do would leave the attached antibodies outside the cells, and so not trigger the cell’s own immune attack.

Conventional medical practices normally prescribe Acyclovir ointment or other topical medications to treat herpes outbreaks.

Recently some new research emerged indicating that nature may provide an alternative solution. This remedy supposedly works faster than any of the conventional  mainstream treatments. I will explain further on why I use the word “supposedly”.

For some believers in natural cures, honey has long been regarded as  a natural wound healer and infection fighter. An unnamed researcher treated patients with Acyclovir for one herpes outbreak and honey for another.  Overall healing time with honey was 43 percent better than with Acyclovir for sores on the lips and 59 percent better for genital sores. This news sounds good, but I take this report  with a fair amount of skepticism.

This news report does not contain many details, such as the name of the researcher, the number of patients involved,  references to any peer reviews of the study or if this study had any official sanction, so for me, this puts the article I discovered on the Internet  in question. When you are suffering from herpes it is difficult sometimes remain a little skeptical when hope is presented, but there are real clinical studies of alternative herpes treatments on record and the hopeful investigator needs to sort herpes simplex fact from fiction.

I personally would experiment with honey on a herpes lesion if I were curious enough, but would never expect this “natural treatment” to prevent spreading the infection. A herpes sufferer must remain vigilant to never infect another person.

A research team  at Tufts University and the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered the unusual structure of a key member of the protein complex that allows a herpes virus to invade cells. The new map details an essential piece of the herpes virus “cell-entry machinery,” that provides scientists with a new target for antiviral drugs.

“We hope that determining the structure of this essential piece of the herpes virus cell-entry machinery will help us answer some of the many questions about how herpes virus initiates infection. Knowing the structures of cell-entry proteins will help us find the best strategy for interfering with this pervasive family of viruses,” said Tirumala K. Chowdary, a postdoctoral associate at Tufts.

For now, there is no cure for herpes viruses. Upon infection, the viruses remain in the body for life and can stay inactive for long periods of time. When active, these various  herpes viruses can cause cold sores, blindness, encephalitis or cancers.

The Pepsi company could help a  professor find a  herpes cure.

Professor David C. Bloom in the department of molecular genetics and microbiology, is hoping to win  a $50,000 grant to fund a treatment for herpes  in the Pepsi Refresh Project .

Bloom and his  team invented a new ribozyme therapy that could be used to treat herpes infections resistant to conventional drug treatments. Ribozyme, a molecule in genetic material, is intended to make the virus unable to infect and be transmitted to others.

About a million new cases of herpes occur annually. If Bloom succeeds, he would be able to stop the recurrence of herpes and fund human clinical trials for the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1).

“Our project is at a critical phase right now,” Bloom said. “We have exciting data that shows our therapy can block the HSV infection in vivo, but we need additional data on the ability of this treatment to block recurrent disease.”

Starpharma is in beginning to consider clinical trials of its VivaGel product in women at risk of contracting genital herpes, the  Chief Executive Officer Jackie Fairley said in an interview in Singapore. The Melbourne-based company licensed its VivaGel- coated condoms in 2008 to SSL International Plc, maker of the world’s best-selling Durex brand.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show that no cure exists for genital herpes, a condition that infects about one in six Americans and produces painful sores and increases HIV transmission. Other gels are being developed to prevent HIV infections, VivaGel is the only microbicide designed to stop herpes from spreading, Fairley said.

Today, if you have herpes, a natural product called Dynamiclear is very effective in controlling herpes outbreaks because it kills herpes viral particles when applied to  open herpes lesions. Fewer herpes particles remain and this means fewer and weaker outbreaks.

Almost one in six Americans is infected with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2).HSV-2, one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States, is a serious and incurable infection that lasts a lifetime, causing recurrent and painful genital sores, states the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, says “Preventing STDs is a public health challenge that we, as a nation, cannot afford to ignore.”

The prevalence of HSV-2 has remained stable at around 17 percent of the U.S. population, the same as the last survey which was done from 1999 to 2004.

Even though there is no cure for the herpes simplex virus type 2 STD, it is possible to reduce the frequency and severity of the infection using nonprescription medication.  Here is a link to clinical trial studies on one of these very effective nonprescription viral antiseptics.

There are many over-the–counter treatments for herpes simplex viral infections. I have personally tried a few and did get some fair results. Abreva seemed to work fairly well from among the nonprescription drugstore brand herpes remedies. To me, it was comparable to the results I obtained from prescription Acyclovir ointment.

There is  one nonprescription formula that works the best for me and is far superior to anything I’ve tried. It is called Dynamiclear. There is no comparison to either over-the-counter nonprescription herpes medication or prescription drugs such as acyclovir. In my opinion, Dynamiclear is far beyond  anything I’ve tried, including prescription drugs.

Dynamiclear is applied directly to the open herpes lesions, and only applied once. There is no need to reapply during the herpes outbreak. This liquid kills the virus on contact. A scab will form right away. Mind you, it is not a cure, because some virus particles remain, but  many people after using just one Dynamiclear treatment never have another outbreak, or the oubreaks are less frequent and less severe.

The formula for Dynamiclear has improved. I use the older formula and there is a bit of a sting when applied. That never really bothered me.  The new formula has been improved to remove the sting, and for some that is important.

If you have herpes simplex virus, I urge you to try Dynamiclear. It truly is best.

Dynamiclear has improved! It still kills the herpes virus on contact but now it is easier to use. I received information from the manufacturers that I will share with you.

“We listened to our customers feedback and as a result we have worked with our chemists to enhance the Dynamiclear formulation to include a moisturizing agent (to minimize stinging and improve recovery) and we developed a premixed formula for direct application (no mix). On top of these improvements we greatly improved the packaging look and feel and product delivery system.”

Product Description:

Dynamiclear is a powerful Anti-viral solution that gives users Rapid Relief in One Application. Each vial contains 100 single applications making it abundant value. It also comes with a 6 month “no hassle” money back guaranteed to insure you results.

Dynamiclear slogan:

Product Ingredients:
Hypericum perforatum, Calendula officinalis, Cupric sulfate pentahydrate, Vegetable Derived Glycerol, Aloe vera barbadensis, Naturally Sourced Vitamin E, Purified Water.