I discovered purely by accident that a dietary supplement my doctor prescribed for candida cures cold sores. First it seems to stop them from growing, reduces them in size and helps the site heal faster. It may be a coincidence, but I have treated two lip sores with this stuff.

I used to get them like anybody else and have to wait for a week or two before the sore would reside and begin to heal. You know how horrible they are! The only thing that worked to cure them quickly was sometimes taking 3 days worth of Valtrex from a friend of mine with a script.

Anyway, I found this to work just as well!

Thorne’s Formula SF722 of 10-Undecenoic Acid.

Apparently the company hasn’t marketed it for this use. What a shame!

I ingested about 3 pills of SF722 per day when I had my cold sore. I also took vit B, vit D and flax oil in high doses.

The real action however seems to be from direct application. I lanced one of the gelcaps and applied the oil inside to the cold sore. Now the first time I did this I had a real nasty pus vessel on my lower lip that was affecting the skin beneath as well. It hurt a little bit as the sore shrunk and started to bleed. I noticed that instead of my little experiment aggravating the herpes, the whole thing just withered away.

The second time I got a cold sore I started the application at the first twinge. The sore never fully formed and all signs of it disappeared within 4 days. That’ actually excellent in the world of HSV I.

I really think that Thorne should do a study to see if others have this good of a result using their product for cold sores. Or maybe someone else can harness the healing powers of undecylenic acid.

(The two pictures were taken 10 days apart. During the ten days – May 1 to May 10 – I had two different cold sores break out back to back, not at the same time. No signs of either after treating with SF722.)