“…"What do I take for a cold sore and what causes them?" - Oh, it's almost always a herpes virus. And the stress, systemic stress, pituitary activation is behind the nerve. It's the same thing. Your energy dips and lets the nerve get excited. And the excitation of the nerve gives the virus a chance to reproduce and travel out to the skin. And so basically keeping your thyroid hormone up so that your blood sugar is stable and doesn't let your nerves go into these stress states of prolonged excitation. And then topically, aspirin. Well, systemically, aspirin is antiviral”