The home remedies for cold sores are common ingredients from home that are used as alternative treatment. They are natural herbs or food or other dietary supplements that help in healing or recovering the ailments soon.

The cold sores are often seen during fevers or cold and they are quite embarrassing and painful. But, the  home remedies for cold sores help you take care of them smoothly and help in healing the painful fluid filled blisters by the action of herbal medicines. The Ayurvedic or homeopathic medicines can also be taken as alternative medicines.

The home remedies for cold sores are natural herb extracts. The cold sores appear in the areas of lips, nose, and the outer edges of the mouth. They are caused by herpes viruses and they are contagious as well. Cold sores indicate the deficiency of calcium in your body.

Some home remedies are as follows:

• Increase the intake of calcium inside the body.
• Avoid sharing things like cups, towels, razors or utensils.
• You can use a sunscreen lotion on your lips and other areas since they keep the area moisturized. 
• Wash your hands properly after you have touched the cold sores.
• Applying ice at the onset of the cold sores prevents their further development.
• Mix equal parts of tinctures of calendula, oats, burdock, echinacea, and lomatium. Take half teaspoon of it, 4 or 5 times daily.
• Apply a tea bag since the tannic acid in the tea has antiviral properties, it stops further development.
• You can press warm tea bags on the cold sores for some time. They disappear within a few days.
• Even foods with high arginine content such as chocolates, peas, oatmeal, seeds, and whole-wheat should be reduced from the diet.
• Intake of vitamin B complex supplements with B 12 and folic acid helps in curing the sores.
• Mix the following and apply it on cold sores twice a day. Keep the solution in a bottle in a cold place.
• (100 ml of Coconut oil in 2 ml of Dettol, and 3 ml of Carbolic acid).