There are a lot of natural home remedies like olive oil, Echinacea, ice pack, baking soda, tea tree oil etc. These can be used for the treatment of herpes infection and its harmful effects. But slippery elm is the best out of all the other home remedies. Before going in depth of this valuable article named as “How to use Slippery Elm for herpes treatment” let’s take a look at what the slippery elm is.
Slippery Elm:
Slippery Elm is a botanical plant which is found in the North American region, named as North Dakota, Maine, Florida, and Texas, especially in Canada region. This herb is known by many names and also has many benefits and these names are Ulmus Fulva, Ulmus Rubra, sweet Elm, Red Elm, Gray Elm, Soft Elm, Orme, Olmo Americano, Indian Elm etc. You can call slippery elm by any one of the names. Slippery Elm is a botanical plant which is widely used by the people of North America to cure many health problems like digestion problem, gastrointestinal tract, and the respiratory system problems etc.
The branch of slippery elm plant looks like reddish orange and brown in color. Slippery elm tree is medium sized tree and its leaves are very larger than normal tree leaves. It has a distinct odor. This herbal tree is deciduous in nature and grows at a height of sixty-five feet.
One point should be noted about this herbal tree - the only inner bark of this plant is used as a medicine to treat so many health problems including herpes and cold sores. Slippery Elm has the medicinal effects such as soothing, buffering and poison drawing. So, Slippery Elm is well-known demulcent because of its wideness. Most of the times, we observe that basically home remedies are used either topically or ingested. But you can use this remedy in both ways means, you can ingest it or you can apply it topically.
What is herpes?
Herpes is a highly contagious disease which is caused by either herpes simplex virus 1 or herpes simplex virus 2. Whenever we listen to the word "virus", we get afraid, and it is obvious because the term is linked to almost all kinds of diseases and there is nothing good about the minute-sized creatures causing it. Remember one thing about the virus - you cannot kick the virus out, once it enters the human body.
There is one interesting thing that is associated with herpes infection, and that is- people with herpes either may experience a severe problem or may not experience even a very minute problem. All this depends on the immune system. If the immune system is weak, herpes virus will attack strongly. But if the immune system is strong, herpes infections will not do much harm and it will not appear until the immune system becomes weak. So we should make the immune system strong to prevent the infections of herpes virus. There are two types of herpes viruses which are known as herpes simplex virus 1 and herpes simplex virus 2.
The infections caused by herpes simplex virus 1 are oral herpes and the infections caused by herpes simplex virus 2 are genital herpes. Oral herpes affects the areas around the mouth and genital herpes is appearing around the genital areas.
How does Slippery Elm work?
Before we tell you the working of Slippery Elm in curing herpes, you must know what is inside this herbal tree because of which it is so famous in curing a number of diseases including herpes. My dear friends, we will definitely give the reason but you have to wait and read it carefully because herpes makes you infertile if it becomes serious.
The inner bark of the slippery elm contains compounds such as mucilage, steroids, carbohydrates, tannins, vitamin E etc. and includes the essential properties like demulcent, expectorant, emollient, astringent, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.
We know that vitamin E is also known as “beauty vitamin” because it helps to refine the complexion of the face and makes you look younger or we can say that slippery elm acts like anti-aging herbs
Due to the presence of the mucilage, slippery elm provides huge nutrition value which helps to provide demulcent (a medication in the form of oil that soothes inflamed or injured skin) and emollient (it is the ability to make soft and soothe the skin to the body).
Conclusion:
We saw how much beneficial slippery elm is. You can use slippery elm for wounds, burns, boils, ulcers, cold sores, sunburns and any other type of skin inflammatory conditions. In short, you can say that if you have any type of skin problem, slippery elm can be used without much speculation. Slippery Elm also has very high nutrition value so it can be used for those people who feel weak either because of frequent herpes outbreaks or because of the extensive use of antivirals. Scientists have declared Slippery Elm as one of the most effective natural cures in the world.
So always use slippery elm whenever you get herpes, wounds, burns, ulcer etc. natural home remedies are always better than chemical medicine because they have no side effects. Take care and s
