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Melissa Extract: The Natural Remedy for Herpes

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This book was simply a waste of my time.
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My friend died of cancer 3 months ago. I'm his executor. Among his belongings, I found countless books such as this one, in which all sorts of herbal remedies are put forth while conventional treatments are completely excluded--as if the determining factor is who latches onto the remedy first. If it's the medical establishment, then boy is it gonna be trashed by books like this! And people will flock to books like this, believing they hold secrets unavailable through established medicine. No doubt there are some secrets out there that work. But there can be great danger on taking any one person's word for it, as is the case with this book.

"Just can't trust these people" is scribbled across a yellow Sticky stuck on the cover of this book--which I put there after reading the book. My friend trusted everything he read that trashed conventional treatments and suggested herbal products worked better--if only he would purchase them. He's dead now.

This book in particular begins by setting the stage with ominous descriptions of herpes. "Though less catastrophic than AIDS,..." one sentence begins. Yes, herpes is indeed a "major health problem," as the book states, but only in the sense of it being widespread, not in the sense of the harm (debilitating symptoms) to an individual. It's the overall misleading tone and nuance in this book that I have a problem with, including some outright false assertions that, if believed, could mean a life of repeated outbreaks of herpes instead of none. I suppose one could also say, "Though the common cold is less catastrophic than being in a lifelong coma, the cold is still a major health problem" and be technically correct.

On the same page, the stage continues to be set by falsely asserting that anti-herpes treatments are "often expensive" and "carry objectionable side effects." See if you can find anyone who takes, say, acyclovir, who has side effects. I believe it to be among the drugs with the LEAST side effects.

In the table of contents, my remark next to the chapter title "You Don't Need Acyclovir," is simply "Absurd!"

This book hawks the herb "melissa." My remark next to the chapter title "Melissa to the Rescue" is: It's just a cream made from a mint-family plant that merely shortens the healing of a lesion by 1 to 2 days; does NOT suppress occurrences.

Such a lame ointment, particularly when other treatments are far, far more effective, hardly "comes to the rescue" for people with herpes.

I pity the person who relies on the false and misleading assertions in this book, because that person, instead of remaining free of herpes lesions for life (as many do), will likely experience repeated outbreaks of lesions--but don't worry, those lesions might heal a day earlier, thanks to the herb praised in this book!

In my opinion, there are so many people out there trying to make a buck by sensationalizing the power of herbs to heal, over conventional medicines, or by hawking such items, that it is nearly impossible to know whom to trust. Many of them outright lie! You put your life in peril by putting blind trust in them. The best course is never to trust a single source but read widely on any given topic. And definitely don't bother with this piece of drivel.

I am not a physician, but I was the director of education for a large community clinic that specialized in SDTs--I had to be well-informed about this and other SDT issues. I do know something about which I speak!