Sores of Corners of Mouth
05/03/2014 14:20A few could be traced to the use of chocolate or nuts, but most seemed related to citric acid fruits and a lessor number to malic, benzoic and oxolic acid foods. Some more recent research on an entirely different track has shown that diets high in arginine foods and low in lysine were directly related to the herptic virus involved with oral cold sores, genital herpes and shingles. foods high in lysine that can counteract the detrimental effects of the arginine are fish, chicken, beef, goat and cow's milk, lamb, mung beans, pork, cheese, beans, brewers yeast, crustaceans and eggs. Dr.Chris Kagan, working in the viral lab at the cedars of lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, noticed that the amino acid L-arginine was always added to the solution used to grow tissue cells being infected with the herpes virus, but it was not added to the solution when they were only growing tissue cells. These results led Dr. Kagan to wonder if lysine wouldn't help control herpes in people It is now known that the perpes virus requires L-arginine as an essential amino acid. Sores at Corners of Mouth: I frequently have sores and cracks in my lips at the corners of my mouth. Vitamin B2 is lost in the refining of grain, exposure of food to sunlight, and some of it is lost by heating food and when it is in alkaline solutions.
