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Mouth Ulcers (Ulcers: Mouth)

I have had much success treating mouth ulcers with Echinacea, Myrrh and Licorice root.

Ideally you would find a good herbalist to get these herbs so you can be sure of their being fresh and medicinally potent.

The treatment formula is very simple.

20mls Echinacea tincture
20mls Licorice root tincture
10mls Myrrh tincture

A small bottle of herbs this size will probably come with a dropper in which case you use between one and two dropperfulls (about 20-40 drops), or 1-2mls. You need to dilute these herbs at least a little. You are going to be holding them in your mouth and in close proximity to the ulcer. They need to be nice and strong but not so potent that you can’t keep them there for as long as you need.
Swilling these herbs around your mouth and particularly around your ulcer is not something you would do for fun. The herbs will taste weird and they will make your whole mouth feel strangely numb and tingly. That’s the bad news; the good news is that they work really well, and usually very quickly.

If you have an active, open ulcer in your mouth then you should do the treatment very frequently at first, e.g. at least once every few hours. Each time you do it, take the dose of herbs, swill them around your mouth for at least 10 seconds, and then swallow. You might be tempted to spit them out but don’t, the herbs have potent healing and antimicrobial effects where they make contact but they also have very important immune boosting benefits when you take them within internally.

Most people I have treated with this approach have noticed improvements very rapidly; usually they are noticing good signs of progress even within the first day. It is a tough treatment to do but you should not need to do it for very long at all.

If you regularly get mouth ulcers, and particularly if you are also run down in your health in general, then I strongly recommend that you attend to improving your immune system in general. Read my article on immunity to see the kind of approach I recommend in this regard. You might also want to read my thoughts on food allergy and intolerances which often seem to play a role in people who get repeated mouth ulcers.

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