Dr. H. is a Board Certified Emergency Physician from Georgia who has diagnosed and treated patients with herpes and HPV infections for over thirty years. He established the website www.HERPES.org in 1998, to offer information and support for those with these infections and for their loved ones. www.HERPES.org has offered this information and support to over two million people. Dr. H. provides direct answers to those writing into the website with questions.
Dr. H on H-Balm:
I conduct a regular, ongoing survey of persons writing in to www.HERPES.org who wish to share some of their experiences with these infections. From the some two million persons coming to the website I have collected survey responses from thousands of people over the last several years. Some 4% of persons coming to the website indicate that they are using H Balm for their herpes infections. Extrapolating this to the larger world of persons suffering with herpes (some fifty million in America, of whom probably 5 million have been diagnosed), this indicates to me that tens of thousands of persons have found help and relief by the use of H Balm.
Second, in the many thousands of letters that I have answered, many hundreds of people have shared their excellent response to H Balm.
This is a remarkable success, and it has brought help and assistance to so many. On behalf of www.HERPES.org and the people that we serve, I offer my thanks to Peter and to his excellent staff.
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From Dr H.:
An enormous amount of human suffering is caused by microorganisms that invade and infect the body. These organisms are of many types, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites, causing a vast variety of illnesses from brief infections such as the common cold, chronic infections such as herpes and HPV, or even death from such conditions as pneumonia.
It is extraordinary that many of the available treatments for these infections have been found in nature. Alexander Fleming discovered through sheer serendipity (indeed, through taking a long weekend and coming back to find blood agar plates contaminated with penicillium fungus) that the products of a common fungus could profoundly inhibit bacterial cell growth and yet be relatively harmless to humans. This discovery of "penicillin", totally by accident, revolutionized the treatments of illnesses, turning the most common cause of death - namely pneumonia - to a much less feared disease in human history. The discovery of penicillin has been repeated many times, such as the cephalosporin chemicals in soils found to be powerful and safe antibiotics, treatments for cancer from Chinese herbs, and on and on.
Peter Klapper, the founder of the Forces of Nature, became concerned about the impact of chronic viral infections on the quality of life of those suffering with these conditions. He began to study the scientific literature to find out if it were possible to find chemicals that would actually help herpes infections - such as genital herpes infections - improve through the use of substances found in nature. Peter found that, indeed, a huge body of published scientific literature existed on the chemicals called "essential oils".
The term "essential oil" many not strike the reader as having a significant meaning. Indeed, the term "essential" means "essence". Peter found that a large variety of natural plants have "essences" in them which have documented, published, antiviral properties. The number of these essential oils is quite large. Tea tree oil and sandlewood oil, just to name two, have been shown to have strong antiviral properties against the herpes simplex virus. These antiviral effects appear to be in ways that are different from prescription drugs used to treat herpes infections, with the essences in these oils apparently having direct effects on the virus particles themselves. Specifically, whereas acyclovir (a prescription antiviral medication) has effects on the "thymidine kinase" enzyme in the herpes simplex virus, apparently tea tree oil (and eucalyptus oil as well) exert strong effects directly on the virus. For example, Schnitzler, et al stated in 2001 that their results "indicate that TTO (tea tree oil) and EUO (eucalyptus oil) affect the virus before or during adsorption, but not after penetration into the host cell. Thus TTO and EUO are capable to exert a direct antiviral effect on HSV. Although the active antiherpes components of Australian tea tree and eucalyptus oil are not yet known, their possible application as antiviral agents in recurrent herpes infection is promising."
Peter's work on the H Balm product began around 1999, when his research lead him to the large number of essential oils that are available. I became aware of Peter's work about the time that he started his research, and I have monitored the success of the formulations during a regular correspondence with him. Indeed, I have reviewed a continuing series of scientific publications that he has presented to me over the years regarding potential constituent elements for the H Balm product, and I feel that he has given significant thought to my feedback to him over the years.
Peter combined his research into the scientific literature together with his deep knowledge of the available essential oils in oriental medicine. Through steady work in apportioning different formulations, he arrived at a mixture of these essential antiviral oils that may be applied topically for the relief of herpes simplex infections. He has had similar results with the wart tissue caused by the human papillomavirus, with skin fungus infections, and with other conditions.
The constituents of H Balm provide a topical, non-prescription formulation of chemicals that have antiviral properties against the herpes simplex virus that have been documented in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. I have included a collection of published scientific paper titles for the interested reader below that indicates some of the research performed into the antiviral effects of essential oils. The reader can review these abstracts by going to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi and entering the name of the author and any key word from the title of the article.
Vijayan P, Raghu C, Ashok G, et al
Antiviral activity of medicinal plants of Nilgiris.
Indian J Med Res. 2005 Jul;120:24-9
Farag RS, Shalaby AS, et al
Chemical and biological evaluation of the essential oils of different Melaleuca species.
Phytother Res. 2005 Jan;18(1):30-5
Garcia CC, Talarico L, Almeido N, et al
Virucidal activity of essential oils from aromatic plants of San Luis, Argentina.
Phytother Res. 2003 Nov;17(9):1073-5
Minami M, Kita M, Nakaya T, et al
The inhibitory effect of essential oils on herpes simplex virus type-1 replication in vitro.
Microbiol Immunol. 2003;47(9):681-4
Schuhmacher A, Reichling, J, et al
Virucidal effect of peppermint oil on the enveloped viruses herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 in vitro.
Phytomedicine. 2003;10(6-7):504-10
Primo V, Rovera M, Zanon S, et al
Determination of the antibacterial and antiviral activity of the essential oil from Minthostachys verticillata (Griseb.) Epling
Rev Argent Microbiol. 2001 Apr-Jun;33(2):113-7. Spanish.
Schnitzler P, Schon K, et al
Antiviral activity of Australian tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil against herpes simplex virus in cell culture.
Pharmazie. 2001 Apr;56(4):343-7.
De Logu A, Loy G, Pellerano ML, et al
Inactivation of HSV-1 and HSV-2 and prevention of cell-to-cell virus spread by Santolina insularis essential oil.
Antiviral Res. 2000 Dec;48(3):177-85.
Benencia F., Courreges MC
Antiviral activity of sandalwood oil against herpes simplex viruses-1 and -2.
Phytomedicine. 1999 May;6(2):119-23.
Touraine RL, Vahanian N, Ramsey WJ et al
Enhancement of the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase/ganciclovir bystander effect and its antitumor efficacy in vivo by pharmacologic manipulation of gap junctions.
Hum Gene Ther. 1998 Nov 1;9(16):2385-91.
Mucsi I, Gyulai Z, Beladi I.
Combined effects of flavonoids and acyclovir against herpesviruses in cell cultures.
Acta Microbiol Hung. 1992;39(2):137-47.