Where have you heard that there's a perfect dosage of citric acid that only kills non beneficial viruses/bacteria/fungi/parasites? From my personal knowledge if the solution you're using is sterile enough to kill non-benificial it's certainly going to kill beneficial as well and that they're pretty non-distinguishable in terms of natural or unnatural sterilization methods. I could be wrong though and if you could site your source of information I'd be interested in learning more. As for Herpes I personally haven't heard of a "cure" yet, but I have heard from many people that tea tree oil applied topically can help handle outbreaks, although if there truly is an herbal decoction/tincture which can CURE Herpes (I assume you mean type 2) I'd be very interested in finding out what that is, and the bio-molecular relationship between the plants and the human body. I've often heard correlations between outbreaks and diet/stress, so if you consume a very healthy diet and practice general relaxation techniques such as meditation, yoga, or qi-qong, it may appear as though the herpes has been cured. The difficulty with proving whether type 2 Herpes has truly been cured or not is in the fact that it may simply be laying dormant due to healthy lifestyle choices and just appear to not be a problem anymore. Again though, if someone can state some kind of study in which Herpes was conclusively "cured" by some type of natural herbal method I would be very interested in reading about it (hint hint someone please link here a study if they know it).

well, some people (i'm one) just naturally stop having outbreaks after a few years or decades of having the infection, so it's really hard to say that any one 'natural' remedy is the cause if someone stops having outbreaks alltogether. The immune system is part of this so anything you can do to support your immune system, including taking herbs classed as 'adaptogens' and lowering the level of stress to your body from lifestyle, should help.

MMS is really, really fishy (if I remember right, they basically claim that you can take a very small amount of bleach (or something that turns into bleach internally) and take it internally and it supposedly killls all kinds of things, which makes no sense biologically). Most of their claims can't be verified, it runs completely counter to all science, and there's no real evidence besides testimonials about it. I'd steer clear. I think the folks who are really actually writing real testimonials probably have placebo effect going on to some extent or are trying other things in addition to/before MMS.

There are a few remedies for herpes misery, though- one is changing your diet (google lysene and arginine and herpes, you'll get a lot more info). this works for many, many people - you just stop eating foods high in one amino acid and start eating more of another type, not a very restrictive diet and not hard to adhere to. I think it also shortens outbreaks.

I'm sure there are herbal remedies but I"m not sure what they are. Otherwise, there's a good over-the-counter remedy now called Abreve which supposedly works really well. My ex used it for frequent oral herpes cold sores and it seemed really effective.

Another friend of mine who had frequent outbreaks (and doens't treat his body very well) went through some kind of acyclovir therapy for herpes, which got him to stop having frequent outbreaks. I haven't talked to hiim about this so I don't know details, it's apparently reasonably standard pharma stuff at this point.

Check out natropractica.com for Herpes info - and I also heard Chaparral (Larrea tridentata) may have hope!