Olive Leaf Extract is very effective for shingles.
Remember that in case you or someone you know ever gets shingles.
I’ve had one outbreak of Shingles in my life and it was pretty debilitating, had the usual rounds of antivirals and oxycodone for pain, was really looped and disoriented for two weeks, didn’t feel safe to drive a car. It was on my left forehead. I used tea tree oil on the rash, seemed to help but very strong camphor odor. I hope I never have another outbreak but I’ll keep this in mind, first I’ve heard of it.
https://www.holistichealthherbalist.com/home-remedies-eliminate-shingles/ mentions Olive leaf, lemon balm and other things are mentioned.
National Institute of health research;
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18693101
Snip.... These results indicate that Melissa oil affected the virus before adsorption, but not after penetration into the host cell, thus lemon balm oil is capable of exerting a direct antiviral effect on herpesviruses. Considering the lipophilic nature of lemon balm essential oil, which enables it to penetrate the skin, and a high selectivity index, Melissa officinalis oil might be suitable for topical treatment of herpetic infections.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002804/ Snip....
In a U.S. patent, it has been claimed that oleuropein has potent antiviral activities against herpes mononucleosis, hepatitis virus, rotavirus, bovine rhinovirus, canine parvovirus, and feline leukemia virus [69]. Studies have also shown that oleuropein exhibits a significant antiviral activity against respiratory syncytial virus and para-influenza type 3 virus [70].
There is also one anecdotal report that olive leaf extracts augment the activity of the HIV-RT inhibitor 3TC [71]. The olive leaf extracts were investigated for their antiviral activity against viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV), a salmonid rhabdovirus, and against HIV-1 infection and replication [72]. Cell-to-cell transmission of HIV was inhibited in a dose-dependent manner with EC50s of 0.2 μg/ml, and HIV replication was inhibited in an in vitro experiment [73].
One of the suspected targets for olive leaf extract (mainly oleuropein) action is HIV-1 gp41 (surface glycoprotein subunit), which is responsible for HIV entry into normal cells. In order to establish HIV protein targets of olive leaf extract and its inhibitory action at the molecular level, Lee-Huang et al. [74] reported a joint theoretical and experimental effort has been carried out to help achieve this goal