Hi Carol, The complete symptom might be useful as a most recent psoric outbreak, but I would still have to know the *history* of the case. That is, even if they presented this symptom as their first point of contact I would still need to see it in context of the history of the whole expression. Cold sores are a non-life-threatoning condition and I would be focussing on the entire miasmatic expression to see where this symptom lay in relation to the miasmatic cause.