Herbal remedies for shingles

When it comes to shingles, many people are familiar with it. Shingles is a very common disease. If you accidentally get shingles, don't be afraid and keep a good attitude. This disease can be treated, but you must treat the disease with a positive attitude. There are currently many drugs for the treatment of shingles, but to determine which drug to use, it is best to use it under the guidance of a doctor.

What are the Chinese patent medicines for treating herpes zoster?

1. Liushen Pills: When herpes breaks out and spreads, causing unbearable pain, you can take 5-10 Liushen Pills orally 3 times a day. You can also mix 5-10 Liushen Pills with vinegar and apply it to the affected area 2-3 times a day. It will usually heal in 3-7 days.

2. Burn ointment: This ointment is composed of Chinese medicines such as borneol, rhubarb, pangolin, dandelion, gardenia, etc. Apply the ointment directly to the herpes. For larger herpes, cut them open first and then apply the ointment. Apply once a day and it will be healed in 4 days. If the patient also takes cimetidine 600 mg per day, divided into 3 times, the therapeutic effect will be better.

3. Bingpengsan: Take 3 tubes of Bingpengsan and mix with 3 grams of indigo powder. First, soften the pus scab with light salt water or alum water, wash it off, wipe it dry, sprinkle with powder, and apply once a day. If impetigo has spread all over the body, you can dissolve Bingpeng Powder in boiling water at a ratio of 1:2000 and take a bath. After washing, sprinkle Bingpeng Powder on the affected area. The effect will be seen after 2 to 5 days of continuous use.

4. Longdan Xiegan Pills: It is composed of 10 herbs: gentian, akebia, radix rehmanniae, angelica, plantain seed, oriental water plantain, bupleurum, licorice, gardenia, and scutellaria. Herpes zoster is diagnosed by Chinese medicine as damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder, and raging fire toxicity. It is treated with Longdan Xiegan Pills, 6 grams each time, Isatis Root Granules, 30 grams, Sanhuang Tablets, 6 tablets each time, and Yuanhu Pain Relief Tablets, 4 to 6 tablets each time, 3 times a day, for 3 consecutive days. The pain will be relieved and the stool will be slightly loose. The dosage of Sanhuang Tablets can be reduced to 4 tablets each time. It usually takes 7 days for the symptoms to subside.

5. Shuanghuanglian (Shuanghuanglian powder injection, Shuanghuanglian injection): It is composed of trifloxylic acid, baicalin and forsythine extracted from honeysuckle, scutellaria baicalensis and forsythia suspensa. First, use 0.5% iodine to disinfect the blister wall, then use a sterile syringe to extract the blister fluid, dissolve 3 grams of Shuanghuanglian powder in 20 ml of normal saline and mix well, use a sterile cotton swab to evenly apply it to the blister area, and then cover it with sterile gauze, keep the area dry, prevent friction and scratching, apply twice a day, and it will generally heal in 5 to 7 days.

6. Modifications of Sini San: 15g of Bupleurum, 30g of White Peony, 15g of Citrus aurantium, 30g of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 20g of Scutellaria baicalensis, 10g of Rhubarb, 10g of Gentiana scabra, 30g of Plantago seed, 3g of Licorice. Take one dose daily, decocted in water, and taken in the morning and evening. After taking three doses of the medicine, the pain disappeared. After taking another 3 doses, the herpes scabs formed and the symptoms began to subside.

The effects of Chinese medicine in treating diseases are still relatively slow, but it can treat symptoms step by step, thus curing the disease fundamentally. It is worth reminding that Chinese medicine tastes relatively bitter, but it can free us from the torture of illness. I hope you can weigh the pros and cons and insist on taking Chinese medicine.