TCM differentiation shingles

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Shingles (herpes zoster virus infection is caused by a common skin diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine called it "wrapped around the waist fire Dan", "snake dish sore", "snake string of sore" or "spider sore". Many things because of sentiment, eating disorders, so that the lost health shipment, wet muddy inside stop, yu and turn heat, cardiac and damp and hot, and feeling the toxin factor and disease. The disease in adults, come on in more during the spring and autumn. The course is commonly 2 ~ 3 weeks, no recurrence after illness, life can be immune. Some patients after illness with local pain, called "possibly neuralgia," sustainable for months and even years. Clinical will shingles divided into the heat, the spleen deficiency of liver wet aggregates, and blood stasis etc card, symptomatic treatment, the effect is remarkable.

        The liver heat type: disease see her lesions color bright red, blister wall nervous, glowing smartly, mouth bitter, dry throat, fidgety irritability, and move bowels dry, urinate yellow, and red tongue quality, moss thin yellow or HuangHou. Put to appropriate qing suffered diarrhoea, cool blood detoxification. Agent: LongDanCao, radix scutellariae, mountain gardenia root, banlan root, born rehamannia, root, peony skin every 10 grams, radix glycyrrhizae, born TongCao, each 6 g, honeysuckle, forsythia every 15 g. Add water 1000 ml, Fried take 400 ml, amount for half day, twice, taken on an empty stomach. Daily two agent, night and day, interval points clothing.

        The spleen deficiency wet aggregates type: disease see her lesions with lighter color, blister wall is flabby, mouth not thirsty, eat less abdominal distension, defecate rare pond, tongue qualitative light, moss white or white boring. Put to appropriate invigorating spleen to solve, and give priority to detoxification. Agent: cangzhu fry, fry largehead atractylodes rhizome, cortex phellodendri, pigs lingya, honeysuckle, fructus forsythiae every 10 grams, tuckahoe, kindhearted YiRen every 15 grams, dried tangerine or orange peel, orange shell every 6 grams. Add water 1000 ml, Fried take 450 ml, points early, afternoon, late three times, taken on an empty stomach, a daily agent.

        Qi stagnancy and blood stasis syndrome: in the rash receded local pain more than patients, promoting blood circulation to appropriate qi pain. Agent: peachseed, born rehamannia, root of herbaceous peony, fumaric, peony skin every 10 grams, ZhiKe, turmeric, born licorice each 6 grams, root, danshen root every 15 grams. Add water 1000 ml, Fried take 450 ml, points early, afternoon, late three times, taken on an empty stomach. A daily agent. Another towels or gauze pseudoginseng var.notoginseng.by bag with the heat, cold, warm up again apply, every time apply for an hour or so. Daily 2 ~ 3 times, until healed. (GuoXuGuang)