Shingles

This is an acute infection of the posterior root ganglion by a neurotropic virus, leading to severe pain in the distribution of the coresponding posterior root, and to the appearance of a crop of vesicles in the cutaneous distribution of the root.

The disease is seen at all ages. In elderly patients it is very often more serious as well as more painful than in the young. The older the subject, the more persisting and severe are the painful sequaele. It may arise without discoverable cause and with a febrile reaction and considerable malaise. It often happens a few days after exposure to chicken-pox. There is little doubt that both are due to the same virus(varicella), Zoster probably being a manifestation of infection in the majority of subjects. In some instances it follows radiotherapy, the eruption appearing in the segment irradiated.

There may be an onset with fever for 2 to 4 days. Herpetic eruptions appear at the painful place on the third or fourth day of illness. Rash as patchy erythema appears at first, upon which small vesicles filled with clear fluid are formed. Within 5 or 6 days vesicles dry up and shrink up and form a scab, which leaves a scar on the skin. The pain during the evolution of the rash may be intense. It is of a burning and itching quality and may persist in frail and weak persons for years. There may be anaesthesia or hyper-aesthesia and a spontaneous pain may dominate in the life of the patient. The pain is aggravated by fatigue, worry and physical debility, and often induces a neurotic reaction or a state of depression to the patient. Zoster might affect the nervous system with paraplegic diasthaesia and prostration. Homeopathic treatment much more effect not only cutting short the duration of illness but also post hepetic sequaele.

Homeopathic Remedies for Shingles

1 agar, 1 apis, 1 arg-n, 1 arn, 3 ARS, 1 aster, 1 bry, 1 bufo, 2 canth, 1 carbn-o, 1 carbn-s, 2 caust, 1 cedr, 1 cham, 2 cist, 2 clem, 1 com, 1 crot-h, 1 croto-t, 1 dol, 1 dulc, 1 euph, 2 graph, 1 grin, 2 hep, 1 hyper, 1 iod, 3 IRIS, 1 kali-ar, 2 kali-bi, 2 kali-chl, 1 kali-i, 1 kali-m, 2 lach, 3 MERC, 3 MEZ, 1 morph, 1 nat-c, 3 NAT-M, 2 petr, 1 pip-m, 1 prun, 1 puls, 3 RAN-B, 1 ran-s, 3 RHUS-T, 1 sal-ac, 1 sel, 1 semp, 2 sep, 2 sil, 1 staph, 1 stry, 2 sulph, 2 thuj, 2 vario, 1 zinc, 1 zinc-p, 1 zinc-val

Acupuncture points for Shingles