The herpes viral infections are unique, formed by the family of herpes simplex labialis or 1, 2 or vaginalis Simplex, Simplex 1-2 on location and Varicella Zoster mixed moves in its peculiar way. In fact, once these viruses to infect the body met for the first time lurking in it and remain latent for life to wake up in external conditions or internal specifications.

It 'really interesting to see that there are people who in spite of contact with the viral agent do not exhibit the disease and those who never recur in a systematic way instead, each menstrual cycle, every time I go to the beach or in the mountains, every time get tired or substantially change it back in there.

The habitues of these diseases recurring herpes know that there are few instruments, including antiviral drugs that can change this situation, this is precisely because the disorder is not due to the presence of the virus as the ground conditions favoring constitutional.

For Chinese medicine is a vacuum of blood or yin and therefore must be treated in a specific way, through working on diet and herbal medicine, as I have explained, acts on the body in a very targeted, not only providing constituents primary as is done in Western medicine, for example through the iron therapy (iron intake by mouth or intravenously), but by stimulating the body's ability to produce action in the complicated blood and internal fluids.

Zoster infection also seems to strike most people between the ages of 50 and 70 years, and further increase over 80 years, with male / female incidence comparable, which confirms the fact that this age group is most certainly one where there is a deficit yin latent.

There are few data on the incidence of infection with herpes simplex and as age and as male / female incidence, this certainly because many infections are not reported and attention is placed solely on sexually transmitted infections and not on infection in itself.

In my experience, clearly, is limited by the number of patients seen and my specialty, I have always deferred a higher incidence of herpes simplex in adults between 20 and 50 years, more frequently in women of the shape applicant labialis than men, and greater incidence of recurrent genital form in males than females. Men were always men of this category which is extremely sensitive emotionally, with a tendency to depressive mood and the women had usually anemic a constitution that accompanied a abitus most emotional fragility.

But what is interesting is how in this case fails all thought of Western medicine with which the virus or microorganism is eradicated and not the recipient organism fortified. In particular, the antiviral drugs are considered which is extremely ineffective in reducing the symptoms of the infection, steroids are often used in the form of shingles are believed to increase the occurrence of postherpetic neuralgia and even that is not stupsice the thought of Chinese medicine, according vacuum in which the heat output remains locked inside just because the drugs failed to give vent to the outside.

Not to mention the ineffectiveness of pain therapy against postherpetic neuralgia, it comes with limited success to prescribe opioids on pain and the risk of developing addiction to the drug. But we well understand how even the thought of Western medicine often offers solutions which are double-edged weapons.

The monoclonal anti-TNF drugs, used in autoimmune diseases, are showing a marked increase in the incidence of herpes zoster and mass vaccination against chickenpox seems to have reduced child mortality from the disease but at the same time have increased the incidence of ' zoster infection as well as make it more virulent, on this subject there are still conflicting information, this is not surprising given also the considerable economic influence that leads to a mass vaccination.

In short, in this Chinese medicine emerges a winner, not only in the prevention of recurrent herpes infections (with acupuncture you can work on the emotional constitution that, as the Chinese say, consumes the energy of the spleen), but also through the fortification the diet therapy and herbal medicine, acupuncture, and finally with the cupping is possible to release the heat trapped inside and quickly and effectively improve the painful symptoms of shingles, both during the acute phase and in the aftermath.

Although few know it, and he speaks little about these diseases, in particular, shows the effectiveness of ancient Chinese medicine has shown is certainly superior to any therapy or constructed of synthetic genetic engineering.

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Tags: post herpetic pain , herpes , Chinese medicine , morfinosimili , opiates , Zoster

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