Natural Herbal Remedies For Treating Shingles Infection
By bafolabi7
Shingles is a viral infection of the nerves that serve your skin tissues caused by the Herpes Zoster virus. If you get Chicken Pox as a child or received a vaccination for it, after you recover, the virus stays dormant in your body for years. Shingles can be a very distressing and quite painful infection and occurs when the virus is re-activated in adulthood.


Shingles cannot be cured with any drugs at present, but the symptoms can be treated to give relief.

An alternative treatment to conventional medicine is homeopathy. To treat shingles, you need to find a herbal preparation that produces similar effects to those the Shingles infection causes (and there are many variations) and take the remedies in small and very dilute doses.

Homeopathic Shingles remedies are not harmful and do not interfere with other (conventional medical) treatments. For more serious types of shingles such as shingles of the eye or other sensitive tissues, you should always consult your doctor.

How to use Homeopathic Remedies to treat Shingles.

Many people have found homeopathic remedies to work where conventional medicine has failed. While most conventional medicines have lots of side effects and contraindications, natural remedies, especially homeopathic ones are so dilute they have few if any.

To choose a homeopathic remedy for your shingles attacks you dont go about it the same way as in conventional medicine. In western medicine, you look for a treatment or drug that counteracts the ailment e.g. a pain killer.

In on the othe hand, you would draw up a list of the effects of shingles you are experiencing. Next, you would get a table of shingles remedies and choose the one that matches most closely the symptoms you are suffering.

Next, try the remedy

and if it does not work rapidly, change it to another remedy whose effects match your symptoms more closely.

Some of the advantages of homeopathic remedies for shingles are that because they are so diluted
a) there is no chance of getting an overdose and
b) they don't clash with any other treatments you may be receiving.

In homeopathy, there are certain things you need to do if you want your treatment to be effective. The main ones to remember are that you need to ensure that your mouth is quite clean before and after you take your remedy; Don't drink or eat for an hour before or after and don't touch the remedy or allow it to get contaminated.

If your shingles remedy doesn't work it usually means you have not identified the correct one to use in which case you need to find another one that matches your symptoms better.

The best option is to find a trained homeopathic doctor but this may not always be possible.

One example of a natural shingles remedy you can use is Arsenicum Album. This has been found useful for these symptoms of shingles:
�Intense burning pain that is relieved by warmth or hot applications.
�Shingles that leads to great restlessness and anxiety especially late at night or midnight.
�Blisters that join or merge together.
�Sufferers get tired quickly after any activities.
�Skin has red, burning lesions that are relieved by warmth and get worse at night
�Sufferer may develop and unreasonable conviction and fear they are going to die.
�Person suffers from extreme thirstiness but only takes small sips of water at any one time.

You can use Arsenicum Album three to four times a day. You should stop using it when the condition improves.

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