Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful, burning skin rash. The rash can appear red, dark pink, dark brown, or purplish, depending on the skin tone. Shingles typically occurs on one side of the body.
Cause of shingles infections is varicella-zoster virus, which is the same virus that causes chickenpox. If not treated Homeopathically even after the chickenpox infection is over (with allopathic treatment), the virus remains dormant or inactive in patient’s nervous system for years before reactivating as shingles. It means that shingles is a reactivation of chickenpox, this reactivation generally occurs because of a dip in the immune system due to aging, exposure to other diseases, and/or some allopathic medication (specially immunosuppressants).
Shingles is also referred to as herpes zoster. This type of viral infection is characterized by a red skin rash that can cause pain and burning. Shingles usually appears as a stripe of blisters on one side of the body, typically on the torso, neck, or face.
Unfortunately, with allopathic treatment most cases of shingles dormant within 3 to 5 weeks and approximately 20-30% people will have shingles again or several time in their life.
Is shingles contagious?
The varicella-zoster virus that causes both chickenpox and shingles is airborne. It can spread if someone with shingles or chickenpox coughs or sneezes near you or shares your drinking glass or eating utensils. Shingles’s virous is only contagious to people who have not had chickenpox, or they received the varicella (chickenpox) allopathic vaccine.
If patient has internal shingles, the VZV virus may be transmitted through droplets that exit one’s lungs Source when he/she breathes, but more research is needed. Shingles in rash form is transmitted by direct contact with the fluid oozing from the blisters.
Internal Shingles
Shingles typically causes blisters and rashes on the skin. In rare cases, you may experience other symptoms without a rash. This is referred to as “internal shingles” or zoster sine herpete (ZSH).
Symptoms of internal shingles
Internal shingles shares many symptoms with shingles on the skin, including:
- pain,
- muscle aches,
- numbness and tingling,
- muscle weakness,
- itching and burning sensations,
- swelling of the lymph nodes,
Shingles can cause a painful rash (varicella zoster) and be associated with other, more extensive conditions, such as:
- weakness in facial muscles (Bell’s palsy),
- hearing loss or pain in the ear (Ramsay Hunt syndrome)
Sometimes the rash is hidden (as in an ear canal) or not present at all. Some additional symptoms of internal shingles may include chest pain and headaches.
Remember, internal shingles does not cause the rash commonly seen with shingles. Without the telltale rash, diagnosing internal shingles can be difficult, or it may be overlooked.
Complications of internal shingles
Internal shingles symptoms may vary depending on which body system is most affected. This may include: 
- eyes,
- ears,
- nervous system,
- throat,
- stomach,
- lungs,
- brain.
📢 When shingles affects internal organs, it’s a serious complication that requires urgent medical attention.
Postherpetic neuralgia
Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is the most common complication of internal shingles. It affects up to 1 in 5 people with shingles. During a shingles outbreak, the nerve fibers where the virus has been dormant become inflamed. This leads to abnormal transmission of neural impulses, resulting in pain.
Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is when this pain persists after the infection has resolved.
The patients with internal shingles experienced higher levels of postherpetic neuralgic (PHN) pain and required more opioid therapy than those with external shingles. In serious cases, postherpetic neuralgic (PHN) may lead to long-term complications in the brain, as well as anxiety and depression.
Getting the shingles vaccine especially Homeopathic (see in Homeopathic treatment) and early treatment during a shingles outbreak may help prevent PHN.
Eye complications
Shingles can affect the nerves of the face. A branch of one of these nerves includes the eye. Research suggests that eye complications related to shingles have tripled in a 12-year period, most cases are the side effect of new invented vaccines, injury of the eye or cornea, as well as significant inflammation in or around the eye. Patients with shingles or “internal” shingles may develop corneal abrasions.
Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Ramsay Hunt syndrome occurs when varicella zoster virous reactivates within one of the facial nerves responsible for hearing. This may lead to hearing loss, facial paralysis, and general facial pain. It might also result in severe ear pain, and people with internal shingles may also develop lesions in the ear canal.
Other organ systems
In rare cases, internal shingles may affect other organs and lead to life threatening complications, for example:
- encephalitis,
- meningitis,
- vasculopathy (viral infection of the arteries),
- stroke.
Symptoms of external or classic shingles
The first symptoms of classic shingles are usually pain and burning. The pain is typically on one side of the body, and along a certain area of the skin called a dermatome, sometimes a red rash follows. Depending on skin tone, the rash can appear dark pink, dark brown, or purplish. Shingles can result in complications such as vision problems, hearing loss, and rarely encephalitis (inflammation).
The characterizations of a shingles rash include:
- rash that appears on one side of the body,
- a rash on face and ears,
- itchiness,
- fluid-filled blisters that break easily,
- burning sensation. 
Some patients with shingles experience symptoms beyond pain and rash, these symptoms may include:
- fever,
- chills,
- headache,
- fatigue,
- muscle weakness.
Complications
Rare and serious complications of shingles include:
- Pain or rash that involves an eye (should be treated immediately to avoid permanent eye damage),
- Loss of hearing or intense pain in one ear, dizziness, or loss of taste on tongue, which can be symptoms of Ramsay Hunt syndrome and also require immediate treatment,
- Bacterial infection characterized by skin that’s red, swollen, or warm to the touch
Shingles on face
Shingles usually occurs on one side of back or chest, but one can also get a rash on one side of face. If the rash is close to or in the ear, it can cause an infection that could lead to:
- loss of hearing,
- issues with balance (CNS),
- weakness in facial muscles.
Shingles inside the mouth can be very painful. It may be difficult to eat and may affect patient’s sense of taste.
A shingles rash on scalp can cause sensitivity when one comb or brush hair. Without treatment, shingles on the scalp can lead to permanent bald patches.
Shingles of the eye
The shingles rash can appear anywhere on the body but classically follows dermatomes. The classic shingles band rash follows a dermatome very closely. For some patients, shingles occurs in and around the eye. This is referred to as ophthalmic herpes zoster.
A blistering rash may appear on eyelids, forehead, and sometimes the tip or side of nose.
Patient may experience symptoms like:
- burning or throbbing in eye,
- redness and tearing,
- swelling,
- blurred vision.
After the rash disappears, patient may still have pain in eye due to nerve damage. Without proper treatment, shingles of the eye can lead to serious problems, including long-term vision loss and permanent scarring due to swelling of the cornea
Shingles on the back
While shingles rashes usually develop around one side of waistline, a stripe of blisters may appear along one side of back or lower back.
Shingles on the buttocks
Shingles usually only affects one side of the body, so one may have a rash on one buttock but not the other.
As with other areas of the body, shingles on the buttocks may cause initial symptoms like tingling, itching, or pain. After a few days, a red rash or blisters may develop. Some people experience pain but don’t develop a rash.
Most shingles cases last from 3 to 5 weeks. After the varicella-zoster virus initially reactivates, patient’s skin may:
- tingle,
- burn,
- feel numb,
- itch.
Within about 5 days, patient may see a red rash in that area. Small groups of oozing, fluid-filled blisters may appear a few days later in the same area. Patient may experience flu-like symptoms such as a fever, headache, or fatigue.
During the next 10 days or so, the blisters will dry up and form scabs. The scabs will clear after a couple of weeks. After the scabs clear, some people continue to experience pain. This is called postherpetic neuralgia.
Who’s at risk for shingles?
Shingles can occur in anyone who has had chickenpox. However, certain factors put people at an increased risk of developing shingles, these include:
- being 60 years or older,
- having conditions that weaken your immune system, such as HIV or cancer,
- having had chemotherapy or radiation treatment,
- taking medications that weaken your immune system, such as steroids or allopathic medications given after an organ transplant,
- having had shingles before which was not treated (dormant).
Doctors usually diagnose shingles by examining rashes and blisters, ask your patient about his/her medical history.
In rare instances, patient may need to test a sample of his/her skin or the fluid from the blisters (using a sterile swab to collect a sample of tissue or fluid).
Shingles allopathic treatment
Shingles is underrecognized for allopathic doctors, no specific treatment guidelines set it apart from typical shingles management. An allopathic doctor may prescribe medications to ease symptoms and shorten the length of the infection for example:
Medication
The medications prescribed to treat shingles vary, but may include the following:
| Type | Purpose | Drug frequency | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| antiviral medications, including acyclovir, valacyclovir, and famciclovir | to reduce pain and speed recovery | 2 to 5 times daily, as prescribed by your doctor | oral |
| anti-inflammatory drugs, including ibuprofen | to ease pain and swelling | every 6 to 8 hours | oral |
| narcotic medications or pain relievers | to reduce pain | likely to be prescribed once or twice daily | oral |
| anticonvulsants or tricyclic antidepressants | to treat prolonged pain | once or twice daily | oral |
| antihistamines, such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl) | to treat itching | every 8 hours | oral |
| numbing creams, gels, or patches, such as lidocaine | to reduce pain | applied as needed | topical |
| capsaicin (Zostrix) {a Homeopathic medicine} | to help reduce the risk of a nerve pain called postherpetic neuralgia, which occurs after recovery from shingles | applied as needed | topical |
Shingles Homeopathic Treatment
Homeopathic Vaccines
Vaccine is Homeopathic medicine not allopathic, said Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS.
Vaccine, suspension of weakened, killed, or fragmented microorganisms or toxins or other biological preparation, such as those consisting of antibodies, lymphocytes, or messenger RNA (mRNA), that is administered primarily to prevent disease.
The very first vaccine (According to the world first Materia medica “Pen-Ts’ao” written in 2700BC by orders of king “Shen-Nung”.) experiment did by chines doctors (herbalists/Ayur-Vedas) There are dozens of Homeopathic medicines for smallpox and antivirals beneficial for smallpox.
Here are two Homeopathic vaccines for Varicella family like: Chickenpox, Morbilli/Measles, Herpes Zoster and some Homeopathic anti-viral medicines: 
1. Variolinum
Variolinum 1M/10M or CM for prophylactic and for vaccination purpose – single dose is enough. In 2023 a study published in International Journal of research studies proves efficacy of Variolonum in smallpox, chickenpox, Varicella zoster virus (VZV) and shingles.
Other symptoms are – exanthema of sharp, pointed pimples, usually small, seldom large and suppurating, dry, resting on small red areolae, frequently interspersed with spots of red color, sometimes severe itching. Petechial eruptions. Var. 1m in water every two hours, given on third day of eruption of a confluent case cut short the attack. Shingles.
Fever very severe, commencing with chills running down back like streams of cold water, causing shivering and chattering of teeth. Hot fever with no thirst. Very profuse and bad-smelling sweat.
Prophylactic variolinum-6x is proven by Dr. Burnett.
For treatment 1M or higher Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS.
Note: Never advise Variolinum to the patients with weak immune system especially in lower potencies. Dr. Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS, Is. Jurisprudence.
2. Morbillinium
A good antiviral Homeopathic medicine. As a prophylactic given to those who are, or may be, exposed to infection, I prescribe a dose of the 200th twice or thrice daily (Dr Qaisar Ahmed MDM, DHMS). For an attack of a viral disease, I find nothing better than Morbillinium. 200, eight or ten globules in six ounces of water, a tablespoon every two hours. The effect of this is heightened by giving alternately Belladona in the same way. These two medicines will be sufficient to carry through any uncomplicated case, and in my experience do even better than Pulsatilla. As the viral poison has a great affinity for the mucous passages, the eyes, the ears and the respiratory mucous membranes.
Homeopathic Medicines for shingles
Capsicum Annum
It suits especially persons of lax fiber, weak, with weak immune system, fat, indolent, opposed to physical exertion, averse to go outside of their routine, get homesick easily, general uncleanliness of body.
Inflammation of petrous bone. Burning pains and general chilliness. Older people who have exhausted their vitality, especially by mental work, and poor living; blear-eyed appearance; who do not react. Fear of slightest draught. Marked tendency to suppuration in every inflammatory process. Prostration and feeble digestion of alcoholics. Myalgia, aching and jerking of muscles.
Burning and stinging in ears, swelling and pain behind ears – herpes zoster. Inflammation of mastoid. Otorrhea and mastoid disease. Hot feeling in throat, nose, in urinary tract, in rectum. Smarting and constriction. Inflamed uvula and palate; swollen and relaxed. Herpes labialis. Stomatitis. Disagreeable smell from mouth.
Cantharis
Dermatitis with bled formation. Secondary eczema following excessive perspiration. Tendency to gangrene. Eruption with mealy scales. Vesicular eruptions, with burning and itching. Sunburn. Burns, scalds, with rawness and smarting, followed by undue inflammation. Erysipelas, vesicular type, with great restlessness. Burning in soles of feet at night. Fever. Cold hands and feet; cold sweat. Soles burn. Chill.
Natrium Sulphuricum
Itching while undressing. Jaundiced, watery blisters. Sycotic excrescences; wart-like red lumps all over body. Monkeypox.
Aconitum Napellus
Amaurosis, Anger, Apoplexy, Asthma, Bronchitis, Catalepsy, Catheter fever, Chest affections, Chickenpox, Monkeypox, Smallpox, Enteritis, Erythema nodosum, Excitement, Eye affections, Face flushing. Fear and its effects. Glands swollen. Glossitis. Hodgkin’s disease. Hyperpyrexia. Influenza. Jaundice.
Measles, Miliaria, Mumps, Esophagus inflammation, Pleurisy, Puerperal fever. Purpura. Quinsy. Remittent fever. Roseola. Scarlatina. Shivering. Sleeplessness, Tetanus. Tetany. Thirst. Throat affections. Tongue/mouth affections, Traumatic fever. Urethra, spasmodic stricture, Urethral fever. Urine, suppression of. Uterus prolapsus. Vaccination side effects, Yawning. Yellow fever.
Bryonia Alba
Bryonia should be advise in first stag; Symptoms are: Aphthae. Apoplexy. Asthma. Bilious attack. Breast, inflamed. Bronchitis. Cancer, Chlorosis. Constipation. Consumption. Coryza. Cough.
Eczema. Enteric fever. Eruptions. Gastroenteritis. Hemorrhages. Hands, swollen. Headache. Heart inflammation. Influenza. Intermittent fevers. Jaundice. Joints, pain in. Lactation, Liver malfunctioning.
Lumbago. Measles, Monkeypox, Smallpox, Scarlatina, Pleurisy, Suppressed eruptions and their bad effects. Meningitis. Menstruation, vicarious. Miliaria. Milk fever. Myalgia. Nephritis. Nosebleed. Peritonitis. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Pleurodynia.
Morning cough, Puerperal fever. Pyuria. Relapsing fever. Remittent fever. Rheumatism. Screaming. Side, pain in. Sleep, anxious dreams in. Spina bifida. Stiff neck. Thirst. Tongue, coated. Toothache. Trachea, pain in. Vertigo. Waking, starts and screams on. Water-brash. Whooping-cough. Yellow fever.
Apis Melifistida
Abscess, Apoplexy. Carbuncle. Chancre. Dissection wounds. Dropsy. Erysipelas. Erythema nodosum. Eyes affections; optic neuritis. Feet burning. Gangrene. Hands swelling. Injuries. Intermittent fever. Irritation. Labial inflammation.
Punctured wounds. Scarlatina, Monkeypox, Smallpox. Self-abuse. Suppressed eruptions and their effects. Sycosis. Syphilis. Throat, sore. Tongue edema; ulceration of. Trachea, irritation of. Tumors. Typhus. Urethritis. Vaccination. Varicose veins. Variola. Wounds.
Vaccinum
Vaccine poison is capable of setting up a morbid state of extreme chronicity, named by Burnett Vaccinosis, symptoms like those of Hahnemann’s Sycosis. Neuralgias, inveterate skin eruptions, chilliness, indigestion with great flatulent distension. Irritable, impatient ill-humored, nervous.
Inflamed and red lids. Skin hot and dry. Pimples and blotches. Eruption like variola.
Crotalus Horridus
Swelling and discoloration, skin tense and shows every tint of color, with excruciating pain. Vesication. Sallow. Yellow color of the whole body. Great sensitiveness of skin of right half of body. Purpura hemorrhagic. Hemorrhage from every part of body. Bloody sweat. Chilblains, felons. Dissecting wounds. Pustular eruptions. Insect stings. Post-vaccination eruptions. Bad effects of vaccination. Lymphangitis and septicemia. Boils, carbuncles, and eruptions are surrounded by purplish, mottled skin and oedema. Anthrax. Sore sensation relieved by pressure.
Baptisia
Great burning and heat in skin; Livid spots over body and limbs. Eruption like measles or urticaria. Confluent smallpox, Monkeypox, tardy eruption. Foul, gangrenous, eating syphilitic sores.
Sarracenia
Polyctenid herpes. Psoriasis. Scrofulous eruptions. Variola; (the decoction taken when eruption is out and beginning to pustulate aborts secondary fever and prevents pitting). Monkeypox.
Eruption out, pustules dissipate, first on face, fever lessens, urine though scanty and dark becomes abundant and pale, strength returns. Eruptions similar to crusta lactea; on forehead and hands papular eruptions, changing to vesicular, with the depression as in smallpox lasting from seven to eight days.
Hydrastis Canadensis
Small-pox internally and locally. The power of Hydrastis over smallpox seen in modifying the disease, abolishing its distressing symptoms, shortening its course, lessening its danger and greatly mitigating its consequences.
Petroleum
Petroleum acts on sweat and oil glands. Burning pain, itching, redness, excoriation, and oozing, or itching pimples and tatters. Weakness and nervous irritability after coition. Reddish eruption on glans, with itching. Herpes zoster, shingles.
In female patients, Catamenia too early, with a menstrual flux which excites itching. Leucorrhea like egg white, Leucorrhea with lascivious dreams. During pregnancy diarrheas and vomiting. Itching and furfur on the mammie; the nipples itch and have a mealy coating.
Nitric ascidium
Skin dryness, Itching nettle-rash. Blackness of pores, brown spacelabs, reddish brown spots and deep-colored aphelia on skin. Copper or violet-colored spots. Itching titters, pimples, or exanthema in general; stinging exanthema, corns on feet with pain. Herpes zoster or shingles. Large furunculi. Mercurial ulcers. Carious ulcers with burning pains (especially when they are touched) and bleed easily.
Condyloma moist, like cauliflower, hard, rhagade, or in thin pedicles. Tightness of skin. Swelling of glands, warts, wens.
Male Sexual Organs:
Violent itching in genital organs, falling off of hair from parts, excoriation between scrotum and thighs.
Red spots covered with scabs on prepuce. Small, itching vesicles on prepuce, bursting soon and forming a scurf. Secretion behind glans, as in gonorrhoeic Bolani. Swelling, inflammation of prepuce, and phimosis. Para phimosis. Ulcers, like Cancers (after Mercury; especially with exuberant granulations), on prepuce and glans (with pricking, stinging pains).
Deep, fistulous, irregular, ragged ulcers on the glans, with elevated, lead-colored, extremely sensitive edges. Syphilis; secondary syphilis. Excrescences, like sycosis, on prepuce and glans, with smarting pain and bleeding when touched, with oozing of a fetid and sweetish pus. Red, scurfy spots on the corona glandes. Herpes zoster, shingles.
Relaxation of testes. Inflammatory swelling of testes, with painful drawing of the spermatic cord, as far as side of abdomen. 
Absence of sexual desire and of erections. Great lasciviousness, with copious discharge of prostatic fluid. Painful, and almost spasmodic, nocturnal erections. Frequent nocturnal emissions.
Female Sexual Organs:
Itching, burning pain, and sensation of dryness in vulva, great failing off genital hairs. Stitches up vagina, or from without inward, when walking in open air. Violent stitches in vagina. Excoriations in vulva between thighs, Ulcer, with burning itching in vagina. Excrescences on vaginal portion of uterus as large as lentils; great voluptuousness of mucous membrane in genitals after coitus. Uterine hemorrhages from overexertion of body. Metrorrhagia, a principal remedy. Coffee-ground, offensive discharge from uterus at climaxes, or after labor.
Hard nodosities on breast. Atrophy of breasts, chapping of the skin, or cracks may extend deeply into the tissues, brown spacelabs, titters, ulcers suppurating, with copious pus. Herpes zoster or shingles. Dry and itching eruptions, like scabies, brown, or vinous, or else reddish, and herpetic spots on skin. Annular desquamation (annular herpes). Moist, scabious herpes, with itching and burning sensation.
Lycopodium Clavatum
Ulcerates. Abscesses beneath skin. Hives; worse, warmth. Violent itching; fissured eruptions. Acne. Herpes zoster or shingles. Chronic eczema associated with urinary, gastric and hepatic disorders, bleeds easily. Skin becomes thick and indurated. Varicose veins, naevi, erectile tumors. Brown spots, freckles worse on left side of face and nose. Dry, shrunken, especially palms; hair becomes prematurely gray. Dropsies. Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration, especially of feet and axilla. Psoriasis.
Sarsaparilla
Herpes and offensive sweat about genitals; the skin lies in folds; eruptions are prone to appear in spring, their base inflamed, the crusts detach readily out of doors, and the adjoining skin becomes chapped.
Emaciated, shriveled, lies in folds, dry, flabby. Herpetic eruptions; ulcers. Rash from exposure to open air; dry, itching; comes on in spring; becomes crusty. Rhagades; skin cracked on hands and feet. Skin hard, indurated. Herpes zoster or shingles. Intolerable stench on genitals. Herpetic eruption on genitals. Itching on scrotum and perineum. Nipples small, withered, retracted. Before menstruation, itching and humid eruption of forehead. Menses late and scanty. Moist eruption in right groin before menses.
Abrotanum
Eruptions come out on face; are suppressed, and the skin becomes purplish. Skin flabby and loose. Furuncles. Falling out of hair. Itching chilblains. Herpes zoster or shingles.
Natrum Muriaticum
Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints. Fever blisters. Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears. Warts on palms of hands. Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed; worse, eating salt, at seashore. Affects hair follicles. Alopecia. Hives, itching after exertion. Greasy skin.
Male Sexual Organs:
Itching, titters, and excoriation between scrotum and thighs. Itching and stinging on glans and scrotum., secretion behind glans, like gonorrhoeic Bolani. Phimosis.
Excessive excitement of genital organs, and of the amative feelings; or dullness of sexual desire. Want of energy during coition. Impotence. Pollutions after coition. Strong fetid odor from genital organs. Hydrocele. Loss of hair from pubes.
Female Sexual Organs:
Prolapses uteri with aching in loins, itching in genital organs, Repugnance to coition – Coition are painful from dryness of vagina; burning smarting during; in anemic women with dry mouth and dry skin.
Leucorrhea – Acrid (greenish) increased discharge when walking. Abundant discharge of transparent, whitish, and thick mucus from vagina.
Vulvitis with falling off of hair. Itching of external parts with falling off of hair. Pimples on mons veneris.
Child refuses breast; nursing sore mouth. Lancinating pains in breasts. Stitches beneath nipples (Breasts sensitive to slightest touch).
Causticum
Herpes zoster or shingles. Soreness in folds of skin, back of ears, between thighs. Warts large, jagged, bleeding easily, on tips of fingers and nose. Old burns that do not get well, and ill effects from burns. Pains of burns. Cicatrices freshen up; old injuries reopen. Skin prone to intertrigo during dentition.
Graphite
Obstinate dryness of the skin, absence of perspiration. Red spots on the skin, like fleabites. Erysipelatous inflammations, vesicular erysipelas, like zona, on the abdomen and on the back. Itching of the varices on the lower limbs. Itching-stinging on the surface of a mole.
Herpes zoster, shingles. Eruptions oozing out a thick honey-like fluid. Titters are humid, scabby eruptions, sometimes with secretion of corrosive serum, or with itching in the evening, and at night. Eruption of pimples and nodules (principally under hair and on covered parts) which itch very much. Swelling and induration of the glands.
Encysted tumors, Corrosive nodules. Excoriation of the skin (in the bends of the limbs, groins, neck, behind the ears), especially in children, Proud flesh, and fetid pus, in ulcers, with tearing pains, burning, and shooting. Scrofulous and syphilitic ulcers. Burning pain in an old cicatrix. Deformity and thickness of the nails.
Male Sexual Organs:
Tension and cramp-like pains in the genital parts, with troublesome voluptuous ideas. Eruption of pimples on the prepuce, and on the penis. Dropsical swelling of the prepuce and the scrotum.
Female Sexual Organs:
Great aversion to coitus. Vesicles and pimples on the vulva, Excoriation on the vulva and between the thighs. Soreness of the vagina. 
Cutting pains on the appearance of the catamenia and during the catamenia, flow of blood from the anus, pains in the limbs, ulcers become worse, swelling of the cheeks or of the feet, catarrh, with hoarseness and coryza, toothache, Painful sensibility and excoriation of the breasts, with eruption of running phlyctenule. Obstruction and induration of the mammary glands. Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess.
Hepar Sulphuricum
Abscesses: suppurating glands are very sensitive. Papules prone to suppurate and extend.
Ulcers/acne in youth. Suppurate with prickly pain, easily bleed. Herpes zoster or shingles. Unhealthy skin: every little injury suppurates. Chapped skin, with deep cracks. Ulcers, with bloody suppuration, smelling like old cheese and are very sensitive to contact, burning, stinging, easily bleeding.
Sweats day and night without relief. “Cold sores” very sensitive, Sticking or pricking in afflicted parts. Putrid ulcers, surrounded by little pimples. Great sensitiveness to slightest touch. Chronic and recurving urticaria. Smallpox. Herpes Cincinnatus. Herpes zoster or shingles. Constant offensive exhalation from the body.
Male:
Herpes, sensitive, bleed easily. Ulcers externally on prepuce similar to chancre. Excitement and emission without amorous fancies. Itching of glans, frenum, and scrotum. Suppurating inguinal glands. Figworts with offensive odor. Humid soreness on genitals and between scrotum and thigh. Obstinate gonorrhea.
Female:
Discharge of blood from uterus. Itching of pudenda and nipples, worse during menses. Menses late and scanty. Abscesses of labia with great sensitiveness. Extremely offensive leucorrhea. Smells like old cheese. Profuse perspiration at the climacteric.
Merc Solubilis
Vesicular and pustular eruptions. Ulcers, irregular in shape, edges undefined. Pimples around the main eruption. Itching, worse from warmth of bed. Crusta lactea; yellowish-brown crusts, considerable suppuration. Herpes zoster or shingles. Glands swell every time patient takes cold. Buboes. Orchitis
Male:
Vesicles and ulcers; soft chancre. Cold genitals. Prepuce irritated, itches. Nocturnal emissions, stained with blood.
Female:
Menses profuse, with abdominal pains. Leucorrhea excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts. Stinging pain in ovaries. Itching and burning; worse, after urinating; better, washing with cold water. Mammie painful and full of milk at menses.
Kreosotum
Skin. Soft, unnatural feel of skin, with pegged teeth. Violent itching all over body, esp. towards evening, and with burning sensation in arms and legs, after scratching. Burning itching at night, and heat over whole body. Nettle-rash. Eruption, like bug-bites, with violent itching esp. in evening. Large, greasy-looking, pox-shaped pustules over whole body. Herpes zoster or shingles. Mealy and pustular, dry or humid titters (on backs of hands and fingers, in palms, on ears, elbows, knuckles, and malleoli), with violent itching in almost every part of body.
Male Sexual Organs:
Burning in genitals (during coition) and impotence. Prepuce bluish black with hemorrhages and gangrene.
Female Sexual Organs:
Premature catamenia, burning in the parts, Dwindling away of mammie, with small, hard, painful lumps in them. Cramp-like pains in external genitals. Excoriation, with smarting pains between genitals and thighs. Shootings in vagina, as if produced by electricity. Voluptuous itching in vagina. Itching in vagina, inducing rubbing in evening, succeeded by smarting, swelling, heat, and induration of external parts, with soreness in vagina when urinating. :max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/VWH_DermNet_Shingles_02-a8b01d5815774d3c894e38cd688dba71.jpg "Skin Infections")
Desire for coition especially in morning, after coition, pain, as of excoriation, and hard knottiness in neck of uterus, or swelling of the genital parts (both male and female) with burning pains (worse in morning than in evening). Herpes zoster or shingles.
After coition discharge of dark blood, the next day. Vaginal Prolapses. Prolapses uteri. Pulling, stitches, and shootings in the mammary glands.
Medorrhinum
Yellowness of ski, Intense and incessant itching (and pricking) all over (back, vagina, labia etc). Fiery red band passing down neck, back, and perineum, and involving genitals and pubes. Fiery red rash about anus in babies the water/wetting scalds it terribly. Herpes zoster or shingles.
Scald-head. Tinea capitis, eyelids involved. Copper-colored spots (syphilitic) remaining after eruptions, thin yellow-brown and detach in scales, leaving skin clear and free. Small pedunculated warts, with pinheads, like small button mushrooms, on various parts of body and thigh. Favus. Fetid odor of body. Pains along urethra while urinating, drawing burning. (Suppressed gonorrhea).
Mezereum
Bones affections, neuralgias. Cutaneous ulcers form over bony protuberances. Liver spots. Contraction of tendons. Red rash, itching violently. Crusta lactea (dry dandruff like crusts in scalp). Ear, affections of; sensitive to air. Erythema. Exostoses. Eyes, affections of. Glands enlarged. Gleet. Skin covered with elevated white scabs. Hematuria. Hernia. Herpes zoster. Miliary eruptions. Irritation. Furunculi. Inflamed ulcers, with burning and shooting, or with gnawing pain. Mercury effects. Neuralgia. Osteoma. Pediculosis. Pityriasis. Vesicles around the ulcers, itching violently and burning. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Syphilis. Tinea capitis. Tinea versicolor. herpes on tongue, swelling of. Ulcers. Vaccination side effects.
Alumen
Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and mammary glands. Chronic yellow vaginal discharge. Chronic gonorrhea, yellow, with little lumps along urethra. Aphthous patches in vagina. Menses watery.
Herpes zoster or shingles. Ulcers, with indurated base. To be thought of in indurated glands, epithelioma, etc; veins become varicose and bleed. Herpes zoster or shingles. Indurations resulting from long-continued inflammatory irritations. Glands inflame and harden. Alopecia, Scrotal eczema and on back of penis.
Sulphur
Skin dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates. Freckles. Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing. Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hangnails. Excoriation, especially in folds. Herpes zoster or shingles. Feeling of a band around bones. Skin affections after local medication. Pruritus, especially from warmth, in evening, often recurs in spring and in damp weather.
Thuja Occidentalis
Polypi, tubercles, warts epithelioma, naevi, carbuncles; ulcers, especially in Ano-genital region. Freckles and blotches. Perspiration sweetish, and strong. Dry skin, with brown spots. Zona; herpetic eruptions. Tearing pains in glands. Glandular enlargement. Nails crippled; brittle and soft. Eruptions only on covered parts; worse after scratching. Very sensitive to touch. Coldness of one side. Sarcoma; polypi. Brown spots on hands and arms.
Arsenicum Album
Itching, burning, swellings; oedema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds. Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. Psoriasis. Scirrhous. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma of the skin. Gangrenous inflammations.
Lachesis Mutus
Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance. Boils, carbuncles, ulcers, with bluish, purple surroundings. Dark blisters. Bed-sores, with black edges. Blue-black swellings. Pyemia; dissecting wounds. Purpura, with intense prostration. Senile erysipelas. Wens. Cellulitis. Varicose ulcers.
Rhus Toxicodendron
Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance. Boils, carbuncles, ulcers, with bluish, purple surroundings. Dark blisters. Bed-sores, with black edges. Blue-black swellings. Pyemia; dissecting wounds. Purpura, with intense prostration. Senile erysipelas. Wens. Cellulitis. Varicose ulcers.
Anacardium Orientale
Intense itching, eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; swelling, urticaria; eruption. Lichen planus; neurotic eczema. Warts on hands. Ulcer formation on forearm.
Xerophyllum
Erythema, with vesication and intense itching, stinging, and burning. Blisters, little lumps. Skin rough and cracked; feels like leather. Dermatitis, especially around knees. Inflammation resembling poison-oak. Inguinal glands and behind knee swollen.
Grindelia Robusta
Rash, like roseola, with severe burning and itching. Vesicular and papular eruptions. Herpes zoster. Itching and burning. Ulcers, with swollen, purplish skin.
Croton Tiglium
Feels hide-bound. Intense itching: but scratching is painful. Pustular eruption, especially on face and genitals, with fearful itching, followed by painful burning. Vesicles; confluent oozing. Vesicular erysipelas, itching exceedingly. Herpes zoster; stinging, smarting pains of the eruption.
Borax
Skin difficult to heal; dingy, unhealthy-looking skin; every injury tends to ulceration. Erysipelatous inflammations, with swelling and tension of the part affected, and fever. Erysipelatous inflammation on the lower leg, with chilliness, followed by heaviness and pulsation in the head; later, bleeding of the nose. Tendency of old wounds to suppurate. Whitish pimples, with red areola. Herpetic eruptions. Purulent and phagedenic vesicles.
Sepia Officianalis
Herpes circinate in isolated spots. Itching; not relieved by scratching; worse in bends of elbows and knees. Chloasma; herpetic eruption on lips, about mouth and nose. Ringworm-like eruption every spring. Urticaria on going in open air; better in warm room. Hyperidrosis and bromhidrosis. Sweat on feet, worse on toes, intolerable odor. Lentigo in young women. Ichthyosis with offensive odor of skin.
Antimuonium Crudum
Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Urticaria; measle-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. Warts. Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.
Antimuonium Tartaricum
Pustular eruption, leaving a bluish-red mark. Smallpox. Warts. Fever: Coldness, trembling, and chilliness. Intense temperature. Copious perspiration. Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness. Intermittent fever with lethargic condition.
Anthracinum
best in epidemic spleen diseases, septic inflammation, carbuncles and malignant ulcers, boils and boil-like eruptions, acne. Terrible burning. Induration of cellular tissue, abscess, bubo, and all inflammation of connective tissue in which there exists a purulent focus.
Tissues: Hemorrhages, black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing, from any orifice. Glands swollen, cellular tissues edematous and indurated. Septicemia. Ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning. Erysipelas. Black and blue blisters. Dissecting wounds. Bad effects from inhaling foul odors. Gangrenous parotitis. Succession of boils. Gangrene. Foul secretions.
Belladona
Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth. Eruption like scarlatina or chickenpox, suddenly spreading. Erythema; pustules. Glands swollen, tender, red. Boils. Acne rosacea. Suppurative wounds. Alternate redness and paleness of the skin. Indurations after inflammations. Erysipelas.
Fever: A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxemia. Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy cold. Superficial blood-vessels, distended. Perspiration dries only on head. No thirst with fever.
Shingles home remedies
Home treatment can help ease your shingles symptoms; these remedies include:
- taking cool baths or showers to clean and soothe your skin
- applying wet cold compresses to the rash to reduce pain and itching
- applying calamine lotion or making a paste with water and baking soda or cornstarch to reduce itching
- eating foods with vitamin A, vitamin B12, vitamin C, and vitamin E
- taking Homeopathic and/or allopathic L-lysine supplements to strengthen immune system.
Shingles complications
While shingles can be painful and bothersome on its own, in case of allopathic treatment it’s important to monitor patient’s symptoms for potential complications:
- Eye damage can occur if patient has a rash or blister too close to the eye. The cornea is particularly vulnerable.
- Bacterial skin infections can easily occur from open blisters and can be severe.
- Pneumonia is possible.
- Ramsay Hunt syndrome can occur if shingles affects the nerves in your head and can result in partial facial paralysis or hearing loss if untreated.
- Brain or spinal cord inflammation, such as encephalitis or meningitis, is possible. These complications are serious and could be life threatening if not treated Homeopathically.
P. S: This article is only for doctors and students having good knowledge about Homeopathy and allopathy.
For proper consultation and treatment, please visit our clinic.
None of above-mentioned medicine(s) is/are the full/complete treatment but just hints for treatment; every patient has his/her own constitutional medicine.
Dr. Sayyad Qaisar Ahmed (MD {Ukraine}, DHMS), Abdominal Surgeries, Oncological surgeries, Gastroenterologist, Specialist Homeopathic Medicines.
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