Treatment of herpes zoster with home remedies.

If you suffer from herpes zoster or have a family member who suffers from this disease, you should read this article because to do so you will be able to know and to choose a treatment of herpes zoster with natural remedies.

Herpes zoster, commonly called shingles, is caused by the same virus of chicken pox that has not disappeared from the body. For the treatment of herpes zoster home remedies are indicated by their low impact on side effects.

How to recognize herpes zoster?

Usually, this virus arises when our immune system is weakened or when we are exposed to high stress situations.

The symptoms are characterized by the appearance of blisters with liquid clear, causing pain in the skin and itching, headache and general discomfort. The patient tends to think that you it's a flu.

Rash develops on the lines of the nerves on top of the ribs, arms or neck. When the blisters mature, they burst and crust, and finally heal.

Herpes zoster can leave a very serious sequel called postherpetic neuralgia. It is characterized by severe pain in the area affected by the virus which is very difficult to calm with medication. The condition can be extended up to two years.

Treatment of herpes zoster. Several natural remedies.

The doctor will say that there is no specific treatment to cure this disease, but yes, you can apply different natural solutions that will help you decrease the symptoms (that are often painful and annoying).

1) Tea tree oil: make a mix of three oil drops of tree tea and three of bergamot in a cup of cold water. You wet a piece of cotton in the mixture and put it on the area affected by way of compress: it will greatly relieve pain and help dry the blisters, to quicker healing.

2) Black nightshade plant: this is a quite effective plant for herpes zoster, home remedy par excellence. Black nightshade plant contains a protein that inhibits the virus causing herpes zoster which has been proven in recent research.

If you crush leaves and fruits, you get a paste that is placed directly on the sores. This paste, in addition to accelerating the drying of the blisters, relieves pain and itching.

Treatment of herpes zoster with nightshade

3) Aloe Vera: the healing properties of Aloe Vera are much known, so it is not surprising that also serve to cure shingles. You simply apply aloe Vera crystals in the area where you have the blisters several times a day, for as long as needed. Ulcers they better scarring, and will not be brands.

4) Baking soda bath: you must pour in the tub a cup of bicarbonate previously dissolved in water. It is a treatment of herpes zoster that will relieve you itching.

5) Emulsion of olive oil and leaves of the plant hawkweed oxtongue: you must cook in a saucepan of stainless steel (not mud) a litre of oil olive, 200 g of beeswax, a glass of red wine and 20 fresh leaves of the plant hawkweed oxtongue for 45 minutes, remove with a wooden spoon. You fold fire emulsion and pass this mixture into glass jars. You apply in the affected area.

What else you can do to cure herpes zoster?

You make changes to your diet, avoiding foods with a high content of arginine as peanuts and nuts and include foods rich in lysine as milk, yogurt and cheese. When you eat gelatin you are prone to suffer from herpes by the high content of arginine of this food, if you are infected and have weakened immune systems. Lysine is an amino acid that prevents the development of the virus that causes shingles. Arginine is an amino acid that leads to the development of the virus.

In general you should strengthen your immune system eating well, avoiding stress, tobacco and alcohol consumption. The treatment of herpes zoster is up to you.