Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Homepathic Treatment For Shingles

Homeopathic treatment for shingles


Shingles is a condition that comes from the same virus that causes chickenpox at a young age. It can cause a lot of skin pain and various other related difficulties. There are multiple homeopathic remedies that may help to lessen the effects of the condition. Keep in mind that many homeopathic remedies are not supported by scientific studies, and homeopathy as a whole is often not supported by doctors. Consult a doctor or a homeopathic practitioner when trying any new substance.


Homeopathic Remedies for Shingles


Arsenicum is a homeopathic treatment for people who are suffering from shingles and who have the symptoms of being restless or anxious, feeling cold and exhaustion when running a fever. Other symptoms that call for this remedy are blisters and eruptions of burning pain on the skin that can only be stopped with heat and a worsening of symptoms at night, especially in the wee hours of the morning.


Apis is used for shingles when the blisters erupt on the skin followed by burning, stinging and intense itching. Your symptoms are typically soothed by cold and aggravated by warmth; you fresh air in the outdoors, and you are very sensitive to touch.


Iris versicolor is used when the shingles symptoms include problems in the stomach, burning skin sensations and nausea. Blisters form very painfully on the right abdomen.


Lastly, rhus tox is used best by individuals with a skin rash that includes small, red, extremely itchy blisters. Your symptoms are often soothed with hot water in baths and you may feel extremely restless and antsy.


Chickenpox Homeopathic Remedies


There are two homeopathic remedies typically used for chickenpox which may help since the virus that causes shingles is the same one that causes chickenpox. Pulsatilla is used in children with chickenpox who have itchiness that can only be solved by scratching; a burning, crawling, biting sensation that is aggravated by heat; and, possibly, a thick yellow discharge from the nose and eye area. The children may be cranky and whiny and may demand attention and sympathy.








Sulphur is used when the skin is affected by itching marks that are prone to bleeding when scratched. These marks may throb and may be accompanied by hunger, lethargy and worsened conditions under hot weather, especially around 11 a.m.


Related Symptoms


There are a few homeopathic remedies that attack specific symptoms of the condition. Rununculus bulbosus helps with nerve pain and itching. Mezereum can ease pain after blisters have disappeared. Lachesis is used to reduce the feelings of stinging and swelling when the symptoms are soothed by cold and aggravated by warmth. Clematis erecta is effective with neuralgic pain in various parts of the body and may help for more throbbing pains. See a licensed homeopathic doctor to ensure that your dosage and medication are appropriate for your symptoms.

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