Herpes is a common viral skin disease caused by viral infections, mainly erythema, blistering, severe exudate and significant pain. It is a common viral skin infection that occurs in people with low resistance, children and the elderly. The elderly should seek medical examination in a timely manner, and after diagnosis, it can generally be cured by medication. Antiviral drugs such as acyclovir, famciclovir and famciclovir are commonly used in clinical practice. Acyclovir is the drug of choice for the treatment of herpes virus infections, and it is more effective when given intravenously, but it is easy to develop resistance; valacyclovir can effectively treat herpes zoster with good efficacy, and if there are symptoms of fever, it should also be treated to reduce fever; herpes simplex infection of the skin mucosa and acute herpes zoster in immunodeficient patients can be treated with famciclovir, which is more effective. For patients with postherpetic neuralgia, sedative painkillers such as gabapentin or pregabalin are available, but there are more adverse reactions to these drugs and they need to be used as prescribed by the doctor. In addition to western medicine treatment, herpes can also be improved by Chinese medicine treatment, mainly by using different formulas according to clinical evidence, such as gentian diarrhea liver pill, cool blood dihuang soup, and de-humidification stomach ling soup, etc., which have more obvious effects. In addition, common acupuncture and fire acupuncture can also be used to assist in the treatment.