Shingles can be treated with cupping. Herpes zoster in western medicine is equivalent to snake sores in traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture can be used to treat this disease, but it needs to be operated by a professional physician, not self-operation. The method of cupping is also known as blood cupping, in the local disinfection, with three-pronged needle, thick millimetre needle and other puncture bleeding or skin needle percussion bleeding, and then in the bleeding part of the cupping, canning, in order to strengthen the effect of blood cupping treatment method. When treating snake sores, three-pronged needles can be used to puncture the herpes and the surrounding fire cupping. It should be noted that people with serious blood diseases, such as thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, hemophilia, are forbidden to use the method of cupping; severe diabetes should be used with caution; not on the large blood vessels for cupping. The appearance of herpes zoster should be timely medical treatment, please physician operation treatment, not by themselves piercing cupping.