Herpes zoster can usually be painful on the day of its onset, some patients start to have pain before the rash appears, and some patients do not have pain for the first 2-3 days and start to have pain from the 4th-5th day, with some itching but no pain. The main reason for the onset of shingles is the chickenpox virus that was latent in the body when you had chickenpox as a child or in the past, and when you encounter a fire or stress or strain that causes the body to lose resistance, this virus comes out and invades the nerves, causing inflammation and pain in the nerves, which is called shingles, known as serpentine sores in Chinese medicine. There are various treatments for shingles, and as a traditional treatment, the common method is usually drugs, i.e. anti-viral drugs and nerve-nourishing drugs, which are more effective for the common shingles. For intractable herpes zoster, it can be treated with Chinese medicine, especially acupuncture methods, mainly acupuncture Yanglingquan and Tianshu, or painful localized selected nerve root points and pinch points. You can choose the general method, namely bloodletting therapy, after doing acupuncture with bloodletting therapy, choose the patient’s most painful point to buckle on the fire pot, prick blood cupping, most of the results are better. For patients with poorer results, lidocaine plus Micropoin can be injected at the acupuncture point, usually to the pinched spine point or the more obvious area of pain, which is more effective and has fewer side effects.