If shingles is in the stage of occurrence, or the inflammatory reaction is in the stage of obvious, eating mutton has some influence. Because mutton is a high-calorie food, if you eat mutton may induce the inflammation of herpes zoster to worsen, or even lead to herpes zoster inflammation to be prolonged. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, herpes zoster belongs to the damp-heat fumigation, or damp-heat stagnation type, so you can’t eat mutton during the inflammatory reaction stage. Because mutton belongs to the fishy and stinky hair category, so you can not eat mutton. If herpes zoster has been cured, at most only sequelae stage, such as herpes zoster formed by the sequelae of neuralgia can eat mutton, this time to eat mutton to play a certain role in dredging the blood. So from the perspective of Chinese medicine can eat mutton, for shingles recovery is helpful.