There are many treatments for postherpetic neuralgia in both Western and Chinese medicine. Western medicine mainly focuses on nourishing local nerves, and can take oral or static nerve nourishing drugs, such as vitamin B, including B1 and B12, and local physiotherapy, such as microwave, ultraviolet light, phototherapy, etc. In Chinese medicine, there are oral tonics, but it depends on the patient’s symptomatology, and different prescriptions are used. The overall effect of acupuncture is to activate the blood and qi and relieve pain, and acupuncture, which is now used more often, can be treated with fire acupuncture, cupping and other methods, or local use of homemade creams, for postherpetic neuralgia is also effective.