Herpes can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Herpes is mainly caused by herpes virus, which is recognized by TCM as being caused by fire, fire-heat toxicity, but also by fire-heat in the liver meridian or damp-heat in the stomach meridian. For stomach meridian wet fire can be treated by taking stomach ling soup, which is mainly through the identification of traditional Chinese medicine, if the herpes is bigger and contains more water, most of them are caused by stomach meridian wet heat, you can also take stomach ling soup. For dry herpes, small red spots can be treated by taking Gentian Diarrhea and Liver Tang or Pill of Clearing Heat and Resolving Toxins, or Tao Ren Si Wu Tang, etc. For the surface of herpes, external application of Liushen Pill can be applied (crushed and applied externally), or Ruyi Jinhuang San can also be used externally.