Herpes zoster, also known as “herpes zoster” and “herpes snake”, occurs when the waist is tangled. According to Chinese medicine, herpes zoster is related to dampness and heat. The herpes appears as a large amount of pulp, and once it breaks down, it is as vile as a carbuncle, so it is painful to bear. This disease is common among middle-aged and elderly people, mostly due to low immunity, and the virus takes advantage of the weakness. In addition to antiviral drugs, nerve nutrition, nerve block therapy in the pain department, moderate application of analgesic drugs, family diet therapy can also play an auxiliary role.
I. Early onset of herpes zoster
Fishy grass soup
Ingredients: 30-50g of dried fishy grass (300g fresh).
Method: Wash the fishy grass, put it into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, decoct the soup for 20 minutes on the fire, and take it warm in a bowl. Take one dose daily, divided into 3 times, can be taken continuously for 3-7 days.
Efficacy: Pharmacological experiments have proved that fishy grass can inhibit various pathogenic bacteria and viruses, as well as analgesia, hemostasis, inhibition of plasma secretion, and promote tissue regeneration, which is effective for herpes zoster with blister ulceration and pain.
Two, for all kinds of shingles
Rhizoma porridge
Ingredients: 100g of round-grained rice, 500g of rhizome, 100g of brown sugar.
Preparation: boil the water chestnut, remove the shell and take the meat, chopped. Wash the round-grained rice and add water to boil until the rice grain blossoms, put the water chestnut, cooked into a thick porridge, add brown sugar to taste, breakfast food.
Effects: Clearing heat and dispelling dampness.
Radix Bupleurum and Green Leaf Porridge
Ingredients: 15 grams each of Chai Hu and Da Qing Ye, 30 grams of round-grained rice and sugar.
Method: Put Chai Hu and Da Qing Ye into a pot with water and decoct on the fire, remove the residue and extract the juice, boil round-grained rice into porridge with the juice, add sugar to taste and take it once a day for 6 days.
Effect: Dredge the liver and clear heat.
Herpes zoster in middle-aged and old people
Stir-fried shredded pork with amaranth
Ingredients: 400 grams of fresh amaranth, 100 grams of lean pork, 1 egg, vegetable oil, wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, egg white, chopped green onion and grated ginger.
Preparation: Take the egg white into a bowl and stir it with bamboo chopsticks to make a puree of egg white for use. Remove the impurities from the fresh amaranth, wash it, blanch it slightly in a pot of boiling water, take it out, rinse it with cold water, rinse it well, cut it into 3 cm long pieces. Wash the pork, cut it into shreds, put it in a bowl, add wine, salt and egg white paste and mix well. Frying pan on the fire, add vegetable oil to 60% heat, add a little onion, ginger stir-fry fragrant, that is, into the sticky meat shreds, stir-fry, cooking wine, and add the right amount of fresh soup, stir-fry, add salt, monosodium glutamate, stir-fry with wet starch thickening, drizzle into the sesame oil is ready. Eat with meals.
Efficacy: suitable for spleen wet type.
Lotus seeds adzuki beans Poria soup
Ingredients: lotus seeds, red beans, poria each 30 grams, 20 grams of honey.
Method: first lotus seeds, red beans, poria were picked and washed. Poria is dried or roasted, research into fine powder. Lotus seeds into warm boiling water soak for a few moments, remove the skin and core, with the cleaned red beans into the casserole, add the right amount of water, boil over high heat, and then move to a small fire cooked to the lotus seeds, red beans cooked and rotten as mud, while stirring while transferring Poria fine powder, until the soup, away from the fire, while warm, add honey, mix well. Morning and evening divided into two servings.
Efficacy: especially suitable for spleen damp type.
Silver flower and comfrey tea
Ingredients: 10 grams of honeysuckle, 5 grams of comfrey.
Method: First pick the honeysuckle, then pick the comfrey, wash, sliced, dried, and dried honeysuckle into a covered cup, brewed with boiling water, and cover muffled 15 minutes to start drinking. As tea, drink frequently, brew 3-5 times.
Efficacy: It is especially suitable for liver fire type.
IV. Other types
Ouzo Snake Soup
Ingredients: 1 black snake, lard, salt, fresh ginger, a little wine, monosodium glutamate.
Method: cut the snake’s belly to remove the internal organs, cut off, add the right amount of water, simmer for about 2 hours, add lard, fresh ginger, wine, MSG seasoning, drink soup and eat meat.
Efficacy: dispel wind and dampness, detoxify. It is effective for rheumatism, skin scabies, skin mange, tetanus and pediatric paralysis.
Amaranth barley porridge
Ingredients: 30 grams of amaranth and barley, 20 grams of round-grained rice and brown sugar.
How to make: First, select and wash Amaranthus and Coix seeds separately, put them into a casserole with appropriate amount of water, boil them on high fire, then move them to low fire and cook them slowly, add cleaned round-grained rice and cook them until they are cooked and rotten, then add brown sugar to season them.
Efficacy: detoxify and dispel dampness, suitable for spleen and dampness within the type of herpes zoster.
Black beans with snapper
Ingredients: 1 snapper (about 500 grams), 30 grams of black beans, Shaozhou wine, ginger, salt and other appropriate amounts.
Method: The group of fish washed to remove intestinal miscellaneous, clean; black beans washed with wine, ginger together into the pot, set on the fire cooked rotten, then add salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper to taste. Eat the meat, black beans, drink soup.
Efficacy: Drain wind and nourish blood, moisten dryness. Suitable for herpes zoster with blood deficiency, avoid eating all seafood and hair products.