The herpes zoster, which is often referred to as shingles, requires the following foods to be avoided after having shingles: first, spicy and stimulating foods, such as cigarettes, alcohol, ginger, chili, mutton, beef, and fried foods are spicy and warm, which will help the internal fire to grow after use. The Chinese medicine believes that herpes zoster is the result of dampness and heat, fire and toxicity, which are embedded in the skin, so patients with herpes zoster should avoid eating the above-mentioned spicy and hot foods. In addition, you need to be careful with fatty and greasy things, fatty meat, sugar, milk, sweet food has the effect of nourishing fatty liver, easy to make the disease of damp heat and poisonous evil is not contained within, herpes zoster disease lingering, in addition to avoid eating astringent things, such as peas, gravy, pomegranate, taro, spinach, etc.. The Chinese medicine believes that herpes zoster is the result of poor emotions, liver qi stagnation, prolonged depression and fire, and poisonous evil, so the treatment should be based on moving qi and blood to dispel stasis. The above-mentioned things are likely to make the qi and blood not pass, the poisonous evil does not go, the pain convergence intensifies.