Varicella-zoster virus is neurophilic and dermatophilic, and infection causes nerve and skin damage with pain and rash at the site of injury. Pathology often reveals massive inflammatory cell infiltration around subcutaneous blood vessels and nerve fibers, demyelination of nerve fibers, and damage to receptors. Herpes zoster often causes severe and unbearable pain, which seriously affects the quality of life of the patient. Therefore, reducing the pain of herpes zoster is one of the most important goals in the treatment of this disease. In traditional medicine, herpes zoster is attributed to the wind and fire that are present in the Shaoyang and Jueyin meridians and are depressed in the skin, or to the infection of dampness and toxicity that stagnates in the Taiyin and Yangming meridians, causing congestion in the skin and causing herpes to develop. Clearing out the epidemic toxin is the key to treating herpes zoster. For the treatment of herpes zoster, the use of Chinese herbs internally and acupuncture has been reported in many cases, with varying degrees of efficacy. If the heat is on the surface, it is most appropriate to prick the blood to make the poisonous evil and bad blood go away quickly, and also local fire canning to show the function of clearing the heat and draining the poison. The early diagnosis of herpes zoster is very important. Many patients have premonitory symptoms of neuralgia before the appearance of red clusters of herpes on the skin surface. The characteristics of this pain: 1. Presenting paroxysmal, neuralgia is a sharp feeling, intermittent, rhythmic throbbing pain. It is not a constant dull pain. 2. Patients can usually express the location of the pain is relatively superficial. 3.It may be related to breathing and position change, and sometimes it can be induced by twisting the skin. 4. Neuralgia is usually worse at night. Patients who occur in the chest are partially mistaken for a heart attack and go to cardiology because there are no objective signs of heart disease, and the cardiologist cannot think of the possibility of skin disease, and the patient is allowed to observe and delay treatment. Those occurring in the abdomen may be thought of as gallbladder, liver, kidney, or even pancreatic lesions, with repeated ultrasound examinations and CT examinations. It is not until the skin lesion appears that the herpes zoster is thought to be herpes zoster, which delays the best treatment time. Stabbing and bleeding combined with fire cupping treatment has resulted in a high patient healing rate with an average of 5.7 treatments, which is far superior to current modern medical treatments. The benefits of using traditional medicine for herpes zoster in the first place: 1) the possibility of incurable post-neuralgia is minimal; 2) the course of the patient’s illness can be greatly shortened; 3) the pain caused by herpes zoster to the patient is minimized; 4) the cost of patient treatment can also be greatly compressed. At present, the current status of the treatment of herpes zoster is due to the limitations of awareness, many patients do not receive effective treatment in the first place, and a significant number of patients enter the very difficult to treat post-herpetic neuralgia segment. The incorporation of pricking and bloodletting combined with fire cupping for herpes zoster into the norms of herpes zoster treatment is an urgent topic to be addressed by evidence-based medicine.