Headache, shoulder pain, chest pain, back pain, leg pain, pain like electric shock, needle stick, fire, explosion, which makes people sleepless at night and unable to eat. When you go to the hospital, you may visit the neurology, cardiology, orthopedics, surgery, and do examinations: X-ray, CT, ultrasound, ECG, and everything is checked but there is no problem. At this time, the skin in the painful area appears red and blistered. It turned out that the cause of the pain was not cerebrovascular disease, heart disease, lumbar spondylosis, or acute abdomen, but a skin disease: herpes zoster. Herpes zoster is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. After people have had chickenpox or are recessively infected with this virus, the virus is latent in the spinal nerve roots, and when they encounter exertion, poor sleep, nervousness, and decreased immunity, the virus activity multiplies and develops along a certain nerve alignment until the skin, so pain appears first and then skin damage appears, which is easily misdiagnosed in the early stages. Herpes zoster can occur from head to toe, involving only one side of a nerve segment in a patient. In Chinese medicine, it is called “tangled waist fire dan, tangled waist dragon”. The treatment of herpes zoster should be anti-viral, nerve nutrition, pain relief, with Chinese medicine and acupuncture cupping, laser treatment, the earlier and more timely the treatment, the better the results. Some elderly people, due to weakness or inadequate treatment, still have local pain after the lesions have healed, which lasts for half a year or even longer and develops into postherpetic neuralgia, which is the last tricky situation doctors want to see. When your body is in pain, don’t just blindly tolerate it. If it is shingles, it is difficult to relieve the pain on your own without timely treatment. Go to the hospital in time and do not miss the best time for treatment in the first week of the onset.