Post Herpetic neuralgia

About half of all herpetic patients aged over 60 develop post herpetic neuralgia. The pain and the burn continue for months or even years thereafter.
Preventing the painful aftermath
The key to preventing post herpetic neuralgia is early diagnosis and correct treatment. Suppressing the rash with antibiotics and cortisone gives only temporary relief and causes a lot of complications in certain individual. Homoeopathic medicines are given according to each patient's signs and symptoms on an individual basis.
Homoeopathic vaccine
Varolinium
This internal vaccine should be given to all those who have just recovered from chickenpox, whether a child or an adult. Varolinium 200 C potency five pills thrice a day, once a week for a month,  should be given after an episode of chickenpox in your house or neighborhood, or if you have already suffered from it and want to avoid or minimise the attack of herpes zoster, take Varolinium 200 C potency five pills thrice a day, once a week for a month. This vaccine has proved to be most successful against herpes. It prevent post herpetic neuralgia and its complications. Varolinium is a vaccine prepared from the lymph of chickenpox pustules.
Hypericum
This is the most important remedy for nerve injury, because in herpes, too, the nerves are infected and inflamed. Hypericum 1 m potency five pills every four hrs, should be given till the pain subsided.
Mezerinum
This is indicated when there is herpes rash on the forehead or near the eyes with big, yellowish pustules. When these pustules dry up they leave behind big scabs with thick, yellowish pus underneath them. There is severe pain in the eyeballs along with a chill and sensitivity to cold air. The patient wants to keep himself in a warm room because the slightest draft of air brings on shooting pain. Mezerinum 200 five pills every four hrs, helps.
Chamomilla
This is indicated when there is extreme mental irritability after the herpes rash. There is great restlessness and impatience. The patient is very snappy and wants to continuously move from one place to another. A cold room, cold compresses and cold air give slight relief. These people have a very low threshold of bearing pain. Chamomilla 200 five pills every four hrs, makes all the difference in such cases.
Ars alb
Indicated when severe burning pain remains after rash has subsided and the patient wants constant hot fomentation on that area. Only heat gives temporary relief from the burning pain. Ars alb 200 C potency five pills every four hrs.
Coffea
Indicated when there is great restlessness of mind along with post herpetic pain. Any emotional change brings on an attack of pain. An excess of joy or sorrow, a flow of ideas, or even a change in emotions can trigger off the pain. Mental activity causes sleeplessness. The pain is relieved by cold compresses. Coffea 200 C potency five pills every four hrs.
For most individuals shingles is just an annoyance. But its cause is unpredictable, both in terms of whom it strikes its severity. If you are above 50 years of age and have developed herpes zoster, it behoves you to discuss with your doctor as quickly as possible how to reduce the likelihood of falling victim to its worst consequences.
Patients suffering from shingles often want to know whether the first one confers immunity. In most viral infections a single exposure does confers life long protection. But in shingles (and in herpes)  recurrence of Symptoms may not be due to reinfection but due to the reactivation of a virus that is already present in the body. Therefore, repeated episodes of shingles can and do occur, although not nearly as frequently as in herpes simplex. As I said earlier, prevention can best achieved by the homoeopathic vaccine Varolinium.