Shingles And PHN Healed By This Alternative Medicine
Shingles And PHN Healed By This Alternative Medicine Getting over the initial shingles outbreak is often just the beginning of a painful journey. Almost half of those who get shingles develop postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), the pain that remains once shingles sores are gone. Traditional medicine has no solutions except ineffective painkillers that come with a long list of side effects. That’s why we welcome two recent literature reviews, one in the Journal of Pain Research and one in Medicine (Baltimore), which both prove that an old alternative health method is more effective than traditional medicine at dealing with PHN. For the study in the Journal of Pain Research, the researchers searched through six medical databases to find the eight best studies examining acupuncture to treat PHN, with 498 participants altogether. Two of these were in English and the other six were written in Chinese. All eight of the studies compared various acupuncture techniques (electroacupuncture, fire nee