What should you not eat if you have shingles? What foods should you avoid?

Herpes is a common skin disease in life and is very contagious. The harm caused to patients both physically and psychologically is enormous. So what should you not eat if you have herpes?

1. Avoid spicy and hot foods

Spicy and hot foods such as alcohol, tobacco, ginger, chili, mutton, beef and fried foods can easily increase fire and generate heat after consumption. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease is caused by the accumulation of dampness, heat and fire toxins in the skin, so patients with this disease should avoid eating the above-mentioned spicy and hot foods.

2. Be careful when eating fatty and greasy foods

Fatty meat, maltose, milk and sweet foods are mostly greasy and fatty, which can easily cause the damp-heat toxins of the disease to accumulate inside the body and cause the disease to linger and not be cured.

3. Be careful when eating sour and astringent foods

Sour and astringent foods include peas, water chestnuts, pomegranates, taro, spinach, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease is mostly caused by emotional distress, liver qi stagnation, long-term stagnation turning into fire, and the invasion of toxic evil. Therefore, treatment should focus on promoting qi and blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The sour, astringent and bitter foods mentioned above can easily cause blood circulation obstruction, retention of toxins and aggravate pain.