Apis [Apis]
Burning and stinging pain, much swelling.
Vesicles large, sometimes confluent.
Come out in cold weather.
Ulcerate with great burning, stinging pain.
Worse warmth: better cold applications.
Arsenicum Album [Ars]
Confluent herpetic eruptions with intense burning of the blisters.
Sleepless after midnight.
Nausea and prostration: weakness.
Worse from cold of any kind, better from warmth.
“Herpes having a red, unwholesome appearance.”.
Mezereum [Mez]
With severe neuralgic pains.
Itching, after scratching, turns to burning.
Worse from touch: in bed.
Vesicles form a brownish scab.
Ranunculus Bulbosus [Ran-b]
One has over and over again seen shingles clear up rapidly with 2 or 3 doses of Ranunculus bulbosus in high potency-10m.
Vesicles filled with thin, acrid fluid.
Burning-itching vesicles in clusters.
Worse from touch, motion, after eating.
Severe neuralgic pains, especially intercostal.
Rhus Toxicodendron [Ran-b]
“Probably no remedy more often found useful in herpes zoster.
Especially when it occurs after a wetting.
Variolinum [Vario]
Burnett said Variolinum had wiped out the condition, pain and all-and one has seen this also.
