Introducing a New Event in Post Herpetic Neuralgia Traditional Medicine Treatment

Post Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN) is a painful complication of herpes zoster that remain after reliving of acute phase of disease. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) PHN is due to qi and toxic pathogen stagnation, unclearing of heat and damp that leading to stagnation or obstruction of meridians. So several method of TCM is used to regulate qi and blood movement. In this review we discuss a case of PHN and treatment approach of him with different methods of TCM. We also describe a new event we observed in most treated cases that is worsening of pain by starting first cupping session of treatment but disappearing completely with continuation of acupuncture and cupping that named paradoxical phenomen (Avijgan sign).