Using essential oils can be very helpful in addressing the pain and discomfort that shingles brings in its wake.
According to the Mayo Clinic:
Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful rash. Although shingles can occur anywhere on your body, it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters that wraps around either the left or the right side of your torso.
Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus — the same virus that causes chickenpox. After you’ve had chickenpox, the virus lies inactive in nerve tissue near your spinal cord and brain. Years later, the virus may reactivate as shingles.
While it isn’t a life-threatening condition, shingles can be very painful. Vaccines can help reduce the risk of shingles, while early treatment can help shorten a shingles infection and lessen the chance of complications.
Anyone who’s had chickenpox may develop shingles. After you recover from chickenpox, the virus can enter your nervous system and lie dormant for years. Eventually, it may reactivate and travel along nerve pathways to your skin — producing shingles.
The reason for the encore is unclear. But it may be due to lowered immunity to infections as you grow older. Shingles is more common in older adults and in people who have weak immune systems.
So why use essential oils? Here are three reasons to do so:
How would you use them?
According to Kurt Schnaubelt, one of the best remedies to use for Shingles is a topical application to the lesions 2 – 3 times a day of a 50:50 blend of Calophyllum inophyllum (Tamanu oil) and the essential oil Ravintsara (Cinnamomum camphora).Ravintsara has good anti-viral and analgesic properties, why Tamanu oil is said to help the body to eliminate and remove pus that has gathered in the lesions.
Other essential oils to consider include:
Also let us not forget to add something that helps with their stress. Certainly Lavender and German Chamomile might do the trick but there are lots of other oils to choose from, so add something that really helps them. For me there is nothing like adding a drop or two of Rose or Neroli to a blend to really help ease the stress.
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