Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised and graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, a General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication and received an award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress in 1998. Since 1997, she has been presenting her work worldwide, concerning the treatment of various diseases, using techniques based on several medical traditions around the world.

Statement of the problem: The herpes virus manifests as an eruption of red, painful blisters or sores in the skin, genitals, lips or eyes. In western medicine, the causative symptoms are related to herpes simplex 1, herpes simplex 2, and varicella-zoster viruses, often combined with a weakening of immune function. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this entire process is indicative of Fire Toxin and Damp Heat.

 

Purpose: To demonstrate that recurrent herpes virus infections can be treated without the use of antiviral drugs.

 

Methods: Two case reports. The first, from an 8-year-old girl with recurrent periocular lesions on the right eye, with edema formation, small blisters, hyperemia and hyperchromic spots. The symptoms were treated several times with topical and systemic antiviral medication, with the condition showing improvement only shortly. The second case report, from a 60-year-old woman, with a condition of recurrent genital herpes virus type 2, which

would not improve with the use of antiviral medication. Both patients were referred to an infectologist with a TCM background, who restructured the patient’s dietary habits, counselling that all hot energy foods should be avoided. Auricular acupuncture sessions with apex ear bloodletting were also performed.

 

Results: A complete improvement of the conditions of both patients was obtained without using any antiviral drugs.

 

Conclusion: It is possible to treat recurrent herpes virus infection without the use of antiviral drugs. To this end, it is important to see the patient as a whole and treat their energy imbalances by withdrawing their Heat process through acupuncture and dietary counselling.

 

Keywords: Herpes Virus, Antiviral drugs, acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine.