Brief analysis on liver depression and herpes zoster / 国际中医中药杂志

According to years of treatment experience on herpes zoster,combined with its current onset characteristics as well as modem medicine,the authors probed into the relation between liver depression and herpes zoster on the following two aspects:one was liver depression and healthy qi (immunity) ; the other was liver depression and the incidence of herpes zoster.We considered that long-term liver depression impairs healthy qi.Then herpes zoster appears because detriment of healthy qi leading to decreased immunity,reactivation and reproduction of virus.Liver depression is a significant factor for the onset of herpes zoster.