Shingles:
All this talk in the other board about shingles reminded me of my bout with it 6-7 years ago, what I learned, and how I treated it.
At the time it triggered in me, I was taking an amino acid supplement called L-Arginine, which is supposed to be great for circulation. However, as I came to find out, it can also be a trigger for shingles if the balance of amino acids is off in your body, especiallyin regards to lysine and arginine.. I found this article that talks about it including foods to eat and others too avoid.
https://www.livestrong.com/article/280245-shingles-and-lysinearginine-foods/
At the time, I was also eating a good amount of pasta with red sauce, drinking wine and eating grapes and raisins, all of which are very high in L arginine and low in L-lysine. So once I found this out, I went out and bought the L-lysine supplement and started taking it immediately, while cutting out the L-arginine and those previous foods mentioned.
In addition to that, I found other articles showing that you can heal the body with other natural supplements including tea tree oil, apple cider vinegar, and cayenne pepper. See link to this article discussing these below:
https://www.reboothealth.co.uk/blog/how-to-cure-shingles-naturally
I ended up finding a pill supplement that combined the apple cider vinegar and cayenne pepper, so I started taking that too. I bought a small bottle of tea tree oil, and another bottle of calamine lotion, and mixed the tea tree oil into the lotion to dilute it from its pure form, which can be harsh on the skin. A few times per day, I rubbed that tea tree oil mixture on the spots on my body that had the rash.
Once I started this treatment, it was entirely gone in less than a week. A year or so after this, another friend of mine in his late 30s also got shingles, so I gave him all of this info too, as well as bringing him some of the supplements that I used. He also was completely healed in less that a week.
Hope this helps for people that get it at some point in the future. It sucks and is pretty painful, so reducing the length it lasts and stopping the virus from reproduction is huge.
