What is the best painkiller for shingles?

Herpes zoster is mainly varicella herpes zoster virus infection nerve, causing nerve damage, showing acute inflammation, local nerve edema. Clinically, the main outstanding performance is neuralgia, but neuralgia can not be simply considered with painkillers, but also from its cause, so generally do not say what the best painkillers are, but what is the most appropriate program? First, need to use antiviral drugs, the general course of treatment is seven days to ten days; Second, you can use drugs to reduce nerve edema, you can use small doses of hormones, or hormone-like compound glycyrrhizin, etc.; third, you need to use neurotrophic mecobalamin, and then use painkillers, ibuprofen to pregabalin or gabapentin, these can be used as options, pain relief effect is the best.