This invention provides methods of treating, suppressing, inhibiting, reducing an incidence, reducing the
pathogenesis of, ameliorating the symptoms of, or ameliorating the secondary symptoms of a primary or recurring
Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infection, or prolonging the latency to a relapse of an
HSV infection, and disorders and symptoms associated with same in a subject comprising the step of contacting the subject with a composition comprising a quindoline (or similar) structure having significant anti-HSV activity.