Ayurvedic Management of White Patches : Leucoderma/Leukoderma - What is Leucoderma? What are the causes for it? Written by Dr. Aashish Phadke M.D.(ayurved)

What is Leucoderma? What are the causes for it?

Leukoderma? or Vitiligo? means White patches on the skin , are just cosmetic problem. Leukos means white, derma means skin, so white skin means Leukoderma. When there is any history of burns, or cuts wounds, while healing some cases see a manifestation of such white patches on the skin, said to have Leukoderma. Whereas in other cases there exists such patches on the skin without having any obvious cause are termed to be Vitiligo. Basically medically speaking, if you see the reason, the melanin pigments which gives colour to our skin, gets reduced or gets inactivated in this region so we see white patch on the skin.

Is it possible to treat Leukoderma ?

Leukoderma does have treatment by psoralin compounds (again a drug developed from an Ayurvedic herb Bakuchi) PUVA therapy. Also plastic surgery (normal skin transplantation technique at white patch lesion) is advocated in certain cases. Cases having white patches on the surface of lips, mucous membranes, lids, hair, soles palms are bit difficult to treat.

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