Leucoderma (vitiligo) - Causes, Symptoms and Home Remedies for Leucoderma
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Leucoderma has been called more general vitiligo. It is an alarming skin condition in which the skin in white flared appears. The word Leucoderma means literally white skin. There is a gradual loss of the pigmentmelanine of the skin layers which results in white flared. These flared look at badly, especially in persons with a dark taint. The condition causes none organic. This sickness is caused nor by any germinates, nor is attribute it to bad blood. It is considered as for nor contagious nor contagious.
Symptoms of Leucoderma: - Small white spots are the usual manifestations of the onset of leucoderma, which enlarges into patches. It starts out pale-colored then lightens in the passage of time. This process is due to the loss of skin pigmentation. The size of the patches becomes larger and gradually forming patches that are more extensive.
• Chronic constipation
• Malfunctioning of the liver, jaundice,
• Ailments of the stomach,
• Diseases like typhoid which affect the stomach and intestines,
• Chronic diarrhea,
• Irregular food habits, indigestion,
• Insufficient sweating,
• Heredity,
• Excessive mental tension or worries,
• Syphilis,
• Tubercular constitution,
• wearing clothes tight at the waist,
• Eating without hunger
• Habitual overeating
• Eating fried foods over a long period
• Eating items with high sugar content: chocolates, sweets, etc.
• Drinking soft drinks, tea, coffee etc on a regular basis
• Lack of exercise
Home Remedies for Treating Leucoderma: -
• The patient should be kept on a salt-free diet as the absence of salt in the diet wilf speed up the recovery. Only rock salt is advised and that too in small quantities. Vegetables with a bitter taste like bitter gourd are beneficial.
• Increase the consumption of walnuts and figs. While walnuts purify blood, figs have healing properties to cure leucoderma.
• Neem is very effective in treating leucoderma. Try to drink a glass of neem juice everyday.
• Soak spiraled seeds in ginger juice for 3 days. Thereafter, dry them and grind to make a fine powder. Have 1 gram of this powder, with a glass of milk, for about a month. You can also apply this powder on white patches.
• Exposure to sun and heat should be avoided. The patient should avoid worry and mental strain. If he is costive, that condition should be ameliorated first before the regimen indicated above can help.
• Radish treatment: Take about 35 gram of powdered radish seeds and make a paste of it by mixing with 2 tsp of vinegar. Apply this regularly over the white patches on the skin.
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