What Kind of Disease is Vitiligo

Vitiligo is a common skin pigment disorder disease characterized by melanin loss and white patch formation, which has complex pathogenesis and various clinical symptoms. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) believes that vitiligo is caused body’s internal disorder caused by bad emotion, depression of kidney, blocked blood, the re-catch of cold, and the ailment due to wind or exposure, which all affect the onset of this disease. Vitiligo is called “Baidian”, “baibo wind” or “Baichu”, etc. In Chinese medicine, because this disease has no particular location around the body, like evil wind blowing to where and where would become white, it is called Baidian Wind. The cause of vitiligo is related to the environment, foci, diet, and many other factors, the pathology of the body's immune system is low, the metabolic function of the internal organs is dysfunctional, skin veins microcirculation disorders, and other phenomena. Modern medical research also shows that there is an immunological genetic basis for vitiligo, cellular immunity, humoral immunity, and related cytokines are also involved in its pathogenesis.

The human skin is like the vegetation on the land, vitiligo is similar to the desertification of the land. The body's intake of all drugs and nutrients is through the blood circulation transported to various organs and tissues, because of internal organs dysfunction and immune disorders of vitiligo patients, the tyrosinase activity is reduced or lost, melanin secretion is insufficient, coupled with poor blood microcirculation, resulting in major changes in the structure of the inner layer of the skin, and the melanocytes required nutrients unable be transported to the skin. The inner layer of cells, results in local pigment loss in the skin, thus forming vitiligo.

If this condition continues for a long time, it will enter a vicious circle, where the skin white patches will be like a piece of desert continuously expanding, and finally forming a large range of "skin desertification".

Although vitiligo is not painful or itchy, this disease has no fixed location, if it develops to the exposed parts, it will affect the image, and even affect the patient's future work and life, some patients are ashamed to see people after the disease, and their personality will gradually become withdrawn, bringing great spiritly pain, and some even embarked on the road to light life.