Traditional Chinese Medicines to Treat Vitiligo

In traditional Chinese medicines, they call vitiligo leucoderma. Traditional Chinese medicines think that wind evil assailing the exterior, cou justified not close, qi-blood disharmony arouse vitiligo.

In 1974, the silk manuscripts unearthed in Changsha mawangdui record lots of surgical diseases. Because it is based on 52 kinds diseases, the book is named . The book is made during the warring states period, which is the earliest ancient medical book in our country at present. This book records various skin diseases, the ‘baichu’, ‘baiwuzou’ and other diseases means some depigmentation skin disease including vitiligo. Besides, it records internal treatment, external treatment, and the combination of internal and external treatment. This fact proves that from 700 years B.C., traditional Chinese medicines have certain knowledge about vitiligo.

With modern medical science development, traditional Chinese medicines combine some modern western medicines and advanced instruments to treat vitiligo. Besides oral medicines, the treatment also includes Chinese patent medicines(capsule, tablets, pills, injection, powder, granula, medicinal extract, water aqua, tinctures, liquid and cream), Chinese medicines bath, Chinese steam, intermediate frequency electric acupuncture, ontophoresis of traditional chinese medicine and various modern therapies.

From appearance, vitiligo is almost white spots. For different patients, the condition is similar. But traditional Chinese medicines think that different individuals has different physical fitness. Treatment varies from person to person. Doctors will make different treatment plans according to different patients. For example:

Heat syndrome: It is equal to acute disease. The onset of this kind of disease is vary quick, vitiligo has dizzy boundary. Some patients accompany with slight itch and pain, restless emotion, dry mouth thin red(urinate a little red), red tongue, thin yellow tongue fur, thready rapid pulse(thin and fast). Choose Chinese prescription to cool blood and activate blood circulation, and clear heat and dispel the wind.

There are many types. But traditional Chinese medicines think that human is a whole. Any disease is from the whole and the treatment should be also from the whole and root. This is the advance point of traditional Chinese medicines’ flexibility and globality.

If you want a further knowledge about vitiligo causes, you can send your own problem to vitiligocure@hotmail.com and we will give you a professional solution. After all, the symptoms are similar, but the real conditions are different.To cure this illness,we need to find the authentic pathogenesis according to different conditions of different patients.