Views of Vitiligo in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Can Chinese Medicine treat vitiligo?
Traditional Chinese medicine takes Yin and Yang and the five elements as the theoretical basis, and regards the human body as the unity of qi, xing and shen. As early as in the Spring and Autumn period, traditional Chinese medicine had the name for vitiligo. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the pathogenesis of vitiligo is caused by liver depression and qi stagnation, liver and kidney insufficiency, qi and blood disharmony, spleen and stomach weakness, at the same time, the external feeling of the evil wind cold or fall injury, resulting in disharmony between the Ying and wei, meridian blocking, qi stagnation and blood stasis, blood doesn't moisturize the skin, develops into white spots. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cure must grasp the fundamental contradiction of disease, namely the so-called cure must seek the root. Therefore, the biggest difference between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine is that the treatment of vitiligo can not be limited to the treatment of the skin surface, traditional Chinese medicine pays more attention to the internal treatment. There are many ways to treat vitiligo in traditional Chinese medicine, such as: traditional Chinese medicine taking decoction internally, concentrated decoction, Chinese medicine ion import, Chinese medicine bath, Chinese medicine fumigation, acupuncture and many other methods.

For some patients with refractory and chronic diseases and vitiligo, TCM therapy is attracting more and more people's attention and love.