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Leucoderma is a condition of the skin also known as vitiligo in which skin becomes either white or light colored. These skin patches may be acquired at the time of birth. However, these may be broadly classified into congenital and acquired skin patch which may be a result of reasons. The white congenital patch is not of much importance as it may be due to birthmarks. Whereas the acquired patches may develop because of a disease and this is known as leucoderma.
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Some of the possible causes for Vitiligo includes :
1. Skin trauma.
2. Sunburn.
3. Mental worry (stress).
4. Heredity is also causative factor and about 30 percent of patients have history of the disorder.
5. Physical illness
Symptoms of Leucoderma:
Leucoderma starts usually with a white spot which gradually expends to become a large patch. Also in early stages, leucoderma patches are pale in color and eventually become white due to total loss of pigment in that area.
There are many white spots in the beginning which merge to become a patch. In some cases, almost whole body gets covered with these patches.
Treatment and Cure of Leucoderma (Vitiligo)
In nature cure, the treatment (cure) of Leudoderma consists of adoption of constitutional measures to cleanse the system of accumulated toxins. This enables the healing power within the body to assert itself, and produce normalcy.
To begin with the treatment of Leucoderma, the patient should undertake a fast on juices for about a week. IN this regimen, he or she should take fruit or vegetable juices, diluted with water on 50 : 50 basis every two or three hours from 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. The bowels should be cleansed daily with warm water during this period.
After the juice fast, the patient of Leucoderma may adopt a restricted diet consisting of fresh fruits, raw or steamed vegetables and whole meal bread or chappaties. Curd and milk may be added to this diet after a few days.
The patient may thereafter gradually embark upon a well-balanced diet of seeds, nuts and grains, vegetables and fruits. The large proportion of the diet should consist of raw foods. Seeds and beans such as alfalfa, mung and soyabeans canbe sprouted. This diet may be supplemented with cold-pressed vegetable oils, honey and yeast. Juice fasting may be repeated at intervals of two months.
Prevention tips for Leucoderma (Vitiligo) Cure
1. The patient should avoid tea, coffee, alcoholic beverages and all condiments and highly flavoured dishes.
2. He or she should also avoid sugar, white flour products, denatured cereals like polished rice and pearled barley and tinned or bottled foods.
Home Remedies for Leucoderma
1. Regularly drinking cucumber juice mixed with about 100 grams of alfalfa seeds twice a day helps in dealing with white patches caused by this disease.
2. Make a fine powder of dried pomegranate leaves and consume about eight grams of this powder two times per day on a daily basis for treating white patches on the skin.
3. A mixture of garlic juice and powdered harad fruit can be applied on the white patches of Leucoderma to remove or lessen them to a great extent.
4. Applying a paste of black grams in water on the affected area serves as a good remdy to do away with white patches resulting from this disease. But, this home remedy should be followed for at least four months to give encouraging results.
