Leucoderma - Causes, Symptoms And Natural Herbal Remedies and Home Treatment of Leucoderma

Symptoms of leucoderma

White spots can appear anywhere in the body. Initially they appear on hands, elbows, face, ankles, feet and other parts which come under pressure such as waist, where you tie the belt, etc. Gradually, they spread and merge and cover the whole body. These white spots do not cause any type of pain. That is why the patient does not care to go for treatment when it is at the initial stage and ignores it considering it to be a small spot.

But when finger tips, palms, soles, lips, etc. become white it becomes difficult to cure the disease and it takes a very long time. When the whole body becomes leucodermic, there is very little possibility of its cure. When the spots have just started appearing and they have not spread beyond two or three inches, they can be cured. While treating leucodermic patients I have noticed that some of the white patches disappear but new ones appear.

It usually takes a year or two to treat leucoderma. In the world of medicine, leucoderma can be treated by homeopathic system of medicine.

Herbal Home remedies for the natural treatment of leucoderma

Natural home remedy help in reducing leucoderma - Bathua : Boil bathua, squeeze out the juice and drink it. Also eat bathua as a vegetable. Wash the affected skin with boiled bathua water. Grind raw bathua leaves and squeeze out the juice and mix ½ cup of sesame oil with two cups of bathua juice and heat it slowly. When the juice evaporates and only the oil is left, strain it and store it in a bottle. Apply it regularly on white spots. It will be beneficial.

Good home remedy provide relief from leucoderma - Turmeric : Mix 125 gms. of turmeric powder in 500 gms. of spirit in a glass bottle and cork it and put it in the Sun. Stir it well three time everyday. After three days, strain and again store in a glass bottle. This will be turmeric tincture. It will be beneficial to apply it thrice daily on the white spots. Take a tsp. of turmeric powder twice daily in the morning and evening with hot milk for six months. It is beneficial in leucoderma.

Put pomegranate leaves to dry in the shade, grind them into a fine powder, sieve it and take 8 gms. of it each in the morning and evening with fresh water.

Effective home remedy help in curing leucoderma - Basil : Take a basil plant with its roots. Wash it and clean it well. Pound it and cook it slowly in ½ litre water mixed with ½ litre oil. When the water evaporates and only the oil is left, mash and strain it to get the basil oil. Apply it on white spots.

Traditional home remedy help in treating leucoderma - Spomia Fistulosa (Swallow-wort) : It is a wild plant and can be found easily everywhere. Application of its milk on the white spots cures them in a month or two. Do not apply it near the eyes and on the lips. Leucoderma can be cured by taking homeopathic medicines, prescribed food items and by applying one of the abovementioned local medicines. Leucoderma should be treated not only by medicines but also by food. Those who want to know more about it should correspond with the present writer.

Natural home remedy for leucoderma using Gram

Gram : (1) Soak a handful of gram and 10 gms. of triphala churan in 125 litre of water. After 12 hours tie the soaked gram in a piece of coarse cloth and pour the remaining water on the bundle. Open the bundle after twenty four hours. This way, you will get gram sprouts. If they do not sprout due to weather conditions, you may eat them without sprouting. Chew the sprouted gram well. Eating them regularly for six months will cure leucoderma.

(2) During treatment of leucoderma, if you stop taking salt, you will derive greater benefit. Eat rotis made of gram flour without salt for a long period. You can apply clarified butter on the rotis. Eat gram daal also. Eating gram flour rotis without salt regularly for a considerably long period will cure leucoderma without any medicines. If you find it difficult to eat gram flour roti for a long time, mix wheat and gram flour in equal quantity, add rock salt and eat the rotis daily. Similarly, in place of gram daal, you may some time take moong daal. Among other vegetables, you may take spinach, carrots, parwal and potatoes in a small quantity.

Leucoderma tips and diet

Abstinence : Do not take sour things, meat, especially fish, rice, salt, oil, jaggery, chillies.

Besides the above eatables, also use one of the things for external application on the white spots for a long time.

The use of- calcium-rich food with Vitamin-D is highly beneficial. You get Vitamin-D from the Sun. Sun-bath is beneficial for leucodermic patients.