Vitiligo is a common skin disease manifested characteristically by acquired depigmentation of the epidermis. Vitiligo often causes severe cosmetic disfigurement and thus mental burden to patients although it normally does not affect the general health. Vitiligo affects approximately 1% of the general population. It happens worldwide in different ages and both genders. It has higher incidence in people with dark complexion than people with fair complexion. The destruction of melanocytes is the cause of depigmented maculae that clinically represent this disease. However, the mechanism for the cause of melanocyte destruction is not clear and several hypotheses such as the disorders of autoimmune, autocytotoxicity, neural hormone, autocrine and inherit have been proposed.

in TCM principle, the pathogenetic factors of vitiligo are mainly due to heat in the blood or bodily heat, invasion with exogenous wind or damp, which invade into the skin resulting in disorder of the topical qi (vital energy) and blood, and blockage with the channels and vessels; the blood can not nourish the skin leading to qi-stagnation and hair-orifices blockaded, so that vitiligo is suffered from; and a trauma is prone to get complicated in vitiligo too.

Initially, the disease manifested itself of white spots, gradually being extended into patches without fixed site, which is displeasing to the eye. Generally, vitiligo looked white at the suffering site, showing a clear border from the normal skin; owing to hair-orifices blockaded, the suffering skin looked glossy without scales, An individual case showed with hairs becoming whitened. The disease is less of probability with heredity, and being infectiousless.

Vitiligo usually invades the face, neck, limbs, belly, waist, and back, often makes an advance fast in the spring and summer. Generally the suffering area showed without soreness and itch, but with individual cases there shows a feeling of itching that always forebodes a tendency of the suffering going on with expansion. Vitiligo exists of an incubation period, so if the pathological state is temporarily to be controlled and showing undeveloped that doesn't mean it wouldn't be advanced once again further. Once a patient's condition gets to be worsened with bad morale or to be irritated by some exogenous factors, the pathological state would become advanced continuously. Quite a few patients showed careless with trusting to luck in the initial time of suffering from the disease to miss the best time for treatment of the disease, when getting complicated in a bigger area advanced, the time period for curing the disease would be longer.

Some patients just only want to control their symptoms and being eager to get a cure, they didn't keep a well-cooperation to do the medical order with the physician. All the thinking and the way of doing are wrong. If the disease isn't to be cured on the root, it would be got complicated in recurrence that might spend more and would loss confidence in the treatment of the disease. If so, the treatment for the disease is utterly insignificant. Vitiligo is a kind of obstinate ailment, the treating time period might be longer, During the course of treatment, you should do strictly depending upon the medical order and the instructions regarding the usage of the drugs, and maintain a better mental state, you can approach the desired results.

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