Vitiligo, as a disease of pigment loss, has very complex causes. However, it is generally believed that it is related to the increase of stress in modern society, unbalanced diet, lack of sleep, poor emotion, loss of harmony between qi and blood in the body, together with external toxin invasion, environmental pollution, excessive light exposure, external hormones and other factors that cause immune malfunction and autoimmune disease. Thus, the treatment of vitiligo should be a combination of internal and external. The purpose of internal regulation is to repair the damaged immune system and damaged pigment cells.
Internal treatment, Chinese medicine generally pay attention to nourishing the liver and kidney, benefitting the qi and spleen, invigorating the blood and dispelling the wind. However, I found in the clinic, these treatments have some efficacy, but the strength of the treatment is far from enough, in the progressive stage of vitiligo, the characteristics of the wind evil is very clear, to cool the blood and quench the wind. I reuse Rhizoma Dihuang Tang plus reduction to achieve the purpose of controlling the disease as soon as possible. In the whole process of treatment, I pay special attention to the damage caused by poisonous evil to the human body, toxic must be detoxified. How to know whether it is toxic or not, focus on whether the stool is constipated, whether the face is dark, whether the tongue is dark red, and whether the tongue coating is yellow and greasy. The detoxification is often done with the use of the herb Cyperus alba, Cao He Che, and honeysuckle. In the treatment, we always use drugs to adjust the immunity and increase the secretion of vegetation, such as Lingzhi, Mulberry, Black Sesame, Comfrey, Safflower, Angelica, etc. The effect is pleasing to both the symptoms and the root cause.
The external treatment of vitiligo is mainly to promote the secretion of pigment cells and protect the apoptosis of pigment cells. The actual tincture of bone flesh, tincture of Singh flower, angelica rhodiola, etc. are commonly used.