The Most Effective Homeopathic Remedies For Vitiligo

Vitiligo is a skin condition where areas of skin lose their pigment. These patches become pure white. It is estimated that around 1% of the world’s population suffers from vitiligo. The disease can affect any race, but it affects more people with darker complexions. Vitiligo most often appears on the face, elbows, and knees. It also commonly occurs on mucus membrane surfaces, such as the lips or eyes.

Vitiligo Causes

The exact cause of vitiligo isn’t known. However, research seems to indicate that multiple factors are involved in triggering this autoimmune disease which usually begins at puberty or early adulthood. Most cases are thought to be started by melanocyte stem cells destroyed by the body’s own immune system defense mechanism when something goes wrong. Autoimmune disease is when the body’s defense mechanism destroys its cells and tissues. Vitiligo is not contagious and cannot be passed on to other people.

Vitiligo Symptoms

The symptoms of vitiligo usually appear as small, white patches which develop gradually over time and become more prominent as more pigment cells or melanocytes are destroyed by the immune system. When these pigment cells fail to function correctly, the skin loses color in those areas where there isn’t enough melanin (pigment) left in the skin cells. This often appears as a pale area on the skin with no color at all. Only one or two spots may start small, then increase slowly into large patches of lighter-colored skin surrounded by standard skin color. Most people with vitiligo have less than ten spots. However, there is no limit to how many patches can develop and occur on the body treatment for Vitiligo

Types of Vitiligo Treatments

There are currently no known cures for this disease. With effective treatment, most patients see a notable improvement in the appearance of their skin and may even regain some of the pigment that was lost. There are various ways and methods used to treat vitiligo. These depend on the extent of your condition and whether it affects just one small area or several significant areas. The two most common types of treatment involve light therapy or depigmentation therapies, which reduce melanin production from the remaining cells.

Homeopathic Remedies for Vitiligo

Vitiligo can be treated with homeopathy to reduce the extent of this condition and offer a more natural solution without chemicals or drugs. Homeopathic remedies have been used in treating skin conditions such as vitiligo for many, many years. Other homeopathic remedies help patients suffering from vitiligo by lightening the skin color and dealing with blue-black marks during treatment. In addition, a small number of these products will help speed up pigment production in general, helping to improve not only your skin but also your hair, eyes, and nails. The best thing about these natural products is that they come in tablet form, so you can easily take them orally without any messy creams, gels, or lotions.

Vitiligo Homeopathic Remedies

There are many different types of homeopathic remedies that have been used successfully in treating vitiligo. These include the following:

1. Arsenic Album

Arsenic album 30 or 200 is also used in treating this disease. It is best suited when depigmentation occurs on parts of your body exposed to the sun.

2. Barium Sulphuricum

This remedy is used in treating vitiligo when depigmentation occurs on certain parts of your body but not others, such as the face only or hair and not skin.

3. Calcarea Carbonica

Calcarea carbonica is most often used in treating patients with white spots around their eyes or mouth, which gradually increase in intensity until most of the face is affected.

4. Chromium Metallicum

For people who have vitiligo on their hands that causes discoloration on the fingertips only, then chromium metallicum 30 or 200 can effectively reduce pigmentation while increasing melanin production within three months of use.

5. Graphites

Depigmentation of the skin on areas with little sun exposure like the neck, eyelids, and underarms can be treated using graphites 30 or 200.

6. Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum

This remedy is used for patients who suffer from vitiligo on their bodies but not on their faces. This includes discoloration of the hands, feet, knees, elbows, lower back, buttocks, and genitalia. These symptoms are most common in people who regularly engage in physical work or exercise, increased sweating. The skin develops white patches after excessive perspiration begins to break down melanin pigments, leading to depigmentation of surrounding tissue.

7. Hypericum

Hypericum is considered a good remedy for vitiligo patients who have white spots on their face and patches of light, sun-sensitive skin on other parts of the body. In addition to this, it can be used to treat individuals who have dark spots that appear similar to bruises or liver spots that develop from exposure to the sun. These may also include melanomas. . Another benefit of using hypericum is that it speeds up repigmentation by speeding up wound healing and induces production of new melanin pigment in surrounding cells when depigmentation has occurred due to nerve damage or injury.

8. Lycopodium Clavatum

People with vitiligo that occur on areas of their body with little sun exposure like the neck, eyelids, and underarms can be treated using Lycopodium Clavatum 30 or 200.

9. Mezereum

Vitiligo patients that develop white spots on patches of thin skin such as eyelid margins and lips should use Mezereum 200. This is also a good remedy for individuals with vitiligo and other autoimmune disorders like diabetes, lupus, psoriasis, scleroderma, and thyroid disease.

10. Natrum Muriaticum

Natrum muriaticum can work well in treating people with this condition when depigmentation begins due to sun damage from UV rays. This includes people who have vitiligo on their face or neck and hands with little to no symptoms on the rest of their bodies.

11. Nitricum Acidum

This remedy is most effective when treating individuals who develop skin depigmentation that occurs on areas of their body affected by sun exposure like the face, arms, and upper chest. It is also considered an ideal remedy for those experiencing severe itching with white patches due to sun damage.

12. Petroleum

Petroleum 30 or 200 can aid in preventing further development of white spots on the skin caused by vitiligo. It works well in individuals where repigmentation begins with intense burning, edema (inflammation/swelling), and itching. This is typically seen within the first four to eight weeks of initial use.

13. Phosphorus

For people with vitiligo on their body but not the face, neck, lips, palms, or soles of the feet, Phosphorus 200 can help reduce white spots while increasing melanin production within three months of use.

14. Rumex Crispus

This substance works well for individuals with white patches occurring on areas of the body affected by sun exposure, especially the hands and forearms. It may also be used in treating those who have vitiligo on their hands with minor pigmentation changes on other parts of their body or face. In addition, it can work well for those with vitiligo on their feet combined with itching and burning.

15. Sulphur

Sulphur is considered beneficial for individuals that experience depigmentation of the skin or mucus membranes due to inappropriate formation of melanin pigment during periods of sun exposure. Some signs and symptoms of this include verrucae, eczema, psoriasis, lichen planus, alopecia areata, pityriasis Versicolor, tinea versicolor, subacute lupus erythematosus (SLE), leprosy, vitiligo Vulgaris, sarcoidosis, acrodermatitis enteropathica, porphyria cutanea tarda, and leukoderma.

16. Calcarea Sulphuricum

It should be used for individuals who develop patches of depigmentation on their face, neck, lips, palms, soles of the feet, ears, nose, genitals, or other tissues exposed to UV light due to vitiligo or other forms of pigment loss.

17. Thuja Occidentalis

People with vitiligo that have lesions around the mouth and nails along with skin depigmentation occurring within one year can use Thuja Occidentalis 200. It is also considered good medicine for those experiencing loss of pigmentation where nerve endings are damaged, such as in cases of herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and shingles.

18. Tuberculinum

Tuberculinum 30 or 200 is recommended for people with vitiligo that develops on the hands and feet while little to no changes occur in surrounding skin.

19. Typhoidinum

This substance is considered beneficial for individuals who develop white skin pigmentation spots caused by sun exposure like on their face, neck, lips, and hands. It can also work effectively on those with this condition with moles involved, such as ulerythema ophryogenes (multiple dome-shaped red spots) and molluscum contagiosum (small round bumps filled with a whitish center found mainly around the anus, genitals, knees, and armpits).

20. Fluoricum Acidum

This remedy can work well for individuals experiencing vitiligo on the face with little to no other skin pigmentation changes and feelings of dryness or burning. Other conditions that may benefit from its use include:

• Lichen planus.
• Psoriasis Vulgaris (a plaque-like form of psoriasis).
• Herpes zoster (shingles).
• Tinea versicolor (fungal infection on the neck, chest, back).

21. Psorinum

This remedy can be helpful for people who have white spots on the face, neck, lips, palms of their hands, and soles of the feet due to vitiligo. Other beneficial symptoms include peeling skin, tingling sensation in the limbs, itching that improves with scratching.

22. Baryta Carbonica

Baryta Carbonica 30 or 200 is recommended for individuals experiencing loss of pigmentation, which starts within six months after an injury to the dermis (second layer of skin) where nerve endings are damaged. This medicine also works well for those with vitiligo in areas exposed to sun damage along with cracking and bleeding skin.

23. Arsenicum Sulphuratum Flavum 

It can be used for patients suffering from vitiligo on the face and hands with skin depigmentation that starts within two years of birth. Other helpful symptoms include dry, flaking skin that tends to be cold and sweaty.

24. Bacillinum

Bacillinum 30 or 200 is known to work well for people with vitiligo on the face and neck combined with itching all over. Symptoms of this disease can also include phlyctenular conjunctivitis (style around the eye), xerosis (dry skin), eczema, psoriasis, porphyria cutanea tarda, rheumatoid arthritis, lichen planus, leukoderma acquisition centrifugum, etc.

Benefits of choosing homeopathic vitiligo treatment:

Homeopathic remedies have been used since the early 1800s to treat a variety of conditions. The positive thing about natural treatment is that it holistically addresses the root cause of disease, leaving no room for relapse or side effects. In addition, homeopathic medicine has certain key features such as:

• Each ingredient has been diluted and potentized, which makes them free from toxins and chemicals.
• They are extremely safe even in high doses because they work with your body instead of harm it by direct contact.
• Natural medicines like homeopathy do not result in any harmful side effects. You can use them without worrying about other issues such as drug interactions or stomach problems

The fact that remedies made from natural substances are least likely to cause side effects makes them the best choice for home       remedies.

• The remedies used in this treatment do not interfere with other medications or produce any negative interactions. You can use them together without any fears.

What should you expect during your treatment course?

After starting on your natural vitiligo treatment course, it usually takes about one week for the first results to show up. After that, you will notice that the disease slows down its activity and eventually begins to recede. This is why it is essential to maintain a constant supply of homeopathic medicine for vitiligo so that the white patches don’t appear again. Your body needs time to heal itself completely, but there will be no more signs of vitiligo once it does.

Above listed homeopathic medications for Vitiligo are exceptional to treat this condition. If you have any queries or want advice from our homeopathy doctor, you can book an appointment through OHO Homeopathy now!