How does traditional Chinese medicine treat vitiligo effectively?
Asked by:Bor
Asked on:Apr 01, 2026 09:27 PM
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Boston
Apr 01, 2026
Vitiligo is a skin depigmentation disease, which is called "vitiligo" or "white mottled" in traditional Chinese medicine. Today, when Western medicine is prevalent, many people choose traditional Chinese medicine to treat vitiligo. The main reason is that traditional Chinese medicine can cure vitiligo fundamentally without side effects. So how does Chinese medicine treat vitiligo?
How does traditional Chinese medicine treat vitiligo?
1. For internal treatment, drugs that can activate blood circulation, dispel wind, soothe the liver and regulate qi can be used.
1. Add or subtract Taohong Yin combined with Bupleurum Shugan Decoction: 10g each of Puhuang, Wulingzhi, Salvia, safflower, peach kernel, red and white peony root, Cyperus rotunda, fried Schizonepeta, Fangfeng, and Citrus aurantium, and 5g each of Chanyi and Bupleurum. This recipe is suitable for patients with liver stagnation and qi stagnation.
2. Baipi Pills: 45g each of Lithospermum, Zhenjiangxiang, Chonglou, Baiyaozi, Baiwei, safflower, peach kernel, and Polygonum multiflorum, 30g each of Atractylodes and licorice, 21g each of Atractylodes and Bilecao, and 45g Tribulus terrestris. This recipe is suitable for meridian block type.
3. White Eclipse Recipe: 9g each of angelica root, turmeric, and white peony root, 15 to 30g of August rhizome, 12 to 16g of motherwort, 12 to 18g of white tribulus, 12 to 15g of cocklebur, 9 to 12g of chrysanthemum, and 30g of magnetite (or natural copper). This recipe is suitable for those with disharmony between Qi and blood.
4. White spot black soup: 15g each of Shayuanzi, Ligustrum lucidum, black sesame, and white Tribulus, 10g each of raspberry, wolfberry, red peony root, white peony root, Chuanxiong, Shouwu, Angelicae, and Rehmannia glutinosa. This recipe is suitable for patients with liver and kidney deficiency.
5. Xuanji Decoction: 25g each of Lithospermum, Liujinu, Paeoniae, and Clematis, 50g each of Caoheche, Salvia, and Duckweed, 10g each of Amber, Dilong, and Soilbug, and 15g Chuanxiong. This recipe is suitable for moist heat type.
6. 15-30g each of black sesame and Polygonum multiflorum, 12g each of raw and cooked Rehmannia glutinosa, Shayuanzi, mulberry and psoralen, and 6g each of safflower, red peony root and Lithospermum. This recipe is suitable for spleen and kidney yang deficiency.
2. External treatment
1. Compound psoralen tincture: Psoralen 1000g, Cuscuta 300g, grind together into powder, soak in 4000ml of 75% alcohol, soak for 7 days, filter, take the liquid for external use.
2. White spot tincture: 1g gibberellin, 200g psoralen, 100g each of white fresh bark and drynaria, 50g white tribulus, 10g cantharides, 150g dodder, 430ml dimethyl sulfoxide, appropriate amount of 75% alcohol, to make 570ml liquid.
3. Sanjihong tincture: 200g of Sanjihong (Oleander), immersed in 800ml of 75% alcohol, soaked for 7 days, filtered, take the liquid for external use.
4. Vitiligo tincture: 100g psoralen, 75g alum, 75g potassium, 50g mercury, appropriate amount of sulfur, 1000ml of 95% alcohol.
5. Compound ebony tincture: 60% ebony, 30% psoralen, 10% ginger, mixed with 80-85% alcohol, the ratio of drugs to alcohol is 1:3.
6. Eel fat therapy: Take 1500-2500g of live eel, wash and cut into small pieces, refining over slow fire, slowly boil out the oil, the fish residue will gradually turn brown, and then burn black, stop the fire, cool and add the oil for later use.
7. Compound Mi Tuoseng Powder: Grind equal amounts of realgar, sulfur, Mi Tuoseng, Huang Dan, and Sheng Nan Xing into fine powder, and apply it with ginger powder.
3. Qigong therapy Qigong can gradually strengthen the qi and blood inside the human body, promote the movement of qi and blood on a certain meridians, blood circulation and blood stasis are removed, thereby eliminating meridian blockage. Qigong can also enhance the excitability of the parasympathetic nerves, reduce sympathetic nerve activity, and adjust the function of the autonomic nervous system. At the same time, it can also adjust endocrine function disorders and has a certain effect on Baidianfeng.
What are the traditional Chinese medicine remedies for treating vitiligo? 1. Fire acupuncture therapy method: burn the needle red on the fire and then quickly insert it into the corresponding part of the human body. The patient should take a quiet and comfortable position, and the skin should be disinfected regularly. The operator holds the alcohol lamp in his left hand and lights it as close to the surgical site as possible. He holds the needle with the thumb, index and ring fingers of his right hand. He places the needle body in the center of the flame. He heats the needle body first, then heats the needle tip, and burns the needle until it turns white. Use the wrist force to stably, accurately and quickly penetrate the skin lesion, and then quickly remove the needle. It should be noted that this therapy must be performed by a professional.
Efficacy: This type of therapy is an ancient therapy that can warm the meridians and dispel cold, replenish yang energy, reconcile qi and blood, unblock the meridians, remove putrefaction and promote muscle growth. On the one hand, fire acupuncture can warm the yang, stimulate the menstrual qi, so it can dredge the meridians, promote qi and blood circulation, regulate the internal organs, support the body's righteousness, strengthen the body and expel evil spirits.
2. Tofu method: Grind 2g into very fine powder, mix into half a catty of tofu, and eat it all at once before going to bed. Take it for 2 weeks. Efficacy: It is a natural ore, do not use purified ones.
Efficacy: It has the effect of warming yang and relieving diarrhea, detoxifying and nourishing the skin. Eating tofu can protect against radiation, speed up metabolism and prolong life. Eating it with tofu prevents it from getting angry. The protein, amino acids and vitamins contained in tofu can nourish the skin.
The editor reminds: Whether it is traditional Chinese medicine to treat vitiligo or Western medicine to treat vitiligo, as long as it can be cured and is beneficial to the condition, patients can try it, but the medication and treatment must be under the guidance of a professional doctor.
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