Leucoderma health advice

Home Remedies for Leucoderma

Yes, an unborm baby or fetus can be affected by leucoderma if the woman carrying the baby is suffering from lecoderma.

Leucoderma is a skin disease that is characterized by the formation of white patches on the skin. The term itself means white skin.


In this skin condition, skin loses the pigment melanin, a pigment responsible for imparting color to the skin. This loss of melanin results in white patches on the skin.

Some of the other apparent causes of lecoderma are emotional stress, sunburns, physical illness, worms and heredity factors.


This is not infectious but is can result due to genetic factors. Certain diseases such as hyperthyroidism, pernicious anemia, diabetes mellitus and Addison's disease can aggravate the condition.

To have a healthy baby, it’s advisable for the woman carrying the baby treat the symptoms of leucoderma. It can be treated by the following home remedies:

• Apply a paste of babchi and tamarind seeds on the white patches.
• Avoid stress, anxiety and depression. This will definitely help you improve the condition.
• Drink water from copper vessel.
• Ginger juice acts as a stimulant and helps in increasing blood flow to patches.
• Ginger leaves poultice can be applied over the infected patches.
  Curry made of Bathu is also beneficial. You can even extract juice of Bathu and apply over the white patches.

• Steep the seeds of psoralea (babchi) in ginger juice for 3 days. Rub the seeds with your hands to remove the husks, dry them in shade and powder them. Have a gram of this powder with a cup of milk everyday for a period of 40 days continuously. Also apply the paste made from the ground seeds to the spots. Steep an equal quantity of these seeds in and tamarind seeds with water for 3 to 4 days. Now, shell them and dry them in shade. Ground them and make their paste. Apply them on the spots once a day and continue this treatment for a week. If you get itching or notice any redness on the spots, discontinue it immediately.
• Mix equal amounts of ginger juice and red clay and apply this paste on the white spots once daily. Ginger juice increases blood flow to the spots and the copper contained in red clay restores pigmentation.
• Keep a copper vessel full of water overnight and drink this water the next day.
• Powder about 35 grams of the radish seeds and add 2 tsp of vinegar to it and apply uniformly on the patches regularly.
• You can go on a week long all fruit juice diet to cleanse your system and purify blood.