STUDY OF SHWITRA YOGA IN THE TREATMENT OF LEUCODERMA / VITILIGO

Ayurveda has described a number of “Asadhya”’ diseases, Leucoderma is one of them and is a medico-social Problem since the time of Bhagavan Manu. Manu has said, even if one’s daughter is suffering from Leucoderma she should be kept away from marriage for the sake of society. Although the disease is not contagious or there is no pain or complications in this disease. According to Ayurveda, Leucoderma is a disease difficult to cure by its very nature. So it is a difficult task for the patients as well as “Chikitsaka”. We were inspired to take the challenge of this disease to society and we selected the Problem of Leucoderma. In initial stage we started a pilot study of different drugs which are described in the text books of Ayurveda as a ‘‘Kushthaghna’’. Out of which we selected-six drugs for our trial. We prepared a combination of it and we administered in several patients. We found very encouraging results with this trial, and we think to carry out this trial on more patients scientifically and methodically, The combination of six drugs named as a Shwitra -Yoga on which we started some systematic work.