The word vitiligo is resulting from the Latin words ‘vitelius’ who’s meaning is calf. The vitiligo is a skin disorder that is caused by the depigmentation. Depigmentation refers to the defeat of skin particular cells recognized because ‘melanin’ from the skin. The illness symptoms consist of appearance of white patches on dissimilar skin areas, altering hairs coloration or premature graying of hairs color. It is too seen that white spots and patches are also appeared along the skin mucous membrane and retina of eyes. Due to participation of retina of eyes patient’s loss their vision.

The causes of appearance of vitiligo are not easy to ascertain. even if homeopathically it is believed that the illness is appeared by the internal body role but other factors such as heredity, stress factors, auto immunity, thyroxine gland deficiency, physical illness, medication affects, physical injuries, sun exposure are also caused vitiligo.

The illness affects approximately 40 to 50 million citizens of the world wide which makes 2 to3 percent. It affects equally male & female of any contest and age.

In the early step of the disease white spots and patches are appeared on skin areas in little dimension and the majority of them are limited to skin body areas. Later on, the white spots and patches are extensively disseminated on whole body areas with the bigger size.

The disease ‘vitiligo’ according to American Vitiligo Research Foundation, (AVRF) is not curable. Vitiligo treatments that are invented by medical science have two purposes:

*        To reproduce melanin cells in skin

*        To wash out melanin cells from the skin

The aim of equally the vitiligo treatments purposes is to give skin single tone, skin natural color. The vitiligo treatment for the white spots and patches are psychotherapy, PUVA treatment / photochemotherapy, oral psoralen therapy, topical psoralen therapy, Ayurvedic treatment, homeopathic treatment, skin transplantation, skin grafting via blistering etc.

The appearance of vitiligo white patches on skin breaks the inner potency of the patients. Patients loss self-assurance, their strengths, and they suffer embarrassment, shame, to face the world. For this purpose through psychotherapy doctors provides general strategy to patients so that they realize the disease and can defend their inner strength and power against the disease.