ABSTRACT
Leucoderma, or vitiligo, commonly known as Sweta Kustha, Kodh or Phuleri and is an idiopathic acquired disorder of the skin that results from the selective destruction of melanocyte cells. Leucoderma could affect anybody, it is not at all an infectious disease. In most of the leucoderma cases, the endocrine glands have an incriminated tendency. Oral psoralen and ultraviolet A therapy (PUVA) is used for people with more extensive leucoderma or for people who do not respond to topical PUVA therapy. Autologous Skin Grafts is sometimes used for patients with small patches of leucoderma. An effective and very cheap poly component herbal formulation for the cure of leucoderma for both topical and oral application has been developed by Defence Institute of Bio-energy Research. The anti-leucoderma herbal product developed by the institute had been launched by AIMIL Pharmaceuticals Ltd., New Delhi, on September 7, 2011 at DRDO Bhawan, New Delhi by the brand name of Lukoskin.
