Bai Dian Feng is a Chinese term that roughly describes vitiligo. For thousands of years, the Chinese have been helping people heal from vitiligo and basically every known health problem. Chinese medicine has very powerful ways to help get the body what it needs to heal itself. Your body has the ability to get over illnesses and it is the responsibility of the Chinese medicine physician to provide you with the best environment in order for that healing to take place.

Practitioners of Chinese medicine treat the whole individual, not just the person’s specific health condition. They view everything affecting the body including familiar, environmental, spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical influences and consider the body itself as a whole. When practitioners look into vitiligo, they search for the pattern in the body that relate to the condition. Since each patient’s case is unique, treatment is given in a customized way. Listed below are the patterns that are at the root of vitligo.

1. Emotional factors
2. Kidney and Liver (wind deficiency: In Chinese medicine, wind deficiency can be addressed by nourishing the patient’s blood.
3. Bodily heat and blood heat: Bodily fluids can dry up with excessive internal heat and this can lead to poor nourishment of the skin. To help cool down the body, herbs can be prescribed.
4. Blood and qi stasis and/or deficiency: Certain foods and are recommended and prescribed that can help the body create more quality blood and boost qi (energy) both of which lead to the nourishment of the skin.
5. Stomach and Spleen deficiency: In Chinese medicine, the spleen and the stomach extract nutrients and digest food respectively in order to supply the body with nutrients and energy. To deal with various problems associated with the deficiency in stomach and spleen, several formulas can be prescribed by the practitioner.

The underlying pattern must be known is order to treat vitiligo. Herbs, acupuncture, and Chinese food therapy in Cleveland can then be recommended once the pattern is identified to help bring back balance in the body. The symptoms are then treated or alleviated once the balance occurs. If you have vitiligo, you need to try acupuncture. However, it is important to note that acupuncture is not a one-time thing. Depending on the gravity of your symptoms, your constitution, and how long you have the disease, you may need to undergo several treatment sessions for weeks or months. Acupuncture usually is much more effective when it is administered frequently, especially during the initial phase of the treatment. To help balance the body, a total of 5 to 20 sessions may be required.

Both various kinds of lotions and external liniments and internal herbs can be used to help treat the condition successfully. The following are a few of the most commonly used herbal remedies to address the underlying patterns. These formulas are made in the practitioner’s office. But before you are given these formulas, you first need to be thoroughly evaluated by your practitioner to know what herbs are good for you.

1. Formula that boosts blood flow, clears heat, purges toxins, nourishes blood and tonifies kidney and liver. It consists of gui shi, huang chi, shi gan cao, bai hsian, fu hsi, she chuang hsi, chi shao, gou chi hsi, dang gui, and he shou wu herbs.

2. Formula that resolves liver and kidney deficiency. May include herbs such as dang gui, bai shao, hsuan shen, tu si hsi, long yan rou, gou chi tsi, fu pen hsi, and bie hsie.

3. Formula For blood and qi deficiency. Herbs: bei hsie, da zao, dang gi, gou chi hsi, huang chi, lian hsi, shan zhu yu, hsing ren.

4. Formula for spleen and stomach deficiency. Herbs: bai zhu, dang shen, gou chi hsi, huang chi, ju hua, pi pa ye, shan zha, shan zhu yu, and yi yi ren.

5. Formula to stop itching, expel wind, remove patches, excrete dampness, flush out toxins, accelerate flow of blood, move stagnation, and enrich qi. Herbs: hsi cao, hsiang fu, wu shao she, huang chi, hong hua, dang gui, chuan chiong, bu gu zhi, bai hsian pi, bai ji li.

In China, several topical herbal ointments are used in China to treat vitiligo. Searching for external ointments would be the next step if after making lifestyle changes, taking powerful herbal remedies, doing food therapy, getting acupuncture, and following a supplementation protocol, nothing has improved.

Finally, one needs to consider the emotional factors that underlie this condition. Vitiligo has a certain consciousness that is often overlooked in spite of being most important aspect in dealing with this condition. A lot of patients have gotten well when they have dealt with the emotional patterns that are associated with this condition.