Dietary Therapy Methods for Patients with Vitiligo
Disease description:
My child is 26 years old this year. Recently, his body has developed many patches and red spots, which often itch. He has been diagnosed with vitiligo. I would like to know what dietary therapies are available for vitiligo patients?
Doctor's answer (1)
Dr. Wang Xiaoyan
Dietary therapy methods for patients with vitiligo include:
1. Angelica root stewed fish head: Stewing angelica root with fish head to make soup, which helps regulate the body and promote melanin production.
2. Black sesame and walnut soy milk: Grinding black sesame seeds and walnut kernels into paste, then boiling it with soy milk. Long-term consumption may help activate melanocytes.
3. Fig fruit and leaves: Consuming figs daily or applying fig leaf juice externally (not recommended for those with allergies), which can increase the density of melanocytes in the skin's outer layer.
4. Black bean and black sesame porridge: Roasting black beans and black sesame seeds before cooking them into porridge, which helps nourish qi and blood and promote melanin production.
5. Pig liver with wood ear mushroom and wolfberry soup: This soup nourishes the liver and kidneys and regulates qi and blood, providing auxiliary therapeutic effects for vitiligo patients.
6. Mulberry seed, wolfberry, and jujube porridge: Cooking porridge with mulberry seed, wolfberry, jujube, and similar ingredients, which also helps replenish qi and blood, nourish the liver, and benefit the kidneys.
