LEUCODERMA / VITILIGO ‘Leuco means ‘white’ and ‘derma’ means ‘skin’, thus leucoderma means abnormal whiteness of the skin. This disease is usually very difficult to treat. If the patient and the physician treat this disease for a long time with patience, it is possible to cure it during the treatment very small blackish spots appear in the white patches. These spots keep spreading and the skin gradually becomes normal. The abnormal whiteness disappears. In this way, the disease is cured. It is not an infection disease. Only the skin becomes white. Causes : Why do white patches appear ? So far it has not been possible to find out what causes this problem. However, there are certain things which affect the human body and can cause white patches in the skin, which spread rapidly. (1)When the quantity of melanin in the blood is reduced, the skin becomes white , (2) chronic constipation, (3) malfunctioning of the liver, jaundice, (4) ailments of the stomach, (5) worms, (6) diseas...