Skin diseases are mostly rooted deeply into various dhatus or tissues like skin layers.
Most skin treatments are generally external applications like creams and ointements. These however never reach the deeper layers of the skin.as a result the symptoms disappear temporary and the disease is not rooted out permanently.
Ayurveda always tries to root out disease by treating it specifically according to its cause.
Ayurvedic skin treatments may take few weeks to remove the symptoms but the disease are treated permanently.
Procedure
These procedures includes vaman,virechan,basti treatment.
Raktamokshan (leech therapy),sira vedhan (blood letting) also adviced as per disease and dosha predominanace.
Chronic skin diseases
Psoriasis
Eczema
Acne vulgaris
Urticaria
Leucoderma(white patches)
Herpes zoster
Benefits
Twak vikaras having promising results in ayurveda
It having no side effects such as steroid therapy used in allopathy.