Skin is the largest tissue and vital part of our body’s health and wellbeing. Following a diet or lifestyle that is against the season or the prakriti (nature) of a person, creates an imbalance in bodily energies, thus vitiating the body tissues to produce a skin disease. In Ayurvedic terms, although skin diseases are caused due to imbalances in all the three doshas, the prime dosha involved is pitta. According to Ayurveda skin disease is, mostly, rooted deeply into various dhatus or tissues like fat, muscles, blood etc.
Most skin treatments are generally external applications like creams or oils. These, however, never reach the deeper layers of the skin. As a result, the symptoms disappear temporarily but the disease is not exterminated permanently. Ayurveda roots out the disease by treating it specifically according to its cause not just signs and symptoms. Ayurvedic skin treatments may take a few weeks to remove the symptoms, but the diseases are treated permanently.