Reviews in Clinical Medicine (Aug 2014)

Psoriasis and indigo naturalis as a treatment

  • Mohammad Imani,
  • Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah,
  • Hoda Azizi,
  • Touba Ahmadzadeh Sani,
  • Mahnaz Banihashemi,
  • Hamid Reza Bahrami-Taghanaki,
  • Mohammad Khajedaluee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17463/RCM.2014.03.007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 3
pp. 131 – 134

Abstract

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Psoriasis is an inflammatory and proliferative disease. Psoriasis clinical features vary from plaque-type psoriasis to pustular form. Psoriasis is an immune-mediated disease, which affects epidermal keratinocytes. Regard to serious side effects of chemical therapy in psoriasis patients, various projects were performed all around the world to find new therapeutic approaches for psoriasis. Various studies confirmed that Indigo naturalis treatment induced long-term remission in patients with psoriasis in all ages.

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