Friends, last night as I was putting on my oinments, lotions, creams, "treatments" (however you want to call it...lol...) and the anti-aging stuff, lol... something hit me!... This is where I need the advice...
Why not mix my last prescription for the vit --VECTICAL-- with black pepper oil??? If Vectical was made to help with the pigmentation and it's been said that black pepper oil helps bring back the pigmentation, why not mix them? Since the ointment was made to penetrate and treat the skin condition, it might work faster. Don't you think?
What are your thoughts about this?
Thanks!!!!! ;-)
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It's not a magic bullet but it does offer promise. This is from the "Amides from Piper nigrum L. with dissimilar effects on melanocyte p..." scientific paper, published in the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology in 2007: "This finding supports the traditional use of P. nigrum extracts [(Piperaceae) fruit (black pepper) water extract and its main alkaloid, piperine] in vitiligo and provides new lead compounds for drug development for this disease."
One paper "UV irradiation affects melanocyte stimulatory activity and protein ...," published in the journal of Photochemistry and Photobioliology in 2006, however, does say: "The present study suggests that exposure to bright sunlight should be avoided both during active application of piperine to the skin and in the storage of piperine products." So maybe that's what he meant.
But Boissy also said ginkgo biloba helping was just rumours. This is from a scientific article published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dermatology in 2003: "A statistically significant cessation of active progression of depigmentation was noted in patients treated with G. biloba." In fact, progression was arrested in 80% of all people taking ginkgo, compared with only 36% of those taking a placebo.
Sorry I couldn't find the full text. Although I did find the full text for one scientific article I had mentioned before. It did a summary of this study and other studies. Quick, download it before it stops being free. A systematic review of natural health product treatment for vitiligo.
Just so you know. Only peer-reviewed articles make it onto this NIH (National Institutes of Health) database.
He did say that but I feel that for most studies, there will be people that find substance in them and people that don't. So, who is to say who is right? Therefore, I feel that since no harm can be done by doing this, then it is worth a try.
meera popat > Nelly CardinaleAugust 6, 2009 at 6:24pm
ya my son has been following ayurvedic treatment and has been told to eat brown chickpeas everyday and to help digeston has been prescribed a powder which has peperine or pepper pd as an ingredient. his patches have repigmented by 98%. dont know how, but the pepperine cud have helped too.
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One paper "UV irradiation affects melanocyte stimulatory activity and protein ...," published in the journal of Photochemistry and Photobioliology in 2006, however, does say: "The present study suggests that exposure to bright sunlight should be avoided both during active application of piperine to the skin and in the storage of piperine products." So maybe that's what he meant.
But Boissy also said ginkgo biloba helping was just rumours. This is from a scientific article published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dermatology in 2003: "A statistically significant cessation of active progression of depigmentation was noted in patients treated with G. biloba." In fact, progression was arrested in 80% of all people taking ginkgo, compared with only 36% of those taking a placebo.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12780716
Sorry I couldn't find the full text. Although I did find the full text for one scientific article I had mentioned before. It did a summary of this study and other studies. Quick, download it before it stops being free.
A systematic review of natural health product treatment for vitiligo.
Just so you know. Only peer-reviewed articles make it onto this NIH (National Institutes of Health) database.