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It is known that a furocoumarin, xanthotoxin or 8-methoxy-psoralen, is routinely used in the treatment of vitiligo, a skin disease which is defined as "an acquired cutaneous achromia characterized by variously sized and shaped single or multiple patches of milch white color 1 ", lacking the pigment normally present in man's skin. This disease affects all human races, so to speak, particularly those with a more heavily pigmented skin, although the incidence differs greatly from country to country. According to recent statistics, the incidence in some regions ofthe United States of America would be at least one per cent ofthe population; in India, this figure is even higher and, according to some authors, may even reach three per cent 2 • Vitiligo was treated in very ancient times by popular medicine in Egypt and India, through the ingestion of drugs, such as the fruit of Ammi majus (in Egypt) or grains of Psoralea corylifolia (in India), and successive exposure to sunlight. Nowadays, in practice, matters have not changed because xanthotoxin is merely one of the substances present in Ammi majus. Moreover, Psoralea corylifolia contains psoralen and angelicin (isopsoralen)-two other fu
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- Author
- L. Musajo
- Published
- 1963
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Chemistry (Physical Sciences)