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Recent scientist’s research found that black pepper enhances the treatment of disease, which manifests itself in physical defects skin. According to statistics, the disease affects about 1% of people worldwide.
British scientists from King’s College in London conducted an analysis based on experiments with laboratory mice, dedicated to studying the properties of piperin substances - composition, which gives black pepper sharp flavor and pungent aroma.
Synthetic derivatives of the substance helped stimulate pigmentation of skin of patients suffering from vitiligo - a disease group dishromy skin, which is characterized by the development of depigment white spots that occur because of metabolic diseases.
According to the researchers, piperin has a positive effect in combination with phototherapy.
«We have shown that piperin treatment allows stimulate skin pigmentation», - said Dr. Antony Young, photobiology of King’s College, London.
- «These data suggest our future clinical piperin trials and its derivatives for the treatment of vitiligo».
In the new analysis on the search for a better treatment method of the disease, scientists found that when using a separate piperin allows correct color within six weeks, and in conjunction with phototherapy, even dark skin can be cured during this period, experts contend.
Vitiligo - one of the most unknown and difficult to treat diseases. It can occur at any age and is manifested by the appearance of white skin patches, that is, sites lacking pigment - melanin. The disease is distributed throughout the world. In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of patients, both adults and child populations, especially among young people.
Of great importance in the development of vitiligo have a stressful state of deferred infectious diseases, chronic diseases of internal organs, intoxication, physical injury.
Methods of vitiligo treating that are available today, based on steroids, and phototherapy. However, the body of many patients not responding to hormone therapy, the risk of developing skin cancer may increase, the researchers note.