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Psoriasis (Kitibha) Ayurvedic Care in Pune

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Psoriasis care is long term: Ayurvedic Medicine, diet and external care alongside your dermatologist.
AMRUT AYU CARE™ · Tuesday Skin, Hair and Cosmetic OPD

Psoriasis (Kitibha) Ayurvedic Care in Pune

What psoriasis is, how Ayurveda reads it, what long-term care involves, how it sits alongside your dermatologist's prescription, and the flares that need a doctor the same week.

Key Takeaways
Psoriasis is chronic and relapsing. Honest care aims at longer, calmer gaps between flares, not at a finish line.
Ayurveda reads it as Vata with Kapha acting on vitiated Rakta, with Ama from irregular digestion underneath.
Care has two halves: Shodhana, the cleansing Panchakarma procedures, and Shamana, the internal Ayurvedic Medicine and diet that hold the ground afterwards.
Never stop a prescribed topical, phototherapy course or systemic medication on your own. That decision belongs to your dermatologist.
Joint pain or swelling alongside psoriasis needs assessment for psoriatic arthritis. Skin care alone is not the answer to that.
Read this first. A few psoriasis presentations are urgent. Redness spreading across most of the body with shivering or fever, or a sudden crop of pustules with fever and feeling unwell, needs hospital assessment the same day. New or worsening joint pain, stiffness or swelling needs review for psoriatic arthritis. Rapidly spreading plaques, oozing, or a flare starting soon after a new medication also need a doctor promptly. Continue every prescribed treatment exactly as directed, including methotrexate, biologics or phototherapy, and tell your dermatologist what Ayurvedic Medicine you are taking.
4.9 ★
from 52 Google reviews, Ghorpadi and Hadapsar (checked Sep 2026)
15+ years
Dr. Prashant Amrutkar, M.D., PhD Scholar (Panchakarma)
12+ years
Dr. Amruta Amrutkar, M.D. Ayurveda
2 clinics
with full Panchakarma: Ghorpadi and Manjri Bk, Hadapsar

Ayurvedic care for psoriasis at AMRUT AYU CARE™ in Pune. Psoriasis is a long-term, non-contagious skin condition in which skin cells turn over far faster than usual, leaving red plaques with silvery scale. Ayurveda places it among the Kushtha group, most often as Kitibha or Ekakushtha. Care here is long-term management, not a quick course, and it runs alongside dermatology rather than in place of it. Seen at the Tuesday Skin, Hair and Cosmetic OPD, with full Panchakarma at Ghorpadi and Manjri Bk, Hadapsar.

The Ayurvedic view

How Ayurveda Reads Psoriasis

Classical texts group long-standing skin disease under Kushtha. The pattern seen in most plaque psoriasis matches Kitibha or Ekakushtha: rough, dark, scaly patches that itch and thicken.

Vata and Kapha together
Vata brings the dryness, roughness, cracking and scaling. Kapha brings the itching, thickening and the silvery layer that lifts off.
Rakta and Ama
Irregular digestion leaves Ama, which disturbs Rakta Dhatu. This is why care starts at digestion rather than at the skin surface.
Flare triggers
Stress and poor sleep, throat infections, winter dryness, skin injury at the site, and Viruddha Ahara, incompatible food combinations such as fish with milk.
The joints matter
Psoriasis and joint disease travel together in a proportion of patients. Morning stiffness or a swollen finger or toe is reported at the consultation.
Long-term care

What Long-Term Care Involves

Assessment
How long, how much body surface, which sites, what the flares track with, nail and scalp involvement, joint symptoms, and every current medication.
Agni and diet first
Deepana and Pachana measures to settle digestion, then a diet that drops the Viruddha Ahara combinations and the aggravating foods identified for you.
Shodhana where suitable
Cleansing Panchakarma, most often Virechana, prepared with internal and external Snehana and Swedana. Raktamokshana (leech therapy) is considered in selected presentations. Virechana runs at Ghorpadi and Manjri Bk, Hadapsar; Raktamokshana also runs at Wagholi.
Shamana and local care
Internal Ayurvedic Medicine and medicated oils or pastes applied locally, adjusted as the skin changes. Nothing on this page is a prescription.
Holding the ground
The diet, sleep and stress work continues between flares. Psoriasis relapses when the routine stops, which is the part most often abandoned once the skin looks better.
No timeline is quoted here and no clearance is promised. Psoriasis behaves differently in different people, and a claim made before an examination would be invented.
Shared care

Working Alongside Your Dermatologist

Most patients arrive already using something: a steroid ointment, vitamin D analogues, coal tar, phototherapy, or a systemic medicine such as methotrexate or a biologic. All of it continues exactly as prescribed while Ayurvedic care is added around it.

Stopping a topical steroid abruptly risks a rebound flare, and stopping a systemic medicine on your own carries larger risks. Any reduction is planned by the dermatologist who prescribed it, in their own time.

Tell each doctor what the other has advised. Some internal Ayurvedic Medicine needs care alongside methotrexate in particular, because both ask something of the liver, and your doctors need the full picture to monitor that properly.

Between flares

What Helps Between Flares

Keep the skin oiled and the bathing gentle. Lukewarm water rather than hot, a short bath, and oil applied while the skin is still damp. Harsh soap and vigorous scrubbing of plaques make the picture worse.

Protect the skin from injury, because plaques often appear where skin has been scratched, cut or rubbed. Have throat infections seen promptly, since they trigger flares in some patients.

Sleep and stress are not soft advice here. Patients describe flares tracking exam periods, deadlines and disturbed sleep more reliably than they track any single food.

Where to consult

Where to Consult in Pune

The Tuesday Skin, Hair and Cosmetic OPD covers psoriasis, with Dr. Amruta Amrutkar leading skin consultations. Ghorpadi and Manjri Bk, Hadapsar see patients in person and hold full Panchakarma. Wagholi consults in person and gives Raktamokshana; other procedures are referred to those two branches. Kharadi and Viman Nagar consult online.

Bring your current prescriptions and any recent reports to the first visit. Photographs of the skin during a bad flare are genuinely useful, because plaques look different on a good day.

Related reading: Skin Types in Ayurveda: Vata, Pitta and Kapha Skin Care, and Skin and Hair Ayurvedic Care in Pune: Conditions We See.

Reviewed by Dr. Amruta Amrutkar and Dr. Prashant Amrutkar
M.D. Ayurveda, 12+ years · M.D., PhD Scholar (Panchakarma), 15+ years · AMRUT AYU CARE™, Pune
Psoriasis is a long-term relapsing condition. Ayurvedic care aims at settling flares and lengthening the calm periods, alongside the treatment your dermatologist has prescribed. Outcomes vary by individual, and no clearance or timeline is promised. This page is educational and not a substitute for a consultation.
Book this care at our Ghorpadi clinic
See the fee and timings, and send a booking request for Psoriasis (Kitibha) Ayurvedic. Consultations are also held at Manjri Bk, Hadapsar, in person at Wagholi, and online across India. Call or WhatsApp 8698282507.
Questions patients ask

Frequently Asked Questions

Will Ayurveda make psoriasis go away for good?

No. Psoriasis is a chronic relapsing condition and no system of medicine ends it for good. Ayurvedic care aims at settling the current flare and lengthening the calm stretches between flares.

Do I stop my steroid ointment before starting?

No. Continue every prescribed treatment exactly as directed and tell both doctors what you are using. Stopping a topical steroid abruptly risks a rebound flare.

Is Panchakarma performed for psoriasis?

Where the doctor judges it suitable. Virechana is the most commonly indicated, after proper preparation, and Raktamokshana is considered in selected presentations. Both run at Ghorpadi and Manjri Bk, Hadapsar, and Raktamokshana also at Wagholi.

Which foods are avoided?

The priority is Viruddha Ahara, incompatible combinations such as fish with milk, along with whatever has reliably triggered your own flares. A blanket list handed out without an examination is of limited use.

My joints hurt as well. Is that related?

Possibly. Psoriatic arthritis affects a proportion of people with psoriasis, and joint pain, stiffness or swelling needs proper assessment rather than skin-directed care alone.

How long before the skin settles?

That depends on how long it has been present, how much surface is involved and what the flares track with. No fixed number of weeks is quoted here.

Is psoriasis contagious?

No. It does not spread from person to person by contact of any kind.

4.9 ★
from 52 Google reviews, Ghorpadi and Hadapsar (checked Sep 2026)
15+ years
Dr. Prashant Amrutkar, M.D., PhD Scholar (Panchakarma)
12+ years
Dr. Amruta Amrutkar, M.D. Ayurveda
2 clinics
with full Panchakarma: Ghorpadi and Manjri Bk, Hadapsar
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