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: Article Type: Integrative Review

: P.G. Department of Kayachikitsa, Rishikul Campus, Uttarakhand Ayurved University, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India

: Initial Manuscript Received: 16 February 2026

: Final Revision Received: 18 March 2026

: Accepted: 24 March 2026

: Published: 15 April 2026

: License: Distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

: Access: Open Access Article

: Peer Review: External Double-Blind

: Similarity Check: Turnitin Passed

: Conflict of Interest: None Declared

: Funding: None Declared

: Ethical Approval: Not Applicable

: Data Availability: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new datasets were generated or analyzed. All literature sources used are cited.

: AI Use: Used only for language refinement

: Author Contributions: SR (Dr. Sony Rauthan) performed the conceptualization, literature search across classical texts and modern databases, and drafted the original manuscript. SKT (Dr. Sanjay Kumar Tripathi) provided academic supervision, contributed to the integrative methodology framework, performed critical revisions for intellectual content, and gave final approval for publication.

: Keywords: Vitiligo, Śvitra, Nutrigenomics, Epigenetics, Genetics, Viruddhāhāra

: Copyright: © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Ayurveda360 Publication, Honnavar-581342, Karnataka, India. (https://www.publication.ayurveda360.in/)