“…These compounds are furocoumarins.Phytophotoderm atitis has a long history; even in ancient India, China, Arabia and E gypt plants were employed in the treatm ent of vitiligo ( Fitzpatrick and Pathak, 1959;Levai, 1958; Fahmy and AbuShady, 1948). In the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th century a num ber of reports were published, establishing th at the clinical picture of phytophotoderm atitis was known.…”