It is a very saddening condition when a skin disease affects the body and medical experts find it difficult to completely cure the condition even with so many scientific breakthroughs and medical science so advanced there are some diseases that still confuses modern medicine. Psoriasis therapy has advanced during the recent years and it is possible to arrest the advancement of the disease to a certain extent but with the triggering factors differing in each individual every case has to be dealt with individually. Since it is not of an infectious nature isolation of the patient is not required but it is advisable to wash the patient’s clothes separately as residues and other contaminants can trigger the onset of the disease. It is accepted that heredity plays a role in the development of the disease but various other factors such as trauma, exposure to harmful UV rays of the sun, emotional stress are also attributed with the condition. Blood purification is essential and for this panchakarma treatment is adopted but no treatment can guarantee a cent percent result as a mode of treatment that has positive effect on one may seem to have no effect on another. Liberal consumption of buttermilk and easily digestible foods are advisable and generally the patient should avoid processed and canned foods, junk foods, animal fats and eggs. It is important that the moisture content of the skin has to be retained too prevent itchiness, skin rupturing and salt water bathing also provides relief to some.