Devils Roses or psoriasis has been around for many years. It is an age old disease which could lie dormant for many years and come back with a surge. The disease is wide spread all around the world affecting almost 2 percent of the world’s population.

The disease often appears as thick red patch around a raised portion of the skin commonly near joints like elbows and knees. But the disease can attack any part of the skin including the genitals indiscriminately.

This skin disorder is a self immune disease which results the skin cells to generate 30 times quicker than the normal skin cell. This fast and rapid growth of skin cells is effected due to some unknown triggers in the body and the immune system tries to fight it.

As the skin cell regenerates itself rapidly they grow overlapping the older tissue without going through the normal cycle of growth. Hence the body is unable to shed the skin normally. The new skin grows on top of the older skin causing rough red thick patches accompanied with itching.

This results in skin turning rough and peeling. It is a very uncomfortable condition which socially not acceptable. This phenomenon is not visually appealing and leaves the affected person depressed and socially shunned. The pealing rough areas are called as the psoriasis plaques. Though there are many treatments to suppress the external irritation, there is no lasting cure found for this disease.

The main cause for this disease is unknown, though research has revealed that the external elements like climate, food that we consume, emotional stress could be some triggering agents. Scientists are actively involved in research and have published many findings all around the world. These researches have thrown some light on this mysterious disease, the cure for which is eluding the man kind.

Some findings have revealed that a person can develop psoriasis disease due to calcium binding gene. Psoriasis could be a genetic disorder which can be traced to familial background. These findings have brought the mankind few steps closer to finding a cure to this elusive disease in the future.