An Input Of Traditional Chinese Herbs To Hair Loss Treatment

By Eugene Yeng


Healthy hair depends on a good blood flow to the hair's roots as well as the scalp. Any deficiency in blood flow or its diminished nourishment will naturally lead to some hair loss. Blood is actually produced by the digestive process, and so blood deficiency can be due to dietary or digestive insufficiency. The average Western diet which often can include a lot of dairy products and processed foods can be particularly damaging here. Nonetheless, these deficiencies can be reduced, and the success of traditional Chinese herbs to hair loss treatment makes this a good option.

In fact, herbs have been used in China for centuries. The area of herbology is therefore one of the most important branches of Chinese medicine that exists. The correct use of effective herbal remedies is, however, a complex process and their prescription and application requires a great deal of experience and knowledge.

Each individual herbal treatment can often be a complicated concoction of a variety of herbs that are carefully mixed to suit the requirements of each patient. The mixture usually consists of one or two main ingredients that are deemed to be the best suited to target the illness. Other ingredients will then be added both to adjust the formula to the specific yin/yang makeup of the particular patient as well as to counter any possible side-effects of the main herbs.

Therefore Chinese herbology often makes use of all the different parts of each particular plant, including the leaf, the stem, the flower and the root. Ingredients which have been extracted from both animals and minerals can also often be incorporated into the final formula.

Preparation of the herbs is carried out in a variety of ways. If the herbs are still raw they can be simply boiled and then drank just like any tea. In recent times, however, they can usually be found in pill or capsule form and although rare they can in fact be introduced into the blood by means of a sticking plaster.

Let us now look at the formulas which are the most relevant to the subject of hair loss. One remedy which is considered to be extremely effective in this area is what is known in the West as polygoni multiflori or FoTi. The Chinese generally call this herb He Shou Wu. For them it is named after a man (old Mr He) who, according to legend, when lost in the forests survived by eating this root. When he was found his hair was both thicker and had turned from grey back to its original black. Naturally then, this root is also used to treat premature greying.

But perhaps the most common herb that has been used for hair restoration is the well known Ginseng. For more than two thousand years this plant extract has been used within Chinese medicine. Nowadays it will more often than not be consumed in the form of a tea.

Lastly a proven success at treating age-related hair loss as well as male pattern baldness is the popular herb Goto Kola. These then, are some some examples of how applying traditional Chinese herbs to hair loss treatment can be a success.




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