Traditional Chinese medicine classifies hair loss due to blood deficiency and wind dryness as yin deficiency and hyperactivity, insufficiency of blood or deficiency of the heart and spleen, etc. Commonly used formulas include Angelica Drinking Tonic Plus Reduction, Four Substance Tonic Plus Reduction, or Eight Treasures Tonic Plus Reduction, etc. The patient should be treated by a doctor who will recognize the symptoms and choose the medication accordingly. It is necessary for the doctor to combine the patient’s personal situation to identify the symptoms and then choose the medication.
Hair loss due to blood deficiency, wind and dryness is a kind of disease characterized by the loss of nourishment of the skin and the loss of glory of the hair due to the dryness caused by blood deficiency, wind and dryness.
1. Angelica Drinking Tonic Plus and Minus: It is mainly used for treating heart stagnation and internal wind-heat, with the effects of nourishing blood and moistening dryness, dispelling wind and stopping itching (stopping itching by dispelling wind evils that invade the surface of the muscle) and clearing heat and cooling blood.
Angelica sinensis is the key medicinal flavor in this formula, which is effective in treating symptoms of Blood deficiency and Blood stagnation and Blood deficiency generating Wind (Blood deficiency, loss of nourishment to the sinews and veins causing Wind movement). However, it should be used with caution in patients suffering from hemorrhage due to heat, fullness in the middle of the body due to dampness (too much dampness leading to fullness and discomfort in the spleen and stomach), and diseases with loose stools.
2. Four Substances Tang Plus Reduction: It is used for treating deficiency and stagnation of blood in the camp (deficiency of blood in the body), with the effects of tonifying blood without stagnating blood, and promoting blood circulation without destroying blood stasis.
White peony is the key medicinal flavor in this formula, which is effective in treating symptoms such as blood-heat and wind-dryness and blood deficiency. However, it should be used with caution for blood-heat body and pregnant women.
3. Ba Zhen Tang Plus Subtractions: treating deficiency of Qi and Blood and weakness of the body, with the effects of promoting Qi and activating Blood, tonifying Blood and nourishing Yin.
Ginseng is the key medicine in this formula, which is effective in treating symptoms such as deficiency of qi and wanting to get rid of, sinking of qi in the middle of the body (deficiency of qi in the spleen and stomach, which is manifested by the falling of the internal organs), or deficiency of heat and thirst. However, it should not be taken by menstruating women or pregnant women.
If you have any of the above symptoms, please go to a regular medical institution and follow the doctor’s instructions for standardized treatment.