What to look for in Chinese medicine for daily care of baldness

It is a kind of limited patchy hair loss with a tendency to recur, and there is no inflammation and no conscious symptoms in the lesion. In Chinese medicine, it is called “oil wind” and is commonly known as “ghost shaving” or “ghost add-on”, which means that the onset of the disease is relatively sudden, like being shaved off by a ghost, and many patients find it unintentionally.

The cause of this disease is not fully understood, and may be related to autoimmunity, psychoneurological factors, genetic factors, vascular dysfunction, endocrine disorders, infection and poisoning. Chinese medicine believes that the liver collects blood (hair is the residue of blood), the kidneys collect essence (kidneys …… its Hua in the hair), and the lungs combine with the skin and hair loss, hair loss is closely related to the above three organs. From the point of view of external evil, “above the top high, only the wind can reach”, “the heat pole produces wind”, more closely related to wind and heat.

Blood heat generates wind Excessive consumption of spicy, fatty, easily damage the spleen and stomach, resulting in damp heat, damp heat fumigates the hair resulting in hair loss; or mental factors lead to suppression of depression and fire, loss of yin and blood, blood heat generates wind, wind and fire incite each other, along the meridian up to the peak, hair lost the moistening of yin and blood and fall off.

(2) Liver depression and blood stasis Emotional depression, resulting in liver qi is not well-developed, qi cloth can not promote blood flow, stop and stasis, resulting in hair loss of blood moistening and fall off.

③ liver and kidney deficiency liver collects blood (hair is the residue of blood), kidney collects essence (kidney …… its Hua in the hair), liver and kidney homologous source, if liver and kidney deficiency, essence can not turn blood, blood less can not nourish the hair, hair growth no source, it will cause hair loss.

The spleen is the origin of the posterior, the source of Qi and blood biochemistry, and the spleen and stomach are damaged by inattention to diet, or the spleen and stomach are weakened after childbirth or illness. This can lead to hair loss.

In terms of treatment, according to the above-mentioned conditions, we can flexibly use methods such as dispelling wind and clearing heat, draining the liver and relieving depression, activating blood circulation, nourishing the liver and kidney, and nourishing qi and blood. Here we focus on hair conditioning.

①Establishing confidence Relieving mental burden, most of the baldness can be cured.

②Food therapy A. Dandelion 80g, black beans 5000g, add water and boil, remove dandelion residue, then add rock sugar 120g, collect and dry, take 60g orally daily. suitable for all types of hair loss with heat like. B. Single-flavored Zi He Che, dried and powdered, 10g each orally in the morning and evening, suitable for baldness with deficiency of liver and kidney and deficiency of qi and blood. C. Chrysanthemum 10g and Drynaria 5g, decocted and drunk as tea, suitable for baldness with blood heat and wind.

③Single prescription Apply fresh ginger block externally to the balding area, or fresh red skin garlic juice mixed with glycerin (3:2 ratio) to the balding area, 3~4 times a day.

④Self-massage Sit upright with your legs shoulder-width apart, separate the five fingers of your hands, and use ten fingers to comb from the forehead to the back of the head several times, then comb from the top of the head to the sideburns on both sides and the back of the head, so that the blood in the scalp circulates, press the skin of the head with five fingers of both hands, and tap the scalp.