🌿 Folk Prescriptions

The main symptoms of hair loss include greasy hair resembling oil application, dry and brittle hair lacking luster, adherent pale yellow scales difficult to remove, or flaking gray-white scales that fly off, accompanied by itching. In men, hair loss primarily affects the front and top of the head; the hairline and temples recede upward, with sparse, yellowish, soft hair on the forehead and crown, eventually leading to baldness at the forehead and top or only fine downy hair remaining. In women, hair loss occurs mainly at the crown, resulting in thinning hair but not complete patchy shedding. Traditional Chinese medicine attributes this condition to two causes: first, blood heat and wind-dryness—excessive blood heat depletes yin blood, generating wind from blood deficiency, further damaging yin blood, preventing nourishment of hair roots at the scalp, causing dryness and hair loss; second, spleen-stomach damp-heat—weak spleen function impairs digestion, combined with overconsumption of rich, fatty foods, injuring stomach and spleen, causing damp-heat to rise to the scalp, eroding hair roots gradually, leading to sticky hair loss. The following are some remedies and secret formulas for hair loss. [Formula One] 200 grams of plantain herb, appropriate amount of rice vinegar. Dry the entire plantain herb into charcoal, immerse in rice vinegar, use after one week. Apply externally to affected area 2–3 times daily. [Formula Two] One black ox gallbladder, appropriate amount of sophora beans. Fill the gallbladder completely with sophora beans soaked in bile juice, consume internally. Take 9 grams each time, three times daily. [Formula Three] 240 grams of dried cypress leaves, 120 grams of whole angelica root. Grind both herbs into powder (avoid iron utensils), make into pills using water paste, size of pigeon eggs. Take 50–70 pills each time, once in the morning and once in the evening, swallow with yellow wine or salt water. [Formula Four] 60 grams each of sesame flowers and cockscomb flowers, 1.5 grams of camphor, 500 grams of white liquor. Tear sesame and cockscomb flowers into pieces, soak in alcohol, seal tightly. After 15 days, filter, then dissolve camphor in the liquid. Store for later use. Dip cotton swab in the solution and apply to balding areas, 3–4 times daily. This formula is especially suitable for neurogenic hair loss. [Formula Five] 90–120 grams each of sesame stalks and fresh willow shoots collected during Qingming Festival. Boil into decoction, wash hair and massage scalp. Use continuously for 1–7 days. This formula is especially suitable for seborrheic hair loss.
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