Dietary Therapy for Gray Hair
Dietary Therapy for Gray Hair
To treat gray hair, besides medication, the following simple methods are effective:
Scalp Massage: Rub the scalp daily before sleep and upon waking. Start from the forehead, pass through the crown, and reach the occiput, massaging 2–4 minutes each time, moving back and forth 30–40 times per minute. Gradually extend to 5–10 minutes per session. With consistent practice over 3–4 years, one may regain full black hair. Scalp massage greatly promotes blood circulation and is beneficial for elderly health.
Dietary Remedies
Wash black beans thoroughly and repeatedly steam and sun-dry them. Store in a porcelain jar. Consume twice daily, 6 grams each time, chew and swallow with diluted salt water. Additionally, eat one egg and two walnut kernels daily. Consistent use yields noticeable results.
Take 12 large walnuts, remove shells and inner membranes, stir-fry until fragrant, chop finely, and set aside. Prepare 60g each of wolfberry and polygonum multiflorum, and 240g of small beans or black beans.
First, boil wolfberry and polygonum multiflorum with water until concentrated, filter out residue. Then add the fried chopped walnuts and black beans into the decoction, cook further until walnuts are soft and the liquid is fully absorbed by the beans. Cool and dry (or dry at low temperature) before consumption. Take twice daily, 6–9 grams each time, preferably on an empty stomach or when hungry.
Wash 1000g fresh mulberries (or 500g dried) and boil with water. Extract liquid every 30 minutes, repeat twice. Combine both extracts, reduce over low heat until thick and sticky. Add 300g honey, boil until dissolved, cool, and store in bottles. Take one tablespoon each time, dissolve in boiling water, drink twice daily.
Take 1000g walnut kernels, soak in cold water for 3 days, remove skins and tips, then mix with sugar in a pan. Heat until dissolved, stir well, cool, and consume. Eat twice daily, 10 grams each time.
Grind 250g black sesame and 250g fresh mulberries into paste, mix with a little honey, store in a bottle. Take one tablespoon each time, wash down with plain water, three times daily.
Rice Washing Water Fermentation and Hair Washing Method: Collect the water left after rinsing rice, let the sediment settle at the bottom, store for 3 days until fermented and sour. Use this liquid to rub and massage hair, then rinse clean. Do this daily. Long-term use promotes graying hair turning black, while also moisturizing hair and making it glossy and black.
Bean Decoction: Use rice vinegar and soybeans, boil beans in vinegar until soft, remove beans, reduce liquid to thick consistency, apply to hair. This helps darken gray hair and turn it black.
250g black beans, 30 ginkgo nuts, crush and stir-fry until cooked. 100g black sesame, 150g polygonum multiflorum, stir-fried until cooked. Mix all four ingredients and store in a bottle. Take 30g after breakfast daily.
Folk Remedy: Combine 40g each of black beans, black sesame, jujubes, polygonum multiflorum, and prepared rehmannia, 10g each of angelica sinensis and ligusticum chuanxiong. Soak in 750ml 60° rice wine for 15–20 days. Take 10ml each time, three times daily. Di Huang San: 2500g raw rehmannia, 250g schisandra root, 250g eucommia bark. Remove shoots from eucommia, soak rehmannia in wine overnight, dry, then steam nine times and sun-dry nine times. Crush into fine powder, sieve into a loose powder. Take 10g daily on an empty stomach with warm wine (can also be taken with congee). Avoid raw scallions, radishes, and garlic. Combined, these three herbs nourish blood and qi, benefit liver and kidneys, strengthen tendons and bones, promote health and longevity, and turn gray hair black while boosting vitality.