Wash your hair to turn white hair into black hair

Modern people have great work pressure and overuse of the brain, which causes nerve reflexes and affects the release of nutrients in the hair layer cells, resulting in the common phenomenon of premature graying of hair. Many Chinese herbs are also added to shampoo, which can turn white hair into black hair. Washing your hair with Chinese medicine is one of the commonly used external treatment methods in traditional Chinese medicine. Can washing your hair turn gray hair into black hair? What other Chinese medicines can be added to achieve twice the result with half the effort?

Early graying of hair before old age often has a family history and is characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance. Pernicious anemia, hyperthyroidism, cardiovascular disease, etc. are prone to gray hair. Severe emotional influences can cause spasms in the blood vessels that nourish the hair, which can reduce the function of hair matrix melanocytes to secrete melanin, thereby affecting the synthesis of melanin particles and causing hair to turn white. Long-term tuberculosis, malignant tumors, gastrointestinal diseases, and diabetes can also cause the premature appearance of gray hair.

The formation of gray hair is mainly related to the amount of pigment particles in the cortex and medulla of the hair. If there are more pigment particles, the hair will be black and shiny, while if there are fewer pigment particles, the hair will be white and dull. The melanocytes in the hair bulb lose their activity, causing the pigment in the hair to disappear.

Imbalanced nutrition and protein deficiency can also cause hair to lose pigment and turn brown or gray. Lack of essential fatty acids can also cause hair color to fade. Lack of vitamin B12, folic acid, para-benzoic acid, etc. can cause hair to turn gray. Lack of trace elements such as copper, cobalt, and iron can also lead to gray hair. Eating too much sugar can make your hair dry and yellow. Hypogonadism can cause premature graying of hair.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that young and middle-aged people are full of blood and easily excited, with hyperactivity of liver fire, which damages liver yin and causes deficiency of yin and blood; after middle age, what they wish for cannot be achieved, liver qi stagnation occurs, and it attacks the spleen, causing dysfunction of the spleen and insufficient production of qi and blood; or there may be congenital deficiency of kidney essence and qi, or due to long-term illness, old age and physical weakness, which consumes essence and qi, and the inability of essence to produce yin blood, resulting in insufficient liver blood, all of which can lead to loss of nourishment for hair and premature graying of hair.

There are many proven prescriptions and folk remedies for treating gray hair, but the main ones are as follows. (For reference only!)

[Side 1]:

30 grams of mulberry bark, 15 grams of gallnut, and 60 grams of Amaranthus seeds. Decoction in water to extract juice, for external washing.

[Part 2]:

100 grams of sour pomegranate, 150 grams of gallnut, and 50 grams of sesame leaves. Grind it into coarse powder, put it into water in an iron container, and take out the remaining juice.

[Part Three]:

Two cloves of garlic and one piece of ginger. Mash the medicine into a paste, rub it on the scalp, and then rinse with water. You can spray some perfume to reduce the garlic smell. Apply it continuously for 3-4 months until it takes effect.

[Square Four]:

Green vitriol, mint and aconite are taken in equal parts. Grind the medicine into powder, soak it in iron slurry and water, and dye it during the day.

[Square Five]:

200 grams of castor beans and appropriate amount of sesame oil. Use sesame oil to fry castor seed kernels until they are charred, remove the residue, leave them for 3 days, and brush your hair frequently. This recipe is especially suitable for hair that is yellow but not black.