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What are the traditional Chinese medicine remedies for hair loss?

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Asked on:Apr 09, 2026 01:02 AM

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  • Freyr Freyr

    Apr 09, 2026

      What are the traditional Chinese medicine remedies for hair loss? In daily life, we may see some people with thin hair. They have very little hair on their heads, which seriously affects their appearance, and many people are depressed because of it. The emergence of hair loss has made people feel heavy. In order to treat hair loss, people have begun to try various methods and take various drugs, but the results are not satisfactory. In fact, if you want to cure hair loss, you can try the following folk remedies.

      90 grams each of cypress branch (dried medicine), pepper kernels, and pinellia ternata. Add 500 ml of water to the medicine, fry until it reaches 250 ml, add a little honey, and boil for 1-2 seconds. Use a little ginger juice, mix thoroughly, and rub on the hair-free areas, twice a day.

      Divide alum and turmeric into equal parts. Make alum and turmeric into pills, 4-5 grams each time, twice a day.

      15 grams of table salt. Add table salt to 1500 ml of warm water, stir evenly, and wash your hair 1-2 times a week. Long-term application of this method can prevent hair loss.

      3 torreya seeds, 2 walnuts, 30 grams of Platycladus orientalis leaves. Crush the medicine together and soak it in snow water and comb your hair. The hair will not fall off and will be smooth and moist. This prescription is especially suitable for kidney deficiency type hair loss.

      Some leaves of Platycladus arborvitae. Dry the cypress leaves in the shade, grind them finely, and soak them with spring oil. Dip each halberd into the brush head. After the hair grows out, wash it with pig bile and human soup. This prescription is especially suitable for women with hair loss.

      200 grams of plantain, appropriate amount of rice. Roast the whole plant of plantain into charcoal, soak it in rice vinegar, and apply the vinegar to the affected area after a week, 2-3 times a day.

      1 black ox gallbladder, appropriate amount of locust beans. Fill the locust beans with bile-filled ox gallbladder, soak the locust beans, and take it orally. 9 grams each time, 3 times a day.

      240 grams of Platycladus orientalis leaves (dried), 120 grams of Angelica sinensis (whole body). Grind the medicine together into powder (avoid iron) and make a paste with water into pills, as big as sycamore seeds. Take 50--70 pills each time, one in the morning and one in the evening, with rice wine or salt soup.

      60 grams each of sesame flowers and cockscomb flowers, 1.5 grams camphor, and 500 grams white wine. Tear sesame flowers and cockscomb flowers into pieces. Then soak it in wine and seal it. After 15 days, filter it and put the camphor into medicinal wine to dissolve it and set it aside. Dip cotton wool into medicinal wine and apply to the hair loss area 3-4 times a day. This prescription is especially suitable for neurological alopecia.

      90-120 grams each of sesame stalks and Qingming willow (tender leaves of willow branches collected during Qingming Festival). Decoction, shampoo, and rub the scalp, use for 1-7 days. This prescription is especially suitable for seborrheic alopecia.

      1 pig gall. Pour pig bile into half a basin of warm water, stir it and wash your hair or the affected area to remove greasy scales, then rinse with water once a day. This prescription is especially suitable for seborrheic alopecia.

      The occurrence of hair loss has a great impact on people. There are many ways to treat hair loss. The above introduces some folk remedies for hair loss. If you want to cure hair loss, you might as well try the above methods. If you want to prevent hair loss in your life, you must change your bad habits, develop good living and eating habits, and balance your diet.