Is hair loss caused by kidney deficiency? How to treat it?

Clinically, hair loss is a very common disease. Generally speaking, most people who have symptoms of hair loss are particularly worried about whether they have kidney deficiency. So, is hair loss caused by kidney deficiency?

Is hair loss caused by kidney deficiency?

There is a certain relationship between hair loss and kidney deficiency. Kidney deficiency can cause hair loss, but hair loss is not necessarily caused by kidney deficiency and requires medical diagnosis. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, kidney deficiency refers to insufficient kidney essence, qi, yin and yang. There are many types of kidney deficiency, the most common of which are kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency. Kidney yang deficiency manifests itself as cold symptoms, which mainly include cold limbs and fear of cold. Kidney yin deficiency manifests itself as heat symptoms, which include dryness, low back pain, night sweats, tinnitus, dizziness and other symptoms.

Home remedies for treating hair loss:

1. 60 grams each of sesame flowers and cockscombs, 1.5 grams of camphor, and 500 grams of white wine. Tear sesame flowers and cockscomb into pieces. Then soak it in wine and seal it. Filter it after 15 days, add camphor into the wine to dissolve it and set aside. Dip a cotton swab in the medicinal wine and apply it to the hair loss area, 3-4 times a day.

2. 30 grams of Polygonum multiflorum, 50 grams of rice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Put Polygonum multiflorum in a casserole and boil it to get the thick juice, then remove the residue, add rice and rock sugar, cook the rice into porridge and eat it.

3. Bu Yi Niu Xi Wan. 500g each of Achyranthes bidentata and Rehmannia glutinosa, 250g each of Citrus aurantium, Cuscuta australis and Rehmannia root bark. Grind all the herbs into powder, mix with refined honey and make into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 30 pills on an empty stomach with ginger soup, and gradually increase to 50 pills. This prescription needs to be taken internally and is suitable for hair loss caused by liver and kidney deficiency and deficiency of essence and blood.