Gray Hair Causes and Treatment

White hair is generally divided into two types: premature gray hair and senile gray hair. The appearance of white hair makes people look much older, especially if young people have premature gray hair, it not only affects their image but also brings great psychological pressure. So what exactly causes the growth of white hair on our heads? Is there any way we can turn white hair into black hair?

Only when we have a deep understanding of the causes of gray hair can we make targeted treatments based on the causes of gray hair. In fact, we have many effective methods to treat gray hair, so there is no need to worry too much.

Causes

Age-related gray hair is a physiological phenomenon. Vitiligo can be divided into two types: congenital and acquired. Congenital white hair is often accompanied by albinism, and sometimes occurs in patients with some genetic diseases, such as ataxia-telangiectasia syndrome and Rothmund syndrome, showing a familial hereditary characteristic. In addition to senile gray hair, premature gray hair is more common among acquired gray hair. It may be related to genetics, but mental trauma, emotional excitement, pessimism and depression, malnutrition, etc. are also important factors for the disease. Sometimes it is one of the symptoms of certain diseases, such as adrenal insufficiency, Vogt-Kayanagi syndrome, Alezzandrini syndrome, etc.

Pathogenesis

The tyrosinase activity of melanocytes in the hair bulb is progressively lost, causing the pigment in the hair shaft to gradually disappear. The number of melanocytes in gray hair is normal, but there are large vacuoles in the cytoplasm and the pigment contained in the melanosomes is reduced; while the number of melanocytes in white hair is reduced or absent.

The root cause is that the heat and toxins in the body's blood cannot be discharged, which prevents the nutrients in the human body from being smoothly delivered to the roots of the hair, resulting in a lack of nutrients and insufficient nutrients necessary for the hair, which leads to gray hair.

Treatment

1. Folk remedies

To remove white hair, apply white honey to the pores, and black hair will grow. If it doesn't work, take sycamore seeds and mash them into juice and apply it on the pores, and black hair will grow. If the white hair is difficult to remove, use 90g each of dried persimmon cake (cooked with grass incense) and wolfberry (soaked in wine and dried), grind them into powder and make pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 50 pills each time. (Newly compiled recipe of Zeng Guang Yan Fang) But the effect is slow and takes a long time!

2. Pollen treatment

Pollen contains a large amount of antioxidant ingredients, such as vitamin E, carotene and trace element selenium, which can inhibit the rate of lipid and protein peroxidation in the body, thereby delaying aging.

3. Diet therapy

Put longan meat, lotus seeds, jujube, etc. into rice and cook it into porridge. Take twice a day for 15 to 30 days. It can nourish qi and blood and make hair darker.

Dietary precautions

The staple foods include purple rice, black beans, adzuki beans, green beans, red water chestnuts, black sesame seeds, walnuts, etc.; vegetables include carrots, spinach, purple radish, purple cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, black fungus, etc. Commonly eaten animals include black-bone chicken, beef, mutton, pork liver, turtle, dark-fleshed fish, sea cucumber, etc. Common fruits include jujube, black dates, persimmons, mulberries, purple grapes, etc. In short, all foods with dark colors (green, red, yellow, and purple) contain pigments formed by the action of natural plants and sunlight. They can supplement the human body's pigments and are beneficial to the health of hair color. In addition, make sure you get enough protein, vitamins, etc. Eat more vegetable oil, less animal fat, and less white sugar. You can replace it with a small amount of honey or brown sugar. For severe gray hair, timely treatment is required, and you should keep a good mood and avoid excessive stress or fatigue.

Above we introduced the types of gray hair. Gray hair is generally divided into two types, one is premature graying, and the other is senile gray hair. In the above article we introduced the causes of gray hair in detail. We know that many factors are related to gray hair, and we also know how to treat gray hair.