Unhealthy Hair or loss Hair

Many people find that their once beautiful hair suddenly turns dried, grey or white. High work load levels especially mental stress, child birth, emotional stress, eating processed foods, and smoking cigarettes all contribute to hair degeneration or loss. That’s why getting a good night sleep, managing your stress levels, and exercising will go a long way toward keeping your hair healthy.

Acupuncture can assist in hair loss in a couple of ways:

• By tonifying the kidneys with specific acupuncture points on the body
  
• Through tapping your scalp with a 7-star or plum blossom needle (that consists of 1 mm needles arranged in a star shape at the end of a paddle) that stimulates blood flow to your scalp.

The 2004 issue of Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustiondescribes a study performed on 110 people with alopecia (hair loss) using 7-star needle therapy plus external application of astragalus, resulting in a total effective rate of 99.1 percent and a cure rate of 83.6 percent.

Herbal medicine can also accelerate hair growth. Sou Wu(首乌）, Shu Di（熟地）, and Gastrodia rhizome （天麻），etc.  are common herbs used in decoctions to tonify kidney yin and nourish blood.