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The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D. See book keywords and concepts

In ancient China, rosemary was used for headaches and topically for baldness.3 Active constituents A number of constituents have shown activity in the test tube. The volatile oil, including eucalyptol (cineole), is considered to have potent antibacterial effects4 and to relax smooth muscles in the lungs.5 Rosmarinic acid has antioxidant (page 467) activity6 and another ingredient of rosemary, known as carnosol, inhibits cancer (page 87) formation in animal studies.7 No human studies have confirmed rosemary's use for these conditions. How much is usually taken?

The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals Leslie Taylor, ND See book keywords and concepts

It's also valued there as a preventive for baldness. In Brazilian herbal medicine, muira puama still is a highly regarded sexual stimulant with a reputation as a powerful aphrodisiac. It has been in the Brazilian Pharmacopoeia since the 1950s.2 It is used as a neuromuscular tonic for weakness and paralysis, dyspepsia, menstrual disturbances, chronic rheumatism (applied topically), sexual impotency, grippe, and central nervous system disorders. Muira puama is employed around the world today in herbal medicine.

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Hormones with anabolic effects on muscle often have side effects that include acne (page 4), male-pattern baldness, prostate enlargement, and lower high-density lipoprotein (HDL; "good") cholesterol (page 223). Whether methoxyisoflavone can cause these side effects has not been investigated. METHYLSULFONYLMETHANE What is it? Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) is a naturally occurring, organic, sulfur (page 590)-containing compound related to another sulfur-containing substance, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO [page 508]).

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B-12 daily), sleep loss, irritability, mentally disturbed and mentally-challenged (with B6), schizophrenia; pellagra; for the skin, psoriasis, and hair, prevents premature graying (with PAB A and B5 Pantothenic acid), and baldness. Forthethymus/Immune system, Antibodies to heal infections, scurvy, tonsillitis, gingivitis, glossitis, emphysema, precancerous cervical dysplasia from contraceptive pills (take 5 mg.

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Remarkable Hair Tonic for Baldness Stinging nettle lotion seems to help hair grow again where baldness may now be present. The following two lotions should be used at the same time every morning after washing and rinsing the hair as you would normally do. The alcoholic portion to be used should be diluted by half as much of the infusion prior to rubbing well into the scalp with the fingertips. When doing so, be sure to bend your head down low, massaging the lotion in from the nape of the neck upwards towards the front.

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Nonetheless, fear of baldness has become a social obsession. Advances made by Western medicine on this front have been negligible. One substance, minoxidil, has been proven to bring back some hair growth on the thinning, bald crown of the head, but it must be continuously applied, and is not effective on the "receding forehead" areas most characteristic of male pattern baldness. Minoxidil is also not effective for all people. So, while we cannot guarantee any of the following international alternatives, we believe they are worth considering.

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Claims that it can prevent or reverse baldness are unsubstantiated except in some cases of severe zinc deficiency. It has no effect on typical male pattern baldness. It may be useful in dysguesia (taste disorder) in those who are zinc deficient. There is preliminary research suggesting that it might help some with macular degeneration. RESEARCH SUMMARY Zinc deficiency has been shown to impair immunity in many ways. It decreases T- and B-lymphocyte function and diminishes proliferative responses to mitogens. It also reduces the biological activity of many cytokines.

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Side effects can include hypercalcemia (too much calcium in the blood), liver damage, reduced ejaculatory volume, fluid retention, abnormal swelling of the breast in men, masculinization and menstrual irregularities in women, worsening of prostate enlargement and prostate cancer, acne, baldness, nausea, headache, aggressiveness, anxiety, and increased or decreased libido. They may also raise the risk of some types of cancer in women. CAUTION! Please don't use synthetic testosterone. If you need testosterone, use the real thing.

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Androgenic alopecia (AGA) is another factor that can cause male-pattern baldness. Androgenic alopecia is caused by three factors: advanced age, an inherited tendency to bald early, and an overabundance of dihy-drotestosterone (DHT), a highly active form of testosterone within the hair follicle. DHT influences male behavior, from the sex drive to aggression. Testosterone converts to DHT by 5-alpha-reductase, an enzyme produced in the prostate, various adrenal glands, and the scalp.

Successful prevention and treatment of accelerated hair loss necessitates dealing with some, if not all, of the factors involved in the process, except for tbe genetic component of baldness, which is still in the research phase. Because the male hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is involved in premature hair loss, scientists have experimented with a wide variety of antiandro-gens in an attempt to prevent or reverse the process.

Many cancer chemotherapy medications, as well as certain cholesterol-lowering drugs, Parkinson's medications, ulcer drugs, anticoagulants, antiarthritics, drugs derived from vitamin A, anticonvulsants for epilepsy, antidepressants, beta-blocker drugs for high blood pressure, antithyroid agents, blood thinners, and anabolic steroids, can cause baldness. When a doctor prescribes any drug, he should be asked if it causes hair loss. If he does not know, have him look it up in the Physicians' Desk Reference, which lists the side effects of all prescription drugs.

TREATMENT A doctor may need to perform a biopsy to determine what type of baldness a person is experiencing. The biopsy will ascertain whether the follicles are normal. There are four conventional choices a person has in regard to treating hair loss: begin to take better care of the scalp, use products such as minoxidil (Rogaine) and/or Proscar, get a hair transplant or a scalp reduction, or have the hair replaced nonsurgically. More aggressive approaches to treating hair loss are discussed later in this protocol.

At this time there is no known cure for baldness, and there are limited choices on how to cope with it. Oral prescription drugs, such as Propecia, and over-the-countet ptepa-rations, such as minoxidil, have shown benefit and ate available in phatmacies. Dr. Peter Proctot has developed unique, patented multi-ingredient hait fotmulas that addtess all the known factots in the balding process. These include Dr. Proctot's Hair Regrowth Shampoo (use like any shampoo), Dr. Proctor's Advanced Hair Regrowth Formula (8-10 drops applied once or twice a day to the thinning ateas), and/ot Dr.

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High blood pressure, male pattern baldness. What Are the Possible Side Effects/Adverse Effects? This is such a dangerous drug that it is recommended only as a last ditch effort if no other hypertensive drugs have worked. It can cause a serious condition called pericardial effusion, and it can make angina worse. In animals it caused all kinds of gross abnormalities of the heart, as well as lesions and infertility.

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Studies show that male occipital baldness confers a risk of heart disease, being associated with a higher total cholesterol and diastolic blood pressure than men with a full head of hair. Frontal baldness has not been found to be associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease and myocardial infarct. "It seems prudent for bald men to be specially vigorous in controlling risk factors for such conditions." (S.M. Lesko, Journal of the American Medical Association, Feb 24. 1993, 269: 998-1003) HAIR - OILY. To condition.

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The typical secondary sex characteristics of men (deeper vocal tone, more abundant body hair, thicker skin, greater muscle mass, higher metabolism, and pattern baldness) are attributable to testosterone. There is a significant drop in both male and female testosterone levels in late life. Studies of testosterone replacement in elderly men have shown increased libido and musculoskeletal mass and strength. In men, testosterone builds bone. Men who have had their testicles removed, or who are using anti-androgenic drugs to treat prostate cancer, have a much higher rate of osteoporosis.

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They are helpful in the treatment of arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, asthma, diabetes (inositol), glaucoma, hair problems and baldness, high blood pressure, insomnia (inositol), liver diseases, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, neuritis, and tardive dyskinesia (choline especially). Choline is best supplied by lecithin, while other good sources are egg yolk, liver, brain, and food yeast. Inositol is best supplied by sprouted seeds (in unsprouted seeds it remains unavailable in the form of phytic acid).

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Vertex baldness appears to be a valid marker for an increased risk of coronary heart disease, particularly when clustered with other factors such as hypertension or hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol). EARLOBE CREASES About 1973, the association between diagonal ear-lobe creases and the threat of an eventual heart attack was made. Chronic circulatory problems allow the vascular bed in the earlobe to collapse and the telltale earlobe crease to appear.

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Remarkable Hair Tonic for Baldness Stinging nettle lotion seems to help hair grow again where baldness may now be present. The following two lotions should be used at the same time every morning after washing and rinsing the hair as you normally would do. The alcoholic portion to be used should be diluted by half as much of the infusion prior to rubbing into the scalp good with the fingertips. And when doing so, be sure to bend your head down low, massaging the lotion in from the nape of the neck upwards towards the front.

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One man who claimed that baldness ran in his family, used this miracle medicine food for the hair (nerve massage) and says: "Soon my head began to have a fuzz, and then the hair began to grow, and now at over 70 years of age I have a fine luxurious head of hair." Garlic Grows New Hair! Garlic has been employed for centuries as an effective remedy for baldness or bald spots. Here are two methods of application, which can reportedly work wonders in stimulating new hair growth. 1. Slice open a clove of garlic lengthwise, and rub on the affected area, squeezing out the juice. Allow to dry.

One researcher reports many cases where Miracle Medicine Foods caused new hair to grow again even in advanced cases of baldness. A typical case is Ty H., a middle-aged man, bald for 20 years. No scalp disease or illness, just bald. The baldness extended deep back, with just a gray fringe around the edges, and looked completely hopeless. He began eating only natural, unprocessed foods, with the result that in two weeks, dark hair started coming in! In a little over a month, most of the back and top had started filling in!

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In fact, some guys think baldness is a sign of maturity, wisdom—even virility. "Baldness is the trend of the 1990s," says John Capps III, founder of Bald-Headed Men of America, a self-help group that claims more than 20,000 members. "These days, what's in your head is much more important than what's on it." Group members say they're out to fight society's notion that bald men are unattractive and past their primes. Capps, who founded the group in 1972, says an increasing percentage of members are guys under age 40. "They are seeing that hair is not the most important part of them," he says.

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The baldness extended deep back, with just a gray fringe around the edges, and looked completely hopeless. He began eating only natural, unprocessed foods, with the result that in two weeks, dark hair started coming in! In a little over a month, most of the back and top had started filling in! In a major breakthrough, male-pattern baldness has been almost 100 percent cured or stopped in cases tested with vitamin B-6 (biotin) and amino acids. The vitamin B-6 helps dissolve excess testosterone—the male hormone—on the scalp, and combines with amino acids to build up the hair roots.

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Maalthyaadi Tailam is a bathing oil for alopecia and baldness. Active principles and pharmacology The jasmine concrete contains benzyl alcohol, benzyl benzoate, benzaldehyde and eugenol. Other constituents include linalool, linalyl acetate, methyl anthranilate, geraniol, farnesol, nerolidol, p-cresol, indole, cis-jasmone, alpha-terpineol, cis-3-hexenyl benzoate, nerol, 5-hydroxyjasmonic acid lactone, czs-pent-2-enyl-pentanolide, methyl hep-tenone, methyl-N-acetylanthranilate, methyl jas-monate, methylphytol, iso-phytol, tetramethyl hexadecanol, geranyl-linalool and phytyl acetate.

Sushruta applied the herb for cautery, for skin eruptions, goitre and scrofula, baldness, glandular swellings and also in urinary calculi. By the 16th century, it was widely used for treating skin diseases, incl. leprosy and ulcer. On the basis of long-term use, it was clinically established that the herb was an efficacious hair vitalise^ cured catarrhal affections, nervous disorders, ophthalmic complications, helminthic infestation and possessed tonic and aphrodisiac properties.

The ash of the root, mixed with oil, is used externally in baldness. Mixed with vinegar used on ringworm. It is also applied to skin blotches and pigmentation, exposing to sun-rays. Internally, the ash is diuretic, antiinflammatory and emmenagogue. Mostly the herb is used externally, internally it disturbs liver functions. Active principles and pharmacology The seed contains an ester, i-O-17-methyl-stearylmyoinositol. The seed oil gave myristic, palmitic, oleic, linoleic, linolenic acids. The plant contains a triterpene—lupeol and quercetin.

Sushruta used Maalati as an ingredient of a medicated clarified butter for external application on infected wounds, for cleansing and sterilizing the interior of ulcers; as an ingredient of a hair oil for baldness and alopecia and as an ingredient of an eye-salve for loss of vision. Sushruta prescribed Maalati internally and externally, in leprosy, malignant ulcers and other virulent skin diseases. The root of Jaati, cooked in goat's milk and mixed with sugar, was prescribed for giving relief in pain due to retention of urine and for expelling calculus (Raaja Maarttanda).

In Unani medicine, Raughan-Kamilaa is prescribed externally for weeping eczema, herpes, scabies, ringworm and ulcers; diluted with hair oil, it is massaged over scalp in baldness. Active principles and pharmacology The heartwood gave betulin-3-acetate, lupeol, lupeol acetate, sitosterol and bergenin. Bark yielded acetylalcuritolic acid, sitosterol, its glucoside, bergenin and alpha-amyrin. Leaves gave amyrin.

A paste of leaves was applied in the falling of hair and baldness. Shyonaaka, in addition to diarrhoea, dysentery and abdominal diseases, was used in rheumatism, diseases of ear, nose and throat, high fever, partial paralysis, diabetes and dysuria. (Chakradatta, Ashtaanga Hridaya, Bangasena, Bhaavaprakaasha.) In Ayurvedic medicine, roots are used fresh, as they lose their vitality after a few months. Tender fruits and seeds are used as stomachic and purgative; leaves, externally, for enlarged spleen, headache and ulcers.

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