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Top Hair Loss Herbs
Medications are not your only option to consider when looking for ways to treat your hair loss. Herbs are often overlooked and they have an added benefit of being sold over the counter, so you can get them at a local drug store. These herbs are being used everyday by people who are looking for alternatives products and treatments for there hair loss. We will look at a couple of the more common hair loss herbs that are used to treat hair thinning and baldness.
Medications are not your only option to consider when looking for ways to treat your hair loss. Herbs are often overlooked and they have an added benefit of being sold over the counter, so you can get them at a local drug store. These herbs are being used everyday by people who are looking for alternatives products and treatments for there hair loss. We will look at a couple of the more common hair loss herbs that are used to treat hair thinning and baldness.
Please be aware that these are not medications and should be treated as such. With these herbs there are no guarantee’s on if or how well they will work for you even if you read about them working for someone else. The plus side is you should not have to worry very much about side effects from using them.
All of these herbs, that we suggest, will work in a variety of different ways. Here we will look at a few of these herbs and how they affect your hair looks and grows.
1. Chamomile - This is not only a great herb for helping to promote healthy new hair growth but is superb for helping to reduce stress levels. In some cases, the cause of hair loss can be that a person is under extreme pressure, which causes their stress levels to rise.
2. Catnip or Burdock - These two herbs are useful for healthy hair growth; this in turn reduces the effects or risk of hair loss. You will usually find these two herbs in a solution, such as in a hair loss shampoo or conditioner, which you apply, as you would normally use one of these products.
3. Saw Palmetto - You will find a lot written about this particular herb. Using this herb will help with the reduction of DHT, A normal hormone found in both men and women. If too much of this hormone is produced, it will affect the hair follicles making it easier for your hair to fall out.
4. Green Tea - There was a study done in Japan that showed a benefit by drinking green tea. The tea helped by increasing the sex hormone binding globulin. The effects of this are that testosterone production is lowered; a major cause of hair loss in women is testosterone.
These are by no means the only herbs for hair loss you will find. There are many other herbs available that have been shown to help, in some form or another, with this condition. A few of these are Apple Cider vinegar, Sage Tea, and Psoralea Seeds, all of these herbs would be applied directly to your affected area. Some others are Ginger and Liquorice Extract. The results you will see from any of these will very greatly, you will have to try each out to see how they will work for you.