5 changes in hair tips for health problems

October 13, 2017 source: family doctor online

      See a person's health, we often will also from the beginning from judgment, beautiful black hair is healthy hair, if your hair is dry, brittle, love oil, it signals are given body health, let's look at how to use the hair look healthy.

      Hair can also be used to determine health

      Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hair is "blood, kidney and kidney" and has a close relationship with the spleen, stomach, liver and kidney. The liver hides blood, the blood of liver is sufficient, hair can have sufficient blood supply; The spleen is transported and transported to the whole body, including hair. The essence of the kidney is the essence of the human body, and the growth of the hair and the maintenance of the healthy state are closely related to the kidney.

      Normal human hair is constantly metabolized, from growth to natural shedding, generally 3 ~ 4 years. As long as the human body normally carries on metabolic activity, hair grows continuously, in order to maintain human characteristic appearance. But hair growth and development are not performed at the same speed, both growing and hair loss. Normally, the hair is carried out in the natural condition, hair loss also is in imperceptibly. From the table, the hair seems to be no big change, but careful observation will find that, if the internal organs are diseased, the hair will grow faster, or show uneven distribution and sparse distribution. Therefore, it is valid to judge whether there is any disease from the color, brightness and flexibility of hair.

      Five changes need to be mindful

      1. Hair color change

      It is normal for people to become white after middle age, indicating aging. If the youth appears white hair, should consider whether have the hereditary factor, have the serious mental injury, or the severe nervous breakdown etc. Then we should pay attention to gastrointestinal diseases, tuberculosis, aplastic anemia and so on. The other extreme of color change is hair suddenly blackened, should pay attention to the body to have the latent cancer, especially the malignant tumor of melanoma.

       2. Changes in hair nature

       Hair is brittle and enhanced, dry, easy to break, lack of luster, indicating whether to have thyroid cancer, or disease of tinea.

       3. Hair distribution changes

       Ancient medicine thought that hair thinning was a sign of kidney deficiency, as well as a thinning of sebaceous hair loss, or diabetes. Male forehead hair loss or head hair loss is caused by kidney deficiency; Most women are mainly thinning hair loss, indicating a kidney disease. Some hair loss suddenly occurs in a certain part, the painless and unitchy, unwitting, commonly known as "devil's head", may be the severe nervous breakdown.

      4. Much oil

      Spleen, lung disease. It is too much for the temper to lose, and the function of lung qi is not enough, the human body oil is going up, causing the head to come out of oil.

      5. Thinning hair

      The liver hides blood, the blood of liver is sufficient, hair can have sufficient blood supply; The spleen is transported and transported to the whole body, including hair. The essence of the kidney is the essence of the human body, and the growth of the hair and the maintenance of the healthy state are closely related to the kidney. Some children are born with yellow and soft hair, while walking, talking, standing and developing teeth are slower than children of the same age, which is a condition of kidney deficiency. However, with the decline of the hepatic blood and kidney gas, the middle-aged and elderly people gradually whiten their hair, which is a normal physiological phenomenon. However, some teenagers appear to have grey hair in a short period of time, and have a bad temper and easy to lose their temper, possibly because of the liver and blood heat; If accompanied by insufficient sleep, lumbar knee weakness and ringing in the ears, it is a sign of kidney deficiency.

      Hair problem polytypic diet is more effective

      1. Liver and kidney Yin deficiency, hair loss, hair dry, often accompanied by dizziness, insomnia, five upset heat, sleep sweating, lumbar knee, soft and uncomfortable. The principle of diet is nourishing liver and kidney and raising blood. The recommended food is black sesame, black beans, walnut meat, cinnamon, chestnut, black date, Chinese wolfberry, mulberry, mutton, dog and so on.

      2. In the case of two deficiency of qi and blood, the hair is usually sparsely, with yellow complexion, fatigue, dizziness, palpitation, insomnia, weak tongue, lichen and weak vein. The principle of food therapy is to enrich blood and invigorate the spleen. The recommended foods include honey, dates, yam, brown sugar, chicken, eggs, milk, potatoes, grapes, carrots, etc.

      3, in the head more oil, gooey, hair shiny, itchy scalp, and accompanied by loss of appetite, abdominal distention, diarrhea, tongue is red, thick greasy moss for symptoms of wet sheng pixu (spleen deficient), such as diet principle for spleen dehumidification, advice to eat more beans, lentils, towel gourd, coix seed, wax gourd.