Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the following factors are related to gray hair:

First, deficiency of essence and weak blood: insufficient kidney essence cannot transform into yin blood, and deficiency of yin blood leads to hair loss. It is moist and nourished, so it turns gray.

The second is excessive blood heat: emotional excitement leads to water not retaining wood, the liver is strong and blood is dry, blood heat is excessive, and the hair roots are not nourished, so the hair becomes prematurely gray.

The third is liver stagnation and spleen dampness: stagnation of liver qi damages the heart and spleen, the spleen is damaged in transportation and transformation, and the energy and blood biochemistry has no source, so white hair occurs.

There are many folk prescriptions for treating gray hair, but the main ones are as follows.

Fang Yi

30 grams of mulberry bark, 15 grams of gallnuts, and 60 grams of green bean seeds. Decoct in water to extract juice and wash outside.

Fang 2

Appropriate amounts of Digupi, Rehmannia glutinosa, Cuscuta, Achyranthes bidentata, Polygala, and Acorus. Take it as honey pill or decoction.

Fang San

100 grams of sour pomegranate, 150 grams of gallnuts, and 50 grams of sesame leaves. Grind it into a coarse powder, put it into iron water, and take the remaining juice.

Fangsi

Ligustrum lucidum 500 grams, Jushengzi 250 grams. Decoction in water, take 20 ml each time, 2-3 times a day, with warm water.

This prescription is a good prescription for treating white hair caused by yin deficiency and blood dryness.

Five squares

Two cloves of garlic and 1 piece of ginger. Mash the medicine into a paste, rub it on the scalp, then rinse with water. You can spray some perfume to reduce the garlic smell. Apply it continuously for 3-4 months to take effect.

Fangliu

90 grams of mulberry bark. File the white mulberry bark into fine pieces, boil it for 5-6 seconds, remove the residue, and wipe your hair frequently to prevent it from falling off.

This recipe can be used as a hair health care agent. It is easy to obtain and use, and is suitable for all ages.

Fang Qi

520 grams of Ligustrum lucidum, 300 grams each of morning lotus and mulberry. Ligustrum lucidum is first dried in the shade, then soaked in wine for 1 day, steamed and dried in the sun, morning lotus grass and mulberry seeds are dried in the shade, the above three herbs are crushed into fine powder, and the honey is made into pills, each pill weighing 10 grams. Take 1 pill each morning and evening with boiled water with light salt.

Fangba

150 grams each of black sesame powder and polygonum multiflorum powder. Add appropriate amount of sugar to the medicine, boil it into a slurry, drink it with boiling water, 1 bowl every night.

This prescription can turn white hair into gray and gray hair into black after half a year.

Fang Jiu

30 grams of wild hair (use your own) and 50 peppers. Wash your unkempt hair, add 50 peppercorns per 30g, seal it with mud, burn it in the fire until it looks like black paint, grind it into fine powder, and drink about 3g with white wine.