Adolescent gray hair is caused by the reduction of melanin particles in the medulla and cortex of hair or by air filling. Under normal circumstances, there are abundant blood vessels in dermal papilla, which provide sufficient nutrition for dermal papilla and hair bulb, and melanin particles are successfully synthesized. When the formation of melanin particles in papilla and hair bulb is hindered, or melanin particles in medulla and cortex of hair cannot be transported to hair due to some factors, white hair will appear. The occurrence of adolescent white hair is generally considered to be related to the following factors.
(1) Mental factors
Mental stress, sadness, anxiety, panic and fear are all causes of baldness. Modern medicine believes that bad mental factors will cause vasospasm that supplies hair nutrition, hinder the function of pigment cells in hair papilla and hair bulb to secrete melanin, and affect the formation and transportation of melanin particles.
② Malnutrition
Experiments show that if black mice keep eating foods lacking folic acid, pantothenic acid and vitamins, their hair will turn gray. In addition, the color of hair pigment particles is often related to the metal it contains. Pigment particles in black hair contain elements such as copper, cobalt and iron. Without these elements, white hair often appears. Besides. Protein lack, severe malnutrition, etc. , can also grow white hair.
(3) Suffering from chronic diseases
Some people suffer from autonomic nervous dysfunction, hyperthyroidism, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, endocrine disorders and so on. And there are also white hair. This is because the disease destroys or interferes with the growth and development of hair papilla and hair bulb pigment cells, making them lose the ability to secrete melanin and hindering the formation of melanin particles.
(4) Genetic factors
Juvenile gray hair also has certain congenital factors, and similar situations will occur in parents or family lineages.
Can juvenile white hair become black hair? Practice has proved that white hair is not irreversible. As long as the hair mother cells in the papilla exist normally, the hair can still turn black unless some obstacles or pathogenic factors are removed. Therefore, there is no need to worry too much about having some white hair, otherwise it may cause a vicious circle and only produce more white hair.
White hair is not terrible, and it must be unlucky. Don't delay the best time to treat white hair because of trivial matters, otherwise delaying the illness may cause a vicious circle and produce more white hair. As we all know, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb has been used to treat gray hair for thousands of years in China. Ancient emperors and generals often used Polygonum multiflorum products carefully prepared by imperial doctors to make themselves black beard, strengthen bones and muscles, nourish blood and kidney, and stay young forever.
Drug therapy, dietotherapy and massage are practical, convenient and lasting methods to treat white-haired teenagers. Among them, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, Angelica sinensis, black sesame and walnut are all good medicines to promote the growth of black hair, which can be taken for a long time. At the same time, white-haired teenagers should try to eat less animal oil and sugar.
According to the earliest Compendium of Materia Medica, He, a native of Suzhou in the Tang Dynasty, was sickly since childhood. One night when he was drunk in Shan Ye, he saw that two humanoid plants were three feet apart, and their roots automatically intertwined and separated for a long time. He dug it back, and no one knew it. An elder said, I'm afraid it's a fairy's medicine. Why not accept it? So after drying, it is ground into powder and taken daily. After a few months, all the old diseases were cured and my hair turned from white to black. Grandson takes it according to the prescription, and he still needs to get dark when he lives to 130 years old. Later, local residents called this medicine Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, which was handed down as a food to prolong life. In the early years of Jiajing, Shao Yingjie was really inspired by this. After emperor Sejong Su took it, his hair was black and he had children, so Polygonum multiflorum was famous all over the world.
Li Shizhen's annotation to Polygonum multiflorum Thunb in Compendium of Materia Medica is that it can nourish liver and kidney, astringe essence, nourish blood and liver, strengthen kidney, blacken hair and beard, strengthen bones and muscles, and is a good medicine for prolonging life and nourishing. In addition, the treatment of white hair by Polygonum multiflorum Thunb has been recorded in Pharmacopoeia of past dynasties, and the effect of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb on white hair is recognized by medicine of past dynasties, without doubt. China time-honored Chinese brand Hongxing Shouwu Pill has been listed in the National Pharmacopoeia. Good drug compatibility can give full play to the efficacy of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb in treating white hair. Neither traditional Chinese medicine nor western medicine has given time to cure white hair. The treatment of gray hair depends on the specific situation of gray hair patients, some need 1 month, some need 2 months, some need half a year, and serious cases even need about 2 years. Ordinary Polygonum multiflorum products are often slow to take effect, while superior Polygonum multiflorum products can often see the effect of gray or even black hair from the hair roots. Therefore, when choosing Polygonum multiflorum Thunb products to treat white hair, professional advice can adopt the identification method of "one check, two cuts, three smells and four looks".
White hair is a sign of "getting old" on the surface, but it is a physical problem inside. Chinese medicine theory holds that hair is closely related to liver and kidney. Kidney stores essence, liver controls blood, and it is extremely prosperous and declines. Deficiency of liver and kidney leads to deficiency of essence and blood, and hair follicles are not adequately nourished. In one case, the ability to synthesize melanin is weakened and white hair appears. In another case, hair follicles atrophy or die, leading to hair loss. On the contrary, the liver and kidney are strong, the head is glorious, and the hair is thick and black. Congenital (hereditary) deficiency of liver and kidney leads to juvenile hoary head. In old age, liver and kidney are weak and white hair grows. Some patients are accompanied by insomnia, dreaminess, soreness of waist and knees and renal insufficiency.
Juvenile gray hair is mainly caused by blood heat, liver and kidney deficiency and qi and blood loss. Treatment should be based on nourishing yin and cooling blood, nourishing blood and blackening hair, tonifying kidney and calming nerves, and can be combined with some external drugs, massage and other therapies. White-haired teenagers should not worry all day, keep cheerful, pay attention to the combination of work and rest, adjust their diet structure, and eat more foods rich in vitamin B and foods containing trace elements such as copper, zinc and iron (such as black sesame seeds and walnuts).
Appropriate head massage to increase scalp blood circulation is also conducive to promoting the synthesis of melanin particles, thus making hair black. It is also effective to use traditional Chinese medicine to replenish blood and kidney. In recent years, the phenomenon of increasing white hair among young people is not rare. It is found that young people in modern life are generally born earlier than their predecessors. Many young people see a little gray hair on their heads just after their thirties, and even in their twenties, they are black and white.
There is no doubt that juvenile delinquency gives people a feeling of aging before they get old, and it also makes people feel inferior and worried.
Why do young people have early white hair? Experts pointed out that the acceleration of modern people's work and life rhythm and the increase of mental stress are the main reasons for the increase of "juvenile baldness", such as endocrine imbalance, unbalanced nutrition intake and some hidden diseases. A survey in China found that among the 49 employees of science and technology enterprises with an average age of 32, 37 had premature gray hair, accounting for 75.5% of the total employees. White hair is not only related to heredity and race, but also to some autoimmune diseases, such as pernicious anemia, thyroiditis, cardiovascular diseases, and trace element deficiency in the body. Young intellectuals engaged in mental work are often too busy to take care of physical exercise and often burn the midnight oil. Coupled with the meticulous diet and unbalanced nutrient intake, it is easy to appear prematurely. The occurrence of white hair is closely related to the decrease of melanin in hair. Human hair consists of hair roots, hair shafts, hair nipples and so on. The exposed part is called the hair shaft, the part buried in the scalp is called the hair root, the top part of the hair root is swollen like a ball, and the concave part at the top is called the hair nipple. Hairy papilla can produce a lot of melanin, which makes people's hair appear black. If there is an obstacle in a certain physiological link in the process of melanin formation, it will affect the production of melanin. The pigment of black hair contains trace elements such as copper, cobalt and iron. If teenagers lack these substances, their hair may turn white. Some physiological and pathological reasons can interfere with or destroy the function of dermal papilla to produce melanin, leading to gray hair. However, bad psychological factors will interfere with or affect endocrine function in feedback, and the imbalance of endocrine level will affect the ability of dermal papilla to produce melanin, which will contribute to the occurrence and development of "juvenile baldness".
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