"Little white head" refers to premature gray hair in adolescence. What determines the color of hair is the number of pigment particles in hair. Hair turns from black to white. Generally speaking, the function of pigment cells in hair decreases. When pigment particles can't be produced at all, the hair turns white completely.
Normal people began to decline at the age of 35. And some people are white at the age of 20. In medicine, they are called juvenile white hair, commonly known as "juvenile white head".
symptom
Puberty or adolescence onset.
At first, there was a small amount of scattered white hair in the hair, most of which first appeared at the back or top of the scalp and mixed with black hair in a gray shape.
Subsequently, white hair can gradually or suddenly increase, but it will not all turn white. Some people keep their white hair for a long time without increasing it.
Generally no symptoms.
Sudden onset may be related to malnutrition.
Some patients unconsciously reduce or even disappear white hair after the inducing factors are eliminated.
Some people even turn their beards white, and Chinese medicine says their hair needs to turn white early.
Chinese medicine therapy:
Blood-heat, kidney-qi weakness and qi-blood weakness are all causes of gray hair. The nutrition of hair comes from blood. If the hair turns white or falls off, it is mostly because of liver blood deficiency and kidney deficiency. Therefore, the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine is to replenish liver blood and kidney qi.
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the treatment of white hair in traditional Chinese medicine is: "liver controls blood storage, hair is blood", "kidney controls essence storage, and its flowers are hair", "heart controls blood vessels" and "lung controls fur". Spleen is the source of qi and blood biochemistry. That is to say, the growth and color change of hair are closely related to the rise and fall of the function of internal organs and the warmth and nourishment of yang and essence.
If the viscera function is vigorous, the yang is full of essence and blood, and the hair is fully nourished, it will be black and moist, beautiful and moving, and it will not be easily lost. On the contrary, if congenital deficiency, acquired dystrophy, weak viscera function, deficiency of both qi and blood and yin and yang, and insufficient hair, white hair will be born early, sparse and easily broken. Among them, it is more closely related to spleen, kidney and liver. Congenital deficiency, kidney essence deficiency, bone marrow deficiency, or impatience, excessive blood heat, yin injury and blood consumption, or anxiety, spleen loss of health, insufficient source of qi and blood, or overwork, insomnia and dreaminess, and dark consumption of liver and blood can all hurt the five internal organs, make the hair lose nutrition and turn gray early.
Chinese medicine believes that the premature gray hair of teenagers is often caused by anxiety, blood fever and malnutrition. Treat blood heat and nourish liver and kidney.
In addition, many diseases can be accompanied by premature gray hair, such as pernicious anemia, hyperthyroidism, cardiovascular diseases (myocardial infarction, atrioventricular bundle block, hypertension, etc. ), dystrophic myotonia, vitiligo and Vogt- Liu syndrome. In addition, changes in people's mental state, such as long-term depression and unhappiness, excessive anxiety or emotional tension and panic, often lead to rapid whitening of hair. The above-mentioned diseases and nutritional mental factors will unbalance vitality, ancestral spirit and nourishing qi, thus damaging hair, which is often called "hurting vitality". This premature gray hair does not need special treatment, as long as the cause is found and eradicated, it can be cured.