Alopecia - You Feng
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Definition
Alopecia areata – focal hair loss , alopecia totalis – total scalp hair loss and alopecia universalis – total hair loss of whole body.
Causes and Pathological Mechanisms
- Improper Diet – rich, greasy, spicy, deep-fried food
- Emotions – bottling-up and transforming into Fire, consuming yin and blood. Blood Heat generates Wind. Wind and heat gushing up to the top
- Injuries – Blood Stasis and the pure orifice loses nourishment
- Qi and Blood Deficiency – long term illnesses
- Liver and Kidney deficiency – lack of essence and lack of blood
Patterns
Blood Heat with Wind and Dryness
- Symptoms: Sudden hair loss, occasional scalp itch, hot feeling in the head, vexation and irritable, quick temper and anxious.
- Tongue: Thin tongue coating
- Pulse: Wiry
- Treatment strategy: Cool blood to stop wind, nourish yin to generate hair
- Formula: Si Wu Tang plus Liu Wei Di Huang Tang
- Acupoints:
- Symptoms: Long history of hair loss with headache or chest and hypochondriac pain before hair loss occurs, vexation and insomnia with nightmares.
- Tongue: Ecchymosed
- Pulse: Deep and Thready
- Treatment strategy: Remove stasis to open the orifice
- Formula: Tong Qiao Huo Xue Tang
- Acupoints:
- Symptoms: Hair loss after illnesses or child birth and progressively worse, hair dry and weak, easy to break and fall out, pale lips, palpitation, lassitude, short of breath.
- Tongue: Pale
- Pulse: Weak
- Treatment strategy: Tonify qi and blood
- Formula: Ba Zhen Tang
- Acupoints:
- Symptoms: Long history of hair loss, weak and grey hair, diffuse hair loss in large area or even whole body, dizziness, tinnitus, weak and achy back and knees.
- Tongue: Pale tongue with exfoliated coating
- Pulse: Thready
- Treatment strategy: Nourish to tonify liver and kidney
- Formula: Qi Bao Mei Ran Dan
- Acupoints:
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