Premature Graying of Hair

Hair

Hair is filamentous tissue, mainly composed of protein Keratin. The growth of hair starts in a hair follicles. The living portion of hair found in hair follicles and the visible part on the body is consider as dead part of hair because there are no biochemical activities. 

Composition of Hair 

Hair made up of 1. Medulla. 2 Cortex. 3 Cuticle

Medulla: Medulla is inner most part of hair strand and is not always present. 

Cortex: Highly organized middle layer of hair. The cortex contain Melanin pigment. The shape of follicle determine the shape of cortex and the shape of fibers is related to how straight or curly hair. 
Hair typically round fiber i straight. Oval and irregular shaped fibers are curly. 
Function of cortex of hair:
1 Provide mechanical strength 
2. water uptake. 
3 Color of hair due to melanin. 

Cuticle: The outer most covering of hair is called cuticle, it cover with single molecular level that makes the repel water. 

Hair Color: 

The melanin is responsible for the color of hair. There are two types of Melanin found in hair which is responsible for different type of color. 

1) Eumelanin 
2) Pheomelanin 

Eumelanin is dominant pigment in dark blonde, brown and black hair
Pheomelanin is responsible for red hair. 

GENETICS AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF HAIR COLOR:

Eumelanin has two subtypes of Black or brown. A low concentration of Brown eumelanin results in blond hair. Higher concentration of brown eumelanin will color the hair Brown. 
Higher concentration of Blcak Eumelanin results in BLACK hair, while low concentration give GREY hair. 
Pheomelanin color hair RED. Pheomelanin is more chemically stable than black eumelanin. All Humans have some pheomelanin. 
The Genetics of hair color is mot yet firmly confirm. But one phenotype (Brown or Blond) has dominant brown alleles and recessive blond alleles. 
A persons with Brown alleles will have BROWN hair and person with no brown alleles will be BLOND. 
Other gene pair is non red/red pair. The non-red allele is dominant and the allele for red hair is recessive.

NATURAL VARIATES OF HAIR COLOR:

Brown Hair Color: Brown color is second most common human hair color. Brown haired peoples are also known as Brunettes/Burnets. 
It is characterised by higher level of the dark pigment Eumelanin and lower level of pale pigment phoemelanin. 

Black Hair: The Darkest and most common of all humans hair color. It is a dominant genetic trait. It has large amount of Eumelanin.

Blond Hair: Blond or fair hair is characterized by low level of dark pigment Eumelanin.

Auburn Hair: Light to reddish Brown. The chemicals which causes auburn hair are Eumelanin(Brown) and Phenomelanin. 

Chestnut Hair: Darker reddish shade of brown hair than auburn. The chemical pigments that causes to coloration of chestnut hair are frequently brown Eumelanin and stronger level of Pheomelanin. 

Red hair: Red Hair ranges from vivid strawberry shades to deep auburn and burgundy. It is caused by a variation in the Mc1r gene and believed to be recessive. Red hair has the highest amount of pheomelanin and usually low level of Eumelanin. 

GREY AND WHITE HAIR
Grey hair are caused by lack of pigmentation and melanin. 

CAUSES OF GREY OR WHITE HAIR:

1) GENETIC CAUSES: 
Two Genes appears to be responsible for the process of graying, Bcl-2 and Bcl-w. The change in hair color occur when melanin ceases to be produced in the hair root and new hair grow in without pigments. The stem cells at the base of hair follicles produce melanocytes , the cells that produce and store pigments in hair and shin. The death of melanocytes stem cells causes the onset of graying. 

(Mice carrying ablated coding regions of the bcl-2α and bcl-2β transcripts have been made. bcl-2-/- mutants are smaller but viable, although about half of them die by 6 weeks of age. As shown earlier with somatic bcl-2 gene-targeted mice, the number of lymphocytes markedly decreased within few weeks after birth while other hematopoietic lineages remained unaffected. Among lymphocytes, CD8+ T cells 
disappeared most quickly followed by CD4+ T cells, whereas B cells were least affected. bcl-2-/- lymphocytes, however, could respond normally to various stimuli including anti-CD3, Con A, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate plus ionomycin, interleukin 2, lipopolysaccharide, and anti-IgM antibody. 
Abnormalities among nonlymphoid organs include smaller auricles, hair color turning gray at 4-5 weeks of age, and polycystic kidney disease-like change of renal tubules. These results suggest that Bcl-2 may be involved during morphogenesis where inductive interactions between epithelium and mesenchyme are important such as in the kidneys, hair follicles, and perichondrium of auricles. Surprisingly, the nervous system, intestines, and skin appear normal despite the fact that these organs show high levels of endogeneous Bcl-2 expression in normal mice.)

2)MEDICAL CONDITION:

Albinism, Vitiligo, Autoimmune disease, Malnutrition, Werner syndrome, Pernicious Anemia, Type-2 Diabetes, Sever Illness like Typhoid, 

3) Long Hard work
4) Skipping meals
4)No regular eating 
5)Nutrition deficiency
6)Stress, anxiety and tension 
7)Unhygienic conditions of scalp 
8)Excessive in take of fired and oily foods, tea, coffee, alcohol, spices, sour and acidic foods. 

HOME TREATMENT: 

Massage your hairs with coconut oil and Lemon everyday for at least 15 minutes. There are instances of people having black hairs even up to the age of 60-70 years by using this method.

Eat protein rich foods. Proteins - Sources: sprouted whole grains, cereals, meat and soy in your diet.
Eat foods rich in iron, minerals and vitamin A and B.
Vitamin A - Sources: dark green vegetables & yellow fruits. Vitamin B - Sources: fresh green leafy vegetables, bananas, tomatoes, cauliflower, cereals, liver kidney, yogurt, yeast and wheat germ.
Minerals like zinc, iron and copper - Sources: zinc - red meat, chicken & green vegetable iron - beef, dried apricots, red meat, parsley, eggs, wheat & sunflower seeds (Iron Rich Foods)
copper - sunflower seeds, cashews, almonds, crabs and oysters, egg yolk & whole grains.
Eat foods rich in iodine such as banana, carrots and fish.
Drink butter milk with a 2 teaspoons each of yeast and wheat germ will prevent and cure premature greying of hair.

Rub Indian gooseberry (Amla) mixed in coconut oil into the scalp regularly. It can show wonderful results, your gray hair will turn black. Boil some dried amla pieces in coconut oil till it turns black. Apply this oil to prevent hair greying.
Grate some fresh ginger. Mix with honey and place it in a jar. Eat 1 teaspoon everyday.
Massage your hairs with coconut oil and lemon juice everyday.
Boil some dried ribbed gourd torai in coconut oil till it turns black. Massage this oil in scalp and hair roots should be massaged into the scalp.
Mix 1 tablespoon of table salt to a cup of strong black tea without milk. Massage this water on the scalp. Wash your hair after an hour.
Boil some curry leaves in coconut oil and apply in scalp and hair roots.
Make a paste of 2 tspn henna powder, 1 tspn yogurt, 1 tsp fenugreek (methi seed powder, 3 tspn coffee, 2 tspn basil juice and 3 tspn mint juice and apply to the hair. Wash hair with shampoo after 3 hours.Massage your scalp and hair with butter made from cow milk twice a week.

Take a cup of strong black tea (without milk), and to this add a tablespoon of salt. When cold, strain the tea and massage it on the roots. Leave it on for an hour, and then rinse with cold water. Do not shampoo it.

HOMEOPATHIC REMEDY FOR GRAYING OF HAIR. 

Hair-Gray;becoming: LYC, PHOS, Ars, Kali-i, Nat-m, Ph-ac, Sil, ambr, , camph, carc, grapg,hipp,kali-n kreos, ,lac-ma , limset-b, moni, op, psor, sec, salv, sul-ac, syph, staph, sulph, thuja

Hair-gray; becoming,prematurely: Lyc, ambr, camph, emb-r,, graph, ph-ac, salv, sul-ac, syc, syph,

Hair-gray; becoming,spots in: Lyc, kreos, psor

Hair-gray; becoming, grief after: Ph-ac. 


Homeopathic treatment depend on the Individuality of person, totality of symptoms.

The Story of Disease

On the earth every living being are controlled by vital force which is flow in the form of energy in the dynamic form  and works on every individual (either they are human, animals plants or micro-organism ) automatically and autocratically. 

If vital force is flow in the well Harmony in body without any disturbance; this condition is called Health. 

So health is defined as Harmonious way of flowing of vital force without having any abnormal feelings. 

In Healthy condition; all living being feel good mentally as well as physically; here feel good factor of mind(which is the headquarter of dynamic vital force) is more important factor of healthy living being. 

If we further go through the life of healthy living being there are many factors which disturb the normal flowing of energy(vital force). 

These Causes are:

1. Emotional Factors e.g. Stress. Anger, Anxiety, Fear. 

2. Bad Habit regarding to dite , bath, unhygenic conditions 

3. Environmental Factors 

4. Mechanical Factor

5. Traumatic Factor

6. Chemical Factors 

All of them, emotional factors, bad habits are the main cause of disturbance in the flow of vital force. 

So disturbed flow of energy make us sick and this is we called Dis-Ease(Feeling uncomfortable) 

This is the commencement of the life threatening condition or this is the first stage or first baby step toward the more grievous disasters. 

In this stage our mental sphere was disturbed. As we all know that Mind is divided into 

1. Will 

2. Intellectuality

3. Emotions. 

(here i do not mention the animals and plants because they don't have the first most strongest part of mental sphere) 

Now question is that, Which one is first affected and which one is last? 

As far as my knowledge on the psychology the Will is the strongest , then Intellectuality and the last Emotional plane which is more flexible. 

Suppose, the person who was healthy in his early life and after engaged in the stress, anger, sexual abuse, failures in life (love, exams, business etc.), Bad habits. 

His/her emotional level affect first and he/she try to be another things for overpower his/her emotional stress(which is not the higher purpose of his life). It mean the disturbance in flow of vital force on the emotional level of human being, this is the real threshold for disease. 

Now once he/she become weak and vital force strength decrease in minute amount. He/she is prone to further upcoming disasters of life. 

He is liable to any kind of infection but only n lesser in degree.  

Miasm

Hahnemann told us that Disease caused by miasm, acute disease caused by acute miasm and chronic disease caused by chronic miasm.

Now question is that What is miasm ?

Hahnemann in his aphorism no.73 describe that

“As regards acute diseases, they are either of such a kind as attack human beings individually, the exciting cause being injurious influences to which they were particularly exposed. Excesses in food, or an insufficient supply of it, severe physical impression, chills, over heatings, dissipation, strains, etc., or physical irritations, mental emotions, and the like, are exciting causes of such acute febrile affections; in reality, however, they are generally only a transient explosion of latent psora, which spontaneously returns to its dormant state if the acute diseases were not of too violent a character and were soon quelled. Or they are of such a kind as attack several persons at the same time, here and there (sporadically), by means of meteoric or telluric influences and injurious agents, the susceptibility for being morbidly affected by which is possessed by only a few persons at one time. Allied to these are those diseases in which many persons are attacked with very similar sufferings from the same cause (epidemically); these diseases generally become infectious (contagious) when they prevail among thickly congregated masses of human beings. Thence arise fevers, in each instance of a peculiar nature, and, because the cases of disease have an identical origin, they set up in all those they affect an identical morbid process, which when left to itself terminates in a moderate period of time in death or recovery. The calamities of war, inundations and famine are not infrequently their exciting causes and producers - sometimes they are peculiar acute miasms which recur in the same manner (hence known by some traditional name), which either attack persons but once in a lifetime, as the smallpox, measles, whooping-cough, the ancient, smooth, bright red scarlet fever of Sydenham, the mumps, etc., or such as recur frequently in pretty much the same manner, the plague of the Levant, the yellow fever of the sea-coast, the Asiatic cholera, etc.”

In aphorism 74

“Among chronic diseases we must still, alas!, reckon those so commonly met with, artificially produced in allopathic treatment by the prolonged use of violent heroic medicines in large and increasing doses, by the abuse of calomel, corrosive sublimate, mercurial ointment, nitrate of silver, iodine and its ointments, opium, valerian, cinchona bark and quinine, foxglove, prussic acid, sulphur and sulphuric acid, perennial purgatives, venesections, shedding streams of blood, leeches, issues, setons, etc., whereby the vital energy is sometimes weakened to an unmerciful extent, sometimes, if it do not succumb, gradually abnormally deranged (by each substance in a peculiar manner) in such a way that, in order to maintain life against these inimical and destructive attacks, it must produce a revolution in the organism, and either deprive some part of its irritability and sensibility, or exalt these to an excessive degree, cause dilatation or contraction, relaxation or induration or even total destruction of certain parts, and develop faulty organic alterations here and there in the interior or the exterior (cripple the body internally or externally), in order to preserve the organism from complete destruction of the life by the ever - renewed, hostile assaults of such destructive forces.”

The conclusion is that, human being first affected by acute miasm and goes into the disease condition which we called acute disease. The acute disease are those miasmatic diseases which comes suddenly, complete their course within a time period, which is limited for every acute condition and finally terminate either in recovery or death of person. This recovery may take place with or without the help of medicine.

So if the person suppressed them by the use of non-healing medicines e.g ointments, lotions, antibiotics, vaccination, steroids, he goes into deeper stage and become more sick(chronic disease).

Hahnemann said that Chronic diseases are caused by chronic miasm, so chronic miasm are not more than suppressed conditions of acute disease which  is caused by acute miasm.

In his book Theory of Chronic disease he wrote that

“The miasm of the common gonorrhea seems not to penetrate the whole organism, but only to locally stimulate the urinary organs”

In one of his footnote of theory of chronic disease he said that

“Acute half spiritual miasm the peculiar characteristic that after they have penetrated the vital force in the first moment of the contagion and then like parasite quickly grown up within it and have uswally developed themselves by their peculiar fever after producing the fruit(The mature continous eruption which is again capable of producing its miasm) they again die out and leave the living organism again free to recover”

“On the other hand the chronic miasm disease-parasite which continue to live as long as the man seized by them is alive and which their fruit in the eruption originally produced by them (the itch pustules, chancre, and fig warts , which in turn are capable of infecting others) and which do not die off of themselves like the acute miasm, but only exterminated and annihilated by counter infection”

Thus it mean that Hahnemann want to say that Miasm are the Parasitic infectious agents (bacteria, viruses, fungi etc.)

Dr. H.A Robert in his book “The principle and art if cure by homeopathy” stated that  Miasm is defined as polluting exhalations or malarial poisons. He also suggest the word Stigma for miasm which mean something present in the organism which is so harmful or able to produce new things.

From above discussion we are able to say that superficially miasm is infectious agent which produce disease.

But As all homeopaths say that Miasm is more than the infectious agent no one can understand the mind of Hahmenann.

Dr. Kent said that “Bacteria are the end results of disease. In the course of time the microscopically little fellows are not the cause of disease but that they are perfectly harmless in every respect. They are outcome of the disease, are present whenever the disease is & by the microscope it has been discovered that every pathological results, has its corresponding bacteria”.

Okay! If microorganisms are not the cause of disease and they are not fit in the world miasm as Hahnemann stated, then What is MIASM ?

Above we read that First Emotional disturbance of life disturbs the vital force , and once vital force disturbed then the consequences of disorders starts. After the emotional trauma, he seems busy in other stuffs

For example

One business man; he lost his one of his greatest assignment of his life, this lose disturbed him on the emotional level; he starts hard work over nights and days, his daily routine was disturbed by this and body wants energy and rest, but with lack of time due to trying to improvement his business, he start taking the instant energy and he moves toward the Coffee, Black tea, Smoking, Alcohol.

One Brilliant student who achieved success in every field of this school comes in the bad company , it is the another kind of emotional trauma, which makes him sick, he start any wrong things in the influence of bad company like Watching porn movies, Sexual activities, Smoking, alcohol consumption.

The unborn child, when child start breathing in the womb, he/she fully dependent on the mother, what she eat, what she drink, her habits all thing influence the growth of child in the womb and when she get some power full emotional trauma then child will also suffer with this. And he/she come in the outer world with the dis-ease feelings.

After this emotional disturbance person and engaged with some bad habits he prone to several kind of infections and we tag the name of these information e.g AIDS, Cancer, Cholera, Smallpox, Rabies, whatever we called they are thousands in an numbers.

Overall I mean to say that Miasm is not an infectious agent, Miasm is a Climate which is surrounds us and the contain of this climate are.

1.     Emotional traumatic condition of life

2.    Bad habits

3.    Unhygienic conditions

4.    Life style(sedentary or hyperactive)

5.    Micro-organisms

6.    Environmental factors (influence the above five causes)

These Environmental factors varies person to person depending on the susceptibility of person and also depend on the Sins of person. More sinner person effect more and less sinner person effect less by the climate. So don’t follow the line of our holly books that “Do the sins and bath into holly water for remove the sins”

So couclusion is that “MIASM IS A CLIMATE FORMED BY SIX FACTORS”