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.
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.
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