Tips on some dishes prepared from certain herbs that can help darken early gray hair
Early gray hair, aesthetically, causes inconveniences for the sufferers, especially women. However, it causes neither physical disorders nor complications, and is thus harmless to health. The symptom often comes from heredity, a wrong nutrition regime, stress, pessimism or sorrow.
To date, there have not been drugs or remedies that are effective for the treatment of early gray hair. In Western medicine, vitamins B5 and E have been used to treat this symptom, but they may have certain side effect. A proper regime and an optimistic spirit play an important role in the treatment of early gray hair.
In traditional medicine, u en, literally means black beans, or catjang (Vigna cylindrica), and hà th ô (Polygonum multiflorum) have long been used to cure early gray hair.
Remedies
Stew pig bone with black beans. Eat this soup once a day.
Roast black beans, black sesame, bch qu (Ginkgo biloba) and hà th ô; grind them all into powder and store the powder in a tightly closed jar; eat 30 grams of the powder a day. Or, roast dried black beans and store the roasted beans in a tightly closed jar; chew a teaspoonful of roasted beans well, twice a day, with a little water.
Stew hà th ô well; stir-fry sliced pig liver and then cook them with the broth of hà th ô; add minced cabbage and mc nh (cloud ear fungus – Auricularia polytricha); cook for a few minutes and add spices. Eat this soup every day.
Stew a hen stuffed with hà th ô in an earthen pot; add spices. Eat the soup once a day.
Roast the same amount of hà th ô and black sesame and grind them into powder; add a little purified sugar. Mix two to three teaspoonfuls of the sugared powder with water and drink the solution twice a day.
Roast hà th ô, th ty t (Cuscuta chinensis) and phá c ch (Psoralea corylifolia); grind the roasted stuffs into powder; make a drink by mixing the powder with hot water. Drink the solution during the day instead of tea.
Or, you can squeeze garlic and ginger and rub your hair with the garlic and ginger juices before going to bed at night; rinse your hair well with warm water and shampoo it the next morning. Repeat the remedy in three to four months.
It is worth noting that all the above-mentioned herbs are available at all traditional medicine shops throughout the country.
