Otis takes his dog Courage out for a ride. After he puts Courage on the passenger seat, he reaches out for his phone to play music. He accidentally turns on the phone camera and he is shocked by his retreating hairline.
“Oh boy….”
Back at the time of high school, Otis was the center of attention. He had long shiny hair and a big smile of white clean teeth. Prince Charming was no match for him. He won the heart of Jasmine and they got married later.
However, in order to maintain stylish and cool, Otis did a lot to his hair, either perm or dye them on a regular basis. Gradually his hair became oily and itchy and his hair weakened as well. To make matters worse, his job hasn’t been quite smooth lately: He had to work overtime a lot while his boss and clients kept picking on him. Irritated, exhausted and over stressed, he tends to scratch his head to feel some sense of relief, only to worsen his hair condition.
Saitama and Bruce have been best friends since college. They go to the gym together three times a week. They sometimes go jogging as well. In the beginning they were very weak, so weak that they couldn’t even complete one single push-up. However, thanks to their perseverance and determination，they are now strong enough to show some muscles at the beach. However, they discover something disturbing happening on their heads.
“ Hey Bruce, look at your hair! In my memory you used to have more of them!”
“ Your hair are lesser, too. Saitama, I thought I was looking at a lamp instead of your head this morning. Your scalp gets shiny!”
The two good friends google “ Muscle”、“Bald”
And the results:
“ LeBron, most scoring record holder, with a retreating hairline.”
“ Ginobli, great athlete with a killer-like Euro step. Used to have long smooth hair but is bald now.”
“ Jason Statham, former diving champion with abs out of marble stones and a shiny scalp.
“ The Rock, former WWE competitor, strongest man on earth.”
“ Hey Bruce, I’ve found a footage here when The Rock still got hair! “
“ Gee, it’s so hard for me to picture him with hair…”
The price of staying stylish is that all the chemicals would harm your hair and scalp gradually. Some people have strong hair to withstand them, while some just have to suffer the consequence of itchy and vulnerable scalp.
According to ancient Chinese medical documents, the liver collects the blood of the human body. The hair prospers with the blood as long as the liver is working fine. Anger and irritation would crumble the balance state of the liver, causing it to start a pathological fire, which affects the blood as well, resulting in a poor hair condition.
Ever felt weakness in your knees and waist? Chances are you might have insufficiency in your kidney. Kidney holds the essence of the human body, the insufficient state of kidney would lead to weakened and lesser hair.
So how do Chinese medical doctors deal with these kinds of situations? The key is balance, is to cut down on the excessive part and to supply the lacking part.
龍膽瀉肝湯(Long Dan Xie Gan Tang，soup of cleaning liver fire)、山梔子(Shan Chi t's， Fruits of [Gardenia jasminoides Ellis]) )are like good fire extinguishers to put out the burning pathological liver fire.
On the other hand，左歸丸(Tsou Gui Wan，pill of enhancing kidney functions)、杜仲(Du Chong，Tree barks of [(Eucommia ulmoides Oliv.) ])、熟地黃(Shou Di Huang，Roots of [ (Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch) ]) are like outstanding batteries to charge up the depleted kidney.
What’s the price of becoming strong? In addition to blood, sweat and tears and determination and perseverance, your hair. Males who are muscular tend to have a lot of testosterone in their bodies.
Testosterone is crucial to muscle growth and reproductive system, but harmful to hair. That’s why there are lots of great athletes, warriors or actors throughout history who are mighty as bulls but hairless as monks. Modern medicine would recommend Minoxidil as a method to increase hair growth. There is a similar Chinese herb counterpart called 何首烏(He Sho Wu，Roots of [Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.])which holds the function of nourishing liver and blood, flourishing one’s hair as a result.
It’s good to enjoy the sunlight. However, excessive UV rays could do some serious damage to the scalp. Good news is that there’s a simple way to provide physical shelter to the scalp and that is to wear a hat or cap. Be sure to take one with you out on a sunny day!
