posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:53 PM by fcodinera

How Do Alternative Medicines Treat Hair Loss?

Alternative medicines look into each individual human being and look for the inner psychological and spiritual causes of hair loss. For each person it might be slightly different but the patterns are generally the same. The treatments that all the various alternative medicines offer for hair loss all try to correct the inner imbalances that are understood to be the real cause of hair loss.

Modern medical research has acknowledged an astonishing phenomenon that suggests how the approach of alternative medicine may work. This astonishing phenomenon is what is called the placebo effect. A placebo is a dummy drug, which has no medical effect. The placebo effect is the improvement in health that researchers find result when they give patients dummy drugs. Studies consistently show that between 30% and 40% of people will show improvement with all sorts of health problems as long as they believe they are taking a medication that will help. Even in many hair growth studies, researchers have found that many people’s hair will noticeably grow as long as they believe they are taking something that will likely cause it to grow, even if it is a placebo. The placebo effect suggests that it is possible to correct health problems by mobilizing the emotional, psychological, and spiritual forces within each of us, and this is precisely what alternative medicines try to do directly by using various outside keys to trigger inward changes.

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