Dr. Antonio Alvi Armani

Hair Transplant

Hair Transplant: Alternative medicines may be another option instead of getting a hair transplant.  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. Some people would much rather take this route than to have a hair transplant.

After a hair transplant procedure people should be positive because it is possible that this could help with the results. 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. This does not work for all people so some may need to look into getting a hair transplant.

Alternative medicines are many different medical systems practiced by trained professionals all over the United States and around the world that have their roots in the traditional medicines of the ancient world. Some of these medicines are alternative to hair transplants and are continuations of ancient medical traditions like acupuncture and traditional Chinese and Indian herbal medicines, others are newer medical systems developed based on the same principles of these ancient systems of medicine like homeopathy, cell therapy, and magnetic field therapy.

All alternative medicines are based on a more holistic understanding of the human being than understood by conventional modern medicine. Conventional medicine thinks of the human being as being primarily a physical body that thinks, while alternative medicines start from the viewpoint that the human being is more than just a body — as body, mind, and spirit. Conventional medicines look for causes to ailments on the physical level alone. In contrast, alternative medicine looks for causes on all levels of the human being. Alternative medicine looks deeper into the human being to look for causes, and this, according to its proponents, is what is its greatest strength. All alternative medicines try to reach into the whole human being using a number of keys and methods to cure inner distortions that cause physical ailments. These types of treatment do not work for everyone so hair meds or hair transplants may be the only option. Keep in mind that having a healthy positive attitude after a hair transplant procedure may help as well.