Skip to content
2000
Volume 24, Issue 26
  • ISSN: 1381-6128
  • E-ISSN: 1873-4286

Abstract

Hair loss may not be recognized as a life-threatening disorder. However, it has a great harm to a person's self-respect, mental health, and entirety quality of life. Androgenic alopecia (AGA) is the most common type of hair loss, which affects a great number of both men and women. Alopecia can be treated with various hair loss strategies, including hair transplant, cosmetics and medication. Medical treatment shows the outstanding ability in improving hair growth. Plenty of drugs prevents alopecia by inhibiting the secretion of male hormone. But these medicines exhibit some undesirable side effects. Since hair loss requires a long-term treatment and minimizing adverse side effects is extremely urgent in drug development. Accordingly, new agents are obtained from natural products with less adverse effects. Traditional Chinese medicines exhibit unique advantages in hair loss treatment. This review generalizes and analyzes the recent progress of medicinal plants for the treatment of hair loss, suggested mechanisms and outlines a number of trials taken or underway to optimize the treatment.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/cpd/10.2174/1381612824666180911114810
2018-07-01
2025-05-06
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/content/journals/cpd/10.2174/1381612824666180911114810
Loading

  • Article Type:
    Review Article
Keyword(s): androgenic alopecia; chemical compounds; extracts; Hair loss; mechanism; medicinal plant
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error
Please enter a valid_number test