According to allopath’s, abnormality in the immune system that damages hair follicles. This particular abnormality leads to autoimmunity, a misguided immune system that tends to attack its own body. As a result, the immune system attacks particular tissues of the body. In alopecia areata, for unknown reasons, the body’s own immune system attacks the hair follicles and disrupts normal hair formation. Biopsies of affected skin show immune lymphocytes penetrating into the hair bulb of the hair follicles.

In my clinical trials/research I (Dr Qaisar Ahmed) noticed that causes of hair fall could be different for example:

Caused by malnutrition (Vit-K, Vit-A, Protein, Biotin, zinc, iron-low hemoglobin etc.).

Autoimmune conditions and diseases such as:

• • Thyroid disease,
  • Vitiligo,
  • Lupus,
  • Rheumatoid arthritis,
  • Ulcerative colitis,
  • Stress and/or Depression,
  • Hair-pulling disorder, or Trichotillomania.
  • Nutrient Deficiencies.

The diagnosis and treatment of these diseases will dramatically change the effects of your treatment for alopecia areata.

The allopathic course of typical alopecia areata is not predictable with a high likelihood of spontaneous remission. The longer the period of time of hair loss and the larger the area involved, the less likely the hair will regrow spontaneously. Therefore, in allopathy there are a variety of treatments, but none of these can confidently be predicted to impact the course of this disease:

Local steroid injections intracutaneously may be helpful in restarting the hair growth cycle in treated areas.

Steroid creams, lotions, and shampoos have been used for many years but are of limited benefit at best.

Although oral systemic steroids are known to induce hair growth in affected patients, their long-term use is contraindicated because of the likelihood of undesirable and irreversible side effects.

The topical sensitizers, diphencyprone or squaric acid dibutylester, have been used in those suffering from recalcitrant alopecia areata or those with more than 50% hair loss. The goal of treatment is to create an allergic contact dermatitis of the scalp. This alteration in the immune response occasionally is accompanied by hair regrowth. The efficacy of topical sensitizers has been demonstrated in both young children and adults, but it probably works less than half the time. Recent success using oral janus kinase inhibitors, including tofacitinib, ruxolitinib, and baricitinib, have been shown to be efficacious in severe, extensive alopecia areata in adults, but long-term therapy has potential irreversible side effects. The durability of response to these medications is variable, and most patients experience recurrence of hair loss after discontinuation. Perhaps topical therapy with these types of drugs may be available in the near future.

Effective allopathic treatment

There is no known effective allopathic method of prevention, although the elimination of emotional stress is felt to be helpful. No allopathic drugs or allopathic hair care products have been associated with the onset of alopecia areata.

Although not precisely a treatment, the cosmetic camouflage of alopecia areata is certainly an important consideration in patient management. The damaging emotional effect of significant hair loss for both women and men can be considerable.

Homeopathic Treatment for alopecia areata

Homeopathy treats not the diseases but its cause root(s), that’s why Homeopathic treatment for alopecia is better, safer and cost-effective. Here are few Homeopathic medicines for alopecia areata:

Thuja Occidentalis

The main action of Thuja is on the skin and Genito-urinary organs. White, scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling out. Greasy skin, carbuncles; ulcers. Freckles and blotches. Perspiration sweetish, and strong, brown spots (Vit-A deficiency). Zona; herpetic eruptions.

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Humid, itching eruption on hairy scalp, emitting a fetid odor. Cataleptic condition.  Eczema. Itching pimples. Moist eczema. Rough, hard, persistent dryness of portions of skin unaffected by eczema. Early stage of keloid and fibroma. Pimples and acne. Eruptions, oozing out a sticky exudation. Rawness in bends of limbs, groins, neck, behind ears. Unhealthy skin: every little injury suppurates. Ulcers discharging a glutinous fluid, thin and sticky. Swelling and induration of glands. Gouty nodosities. Wen (boils type infections). Tetters, and other humid or scabby eruptions.

Mezereum

Scaly eruption on scalp, white scabs. Head covered with thick, leathery crusts, under which pus collects. Eczema; intolerable itching; chilliness with pruritus. Ulcers itch and burn, surrounded by vesicles and shining, fiery-red areola. Hair falls due to skin infections. Zona, with burning pain. Eruptions ulcerate and form thick scabs under purulent matter exudes. 

Lycopodium Clavatum

Atony. Malnutrition. Great falling out of hair. Eczema; moist oozing behind ears. Ulcerates. Abscesses beneath skin. Hives. Violent itching; fissured eruptions. Acne. Chronic eczema associated with urinary, gastric and hepatic disorders, bleeds easily. Skin becomes thick and indurated. Varicose veins, naevi, erectile tumors. Brown spots, freckles on face and nose. Dry, shrunken, especially palms; hair becomes prematurely gray. Dropsies. Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration. Psoriasis. Deep furrows on forehead. Premature baldness and gray hair.

Natrium Muriaticum

A great medicine for certain forms of intermittent fever, anemia, chlorosis, many disturbances of the alimentary tract and skin. Great debility. Morning sickness. Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints. Fever blisters. Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears. Warts on palms of hands. Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed. Affects hair follicles. Alopecia. Hives, itching after exertion. Greasy skin.

Ceanothus Americanus

Ceanothus Americanus is most clinically used Homeopathic medicine to prevent hair loss. Anemic patients where liver and spleen are at fault with periodical neuralgia.

Syphillinum

One of the best Homeopathic medicines for alopecia areata. Hair loss with linear pains from temple across, or from eyes backward; cause sleeplessness and delirium at night. Stupefying cephalalgia. Hair falls profusely. Tubercles all over the scalp.

Pix Liquida

Pix liq is one of the most important homeopathic medicines for alopecia areata, where hair loss and
bronchial irritation after influenza. The skin symptoms it treats are the most important factor itching, cracked and bleeding on scratching. Hair fall with scaly eruptions on scalp.

Jaborandi (Pilocarpus)

A good Homeopathic medicine for alopecia areata. It has been used as a remedy for baldness with excessive perspiration from all parts of the body. Thyroid. Exophthalmic goiter, with increased heart’s action and pulsation of arteries; tremors and nervousness; heat and sweating. Semi-lateral sweats. Chilliness with sweat. Eczema.

Vinca Minor

It is another useful homeopathic medicine for alopecia areata. It works well in cases where there is a tendency for hair to fall in spots which are then replaced by white hair. Along with this, itching and violent scratching over the scalp may also be present. Skin affections, eczema. Hair matted together. Plica polonica. Corrosive itching. Great sensitiveness of skin, with redness and soreness from slight rubbing. Eczema of head and face; pustules, itching, burning, and offensive odor. 

Mancinella

Mancinella is an excellent homeopathic medicine for alopecia areata. When Itching in the scalp with sticky discharge and formation of the crusts. Silent mood and self-consciousness. Head feeling light and empty. Falling of hair after acute sickness. Dermatitis, with excessive vesiculation, oozing of sticky serum and formation of crusts. Loss of vision.

Sepia Officianalis

Acts specially on the portal system, with venous congestion. Stasis and thereby ptosis of viscera and weariness and misery. Weakness, yellow complexion. Hair loss from hormonal imbalance. Falling of hair during menopause, pregnancy, after childbirth and nursing of a child. Losing of hair after chronic headache. Hair falls out. Open fontanelles. Roots of hair sensitive. Pimples on forehead near hair. Irritable and indifferent women. Hot flushes followed by perspiration. Bearing down sensation in the uterus. Brown spots on abdomen (Vit-A deficiency). Herpes circinate in isolated spots. Itching; not relieved by scratching.

Silicea Tera

Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition. It goes further and produces neurasthenic states in consequence, and increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes. Premature baldness, Itching of the scalp before menses. Profuse sweat of head, offensive, and extends to neck. Felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers. Delicate, pale, waxy.

Thallium Metallicum

Thallium seems to influence the endocrines, especially the thyroid and adrenaline. Hair falls after acute exhausting diseases for example thyroid hormone issue. Hair loss with great rapidity.  Alopecia following acute, exhausting diseases. Night sweats. Polyneuritis. Dermal trophic lesions.

Natrum Muriaticum

Patients of  anemia and leukocytosis. Hyperthyroidism. Goiter. Addison’s disease. Diabetes. Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp. Fever blisters. Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions. Eczema. Affects hair follicles. Alopecia. Hives, itching after exertion. Greasy skin.

Phosphorus

Inflammation and degeneration of mucous membranes irritated and inflamed serous membranes.

Floric Aecidium

Fluoric acid acts on the epidermis just like Silica and Thallium Metallicum. Alopecia. Caries of skin. Itching and/or burning pains on small spots of the skin. 

Phosphoricum Acidum

Hair loss from grief and mental shock. Thin weak hairs, turns grey early. Hair falls after fever. Indifferent persons, aversion to talking. Burning pains on small spots of the skin. Pimples, acne, blood-boils. Ulcers, with very offensive pus. Burning red rash.

Selenium Metallicum

Hair fall. Dry, scaly eruption in palms, with itching. Hair falls out from brows, beard, and genitals. Seborrhea oleosa; comedowns with an oily surface of the skin; alopecia. Acne.

Lycopodium

Eczema; moist oozing behind ears. Deep furrows on forehead. Premature baldness and gray hair. Severe hair fall/loos.  Abscesses beneath skin. Acne. Chronic eczema associated with urinary, gastric and hepatic disorders, bleeds easily. Skin becomes thick and indurated. Brown spots on skin (Vit-A deficiency).

Arnica Montana

Arnica increases blood circulation in the scalp, stimulate hair follicles. Prevent hair loss in both man and woman.

Borax

Skin difficult to heal; dingy, unhealthy-looking skin; every injury tends to ulceration. Erysipelatous inflammations, with swelling. Rough and horny hairs cannot be combed smooth. Hair tangled at the tip and stick together, cannot be separated. Whitish pimples, with red areola. Herpetic eruptions. Purulent and phagedenic vesicles.

Thyrodinum

Anemia, emaciation, muscular weakness, sweating, headache, nervous tremor of face and limbs, tingling sensations, paralysis. Hair loss and greying of hair from thyroid hormone imbalance. Psoriasis associated with adiposity. Skin dry, impoverished. Eczema. Uterine fibroids.

Wiesbaden

Amenorrhea. Angina pectoris. Body, odor of, offensive. Constipation. Corns. Diarrheas’. Earwax, excessive. Epistaxis. Glaucoma. Gout. Hemorrhage. Hemorrhoids. Hair, rapid growth of; falling of; grows darker. Hernia, inguinal; femoral. Indigestion. Miscarriage, prevents. Rheumatism. Sterility. Vertigo; caduca. Whitlow. By the use of this remedy hair will grow rapidly and becomes darker. New hair takes place of the fallen hair rapidly. Pimples, vesicles, boils; red, elevated points; moist titter. Very painful abscesses develop towards surface from deep in flesh, with long-continued suppuration. Itching: biting, burning; intolerable.

Cantharis

Hair falls out when combing, especially during confinement and lactation. Severe dandruff with scales on the scalp. Dermatitis venenata with bled formation. Secondary eczema. Eruption with mealy scales. Vesicular eruptions, with burning and itching. Sunburn. Burns, scalds, with rawness and smarting.

Calceria Carbonica

Hair loss from thyroid hormone imbalance. Falling of hair due to hypothyroidism. Excessive perspiration on the scalp, wets the pillow. Itching of the scalp. Cold spots on head. Chilly persons. Catches cold easily. Craving for eggs and indigestible things like dirt, chalk, pencils. Fatty, and obese persons, easily overworked and exhausted. 

Calceria Phosphoricum

Falling of hair in bunches on combing. From poor nutrition. Predisposition to glandular and bone diseases. Skin unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid. Small wounds do not heal readily. Glands swollen. Nettle rash; better in cold air. Warts on face and hands. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. Boils.

Ferrum Phosphoricum

Hair loss from anemia. Takes cold easily. Great mental and physical lassitude indisposed to physical exertion, nervousness and prostration.

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