Facial hair, unwanted hair, excessive hair and homeopathy
Facial hair/unwanted hair/excessive hair growth and
Homeopathy
There are certain myths about facial hair in women in some
parts of Asia sub-continent such as
It is said that facial hair in women are a symbol of
blessing. These should not be removed in any case.
Other says that the women with facial hair are
un-reliable.Some says, no they become wise after the growth of facial hair.
To me , all above things have no truth in it. No doubt,
excessive facial and other unwanted hair growth is undesirable, it is the
symptom of some internal disturbance and /or imbalance. The research so far,
has shown that there are two major root causes of excessive hair growth:
a. Genetice make-up
b. Imblance/distrubance in some harmons (especially androgen
group)
The sebaceous gland associated with most hairs is actually
more sensitive to androgens hormones than is the hair follicle.
Hyperstimulation of the sebaceous gland accompanied by bacterial infection
results in acne .The endocrinologic factors that influence the pilosebaceous
unit are: the rate and amount of androgen secretion by the ovary and adrenal
gland the blood concentration of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) conversion
in the fat cells and skin of weak, less potent androgens, to potent androgens
sensitivity of the pilosebaceous unit to androgens
Note: The pilosebaceous unit consists of the hair shaft, the
hair follicle, the sebaceous gland which makes sebum, and the erector pili
muscle which causes the hair to stand up when it contracts.
Pilosebaceous Unit
Unwanted and/or excessive hair growth depends upon several
different factors.There fore the best way to treat above is to control these
factors.
altered androgen metabolism
increased androgen production
decreased androgen binding in the circulation
exogenous androgens
Note: Increased growth of hair on the face of women just
before and just after menopause is quite a common occurrence. It is primarily
because of decreased estrogens.
What Homeopathy Says
Homeopathy is very unique treating system. It does not
favour the use of cream, lotions, waxing and other methods used for the removal
of facial hair. As mentioned above, the facial hair and other excessive hair
growth is due to certain imbalance in the body. So, the homeopathy believes in
activating the body’s own immune systme to treat all types of diseases. The
names of diseases are meaningless in homeopathy. The homeopathy treats the
patient, keeping in view the totality of symtoms.
Here is a list of homeopathic medicines with a very short
description, which are mostly used in treating the facial hair and other parts
excessive hair growth. Select the most matching medicine. For further reading,
consult the Materia Medica. In case of any confusion, consult your physician.
Homeopathic Treatment:
THUJA OCC
Thuja is derived from the leaves and twigs of the evergreen
conifer tree, also known as white cedar tree.
Thuja is useful when any of the following are indicated:
Mental and Emotional aspects
Lack of self-esteem – Paranoia – Manipulative but weak –
Anorexia – Distorted ideas of body image – Fear of strangers – Facial twitches
–Fixed ideas – Anxiety – Cries easily – Dyslexia – Interrupted sleep –
Secretive.
Physical aspects
Warts – Verrucas – Skin complaints - Very oily skin – Acne –
Perspiration with odour – Headaches – Facial and body excessive hair-Polyps of
the nose – Styes – Nail problems – Haemorrhoids – Lack of appetite – Always
cold – Urethral and vaginal infections – Menstrual problems including cramps.
SABAL SERRULATA
Sabal is homeopathic to irritability of the genito-urinary
organs. General and sexual debility. Promotes nutrition and tissue building.
Head, stomach, and ovarian symptoms marked.
Head.--Confused, full; dislikes sympathy; makes her angry.
Vertigo, with headache. Neuralgia in feeble patients. Pain runs up from nose
and centers in forehead.
Stomach.--Belching and acidity. Desire for milk
Urinary.--Constant desire to pass water at night. Enuresis;
paresis of sphincter vesicæ. Chronic gonorrhœa. Difficult urination. Cystitis
with prostatic hypertrophy.
Male.--Prostatic troubles; enlargement; discharge of
prostatic fluid. Wasting of testes and loss of sexual power. Coitus painful at
the time of emission. Sexual neurotics. Organs feel cold.
Female.--Ovaries tender and enlarged; breasts shrivel .
Young female neurotics; suppressed or perverted sexual inclination.
MEDORRHINUM
A powerful and deep-acting medicine, often indicated for
chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhœa. For women with chronic pelvic
disorders. Chronic rheumatism. Great disturbance and irritability of nervous
system. Pains intolerable; tensive; nerves quiver and tingle. Children dwarfed
and stunted. History of sycosis. Often restores a gonorrhœal discharge.
Intensity of all sensations. Œdema of limbs; dropsy of serous sacs. Disseminated
sclerosis.
Mind.--Weak memory. Loses the thread of conversation. Cannot
speak without weeping. Time passes too slowly (Cannab ind; Arg n). Is in a
great hurry. Hopeless of recovery. Difficult concentration. Fears going insane
(Mancinella). Sensibility exalted. Nervous, restless. Fear in the dark and of
some one behind her. Melancholy, with suicidal thoughts.
Face.--Pallor, acne, blotches of reddish color. Small boils
break out during menses.
Stomach.--Coppery taste and eructations of sulphuretted
hydrogen. Ravenous hunger soon after eating. Very thirsty. Cravings for liquor,
salt, sweets, etc, warm drinks. Pernicious vomiting of pregnancy.
Abdomen.--Violent pain in liver and spleen. Rests more
comfortably lying on abdomen.
Urine.--Painful tenesmus when urinating. Renal colic Urine
flows very slowly.
Female.--Intense pruritus. Menses offensive, profuse, dark,
clotted; stains difficult to wash out, urinates frequently at that time.
Sensitive spot near os uteri. Leucorrhœa thin, acrid, excoriating, fishy odor.
Sycotic warts on genitals. Ovarian pain, worse left side, or from ovary to
ovary. Sterility. Metrorrhagia. Intense menstrual colic. Breasts cold, sore,
and sensitive.
Male.--Nocturnal emissions, followed by great weakness.
Impotence. Gleet; whole urethra feels sore. Urethritis. Enlarged and painful
prostate with frequent urging and painful urination.
Skin.--Yellow. Intense and incessant itching; worse night
and when thinking of it. Fiery red rash about anus in babies. Copper-colored
spots. Favus. Tumors and abnormal growth.
THYROIDINUM
Thyroid produces anæmia, emaciation, muscular weakness,
sweating, headache, nervous tremor of face and limbs, tingling sensations,
paralysis. Heart rate increased, exophthalmus and dilation of pupils. In
myxœdema and cretinism its effects are striking. Rheumatoid arthritis.
Infantile wasting. Rickets. Delayed union of fractures. In half grain doses
twice a day over a considerable period said to be effective in undescended
testicle in boys. Thyroid exercises a general regulating influence over the
mechanism of the organs of nutrition, growth and development. Thyroid weakness
causes decided craving for large amount of sweets.
Mind.--Stupor, alternating with restless melancholy.
Irritable, worse least opposition; goes into a rage over trifles.
Heart.--Weak, frequent pulse, with inability to lie down.
Tachycardia (Naja). Anxiety about chest, as if constricted. Palpitation from
least exertion. Severe heart pain; Ready excitability of heart. Heart's action
weak, with numbness of fingers.
Stomach.--Desire for sweets and thirst for cold water.
Nausea worse riding in car. Flatulence, much flatus in abdomen.
Urinary.--Increased flow; polyuria; some albumen and sugar.
Enuresis in weakly children who are nervous and irritable (1/2 gr night and
morning). Urine smells of violets, burning along urethra, increase of uric
acid.
Extremities.--Rheumative arthritis with tendency to obesity,
coldness and cramps of extremities. Peeling of skin of lower limbs. Cold
extremities. Aching pains. Œdema of legs. Trembling of limbs and entire body.
Skin.--Psoriasis associated with adiposity (not in
developing stage). Skin dry, impoverished. Cold hands and feet. Eczema. Uterine
fibroids. Browny swelling. Swelling of glands of stony hardness. Sluggish
cases. Jaundice with pruritus. Ichtyosis, lupus. Itching without eruption,
worse night.
SEPIA OFF
Mind and Disposition.Sadness with weeping.Great
indifference, even to one's family.Restlessness, fidgety.Great excitability in
company. Dread of being alone.Is easily offended and inclined to be
vehement.Sadness about one's health and her domestic affairs.Anxiety, with
flushes of heat.Aversion to one's occupation.Heavy flow of ideas.Weak memory.
Face.Pale yellow puffiness of the face, with blue margins
around the eyes.Yellow color of the face (and of the white of the eyes).Yellow
saddle across the nose and face.Yellowness around the mouth.Tetters around the
mouth. Moist, scaly eruptions in the red parts of the lips and on the
chin.Swelling of the under lip.Erysipelas and swelling of one side of the face
from the root of a decayed tooth.Herpes, scurfs and black pores in the
face.Neuralgic pains in the face (left side, from abuse of tobacco).
Stomach and Abdomen.Taste putrid or sour.Food tastes too
salt.Canine hunger and sensation of emptiness in the stomach.Thirst in the
morning or thirstlessness.After eating, acidity in the mouth and bloatedness of
the abdomen.Aversion to meat and milk, which cause diarrhœa.Eructations, sour
or like rotten eggs, or bitter.Eructations which cause blood to rise in the
mouth.Water-brash after drinking or eating.Acidity of the stomach (with disgust
for life).Nausea, especially in the morning and while fasting or when riding in
a carriage.Nausea and vomiting after eating.Vomiting of pregnant women,
sometimes of milky water.Vomiting, of bile and food, in the morning, with
headache.Painful sensation of emptiness in the stomach and abdomen.Pain in the
stomach after eating.Pressure in the stomach, as from a stone, especially after
eating or at night.Cutting, boring, from the region of the stomach towards the
spine.Burning in the stomach.Pulsation in the pit of the stomach.Rumbling in
the abdomen, especially after eating.Soreness of the abdomen in pregnant women
in the abdomen, pressing, cutting, stinging burning, coldness.Stitches in the
liver and left hypochondrium.Pot-belliedness of mothers.Brown spots on the
abdomen.
Sexual Organs.Men. Continued erections at night.The prepuce
ulcerates and itches continually.Weakness of the genitals ; they perspire
profusely, especially the scrotum.Scrotum swollen.Cutting in the testes.After
coition great weakness in the knees.Women. Pressure, as if every thing would
protrude (with oppression of breathing).Prolapsus of the uterus, of the
vagina.Induration of the neck of the uterus.Violent stitches in the vagina,
upwards.Redness, swelling and itching humid eruption on the labiæ.Catamenia too
early and too profuse, or too scanty, or suppressed.During menstruation,
depression, toothache, headache, bleeding of the nose, and soreness in the
limbs.Leucorrhœa, of yellow or greenish water, like pus, or of bad-smelling
fluids.Inclination to miscarriages.
Skin.Itching in the face, on the arms, hands, hips, feet,
abdomen and genitals, changing to burning when scratching.Soreness of the skin
and humid places in the bends of the joints.Brown spots, or claret-colored, tetter-like
spots on the skin.Pemphigus ; ring-worms ; boils ; blood-boils.Ulcers, painless
(knuckles, finger-joints, tips of the fingers, joints and tips of the toes), or
itching, stinging and burning.Humid tetters, with itching and burning.Lymphatic
swellings.Crippled nails.
IGNATIA AMMARA
Mind and Disposition.Sensitiveness of feeling ; delicate
conscientiousness.Fearfulness, timidity.Irresoluteness ; anxious ; to do now
this, now that.The slightest contradiction irritates.Intolerance of
noise.Taciturn, with continuous sad thoughts ; still, serious melancholy, with
moaning.Anger, followed by quiet grief and sorrow.Inclination to grief, without
saying any thing about it ; keeping it to himself.Great tenderness.Changeable
disposition ; jesting and laughing, changing to sadness, with shedding of
tears. (Hysteria).Inclination to start.
Face.Alternate redness and paleness of the face.Redness and
heat of one cheek (and ear).Clay-colored, sunken face, with blue margins around
the eyes.Perspiration only in the face.Convulsive twitchings in the muscles of
the face.Twitching of the corners of the mouth.Spasmodic closing of the jaws
(lock-jaw).Lips dry, cracked, bleeding.Ulceration of one of the corners of the
mouth.
Urinary Organs.Sudden irresistible desire to urinate.Frequent
discharge of watery urine.Pressure to urinate, from drinking coffee.Burning and
smarting in the urethra during micturition.Itching in the forepart of the
urethra.
Genital Organs.Men. Violent itching of the genitals in the
evening ; relieved by scratching.Lasciviousness without erections.Contraction
of the penis ; it becomes quite small.Erections during stool.Perspiration on
the scrotum.Women. Menstruation too early (and too profuse).Menstrual blood,
black, of putrid odor, in clots.Metrorrhagia.During menstruation uterine
spasms, with crampy pressing (relieved by pressure and in a recumbent
posture).Uterine spasms with lancinations or like labor pains.
Skin.Itching over the whole body, which disappears on
scratching.Itching when becoming heated in the open air.Great sensitiveness of
the skin to a draught of air.
Other homeopathic medicines includes calc carb,, calc phos,
pulsatilla, nat mur, etc.
TIPS
1. THUJA 10M just once a month for three months. Three doses
in total.
2. Oleum jac 3x and Thuja 3x, if taken on alternate week
usually remove this complaint.
