Rubbing your scalp stimulates hairs follicles and promotes hair growth! Although this home remedy for hair loss seems perfectly logical, it doesn’t hold up to scientific analysis. The problem is that each hair on your head grows in cycles. Every hair is either growing or resting, at a ratio of 90 to 10. Stimulating the hair follicles won’t make the resting hair follicle switch back to its growth phase. Since the ones that are growing are not part of the hair loss problem, massaging your scalp won’t help them either. Rubbing your scalp feels good, so go ahead and massage your scalp. It’s relaxing.
Ginkgo biloba, ginger, and cayenne pepper all improve the circulation of blood in your body. Standing on your head also sends more blood to your scalp. Sending more blood to your scalp won’t change the number of hair follicles that are producing new hair at any given time. It won’t revive a damaged hair follicle that is no longer able to produce new hairs either.
Can increased circulation help you regrow hair, if your body is genetically wired for male or female pattern baldness or you have a disease condition that is causing hair loss? It’s unlikely, unproven, and unsuccessful for most hair loss victims. Anyone who experiences hair growth with this folk remedy has probably, by coincidence, started their regime at a time when some hair follicles are resuming normal growth, after their resting phase. Voila, new hair growth.
Have you heard that if you mix apple cider vinegar and sage tea together and put it on your scalp, your hair will grow back, within a few months? Apple cider vinegar does have beneficial effects on your hair. It helps to cleanse the hair of buildup from grooming products. Sage tea may also have a similar effect. Once you have removed the buildup of conditioners, mousse, and other hair grooming products, the volume of your hair may increase. Although, the amount of hair on your head isn’t likely to increase, the thin or bald spots won’t be as noticeable. Unfortunately, many people will take this as a sign that their hair growth has resumed.