Hair thinning and baldness
This is a specialist clinic for those who find their hair thinning or starting to form a baldness that for them is stressful and demeaning.
We treat men and women of all ages.
We have had a great deal of success over the years.
There is a FREE HAIR 10 minute clinic available on a Saturday morning.It is advisable to book as often we have many people of all ages that wish to discuss their hair problems.
Everything depends on the ratio between what falls out and what grows in its place. Normal hair loss in a man without thinning hair is estimated at between 20 and 30 hairs a day, and yet some men can loose up to 50, 80 or 100 hairs a day or more without there being any thinning of the hair because the loss is regularly replaced by an equivalent growth. On the other hand, there are men who go bald whilst loosing only 15 to 20 hairs a day or less than the normal amount, but in their case the loss is only partially compensated by new growth. In other words, baldness results from a permanent deficit. As long as you make as much as you lose you maintain a healthy balance.
The onset of baldness follows a characteristic pattern; typically the first signs appear at the age of 18 in men, affecting the frontal zone at the summit of the forehead, and then the crown of the head. The hairline begins to recede at the temples, but a receding hairline means nothing itself; the way the hair grows on the forehead is a secondary sexual characteristic and, in boys after puberty, the hair line recedes in the form of a capital M, the uprights following the outline of the temples and the oblique strokes that of the peak.
In girls the hair line normally remains unbroken, following the line of the temples in the shape of an up-side-down U. The direst symptom for a man is the thinning and then receding of the frontal zone. This occurs in waves, interspersed with periods when the process appears to have come to a halt. But with each succeeding wave, the area of depleted surface is enlarged, and the growing hairs, (for hairs continue to grow throughout this relentless progressing towards baldness), become fewer and fewer, finer and finer, until all that remains is a circlet of hair. This persists throughout life, surrounding a scalp sparsely covered in fine down, with here and there a single hair that has for some reason escaped.
The rate of progress towards baldness in men varies considerably. Some men are completely bald by the time they are twenty five years old; with others the final blow doesn’t happen until they are in their thirties and forties.
Apart from this classic type of baldness known as “Hippocratic” baldness because Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was thus afflicted, there are conditions of partial and delayed baldness. In partial baldness a single zone only is affected; either the crown, to a greater or lesser extent, or the frontal zone, which is denuded, pushing the limits of the hair back to the centre of the cranium. In delayed baldness, the hair begins to fall out at the age of thirty or later; it takes the form of thinning to a greater or lesser degree but seldom results in complete baldness which follows from premature hair-loss.
We read and have been told that baldness is hereditary and often this seems true – but it is also seen where a father in maturity has a full head of thick hair, and his very much younger sons in their twenties or thirties have begun to thin badly. Heredity is less evident in women, but is more certain in some cases – so over many centuries, baldness be it partial or total, is still confusing. What the exact causes are has certainly been at the forefront of the research scientist’s work all over the world and until now a total cure has not become evident.
Hair renewel
Our hair treatment really does work for you without the need for surgical implants or drug dependant products.
Your personally prescribed treatment is in liquid form and is taken twice a day, morning and evening. The formula is safe to transport but requires refrigeration upon arrival of your destination.
Our shampoos and conditioners are produced by a recognized manufacturer and contain the highest quality natural ingredients.
We will advise you on personal hair care including correct washing and drying procedures as well as choosing the correct hair dresser.
Herbal medicine
Herbal Medicine is safe medicine in the right hands – Herbal Medicine is as old as time – not new or gimmicky – and prescribed by a Registered Medical Herbalist treating you Holistically, is a thorough base, for you to be treated for your hair problems. We have really had some amazing results.
- The Registered Medical Herbalist will treat the whole person. Taking care to take down full details of your entire medical history from the day you were born – we will then take down full notes of your present day physiology ensuring that we understand a clear picture of your entire health, your strengths and most importantly your weaknesses. The Registered Medical Herbalist will then make up a prescription to ensure over the oncoming months, that you reach maximum health. It is important to inform the Registered Medical Herbalist of any medication you are taking – any Doctors’ and Consultants’ appointments you have booked – or any operations you are expecting to have.
- Once the general health programme is underway – your hair care will begin. The herbs, a month’s supply will be prescribed, and are monitored very carefully, until one can ascertain which formula – and there are many – is the best for your hair growth. Photographs are taken at each monthly appointment and it is here we can see the results. It can be said that everyone grows hair but everyone is quite different – some are painstakingly slow – others take off and as you look at yourself you will see the results, not only in your own mirror, but proof of general improvement over the oncoming months in the photographs.
To date we have had no hair growing anywhere else on the body other than regrowth on the head. It has taken many years of research to reach this exciting level.
