Knot In Shoulder And Neck Is A Sign Of Hair Loss.
-Health Chosun2012. 07. 30
More and more modern people are suffering from the hair loss. This is because the influential factors of hair loss such as busy life and stress, as well as hot and humid summer, ultra violetrays, etc. are increasing. However, if you pay careful attention to the signs that your body tells you, you can avoid hair loss. Your body warns you with symptoms when there is something wrong, so that you will notice.
Dr. Lee Moonwon from Lee Moon Won oriental medicinal clinic said, “When there is hair loss, several symptoms other than hair pulling off occur. You should practice to notice the changes in your body.”
Body heat, root of all illness, also causes hair loss.
Head should be cooled and feet should be warm is a timeworn saying. You need to control the body heat to stay healthy.
You need to take extra care because hair loss is a disease that is especially influenced by the body heat. Generally when there is heat in the head or face, it is easier to get hair loss. The heat opens the pores in the scalp and weakens the hair root’s ability to hold the hair.Besides this, when the body heat rises to the upper torso, other diseases like acne, dermatitis seborrheic, rhinitis, headache, etc. can also occur. Therefore, you need to keep your head cool.
Suspect hair loss if you have stiff shoulder and neck, frequent headache
Modern people often feel stiffness in the shoulder or muscles around the neck due to the working environment where they have to sit for a long time. With the stress, the pain is even intense.
When such symptom repeats continuously, the muscles and blood vessels of the forehead, chin, and back of the head, which supply blood to the scalp, become tense and disturbs blood circulation. When there is not enough blood circulation in the scalp, there won't be enough nutrition and the hair becomes thin and crumbly, and eventually lead to the hair loss. Also, the muscle that wraps around the skullcontracts galeaaponeurotica and cause tension in the scalp, which causes hair loss.
Stiff scalp and anemia
When there is a hair loss, the hair root, hair follicle and the scalp shrink, stiffens and loses flexibility. When the scalp and subcutaneous tissuebecomes thin, the depth of the hair follicle also becomes shallow and small, and then the hair becomes thin as well. As the hair becomes thinner, it loses strength to hold onto the scalp and easy to fall off. Hence, if your scalp becomes stiff and thin, you should take care of your hair and scalp health.
Above these, in the case of females, decrease in the period and frequent anemia can be seen as the signs of the hair loss. If such symptoms occur, you can partially reestablish by taking iron supplement. Iron relieves anemia and at the same time accelerates the growth rate of the hair and makes the hair glossy.
If you lose more hair than the usual, and you have above symptoms, you should suspect hair loss and take extra care.
The hair loss management recommended by Dr. Lee Moonwon is as follows.
1. Maintain healthy scalp by keeping it clean
Washing your hair is really important for the scalp health. However, some people avoid washing hair because they think that it makes more hair to fall off, but if you don’t wash your hair, the sebum and the bodily waste pollutes the scalp and cause scalp disease or hair loss. Therefore, you should always wash your hair to help blood circulation and keep the scalp and hair healthy. The oily scalp should wash twice a day, morning and night, but in the case of healthy scalp, once a day or two days is enough.
2. Cool down the body temperature by drinking enough water.
One of the causes of the hair loss is lack of nutrition in the scalp due to bad metabolism. Therefore, you need to hydrate yourself in order to improve metabolism. When your body lacks water, the metabolism of the cell is disturbed, which causes bodily wastes and toxinto stay in the body and cause diseases.
The appropriate amount of daily water intake is 2.5L, and you take 0.5L through food, so you should drink extra 2L.
However, you should notice that drinking abundant water when your stomach is in bad condition could cause problems.
3. Avoid wearing things like hats and wigs, which disturbs air and blood circulation.
Many people wear hats or wigs to cover the hair loss area. However, sunlight sterilizes the dandruffgerms and provides vitamin D, so,if possible, you should minimize wearing hats and wigs. Also, wearing hats and wigs over a long period interrupts the air circulation and blood circulation, which makes the scalp easily fester. If you are in a situation where you must wear a hat or a wig, gently massage your scalp when you take it off, and always keep the hat or wig clean.
Broccoli & Carrot: Dark-Colored Vegetables Protects Your Hair
-Health Chosun
2012.06.29
More and more people visit hospitals due to dermatitis seborrheic. The strong sunlight in summer heats the scalp and accelerates the secretion of sebum, which leads to inflammation on the scalp.
The dermatitis seborrheic causes itchy scalp, erythema and sore, scrab, dandruff, etc., and it can eventually lead to the hair loss.
Dr. Lee Moonwon from Lee Moon Won Korean medicine clinic said,”Dermatitis seborrheic is hard to cure and easy to relapse, hence it must be treated constantly.”and he added, ”Since the cause of worsening of dermatitis seborrheic is the excessive secretion of sebum, it requires scrupulous attention in summer.
We asked for Dr. Lee Moonwon’s advise for the people who suffer from dermatitis seborrheic every summer.
Weakening immunity leads to dryness and inflammation.
Dermatitis seborrheic is an inflammatory skin disease which is easier to occur in oily scalp, but since it’s an inflammation, it can occur in dry scalps.
Inflammation occurs when the external germs easily permeates due to weakened immunity. So the lower the immunity level, the more difficult it is to recover. Therefore, it is important to maintain health and immunity everyday. In order to do that, you must avoid overworking by having enough sleep, and release the stress through exercise or meditations.
Also, avoid instants foods that are filled with preservatives and eat plenty of healthy meals. You must change your lifestyle to increase immunity.
Major occurrence at the ages 20’s~40’s, but both male and female should be careful.
Dermatitis seborrheic often occurs to males at 29~40 years old, and even infants not older than three months with active sebum excretion. However, it seems to occur on men and women of all ages lately.
It is because you are exposed to excessive stress and instant foods. Also, the immunity of female is lower than that of the male, so the dermatitis seborrheic can be caused by acquired factors.
It may occur on infants, but it does not infect.
Dermatitis seborrheic is not an infective disease. Regardless of the sex, the infants may suffer from the dermatitis seborrheic because of active excretion of sebum.
In the case, yellowish lesion such as sore,scrab, etc. may occur on the child’s head, which is called “baby-head-oil”.
The dermatitis seborrheic of an infant should not be worried because it disappears naturally after a year.
However, when breastfeeding the infant, the foods taken by the mother affects the milk, so oily, salty and strong-tasting foods should be avoided.
Also, do not try to remove the yellowish lesion on your child’s head with hand, but use an olive oil or camellia oil to gently rub off.
Shampoo twice a day if the weather is hot and humid.
If you have oily scalp, you should wash your hair twice a day, morning and night. If this makes your scalp dry, you must wash your hair at least when you return home. While you are fast asleep, your scalp releases more sebum, and if don’t wash the dust and bodily waste, the sebum will absorb the dust, block the
pores and worsen the dermatitis seborrheic.
How to shampoo your hair is as important as clean scalp. Before you wash your hair, comb your hair so that the bodily wastes is easier to remove. Make plenty foam in your hand with the shampoo, massage your scalp thoroughly, and wash off with warm water.
After shampoo, dry your hair before going to sleep because humidity worsens the dermatitis seborrheic.
Broccoli & carrot, dark-colored vegetables help improving the dermatitis seborrheic.
Animal fat is one of the factors of worsening dermatitis seborrheic. Therefore, avoid high-fat diet and ingest a broad variety of healthy foods in order to improve immunity. Foods dark in color such as spinach, water parsley, broccoli, carrot, etc. are rich in vitamins and minerals, which help the blood circulation of the scalp.Seaweeds such as laver, sea mustard, and kelp, foods rich in protein such as beans, milk, egg, and chicken, and foods rich in unsaturated fatty acid such as pecan and almond should also be taken.
Foods to avoid are instant foods such as noodle, pizza, hamburger, and caffeine drinks such as coffee and cocoa, and alcohol.
It's already spring, but your dry scalp is loosing more hair. Then the yellow dust from China irritates your scalp. Dr. Lee Moonwon from Lee Moon Won Korean medicine clinic said, "During the change of the seasons, your hair is also influenced and more hair is lost then the usual." And he added, "For the reason being you should take an extra care on the scalp during the change of the seasons."
Keep the hair and scalp clean.
Yellow dust which travels from China contains not only fine dusts, but acidic components such as aluminum and iron. These particles are small enough to get into the pores of the scalp and cause inflammation. Therefore, it is critical to keep your hair and scalp clean when you get back home. When shampooing, massage every part of your scalp with your fingertips to remove the dusts that clings on your scalp. You should take enough time to wash your hair, and rinse thoroughly. Hot water can cause the pores to widen and make the hair dry, so wash with warm water and cold water to finish.
Drink plenty of water to keep your hair and scalp moist.
During the change of the season, the dry atmosphere lasts over a long period. This causes your scalp to become itchy, and as you scratch it, inflammation occurs. Therefore, you should drink more than two liters of water a day to prevent dry scalp. Also, moisturizing your hair with hair pack or hair treatment is another good method.
Releasing the stress and tension keeps your scalp and hair healthy from tip to the root.
Contemporary people suffers from stress and tension because of busy schedule and night overtime, which makes them more vulnerable to the hairless. If such state prolongs, they experience shoulder and neck discomfort. This may interrupt the blood circulation and the hair may not receive enough nutrition. Hence, you should stretch and massage your shoulders frequently to release the stiffness.
Foods high in protein and lipid composition are good for your hair.
Foods that contain large amount of protein and lipid compositions are not only good for the healthy scalp and hair, but they are also good for our body. Therefore, foods good for hair should be taken frequently.
Black bean: Black bean is never to be omitted when you talk about foods that prevents hair loss. It cools dow the high temperature in the scalp, one of the major cause of hair loss. Also, the arginine and cysteine amino acids in the black bean helps the growth of the hair and prevention of the hair loss.
Pomegranate: Pomegranate an estrogen rich fruit famous for prevention of aging skin, is also good for hair loss. Especially the estrogen in the pomegranate is good for the hair loss caused by over secretion of male hormone.
Sea mustard: Sea mustard contains iodine, mineral, protein, vitamins which stimulates the growth of the hair and it provides nutrition that prevents hair loss.
Milk: Calcium, mineral, protein in the milk is good for the hair. It also contains essential fatty acids which is important for the scalp to maintain moisture.
According to Lee Moon Won traditional medicinal clinic which is situated in Chungdam-dong, Seoul, the number of Chinese tourists traveling to Korea has been increasing since the late quarter of last year, and by the Spring, the the number increased to 4 times the original. This clinic hired two coordinators who can speak Chinese since last year for consulting online and offline. They also prepared Chinese version of their homepage. The clinic foresaw prepared this increase of Chinese visitors and they have gained positive effect.
One of the staff members said, "We have been trying to provide services such as airmail delivery, so patients in China who have used our products visited us. Most of the patients who visited us during the spring season were young people in their 20's and 30's."
A new hair-examination patent pending!
After a year of experiment and research, Lee Moon Won traditional medical clinic invented a hair-examination that can measure the age of hair. The hair-age is the figure of age range of the hair which is measured by analyzing the hair's physical and chemical properties.
In order to ensure objective reliability of hair-examination, Lee Moon Won traditional medical clinic has analyzed about four hundred normal people who does not suffer hair loss(from teenagers to 60's). With the data, they were able to calculate the hair-age.
Currently, the hair-examination is patent pending and in future, the health of the hair can be measured by such tests, and people can compare their hair-age with that of the average from the same age group to see if it is the same or different. This may as well be an important data for anti-aging and product effectiveness researches.
For example, even a young man in 20's can have hair-age of 50's if the state of hair is worsened, and on the other hand, a woman in 40's can have hair-age of 20's. Therefore, people can know how fast their hair is aging. By using the test results, as the health of the hair and age of the hair improves after conducting certain treatment or using certain product, we can evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment or product. Hence, it will be used as important indicator in future.
Dr. Lee Moonwon and Dr. Lee Heesop have felt the need for objective examination to measure the health of the hair, so they carried a year of various researches without months of preparation, and as a result, they were able to come up with a new kind of examination.
This examination and outcome of the research is planned to be announced at famous conferences and foreign academic journals in 2012.
Hosed by Kangnam-gu and Kangnam-gu medical tour conference and conduced by the KOTRA(Korea Trade-Investment Promotion), the Roadshow was held to strengthen cooperation with China, create network with medical institutions and create base of local entrance, and secure channel to attract and maintain VIP patients to Korea.
In the past, Japan was the leading market of the medical tour, but now the China is becoming the main target of Korean medical tour. Especially, hair loss treatment, cosmetic surgery, and adult decease are the main interest of the Chinese.
Lee Moon Won traditional medicinal clinic with cooperating medical institutions including BK Cosmetic Surgery, Ye Dental Clinic, BalgeunSaesang ophthalmic clinic promoted the excellence of Korean medical.
The Roadshow was successful with programs such as clinic/hospital medical tour briefing session and medical tour free consulting for VIPs, one on one business consulting session, networking with local agencies and hospitals, local medical service inspection and local interagency briefing session, and 100 institutions such as Chinese public institution, hospitals, associations.
The Chinese have shown tremendous interest in hair loss during the Roadshow. This seems to shows the connection with the statement of Chinese Medical Association, "The total sum areas of the hair loss region of Chinese men is one quarter of the area of Beijing.
Dr. Heesop Lee from Lee Moon Won medicinal clinic commented, " I'm glad that we were able to tell the excellence of Korean medical care to many Chinese who are interested in medical tour. I'm expecting that many Chinese will come and visit Korean hospitals through this Roadshow."
Last year, 19,135 foreign patients visited hospitals in Kangnam-gu. Among the patients, 5,766 were from USA(30.2%), 4,015 from China(21.0%), 2,819 from Japan(14.8%), and 729 from Russia(4%). The number of Chinese patients who visited Kangnam for beauty treatment has shown remarkable increase.
The Lee Moon Won traditional medicinal clinic is applying its own detox-hairpack in the scalp treatment to quickly relieve the damages on the scalp caused by perm and hair dyeing.
The newly developed detox-hairpack combines herbal ingredients with strong potency in detoxification, which has been fermented for three years. The fermentation was satisfactory
as it was drinkable, and the test resulted that it was able to rapidly relieve the chemical damage in the scalp.
Dr. Lee Moonwon said that he felt pity for the patients who came to his clinic because of scalp damage and hair loss caused by perm or hair dyeing, as he explained the background of the development.
Dr. Lee Moonwon was able to develop the detox-hairpack as he searched for people with herbal medicine fermentation technology all over the country, asking them for samples and advise, experimenting, for several years.
The detox-hairpack is not on sale at the moment, but is being used in the scalp-care program of Lee Moon Won traditional medicinal clinic.
A good news for those in worry for the hair damage caused by perm and hair dyeing.
A new treatment for temple hair loss has been developed.
The project, which began since the Fall 2010, was finally finished after a year and five months, and now it is being used for the patients.
The M-ointment is a lotion type supplementary treatment, which can be applied on the temple region during the night before sleep, and washed off in the morning.
The new treatment is:
1) A ointment type, which is easier to apply than the spray type.
2) Easier to use as you just apply before going into bed.
3) It washes off easily.
4) Used once a day. You have less burden since you don't use numerous times in a day.
The patented formula of Dr. Lee Moonwon is the main ingredient of the treatment as well as various nutritional contents, which is required for the growth of the hair. The new supplement can enhance effect of temple hair loss treatment, and it can be used as an adjuvant to stimulate hair growth and prevent worsening of the hairless for those the temple hair loss have just began and women with thinning hair in the temple region.
The M-ointment comes in a 20g container, which can be used for 30~40days and it costs 40,000won.
The research paper of Lee Moon Won traditional medicinal clinic was announced at the 7th iSAMS2011(International Scientific Acupuncture & Meridian Symposium) as a poster with the title <The Effect of More Than 6 Months of Dosage of Herbal Medicine On The Liver and Kidney>.
According to the blood test progressed by the Lee Moon Won traditional medicinal clinic targeting patients who visited the clinic and had over 6months of herbal medicine dosage, the average figure of liver and kidney function, both men and women, were normal. Therefore, the results show that dosage of herbal medicine over a long period of time does not affect the liver function and kidney function.
The 7th iSAMS2011(International Scientific Acupuncture & Meridian Symposium) was held at 7th~9th October at the Beckman Center, Irvine, CA situated in the College of Medicine of UC-Irvine, California, USA with the theme, "Research in Acupuncture and Oriental Herbal Medicine: Modernization of Ancient Therapy".
Dr. Lee Moonwon from Lee Moon Won traditional medicinal clinic participated at the 8th World Congress of Chinese Medicine in London, England during 2nd~3rd of September with the title "The Correlation of Hair Loss and Sleep".
Dr. Lee Moonwon aroused intense interest, as he was the only Korean speaker in this congress, which most of the contestants were Chinese and Europeans, and the topic on Hair Loss was sole topic as well.
The key contents of the presentation:
1. The ratio of the hair loss when sleeping less than 5hours was 51.4%, which was the highest.
2. The ratio of the hair loss when sleeping 8hours was 8.2%, which was the lowest, and the difference between the former and the latter was 5.7times.
3. Positive answers to the presence of the hair loss were the highest when sleeping from 11o’clock midnight.
4. The ratio of the hair loss increased as the time of sleep becomes late.
5. The quality of the sleep was answered to be poor among those who had hair loss.
6. There were more answers to good quality of sleep when the participants did not have hair loss.
In conclusion, the quantity and quality of sleep have a tremendous relationship with the hair loss. Therefore, appropriate length of sleep and good quality of sleep is required for the suppression and prevention of the hair loss.
SAECARM story- DR.Lee Moon Won
Dye your parent's hair with SAECARM, for sure, your parents'herat will be touched.
My patients told me I invented such thing to bother myself when they saw SAECARM for the first time. Right,, Maybe, I made tiresome duties.
However, I didn't invent dye " SAECARM" for sale or just because I was bored. Well,,, actually, all the products I made are for patients who are having trouble or dissatisfaction with other products. And now,,, those became "LEE MOON WON".
Many patients wanted shampoo which is mild, doesn't get hair wiry and can prevent hair loss so I made Immune-u shampoo. My patients told me I invented such thing to bother myself when tey saw SAECARM for the first time. Right..Maybe,I made tiresome duties.
However, I didn't invent dye"SAECARM"for sale or just because I was bored. Well..acturally, all the products I made are for patients who are having trouble or dissatisfaction with other products.
And now..those became "LEE MOON WON".
Moreover I mad LEE MOON WON Hair mask pack, treatment shampoo and hair serum because they were worried about using other products. Because even if they want to use all those products,it can worsen scalp inflammation or hair loss.
I started studying inventing SAECARM earlier than other products. Whenever i see my patients, I tell them not to dye their hair but they tell me they can't do anything for grey hair. Their hair and scalp got worse from dye.They were having pain with dying hair. I told them again.
"Try not to dye your hair but if you really need, just once a month with the mildest one. please look for mild hair dye."
I told them just like that and never thought about inventing one. I was treating so many patients whose scalp got worse because of hair dye. It was just like shovel sand against the tide. I was always disappointed at those moments.
One day, I saw my mother was dyeing her hair and it was a big shock.
I went to my hometown to visit parents in a long time. As always , my parents came out to the front yard to welcome me with joy. Whenever I go hometown, they greet me with the most happiest faces.
I entered the living room and saw my mother was about to dye her hair.
"Mother, are you dyeing your hair?"
-"Yes, hair grows so fast, time flies. my hair is all grey now."
Well, I realized my mother's got so much grey hair. She might got it long time ago but as if I didn't know about it, I could see all her grey hair that day.
I was looking at her. she was dyeing her hair. I saw the same scene many times but that day was different. It was really touching. That made me sad.
while she was dyeing her hair, she kept blinking her eyes,
I said,
"If your eyes feel stinging ,use quality dye,mother."
She said, as usual.
"It's alright, let me open the window. It will get better.
Cold wind got through into the room and my heart.
After dinner, when she was watching TV or talking, she kept scratch her scalp.
I asked her,
"Do you feel itching?"
"Yes, I get itchy for a few days after dyeing hair."
When did it start?"
"Son, this is normal, it will go away." She was scratching again.
That was not alright. Suddenly, my patients who's suffering from dye came across my mind. My mother was just like them. 'Oh my god!, how long has she been doing like that?'
Well, I also realized I didn't care about what kind of dye my parents use, how often they use, and if they have any troubles with dye.
Even though I have been caring about cosmetics I use and researching the treatment and medicine for my patients, I didn't care about my parents. I was too embarrassed to lift my head up.
" Mother get a good quality one next time."
"That's ok, every dye is same like this, It will be alright after sometime."
She was always giving the best food, clothes to me and my siblings but she was using cheap and bad dye. I was mad but couldn't say anything.
I couldn't sleep that day.
Then, I decided to invent dye. I tried really hard in every way but it was not easy.
Well, I think SAECARM is the one took the longest time to invent and made me upset so many times.
Finally, with all trial and error, SAECARM is invented.
I needed to get name for the dye I made and I named it SAECAM as I named my child. How is it?
I dye my mother's hair with SAECARM. It was first time to dye her hair so I was really clumsy but my mother just smiling. After dyeing her hair, she looked so happy and she said.
"This is amazing, it doesn't smell and I don't feel itchy. Look at my hair it shines."
I was really happy, happier than my mother for sure.
Now, my patients dye their hair with SAECARM. They told me they feel secure with SAECARM. I can't be happier ever. but at the same time, I regret about past time I didn't care.
I hope many of you dye your parent's hair by yourselves. You are going to feel something you can't say or express. Moreover, you and your parents will be touched from each other.