FALLING HAIR by Christian Advocate

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 38.

FALLING HAIR.

By Christian Advocate

THE hair, like the nails, is very much affected by the various conditions of the physical frame. One of the first indications of falling vigor is the dryness of the hair, its falling off, or its turning gray. It is said that washing the head with sage tea will prevent its falling; some recommend water with a little ammonia in it; a diet of coarse food, of bread made of the whole grain, and of the great variety of mushes, is said to improve the color of the hair. Iron and sulphur, which give the hair its color, iron predominating in black hair, and sulphur in red and chestnut, are found in the husk of the grain, the part rejected by those who eat only fine flour.

Unventilated hats and head-gear, which is heavy as well as warm, are apt to make the hair fall. Italian, Greek, and Spanish women, who never wear hats and are much in the open air, have an abundant and luxuriant growth of this much-prized ornament of woman.

But we warn our readers against all patent nostrums that pretend to restore or stimulate the growth of the hair. They contain Spanish flies, or bismuth, or lead, which are poisons—the minerals producing paralysis and sometimes death, and the cantharides raising minute blisters or irritating the surface, and ultimately doing more harm than good.

—Christian Advocate.