[External Activity] Lecture at the Bald Love Group's March Meeting (Attendee Report)

This report is quoted from a write-up by Hamayang, a member of the online community.

Our thanks to Dr. Lee Moon-won of Lee Moon Won Korean Medicine Clinic for putting together such a substantial session..^^

It felt like a shame to keep all that good material to myself, so here is a write-up with a few pointers, however incomplete, and the good information that came out of it..

Building the foundation has to start with changes in my own daily life, and it begins with the effort to fix the things we know we should do but don't.

He gave a rich, detailed explanation grounded in Korean medicine,, and here are the key points..

1. Be in bed before midnight at the latest..

2. Keep computer use to a minimum,,

3. Practice as much restraint as you can with masturbation,.

On that foundation, the areas that have already lost function and started causing problems need work to improve them, and the way Lee Moon Won Korean Medicine Clinic does that is with topical formulas, pharmacopuncture and herbal medicine taken internally.

From the consultations I have done in the community and from following hair loss research, Lee Moon Won Korean Medicine Clinic was the only place I saw producing topical formulas through animal studies and steady research.

Plenty of clinics call themselves hair loss specialists, but rather than chasing quick results, this one prescribes and adjusts to each person's condition and aims for lasting care, which is why I trust it..(this is a personal impression in a member's report)

In topical use, fo-ti did not do much, while mulberry root bark and arborvitae leaf are herbs with real, meaningful effect, though they need an extraction method different from simple concentration.

Angelica, sophora root and ginger have some effect too,,, but with ginger, the folk-remedy versions sold commercially are too harsh to apply without accounting for a person's skin type.

Mulberry root bark at a higher concentration had a considerable effect on alopecia areata, but that too requires adjusting the concentration..

With minoxidil, for alopecia areata a strength of around 7 percent, a bit higher than the 3 or 5 percent sold commercially, works somewhat better, and Professor Sim Woo-young prescribes it that way as well..

With internal herbal medicine too, the prescription has to differ from person to person, and it has to keep changing with how the condition develops over the course of care..

The liver, kidneys and heart, and the liver and spleen, none of them can be considered apart from hair loss, and for scalp heat the work of bringing down heart heat has to come first.

You can start that with herbs, but in the end it has to go together with a state of mind and daily habits that cool the fire...

With pharmacopuncture, there are cases where a single session produces a dramatic result,,, so when it is prescribed well for the condition and combined with the rest of the care, the results are good...

Hair loss care puts regrowth first, but that is not always how it goes.

If we stop making the effort because hair is not growing back, the loss simply continues.

The right path is to move from stopping the loss to strengthening the hair and then to regrowth,, and for all the advice on how to get there, my thanks again to Dr. Lee Moon-won..

For anyone who has not found what they were looking for with Western medicine,,, who knows that treating the root matters but has not found somewhere they trust, it might be worth a visit to Lee Moon Won Korean Medicine Clinic for a consultation..

And a tip......^^

April is mulberry season, they say.

Mulberries are said to be excellent for the body's essence. Rather than dried, buy about a month's worth of fresh mulberries and keep them in the freezer. Anyone who has tried them knows they are one of the best foods for vitality...

Next, for anyone with heat built up in the heart and liver,, meaning the anger that rises up, a flushed face and a mind that will not settle, chrysanthemum tea is said to be good.

White chrysanthemum is the one you want, and it is hard to find in stores; searching online turns up a place in Jecheon that makes chrysanthemum tea from white chrysanthemum.

He suggests drinking this chrysanthemum tea rather than green tea....