Is it harmful to use Polygonum multiflorum to wash your hair?

Polygonum multiflorum is a very important Chinese medicinal material in life. This medicinal material is very beneficial to people's health. In traditional Chinese medicine, Polygonum multiflorum is used as a medicine to treat hair loss. It is believed that it can effectively treat hair problems. Therefore, many people use Polygonum multiflorum to wash their hair to treat hair loss. However, all medicines are toxic. Is it harmful to use Polygonum multiflorum to wash your hair frequently?

Polygonum multiflorum is the dried root of the Polygonum multiflorum plant of the Polygonaceae family. It is bitter, sweet, astringent, and slightly warm in nature, and enters the liver and kidney meridians. Processed Polygonum multiflorum can nourish the liver and kidneys, benefit the essence and blood, strengthen the tendons and bones, and can also astringe the semen and stop leukorrhea. It is a good tonic medicine and is used for symptoms such as weakness of the waist and knees, dizziness, premature graying of hair, spermatorrhea, metrorrhagia, and leukorrhea caused by deficiency of both liver and kidneys and deficiency of essence and blood. Raw Polygonum multiflorum has weak tonic effect, but is good at detoxifying, stopping malaria, moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements. It can treat sores, scrofula, long-term malaria, dry intestines and constipation.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records that Polygonum multiflorum "nourishes blood and benefits the liver, consolidates the essence and benefits the kidneys, strengthens the tendons and bones, and blackens the hair. It is a good tonic, is neither cold nor dry, and is better than Rehmannia glutinosa and Asparagus cochinchinensis." "Kaibao Materia Medica" says it "stops heart pain, benefits the blood and qi, blackens the hair, brightens the complexion, and long-term use can grow tendons and bones, benefit the essence, and prolong life." Pharmacological analysis shows that Polygonum multiflorum contains anthraquinone compounds, mainly chrysophanol and rhein, followed by rhein (the roasted product does not contain rhein), physophanol methyl ether and rhein anthraquinone, starch, crude fat, lecithin, etc.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hair is the residue of blood. Adding Polygonum multiflorum to shampoo takes advantage of its effect of nourishing essence and blood, so it is said that Polygonum multiflorum can blacken hair. But as for the content of Polygonum multiflorum in shampoo, it is not enough to have the effect of blackening hair. What's more, the reasons for gray hair are different for each person, and how can Polygonum multiflorum cure all patients? Although it is non-toxic, it cannot cure all diseases.

The above is the explanation of whether it is harmful to use Polygonum multiflorum to wash your hair. I hope everyone can understand that Polygonum multiflorum is a very effective traditional Chinese medicine and must be used with caution.