Do you have hair you don’t want there? Or everywhere? Acupuncture and traditional herbal medicine to the rescue!
Hair growth is like moss that grows in damp areas. For the nature lover, moss growing on the rocks and in crevices in the woods might be picturesque, but for those of us that don’t want to look like a forest, or a forest creature, hair growing in damp places is not.
Acupuncture combined with the right herbal medicinals can stop hair growth around the belly button, the upper lip for women, the midsection, the breast area and on the toes. All of these areas have unwanted hair growth for a reason; they are damp parts of the body, they are on a channel that is stagnant, or they are in an area that retains heat.
The “treasure trail” often occurs because of constipation in both men and women (and irregular periods, amenorrhea or PCOS in women). Constipation is when the bowels are not evacuated regularly and totally. This leads to back up in the intestines, which leads to stagnation and eventually heat. Heat and dampness due to unmoving bowels and blocked blood flow show up as hair growth sprouting from this fertile area.
Hair growth on the toes—mainly the big toe—is also from heat in a meridian that is trapped. The big toe’s meridians are the liver and the spleen—two organs that contain a lot of heat and lot of dampness when things are not flowing properly. The spleen and digestive system have to process everything we put in our mouths and turn it into a product the body can use and convert it to energy from there. This process takes lots of coordination and input from many parts of the body, and can get backlogged and stagnant, causing heat and dampness. The growth of unwanted hair on the toes is due to poor digestion and waste removal. Hair growth around the nipples is also due to liver stagnation.
The genitals are a damp area of our bodies where there are a number of lymph nodes that can retain fluid and waste (causing dampness to lead to heat and stagnation). The groin area is also where the liver, spleen and kidney channels pass through with blood carrying nutrients, and waste. Waste is generally associated with heat and inflammation; channels where this waste is carried have a damp and stagnant aspect. The growth of hair here is no surprise.
Acupuncture and herbal medicinals stop unwanted hair growth by clearing channels and dispersing stagnation. The acupuncture needle inserted in a point signals the brain to send a message to a specific part of the body to relax and start moving the trapped heat. This results in more bowel movements and a continuation of heat clearing. The body’s environment now is less hospitable to growth through dampness. Over time, as the liver moves, the blood heat dissipates, inflammation is diminished, and unwanted hair growth will cease to exist.
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