Alopecia
Alopecia is a kind of disease with manifestations of hypertrichosis due to excess spillage of fat in the scalp, oily and wet scalp, mixture of dusts and scurf and hair loss, sometimes accompanied by an itchy scalp and inflammations. In Western Medicine, it is called male pattern baldness, androgenic alopecia and diffuse alopecia, while in Traditional Chinese Medicine it is called “hair tinea”, “hair loss due to decay”, “alopecia areata”, “oily baldness”, etc. It is a kind of common and frequently-occurring disease in the department of dermatology and is difficult to heal permanently. Current opinion holds that alopecia is the androgen-dependent hair loss due to dominant polygenic inheritance of autosome, mostly caused by genetic predisposition and abnormal androgen metabolism of local hair follicles in the scalp.
GB 20 Feng Chi
(Wind Pool)
Location
below the occipital bone at the level of Du 16, in the depression between the start of the sternocleido- mastoid process and the trapezius muscle
Du 20 Bai Hui
(Hundred Meetings)
Location
on the dorsal midline, 5.0 cun within the midpoint of the ideal anterior hairline, at the midpoint between the two auricular apices
St 36 Zu San Li
(Leg Three Miles)
Location
3 cun inferior to St 35, one middle fingerbreadth lateral to the anterior crest of the tibia, at the level of the distal edge of the tuberosity of the tibia
St 44 Nei Ting
(Inner Courtyard)
Location
at the edge of the interdigital skin, between the second and third toes, at the dividing line between red and white flesh
St 8 Tou Wei
(Head’s Binding)
Location
in the temple corner (in the“ Head's Binding″ ) , 0.5 cun within the ideal anterior hairline, 4.5 cun Lateral to the midline
Sp 10 Xue Hai
(Sea of Blood)
Location
with the patient's knee flexed, 2 cun proximal to the medial superior border of the patella on the bulge of the vastus medialis muscle
