Folk remedies for alopecia

摘要

Introduction "Patients shouldn't have to think that you can only take a potion at high noon or turn your back to the moon for the medicine to be effective," said Jean-Pierre Georges Foucault (born 1947), a health expert who spoke about traditional medicine at the 19th Session of UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee in Paris, France. In the realm of folk medicine, superstition and science seamlessly interface. Some of history's most unusual dermatologic remedies have been for alopecia-a visual disease that has assaulted the vanity of men and women for millennia.