Onion Juice Can Help Grow Hair... Really

Written by Stuart Stevens | Monday, 21 April 2008

There are a lot of rubbish hair loss remedies out there on the market and so when we received a report saying that the juice from an onion could help people want to regrow their hair we almost binned it straight away. However on further reading it appears that some clinical testing has been done with this unusual hair loss remedy and that the results were not completely without merit.

According to Dr Sladden from the University of Tasmania while onion juice can not be conclusively proven to help people suffering from hair loss it could be worth a try especially for those people are who want to try a completely safe and natural remedy.

In the small clinical test that was done using the onion juice, people suffering from mild cases of alopecia areata and who had just a few patches of baldness were seen to experience positive results in almost 50% of cases. It appears that the onion juice works as a topical steroid which boosts the growing capacity of individual hair follicles.

Dr Sladden along with his colleagues reviewed 17 studies involving over 500 sufferers of alopecia areata and saw that no other treatment gave results that had an over 50% success rate.

It is worth noting that this treatment was not applied on men suffering from male pattern baldness but people who were suffering from the rare alopecia areata condition which is when the body’s own immune system turns on hair follicles to remove them from the scalp. 
Maybe scientists should be looking at the properties of the humble onion and see whether it has a useful application to help men suffering from male pattern baldness.

At present the only clinically proven treatments to help man suffering from male pattern baldness are Propecia and minoxidil.

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