Hair Treatment 7

Dandruff Treatment, Head Lice

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Dandruff

For dandruff treatment from the inside, embark on an all-fruit diet for about 5 days, taking fresh juicy fruits (apples, pears, grapes, grapefruit, pineapple, peaches) at meals 3x daily. Avoid citrus fruits, bananas, dried, strewed or canned fruits. Drink only lemon juice (without sugar) or plain water. Adopt a well-balanced diet of raw foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, sprouted seeds, nuts, whole grain cereals after the fruit fast. Avoid the foods mentioned below during this regiment. If dandruff persists, repeat every month at shorter periods of 3 days until the condition improves.
Wash scalp often with lime or lemon juice to remove greasiness, prevent dandruff and leaves the hair glowing. Leave ½ hour - 3 hours before shampooing.
Rinsing the hair with 3 tablespoons vinegar mixed in 1 cup water reduce scalp irritation by removing shampoo residues. Cider vinegar can also be diluted with water in equal quantities and dabbed on the hair with cotton wool in between shampooing. Final rinsing with vinegar-added water help disperse dandruff.
Keep curd in the open for 3 days and use it to massage into the hair for ½ hour.
Pound a bowl of henna leaves till fine. Apply the paste to wet scalp and then wrap the whole hair with a plastic sheet. Leave for ½ hour, then wash.
Grind sesame leaves till fine. Apply the paste on the scalp and rinse out after 10 minutes.
Rub aloe vera gel into the scalp and cover well. Leave for 15 minutes, then wash with hair shampoo. Do this everyday or on alternate days.
Soak 2 tablespoons fenugreek seeds in water and leave overnight. Pound or grind into a fine paste in the morning. Apply all over scalp and leave for ½-1 hour. Then shampoo. Applying fenugreek paste also helps in growth and prevents hair loss.
Rub into the scalp a mixture of 2 tablespoons curd and ½ teaspoon honey. Leave for ½ hour before washing.
Apply carrot juice and massage all over the scalp. Leave 15 minutes, then shampoo. Repeat 2-3x a week.
Massage the scalp with onion juice ½ hour before washing, or rub the scalp with an onion, making sure the juice flows on the affected areas.
Apply 1:1 apple cider vinegar and warm water to scalp. Leave it on, no rinse is required until the next shampoo.
Massage the scalp with boiled oat meal and leave 10 minutes. Shampoo off.
Rub pure coconut oil into the scalp and hair daily.
Grate 10 - 20 bilimbi and squeeze for its juice. Strain, then use the juice to wet the scalp. Leave for 15 - 30 minutes. Wash as usual.
Soak 2 tablespoons coarse salt in 2 - 3 glasses of cold water. Stir until the salt dissolves, then apply on the scalp. Leave for 10 minutes for the scalp to absorb the salted water. Then wash as usual.
Grind till fine 3 lemongrass and 2 limes in a blender. Strain, use the remaining juice as shampoo and leave on the hair for 15 minutes. Rinse off. Do this 2x a week.
Mix 1 teaspoon tamarind with 1 cup water. Apply the mixture on the scalp and leave for 15 minutes before washing off. Do this 2 - 3x a week.
Mix 2 tablespoons yogurt, 1 tablespoon lemon juice and 1 pinch black pepper and massage on the scalp. Leave for 1 hour then rinse off with tepid water. Also conditions the hair, repeat everyday until dandruff goes.
Apply yogurt on the scalp and leave ½ hour. Then shampoo.
Tea tea oil is an effective bactericide and antiseptic with non-irritating properties which makes it very effective for dandruff control.
Take flaxseed oil, salmon oil or primrose oil to help relieve itching and improves skin and scalp health.
Take kelp to help heal the scalp.
Strictly avoid sugar, sugary and oily foods, starchy, protein and fatty foods, refined and processed foods, chocolate, candies, ice cream, nuts, flour, seafood, meat, strong tea and coffee, soft drinks, condiments, pickles, while flour and its products and dairy products.
Other measures : Always keep clean hair and scalp to minimize the build up of dead cells. It may also be helpful to expose the head to the morning sunlight. Brush hair daily to improve circulation and remove flakiness. Do this by brushing from the nape to ward the top of the head while bending forward from the waist with the head down. Massage the scalp with fingertips just before or after hair brushing to stimulate circulation, remove dirt and dandruff and encourage hair growth: Press thumbs behind the ears, and the rest of the fingertips over the scalp. Then rotate the fingers, moving the scalp over the head bone, feeling the skin moving and scalp tingling. Move an inch at a time until the whole head is covered.

Dandruff, head lice

Apply lime juice on the scalp and then rinse off. Repeat for 2 weeks. Dandruff can cause hair to fall - once the dandruff is gone, apply the coconut milk remedy next. Also for head lice.
For head lice, apply on the hair / scalp a mixture of 1 teaspoon each lime juice and garlic paste.
For head lice, apply a paste of bitter almonds over the hair, wait 10 - 25 minutes, then wash. Or grind 7 almonds mixed with 2 teaspoons lime juice, then apply on the hair.
Apply olive oil to the whole hair and cover with a shower cap. Let overnight. If not solved by the first treatment, repeat on the days that coincide with the life-cycle of the nits, i.e 1, 5, 9, 13, 17 and 21.
Apply vinegar on the head, cover with vinegar-soaked towel (and a clean towel over it so as not to stain pillow) and leave overnight. Wash off the detached eggs with shampoo the next morning.
Pound till fine 3-4 cloves of garlic and mix with 3 tablespoons coconut oil. Apply thoroughly on the whole head for 15 minutes. Comb through, then wash.
Apply thickly mayonnaise on the scalp and hair. Let 2-3 hours. Rinse with water with apple cider vinegar or lemon/lime juice added.
Applying the water of swisschard beets (of the dark variety) to the hair kills head lice.
Ground pomegranate rind and mix with a little water to make paste, to be applied for ½ hour. Wash off.

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