The Role of Botanical Products in the Treatment of Alopecia

Alopecia, which is defined as the loss of hair from the body, encompasses a wide range of hair loss disorders, including alopecia areata and androgenetic alopecia. There is a growing use of botanical sources in dermatology. Accordingly the interest in the use of botanical and natural products for the treatment of alopecia is growing. Here we present a systematic review of natural and botanical products that have been examined as potential treatment options for alopecia. Our results yielded 13 studies that examined 11 different natural and botanical products for the potential treatment of alopecia areata. Studies pertaining to alopecia areata and androgenetic alopecia were found. These results are promising as they signal increasing investigation into the use of natural and botanical products for the treatment of alopecia. *Corresponding author: Raja K. Sivamani, MD MS CAT, 3301 C Street, Suite 1400, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA, Tel: +1 530-752-1011; E-mail: rksivamani@ ucdavis.edu Received April 28, 2015; Accepted June 03, 2015; Published June 10, 2015 Citation: Ornelas J, Sivamani RK (2015) The Role of Botanical Products in the Treatment of Alopecia. Hair Ther Transplant 5: 137. doi: 10.4172/21670951.1000137 Copyright: © 2014 Ornelas J, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.