This article describes herbal remedies and herbal products for alopecia. It mainly states the use of herbal preparations for the treatment of hair loss and also describes their advantages over synthetic products and drugs. As the use of herbal blends have least side effects, maximum efficacy, and are economically and easily prevalent, they can act as naturopathic medicines in treating various types of hair loss. Hair loss can be due to different reasons such as genetic tendency, extreme stress, nutritional deficiency, environmental triggers, exposure to chemicals etc. Hence use of synthetic compounds can show unfavorable outcomes such as scaling, dermatitis, pruritus and other skin related problems and to overcome such effects herbal products which are made by extraction of natural compounds mainly herbs are preferred as they play a role in patient compliance and show more than one mode of action for the treatment of alopecia. The article basically gives the description of various herbal products, remedies and also herbal products with nutrient supplements available with their brand name, manufacturing details along with their cost, indications which can be beneficial to treat hair loss.

This article describe the preparation of valerianic acid loaded HPMC nanoparticles (NPs) using the nano-precipitation method. Objective of this study include enhancement of the dissolution rate of the poorly water soluble drug(Valerenic acid obtained from Valerianawallichii), and further more to look into the in vitro properties, zeta potential and surface characteristics of nanoparticles (percent yield of nanoparticles, percent encapsulation efficiency and in vitro release characteristics).In phosphate buffer medium at pH 6.8, the cumulative drug release from the original drug and nanoparticles were up to about 12% and 35%, respectively. Valerianic acid release can be enhanced by the use of nanoparticles loaded with hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose (HPMC), that also enhances bioavailability and patient compliance.