Turmeric causes hairloss?

Has this been addressed before? According to some animal studies, turmeric caused alopecia.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-turmeric.html

According to one person on earthclinic, turmeric caused some bad hairloss.

http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/joints2.html#RN_29218

And a quick search on the net shows me that turmeric is actually used as part of a protocol to remove hair...

Is it the curcuminoid or is it some other constituent of turmeric that is responsible for this?

jksl- Im curious as well about this, IH whats your take on this?

Blasphemy!

Hair loss could occur in non-scalp regions such as androgen driven hair growth (auxiliary hair and body hair). It's hard to imagine that turmeric could cause scalp hair loss considering its widespread use. In the human body there are opposite effects, so it's hard to account for special cases. I really doubt turmeric is a concern for most people.

So far the only thing I haven't heard on these boards that doesn't cause hair loss is water. Unless there's a proper study done, we'll just never know.

scottyc33 wrote:Blasphemy!