7 'Cures' For Baldness You Won't Believe
4. A Cup Of Tea
Many of the home-spun 'remedies' for taking the shine off your scalp involve liberally soaking it with a variety of common comestibles. You sort of get the impression the grocery giants are planting phony researchers in labs, who 12 months later just happen to recommend their easily-available product as the miracle cure for follicle fallout.
PG Tips weren't around in the 19th century, so they get a free pass on this one. The East India Company, on the other hand, were shipping, well, shiploads of tea fresh from the fields of the Empire's farthest frontier, just around the time doctors were prescribing a cold brew poured on the head as a cure for upstairs deforestation. What a coincidence!
A cracked tea-pot theory? Yes. No new hair, just bitterness.