Oral Treatments

Introduction

Treatments discussed here are in tablet or liquid form and are taken orally. These descriptions are not our opinion or an indication of their effectiveness, simply an interpretation of the description of how a treatment may work. We have listed the most widely used products and in no particular order.

What's out there?
Quite a number of products!  Click the heading of each overview for more information.

WARNING, WATCH OUT FOR FAKES IN THIS AREA.
For example, Propecia is one of the world’s most copied fake drugs!
Click to identify a GENUINE pack.
If in doubt, consult and obtain any medication via your doctor.
Also be careful of researching or being recommended a particular product and purchasing a different similar sounding item!

PROPECIA™ (Proscar)
It is generally agreed that there is only one oral treatment which has been through clinical trials and approved to treat male pattern baldness. First marketed to treat the prostate under the brand name Proscar, Propecia is manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc., of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA, and contains the key ingredient Finasteride. In the United Kingdom Propecia is only available via a pharmacist on a doctor's prescription. The use of Propecia by females is strictly prohibited. Men who have liver disease may have to take a reduced dose of Propecia and may require monitoring and blood work performed or may be advised NOT to take the drug at all.

Avodart (USA)/Avolve (Europe)
Is prescribed for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH or Benign enlargement of the prostate BEP - increase in size of the prostate in men) and not currently for hair loss. Similarly, Propecia was first developed for prostate and then later hair loss. Indeed, hair loss is a side effect of these drugs and they were not designed specifically for hair loss. However, they are being sold as a hair loss treatment and trials of the key ingredient Dutasteride are underway at the moment. But see our Warning Page

PROVILLUS™
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Ultra Herbal, Health Buy and loads of other authorised resellers, distribute (and sometimes manufacture) this nutritional supplement and usually a variety of other herbal supplements, liquid formulas, and capsule products. Incorporates various claimed active ingredients including the FDA approved Minoxidil (at 5% strength) in the topical Solution only. See Topical Treatments.

PROCERIN™
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A nutritional supplement of natural ingredients, along the lines of Provillus above, distributed in the USA by Speedwinds Nutrition Inc and via affiliate referrals. Also produce Procerin XT Serum a topical scalp solution.

ProFollica ™
Uses a 3-pronged attack on the causes of hair loss. There is a shampoo that "uncloggs the hair follicles and removes excess sebum from the scalp." Secondly, the ingredients in the shampoo and lotion claim to reduce the level of DHT on the scalp. Finally, the pills are said to increase blood flow and nutrients going to the hair follicle. 

NOURKIN™
Also branded as Viviscal. 

Revigen
Produced by Mikrogen Pharma, Turkey. Hair care product range that claims to help promote hair growth, hair care and stop hair loss. 3 of Revigen's hair care products are oral forms (tablet, syrup, drop) the others are hair tonic, shampoo, areata, follicure and repensil

Revivogen®
".....is an all-natural, dermatologist-formulated solution to help slow thinning hair in both men and women. Revivogen was developed by dermatologist Alex Khadavi, MD, using nature's powerful ingredients that have been scientifically proven to help stop DHT"

Thymusil™ 
Consists of 2 steps: a capsule that you swallow, and a shampoo/rinse.

Any brand names mentioned are provided as examples only. Their inclusion does not mean that these products are endorsed by ItsAboutHairLoss.com. If a particular brand name is not mentioned, it does not mean or imply that the missing product is unsatisfactory in any way.

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Avacore
Antimicrobial lotions

Cimetidine (Tagamet)
Cyproterone Acetate (Androcur/Diane)
Cyclosporine

Dr.Proctor's Hair Regrowth Shampoo
Dr.Proctor's Advanced Hair Regrowth Formula
Dr. Proctor's European Hair Formula
Dr Lee's
Diazoxide

Flutamide (Eulexin)
Fluridil (Eucapil^®)

Herbal remedies

K-channel agonists

nicorandil
Nizoral (ketoconazole)

Omexin,

Pyridine N-Oxides, Diazoxide, and Phenytoin (Dilantin)
Polysorbate 60 and Polysorbate 80
Procyte Corporation's Tricomin
Proctor & Gamble's Copperbinding Peptides
Pottasium channel  openers
pinacidil

RU58841
Re-Mox

Spironolactone (Aldactone)
Serenoa Repens, Permixon, Saw Palmetto extract
Superoxide dismutase, TEMPOL

Topical Progesterone
Tretinoin (Retin A)
Transdermal Viprostol