Research Finds Cockroach Extracts Useful For Treating Hair Loss, Making Beauty Masks

Chinese scientists have found that cockroach extracts could be used for making beauty masks and treating hair loss in the future.

The scientists made the discovery in a research on cockroach led by Li Sheng, director of the Institute of Insect Science and Technology at South China Normal University in Guangzhou City.

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Sheng discovered this when he performed a research on cockroach and its potential in medical treatment.

According to him, a cockroach has as many as 522 taste receptors, 329 of which have evolved into bitter receptors that respond to poisonous foods.

“They eat almost everything. They can do self-detoxification if they eat the wrong food.

“Even if it is beheaded, its body can still move for five or six days. If you cut its legs or antennae off, they will recover in just a few days and look almost the same as before’’, he explained.

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Hence, he suggested that the factor in the body of cockroaches that help them heal wounds and regenerate tissue might also be effective in repairing wounds in the human body.

Extracts of active ingredients from cockroaches have also been said to be used in modern Chinese clinics for more than 30 years, mainly to treat diseases such as gastric and oral ulcers.

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