Does white hair belong to yin deficiency or yang deficiency

White hair may belong to yin deficiency, may also belong to yang deficiency.

Yin deficiency is due to yin fluid loss, the body lost nutrients caused by nutrition, including kidney yin deficiency, heart yin deficiency, etc., and traditional Chinese medicine believes that kidney governs hair, once kidney yin deficiency, hair loss of nutrition, there will be long white hair phenomenon. Yang deficiency is caused by insufficient oxygen in the body and decreased warming function, including kidney-yang deficiency, heart-yang deficiency, spleen-yang deficiency, etc. once kidney-yang deficiency occurs, due to kidney-yang deficiency, it cannot promote the metaplasia of essence and blood, resulting in hair loss of nourishment, thus appearing symptoms of early white hair, often accompanied by symptoms such as dry hair and no luster.