Vol. 7, Issue - 3, Part A (2023)

Every person aspires to beauty to admire themselves. Not only is beauty a source of joy, but it can also inspire pride and confidence to some extent. Since hair reveals a person's outward look, it is the most crucial factor in determining beauty. Mizaj (Temperament) is one of the basic concepts of the Unani system of medicine. Every individual has a unique temperament. The aim of this study is conducted to assess the correlation between Mizaj-dependent quality with hair loss patterns. If a meaningful relationship is found, shaar (hair) loss can be introduced as one of the practical indices for designing and validating the diagnostic scales of Mizaj and the clinical applications of Mizaj identification. The need of the study is to validate the determination of mizaj of a person with the help of scalp hair conditions and the clinical significance of mizaj assessment in the treatment of hair fall problems. The sample of the present study was drawn from Ayurvedic and Unani tibbia Skin O.P.D., both gender. In the present study, mizaj was assessed by using a mizaj assessment questionnaire based on ten classical parameters described in the Unani classical literature category, and the Hair loss pattern was assessed by the Cohen hair loss classification system. Analysis of data in the current study was done by calculating the median and IQR (Interquartile Range), as data did not follow a normal distribution. The difference among mizaj was established by Kruskal-Wallis after that an additional post hoc test Dunn's test to compare each group and determine which are significantly different from each other. The alpha value was analyzed at the significance of less than 0.05 to minimize type I error. It is observed that Cohen Index (C.I), the Median CI score was highest in the damvi group (Md=79.00) followed by safravi Mizaj (Md=78.00) in comparison to balghami (Md=70.00) and lowest in saudavi (Md=48.00) group and it is in concordance with the experimental hypothesis of this research work. From this study, it is clear that a possible correlation between hair loss patterns and Mizaj certainly does exist. After that, hair loss patterns could be considered one of the diagnostic indices of temperament.