eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2023-06-30 20 2 561 570 10.13005/bbra/3110 45767 article Hiba Shams 1 Imam Pasha.S 1 M.Mushraff Ali Khan 1 Anupama Koneru 1 Sultan Ul-Uloom College of Pharmacy, Mount Pleasant, Road No.3, Banjara hills, Hyderabad-500034, Telangana, India This article describes herbal remedies and herbal products for alopecia. It mainly states the use of herbal preparations for the treatment of hair loss and also describes their advantages over synthetic products and drugs. As the use of herbal blends have least side effects, maximum efficacy, and are economically and easily prevalent, they can act as naturopathic medicines in treating various types of hair loss. Hair loss can be due to different reasons such as genetic tendency, extreme stress, nutritional deficiency, environmental triggers, exposure to chemicals etc. Hence use of synthetic compounds can show unfavorable outcomes such as scaling, dermatitis, pruritus and other skin related problems and to overcome such effects herbal products which are made by extraction of natural compounds mainly herbs are preferred as they play a role in patient compliance and show more than one mode of action for the treatment of alopecia. The article basically gives the description of various herbal products, remedies and also herbal products with nutrient supplements available with their brand name, manufacturing details along with their cost, indications which can be beneficial to treat hair loss. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol20no2/a-critical-analysis-of-the-usage-of-herbal-products-amidst-south-indian-population-for-the-treatment-of-alopecia/ Alopecia; Herbal products Herbal medicines Nutritional supplement; Remedies; South Indian; Treatment