It is an alternative minoxidil brand. Minoxidil is now the most publicised treatment available for male pattern baldness and was the first treatment approved by the FDA for androgenetic alopecia and studies have shown that solutions of minoxidil are effective in initiating and promoting hair growth in individuals with male pattern alopecia. One of the side effects was hair growth and reversal of male patterned baldness. However, taking minoxidil in a pill form had many other side effects that made it impractical to take for the treatment of baldness. Minoxidil stimulates the regrowth of hair in three main ways.
Higher concentrations appear to be more effective in promoting hair growth.
Minoxidil was originally developed to treat high blood pressure. It is use for teating thinning hair was originally discovered when it was noted to cause increased hair growth as a side effect of this treatment. Topical Minoxidil is now the most widely recommended treatment for androgenetic alopecia. How minoxidil works to grow hair is somewhat of a mystery. Since it was originally a blood-pressure pill and because it is a vasodilator it was thought that it worked by increasing the amount of blood to the hair follicles.