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Dandruff (Scalp)

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Also known as: dandruff · scalp flakes · Pityriasis simplex · seborrheic dermatitis · dry scalp · oily dandruff · Pityriasis capitis · scalp psoriasis · flaky scalp · scalp scaling

Your Body Is Speaking

Your scalp is shedding. Small white flakes on your shoulders, in your hair, on your collar — visible to anyone who looks closely. Perhaps it itches as well, perhaps not. But the shedding does not stop. You wash, you care, you switch products — and it comes back. As though your scalp were rejecting itself, layer by layer.

Medically, dandruff is an accelerated renewal of skin cells on the scalp. Cells that would normally be shed unnoticed clump together and become visible — as dry flakes or as oily plaques. Fungi, hormones, stress, climate — the triggers are varied. But the psychosomatic perspective asks deeper: What wants to be shed? What is sitting on your head that does not belong there? And why is your system resisting something that is pressing down from above?

Dandruff is not a cosmetic problem — it is a revolt. Quiet, but persistent.

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