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Fabao
101™ News Media
There is no other similar products like Fabao 101 which
has enjoyed the most extensive coverage by the main stream
media around the world. The following are selected reports
from news media in English, Japanese and Chinese.
Financial
Review, March 21, 1997(Australia)
"....Dr.
Zhao Zhang Guang, claims he has saved face for 5 million
Chinese and more than 1 million Japanese - by restoring
their hair..." Full
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Herald
Sun
(Australia),
April 18, 1997.
"...
Dr. Zhao Zhang-guang, dubbed the 101 Hair Oil King in his
homeland, is in town and looking to spend up to $US10 million
to start a hair products business here.." Full
Story
The
Age (Australia), June 12, 1993
"...Only
Mr. Zhao, his wife, and daughter are privy to the 101 secret,
although the Japanese, he says, are spending a fortune trying
to duplicate the formula..." Full
Story
"...Word
spread some more. In 1976, a reporter from Hang-Zhou came
by to look into rumors that there were no bald men in Dr.
Zhao's county anymore. The reporter, Pan Guozheng, happened
to bald..." Full
story
"...
Thousands of Asian men reportedly have used the product
and 90 percent are said to have found it effective-so much
so, in fact, that many call it a "magic liquid"
for hair.." Full
story
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The
New York Times
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BEIJING, Jan. 24 - His pate gleaming like a freshly peeled
potato, the man waited expectantly in the whitewashed room,
the buoyant confidence of a lottery ticket buyer lighting
his eyes.
Dr.
Zhao Zhangguang dipped a small brush into a plastic bottle
filled with an apricot-colored liquid and began daubing
the hairless dome in a sort of invisible pointillism. On
the bottle containing the liquid, a gold label read: "101
Hair Regeneration Liniment."
The
substance is among an array of elixirs, syrups and potions
produced by doctors here in a crusade to retard or even
reverse baldness.
Most
prominent in the crusade is Dr. Zhao, who has produced a
substance that is championed by some Beijing city officials
and that is inspiring hope among those sporting nature's
tonsure.
Former
Barefoot Doctor
"I used to be a barefoot doctor," Dr. Zhao, 45
years old, said, his own shaggy thatch evidence that he
does not need a dose of his own medicine. "I am from
the mountains in Zhejiang. In the mountains, we pay a lot
of attention to plants and herbs."
"Basically
I was trained in herbal medicine, treating skin disease.
What got me into this was the case of a woman schoolteacher
who came to me one day in 1973 who was bald. She had to
wear a wig, but everybody still called her bald. After a
while she just stopped teaching because people make fun
of her. When she used to go to her mother's home she always
had to take out-of-the-way paths instead of the main road
because people laughed at her.
Dr.
Zhao lit a cigarette, dragged deeply and continued. "Well,
this was how I started to think about this problem. I was
a bit famous for curing skin disease, but had no experience
with hair. So I decided to have a try with traditional herbs."
In the
beginning, Dr. Zhao said he begin mixing herbs and oils
that were traditionally believe to stimulate hair growth,
things like the dried Rhizome of Rehmannia or tubers of
multiflower knot weed.
"Those
just don't work." Dr. Zhao said. "Everyone thinks
they do, but they don't. In the beginning I was using a
bit here, decreasing there. There was not any effect at
all."
'I Kept
on Working'
After about 40 failures, Dr. Zhao said, he was ready to
throw up his hands. "people said I was mad," he
said. "People scorned me. They didn't think I'd would
be successful."
That
did it, he said, " I kept on working."
As he
work, his money ran out and he had to rent out one of the
three rooms of his house to another villager. " I still
didn't have enough money," he said, "My wife said
that she would support me and she started raising pigs and
chickens."
What
the Liniment Contains
Altogether, Dr. Zhao said, he whipped up 101 different mixtures
before he hit on the right concoction. " I had a patient
who was bald, but he came to me because he had a fever and
skin rash," Dr. Zhao explained. "I gave him a
new medicine I had been working on. One day he came over
and started yelling at me that I hadn't cured the fever
but that he was growing hair."
Word
spread. First villagers from around his home county came
by, then people beyond the county. "In the first group
of 50 patients, there was some effectiveness, " the
doctor said. I made some changes and the effectiveness improved."
What
did the trick, Dr. Zhao said, was the careful blending of
ginseng, the root of membranous milk vetch, Chinese Angelica,
a type of Aconitum, dried ginger, walnut meat, salflower,
the root of red-rooted Salvia, a psoralea and alcohol.
Word
spread some more. In 1976, a reporter from Hangzhou came
by to look into rumors that there were no bald men in Dr.
Zhao's county anymore. The reporter, Pan Guozheng, happened
to bald.
"He
came to see me," Dr. Zhao said. "Of course he
didn't believe any thing. but I gave him some of medicine
and after about three months he began to grow hair. Then
he wrote up a report. That was the first."
The
newspaper invited Dr. Zhao to Hangzhou to try his remedy
in the big city. Over several years, he said, he treated
more than 1,000 patients there with a success rate of more
than 90 percent.
In Beijing,
a group of city officials heard of advancing hairlines down
south and sent a delegation to see what the excitement was
about. By this time, Dr. Zhao said, he had compiled a hefty
caseload of satisfied patients and had his liniment certified
by the provincial authorities as effective.
Officials
from Beijing's Bureau of Civil Affairs wooed the good doctor
with promises of housing, a factory of his own and fame.
So in 1986 Dr. Zhao move to the capital and began to set
up a plant to produce "101 Hair Regeneration Liniment."
Word
spread out of China. Dr. Zhao found himself traveling to
Hong Kong and Japan bearing hope for the depilated. Then,
last October, he was awarded the top prize of the 38th Brussels
Eureka World Fair, a gathering of inventors from around
the globe. Dr. Zhao was made a Chevalier and awarded a lustrous
white cross dangling from a red ribbon.
Today,
Dr. Zhao works out of a third-floor office in a grubby masonry
building in the industrial quarter south of Beijing. Surrounded
by stacks of before-and-after color photographs, a staff
of hair specialists treat patients, and for difficult cases
Dr. Zhao himself offers an expert view.
The
bald gentleman that sat before him now despaired over the
last quarter century, during which not as much as a tuft
of fuzz found root atop his head, Dr. Zhao was not overly
optimistic.
Treatment
Costs About $100
"He has been bald for 25 years," the doctor said.
" This is not easy. But perhaps after three months
I think he will have some hair. We will see."
An average
treatment takes two to three months and involves daily applications
of Dr. Zhao's liniment. At $12 a bottle for the liquid,
the treatment costs about $100, an extraordinary sum in
a country with an annual per capita income of less than
$300. But Dr. Zhao said plenty of people were willing to
spend that kind of money.
Dr.
Zhao asserted that his tonic worked, and others did not,
because he had exploited the principle of traditional Chinese
medical practice. Or more precisely, "101 Liniment,"
he said, "invigorates the circulation of the blood,
frees the main and collateral channels of the body and thereby
makes hair grow."
When
asked about a competing medication, a syrup called "Shen
Er Fa" blended in Wuhan and drunk, not applied to the
scalp, Dr. Zhao turned up his nose ever so slightly. "Yes,
I've heard of Shen Er." he said, "But I've heard
the effects are not so remarkable."
Tuesday,
January 26, 1988
Newsweek
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We can grow hair. That's the startling news hair "restoration"
firms trumpet regularly in newspaper and magazine advertisements.
The claim prompts hoots of derision from many who doubt
its veracity but also triggers a shiver of excitement in
men. Scientific interest in hair is rising , due mainly
to the discovery that the hypertension drug minoxidil can
stimulate hair growth on some people. Upjohn Co. wants to
sell minoxidil as a treatment for but studies suggesting
that it has potential side effects may prevent that from
happening.
Amid
the flurry of sophisticated and sophisticated approaches
to hair growth comes an old fashioned Chinese herbal liniment
that many Asians believe is a miracle cure for baldness.
According to individual claims, the lotion can grow practically
a whole new head of hair in six months (imagine the fun
Western advertising copywriters could have with that benefit!)
Thousands of Asian men reportedly have used the product
and 90 percent are said to have found it effective-so mush
so, in fact, that many call it a "magic liquid"
for hair.
There
are reasons to doubt the benefits of the product, which
is called 101 Hair Regeneration Liniment. Chief among them
is that scientists apparently have never scrutinized its
contents or effects. But there is no questioning its popularity
with the 3 million bald men in Japan. Indeed, demand for
101 is so intense in that country that travel agencies are
organizing trips to Beijing so men can purchase the product.
The first group left Japan two weeks ago. 101 was developed
by Zhao Zhangguang, a former Chinese farmer and traditional
"barefoot doctor" from Zhejiang Province.
According
to a report in The New York Times, Zhao begin experimenting
with various traditional medicines in the early 1970s. Mixing
traditional oils and herbs, he developed scores of potions
over several years. None worked. Finally, he gave a new
formula- containing ginseng, root of milk vetch, walnut
meat and safflower, among other ingredients - to a patient
with a skin rash. The patient complained that his rash wasn't
cured but he was sensing success, Zhao established a small
production factory in Beijing last February and began selling
101. Since then he has made a profit of $100,000, and last
year the product took top prize at the Brussels Eureka World
Fair for invention.
Though
Tokyo has not authorized the importation of 101, Japanese
men are buying it from a Hong Kong dealer for $93 a bottle.
Supply is scarce, however, a spokesman for a company that
acts as a liaison with the Hong Kong dealer says:"
We receive more than 200 phone calls a day Some of the callers
are desperate and begin sobbing on the phone." Japanese
novelist Shusaku Endo is trying 101 and reporting the results
in a weekly magazine. Massahi Sada, a popular Japanese singer,
said recently on the radio that the product worked wonders
on his head. In China, where 101 is also in short supply,
customers pay $12 a bottle regularly and $115 on the black
market.
Some
who use the liniment say it smells like Chinese wine; others
say merely that it stinks. But everyone, it seems, thinks
101 works. Businesses from 16 countries have signed sales
and licensing contracts with Zhao. The inventor says he
wants to build an international center by 1990, adding :"I
want to introduce 101 to every corner of the world".
March
28, 1988
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