This invention provides hair growth or regrowth drugs for both men and women and this drugs show excellent ability to regrow and grow hair in very low concentration. The drugs are characterized in including of steril glycosil pyranoside, which has general formula (1), in which Z means sterol residue of cyclopentano-hydrophenanthrene ring lacking 3-hydrooxide group.本發明之課題係在於提供一種新穎之生髮、養髮劑，其即便對於男性及女性中之任一性別，又即便其成分濃度於超稀薄濃度下，亦具有優異之生髮、養髮效果。本發明之解決手段為一種生髮、養髮劑，其特徵在於：含有通式(I)所示之固醇葡萄哌喃糖苷，較佳為膽固醇葡萄哌喃糖苷。(其中，式中，Z表示鍵結於環戊烷氫菲環之3位上之經除去羥基的固醇殘基)
