Some people can't help feeling smug when they look at their hands full of ten crescent moons, which shows that they are in good health; People with few crescent moons are worried and think they have physical problems! So what is the "crescent moon" on the nail? What does it have to do with your health? Come and find out, the answer may not be what you think!
The new moon is also called the half moon mark or half moon. The appearance of crescent moon is a normal phenomenon in the process of nail growth. New nails grow from the nail bed, providing nutrients for nail growth. Because the crescent moon is rich in blood vessels and nerve endings, when the body provides normal blood flow, the growth rate of nails will also accelerate. When the newborn nails have not reached the aging state, the current state is lighter in color, forming a "crescent moon" with lighter color. Generally speaking, whether there is a crescent moon, big or small, is related to the growth rate of fingernails. Therefore, the theory given by western medicine is that the "crescent moon" on the nail does not represent health or not!
But in daily life, we can observe that people with big crescent are full of energy, because the crescent on their nails represents the metabolic speed of the body. For people with faster body metabolism, the crescent moon appearing on nails is usually larger and more in number; For people with slow metabolism, the crescent on their nails is usually very small. However, the theory that human metabolism is related to crescent moon can be better explained through the analysis of traditional Chinese medicine!
Chinese medicine believes that the lung governs the fur, and the liver governs the fascia, while the nail is "outside the tendon" and is governed by the liver. Therefore, the state and quantity of nails mostly reflect the working state and health problems of the liver. Chinese medicine explained that the liver mainly stores seminal blood. For people with liver blood stasis, strong yang and energy, the state of nails is full of color, and the shape and number of crescent moons are also large and numerous;
For people with long-term stagnation of liver-qi, lack of yang in the body, and listlessness, the symptoms of nails are mostly dull, and the shape and number of crescent moons are few and far between. In addition, for women, if the crescent moon on the nail is small, there may be gynecological problems, and the symptoms are mostly menstrual blood clots, palace cold, fear of cold and other symptoms. This is because of excessive blood loss during menstruation, which leads to the phenomenon that the liver governs semen and blood, which will lead to the dryness of crescent moon and hair!
Therefore, according to the above analysis, there are some differences between Chinese medicine and western medicine in their attitudes towards "crescent moon", just like everyone's appearance or timbre is different, which is the same truth. But for the crescent moon, there is the highest voice in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. Because of the difference of human body, the crescent represents a certain health hazard, but we can't simply rely on the crescent to diagnose whether the body is healthy or not!