Dr. Chen Chaozong, chairman of the Association of Grassroots Chinese Medicine Doctors in Taiwan Province Province, pointed out that healthy nails should have a moderate nail thickness, a smooth, round and shiny surface and a healthy pink color. If grooves and concave protrusions are found on the nail surface, the color of the deck is dark. If it is too thin or too thick, it indicates that there are some health problems.
Nail health links viscera and qi and blood.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that nail health is related to viscera and qi and blood. There is a saying in the classic of Chinese medicine that "claws are outside tendons", tendons refer to fascia, claws refer to fingernails and toenails, and "liver tendon" means that limbs and joints are dominated by liver blood, so we can know that if liver blood is sufficient, nails will be rosy, shiny and hard.
If you go to liver blood deficiency, your nails may become thinner, crack easily and lose their luster. In addition, if redness and congestion represent poor circulation, it belongs to blood stasis constitution; If the color is pale, pay attention to whether there is insufficient blood; Moreover, nail depression is also related to deficiency of qi and blood, liver and kidney. Usually find abnormal nails, so check them as soon as possible.
Nail crescent health index
In addition, about "how many nail crescent represents a person's health?" Chen Chaozong, a Chinese doctor, explained that the white half moon growing at the bottom of nails is called crescent moon. Usually, the greater the energy, the whiter the half-moon mark and the larger the area. However, excessive yang is easy to get angry, fidgety and irritable, and even prone to symptoms such as hypertension, hyperglycemia and stroke.
On the contrary, the less half-moon marks, the worse people's energy, the colder their constitution and the lower their immunity, which is called yang deficiency in Chinese medicine. People with yang deficiency and cold constitution are easily afraid of cold in their limbs. Just because someone else doesn't have a half-moon mark doesn't mean he must have a disease. They must find out the lesion according to the patient's constitution.
Detect diseases through four color changes of nails.
1. white: white nails, which may be caused by iron deficiency anemia; Women can pay special attention. On the other hand, there are many cases in which the nails of patients with liver cirrhosis will turn white and thicken.
2. Dark brown: If the nails are dark brown, it means that the electrolyte in the patient is unbalanced or caused by kidney deficiency. In case of kidney disease, half of the nail roots will appear frosted glass fog white, and a brown * * * band (brown bow nail) will appear at the fingertips.
3. purplish red: because nails are the easiest to reflect changes in blood flow, especially women can pay special attention. When your hands and feet are cold, your fingers and toes will turn pale, but they will turn red or purple after a while. This may be an autoimmune disease, so don't ignore it.
4. Black: In many nail changes, be especially vigilant when the nails turn black. This may be melanoma. When there are black spots or vertical black lines on the nails, you can observe them first. If they move forward with the growth of nails, it may be just bleeding caused by simple collision. But if they don't move, and the color darkens and the ribbon widens, they should go to the hospital immediately and ask the dermatologist to check for abnormalities.
Chinese medicine sees nails:
Detecting diseases by observing the changes of nails, like observing auricle, tongue diagnosis and face diagnosis, belongs to one of the categories of Chinese medicine inspection. It is suggested that besides the diagnosis of nails, other inspection, auscultation, inquiry and palpation should be combined with the patient's clinical symptoms and laboratory examination data to help diagnose the disease, find out the real cause and treat the symptoms.
Are you sick? You can see it from your nails. Because the color of nails is related to the qi and blood of viscera.