How to tell diseases from palmistry in traditional Chinese medicine

In palmistry, palmistry not only predicts our fortune, but also has obvious predictions about our health and diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners believe that each part of the palm represents the health of our body, so many traditional Chinese medicine practitioners regard palmistry as an important basis for diagnosing diseases. So how do traditional Chinese medicine practitioners diagnose diseases using palmistry? Below are some related articles compiled by the editor, let’s take a look!

How to tell diseases from palmistry in traditional Chinese medicine

How does TCM palmistry analyze diseases?

1. Heart area

Located below the middle and ring fingers, it reflects the heart function

If the skin surface is prominent, high, without disordered lines, and has a pink luster, it means that the heart is functioning well and the vitality is abundant.

If there are messy palm lines in the heart area, it indicates that the heart function is damaged, and symptoms such as palpitations and blood pressure fluctuations will appear.

If rice-shaped patterns appear in the heart area, it indicates that you are prone to myocardial ischemia and angina pectoris, especially when the rice-shaped patterns in this area echo the rice-shaped patterns at the end of the wisdom line and the end of the life line, indicating the risk of stroke.

Maintenance method: The heart belongs to the bitter category among the five flavors. Bitter foods such as bitter melon, lotus seeds, celery, and kale can nourish the heart. Especially in the summer when it is suitable for nourishing the heart, you can eat more of them, which is beneficial for clearing heart fire and nourishing heart qi.

2. Endocrine region

Located below the hypothenar eminence and above the transverse wrist crease, it reflects the condition of the endocrine system.

If this area is too sunken, has abnormal spots, and has many chaotic lines, it indicates poor reproductive system function. Men often suffer from impotence, premature ejaculation, and prostatitis, while women are prone to infertility, irregular menstruation, uterine fibroids, and gynecological inflammation.

If there are island patterns, rice-shaped patterns, or triangle-like patterns in the middle of this area, it means that you are prone to gynecological diseases and should have regular B-ultrasound examinations.

Maintenance method: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that gynecological inflammation is mostly caused by dampness and heat in the body, which causes stagnation of qi and blood. Therefore, you can drink more rose tea, ginger and jujube tea, etc. These teas have the effects of clearing heat and dampness, promoting blood circulation and nourishing yin. Drinking a cup a day can effectively improve symptoms. At the same time, the diet should be light and the private parts should be cleaned with warm water every night.

4. Hepatobiliary area

The area on the thumb side of the lifeline and the angle between the lifeline and the wisdom line corresponds to the liver area of ​​the human body; the area on the left edge of the thumb and the thenar side of the intersection of the vertical line and the lifeline corresponds to the gallbladder area of ​​the human body.

If this area has no lines, is rosy, and the wisdom line and life line are rounded, it indicates that the liver is healthy.

If a large number of cross marks appear in the liver area, it indicates that long-term staying up late and irregular lifestyle have caused liver fatigue.

If rice-shaped lines appear, it indicates long-term liver depression and qi stagnation, frequent palpitations and chest tightness, accompanied by dark blue plaques, which means the liver may have been damaged.

If the liver area is enlarged, the fat under the skin is very thick, and the skin surface is raised and protruding, it indicates fatty liver.

If this area is dark and has no luster, especially when island lines appear, it is often due to breast hyperplasia caused by depression.

Maintenance method: The most important way to nourish the liver in traditional Chinese medicine is to take a nap. Sit quietly and rest for 10 to 30 minutes after a meal. This will allow nutrients in the body to flow to the liver through the blood, thereby enhancing liver function. In addition, you can also eat some liver-nourishing foods, such as seaweed, ginger and crab meat porridge, and mung bean and barley soup. Eating them every day for a month is a good way to relieve liver qi.

How should TCM interpret diseases in palmistry?

First, judge whether the body functions normally from the color of the palm

1. Ruddy and shiny - normal, good body function

2. Dark and withered - no energy, poor immunity

3. Pale and bloodless - Qi and blood deficiency, women often have anemia

4. Excessively rosy and lustrous - high blood lipids, blood sugar and blood viscosity.

Secondly, the colors of different areas on the palm are different, and the properties they represent are also different.

1. White – represents inflammation

2. Red: represents severe inflammation or bleeding spots

3. Cyan - indicates poor circulation

4. Brown: indicates old age or chronic disease

5. Black: represents critical illness

The above picture shows that different parts of the body are represented by different colors of palm lines, which will indicate different diseases.

Third, the blue veins on the palm are small veins, which also represent different health information.

1. The fewer blue veins appear on your palm, the healthier your body is.

2. Blue veins on the side of the thumb indicate insufficient blood supply to the head, resulting in frequent headaches and dizziness.

3. Blue veins at the base of the thumb indicate sclerosis of the heart arteries. The thicker the blue veins, the longer and more serious the disease course, and the patient will often feel discomfort in the precordial area; thinner and shallower the blue veins, the shorter the illness duration. Most patients usually do not have obvious discomfort in the heart, but will feel some chest tightness when they are tired or in a bad mood, which will improve after rest.

4. Blue veins on the outer side of the thenar eminence indicate irregular heartbeats, with heartbeats that are not consistent in speed, and sometimes premature beats, palpitations, and panic.

5. Blue veins at the bottom of the thenar eminence indicate that there is a lot of cold and dampness in the body, which has affected the heart and joints, and is also accompanied by symptoms of back pain and joint pain.

6. If there are blue veins on the outside of the index finger, and the blue veins are long and dark in color, it means that you had poor health when you were a child, did not eat well, had severe malnutrition, weak digestive function, malnutrition, often got sick, and had a very weak constitution.

7. If there is a blue vein in the middle of the middle finger, it means you often suffer from headaches and dizziness. If there are blue veins on the outside of your thumb, it means that you have suffered from headaches and dizziness since childhood, which is mostly caused by congenital deficiency resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain.

8. Blue veins at the base of the middle finger indicate cerebral arteriosclerosis.

9. The appearance of blue veins on the outer side of the little finger indicates congenital kidney deficiency. When they are young, they are prone to bedwetting, and when they grow up, they will also have kidney problems, and their waist and legs will feel weak and sore. Similarly, the longer and deeper the veins, the more serious the condition.

10. The area below the middle finger and above the palm is the neck. If blue veins appear, it means there is a problem with the thyroid gland, or there is chronic pharyngitis or what Chinese medicine calls plum pit qi, which is a sign of blocked meridians in the neck.

11. The appearance of blue veins on the thenar and inside the lifeline indicates an allergic constitution, which is prone to drug and food allergies, and to skin diseases such as eczema and psoriasis. (Feng Shui www.azg168.cn)

Teach you how to diagnose diseases from palmistry

Basically, most people's palms are symmetrical, so there is no big problem in judging. However, as explained above, the right hand is the main factor in judging good and bad luck, and the left hand is used to add or subtract points to good and bad luck. It is normal to have some differences between the left and right hands, because it is difficult to have left and right hands that are exactly the same in the world. However, when making judgments, you must know that the right hand is the main and the left hand is the auxiliary. Only in this way can you correctly judge the good and bad luck of palmistry. The meaning of the left and right hands in palmistry is: left is innate, right is acquired. The so-called left hand is innate and the right hand is acquired. To put it in plain words, the right hand has a greater influence and the left hand has a smaller influence. Perhaps it can be said that the right hand has 80% influence on judging good and bad luck, and the left hand has 20% influence. Therefore, when judging palmistry, the right hand is mainly used to judge, and then the left hand is used to add or subtract points for good and bad luck.

1. Yin and Yang colors of nails indicate kidney deficiency

The roots of the fingernails close to the skin appear pale, while the upper ends are brown, which is one of the important symptoms of kidney disease. The main cause is the accumulation of urea crystals under the skin and nails.

2. Red spots on the palms indicate liver problems

Doctors often infer the health of a patient's liver by observing his or her hands. The classic hand symptom of cirrhosis is erythema. The rash may also extend to the fingers and arms. This is because liver disease can cause hormone secretion disorders, causing the subcutaneous blood vessels to swell and expand.

3. Thick knuckles indicate high cholesterol.

The presence of cholesterol deposits on the knuckles is an important symptom of "familial high cholesterol". If you experience raised, yellow lumps at your joints when you clench your fists, it's time to measure your cholesterol levels.

4. If there are dots on your nails, be careful of arthritis.

The appearance of small beads like candle wax on the nails is one of the early symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. The joints may not yet be swollen and inflamed, but you must be alert early.

5. Concave nails may indicate anemia

Most people's nails are smooth and have a certain curvature. However, if there is a depression in the middle of the nail, it means that the body is severely iron deficient or even has iron deficiency anemia.

6. The upper part of the fingers becomes thicker, which indicates poor lung health.

Deformed fingers, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, indicate lung disease. This connection was discovered more than 2,000 years ago, and scientists at the University of Leeds in the UK recently uncovered the secret - a substance produced by lung lesions accumulates in the fingertips, causing swelling.

7. Blue nails indicate poor heart function

The color of your nails and lips can indicate whether your blood is lacking in oxygen. Pink nails are healthy, while blue or purple nails indicate a lack of oxygen in the blood or heart failure.

8. Excessive sweating on the palms can prevent hyperthyroidism

Dr. Susan Clark of Imperial College London pointed out that a key symptom of hyperthyroidism is hot flashes and sweaty palms.

As for the saying that men wear the left palm and women wear the right palm, it is an unorthodox palm analysis! We can find that if a person has good luck, his complexion will be good and the color of his hands will look healthier; similarly, if the lines on his palms look clearer, he will intuitively be a person with clear thinking and rationality; if the lines on a person's palms are very complicated, he will intuitively be a person with more complicated thoughts, and in fact this is the case. This shows that "judging people by their appearance" is in line with natural phenomena, and this is also the basic principle of "palmology" prediction. Let me explain it in detail below.

1. One of the five lines in palmistry: the love line

Love line - also known as the sky line or father line. Start from the bottom of the little finger and move toward the index finger. The middle point is when it reaches the gap between the index finger and the middle finger. If it goes all the way to under the index finger, it belongs to the realm of the soul and focuses more on spiritual love; if it goes under the middle finger, it belongs to physical love and does not focus on vows of eternal love. If it bends downward under the middle finger, it means love is capricious and unscrupulous. If the love line is long and has a branch that bends downward, it means one will sacrifice everything for love. People with deep and thin love lines have delicate emotions, while people with thick and shallow love lines have rough emotions. If there are feather-like diagonal lines on the top and bottom of the love line (on the palm side), it means that the person is very passionate. If there is no feather pattern below the line but only above the line, it is a wit line, indicating good reaction and ability to adapt to circumstances. If the emotion lines are chain-shaped, the person is sentimental. If there are island-shaped lines on the love lines, such as appearing under the ring finger, it means there are problems with the eyes, such as myopia, amblyopia or flashes. If the island pattern appears in other locations, it indicates emotional troubles. A broken love line indicates that one's relationship has suffered a great setback.

2. The second of the five lines in palmistry - the marriage line

Marriage line - on the palm side under the little finger, between the little finger and the love line. Some people have only one line, while others have several. The number is not important, there will always be a darker line. If two of them are the same depth, it would be easy to get into a triangle dispute. If there are more than six marriage lines and no main line can be found, the marriage relationship is relatively chaotic; if the marriage lines are long, the conditions for choosing a spouse are strict, the requirements for the spouse are also high, and there will be pressure in the marriage. If it extends to the bottom of the ring finger and connects to the Sun Line (mentioned below), you may have good in-laws and bring wealth and reputation. If it breaks the Sun line, it will have a negative effect, affecting reputation and wealth. If the tail of the marriage line is forked, it is easy to break up. If there are island patterns, the couple may be separated for some reason. The tail of the marriage line is tilted upwards, indicating a lack of desire to get married.

3. The third of the five major lines in palmistry - the intelligence line

Intelligence line - that is, brain pattern. It is the most important line in palmistry. In Chinese palmistry, this line represents oneself and is also called the human line. The starting point is the same as the lifeline, going towards the little finger, and it is best to stop between the ring finger and the little finger. If it is too short, it will not be smart enough, and if it is too long, it will be too smart, which is also not good. Deep and fine brain lines are better, indicating that the mind is focused and the person is smart. If there are island patterns on the brain lines, it means that the mind is not focused, the memory is weak or the brain is frustrated. The starting point of the brain pattern is chain-shaped, and the external environment affects one's studies. The intelligence line and the life line start at the same point, and the two lines merge into one, and then separate after a certain distance, indicating introversion, caution, and careful consideration. If it is too long, you will worry too much and become indecisive. If the lifeline and intelligence line start together and then immediately separate, the person has a decisive personality and can adapt to changing circumstances. If the two lines are separated by a distance, it indicates a bold and extroverted personality, who is fearless. If the starting points of the two lines are more than half a centimeter apart, it means that you have a reckless and brainless personality.

4. The 4th of the five lines in palmistry - Lifeline

Lifeline - that is, the life pattern. The lines start from the edge of the palm between the thumb and index finger and go to the bottom of the palm. The length of the life line does not represent the length of life, but represents the strength of vitality, so the life line should actually be called the vitality line. If the life line is long, deep and rosy, the person has strong vitality, strong resistance to disease and is not prone to illness. On the contrary, if the line is shallow and weak, the person is relatively weak. People with coarse lines are suitable for labor or sports; people with fine lines are suitable for using the brain. If the palm hill surrounded by the life line has a large area, the person is energetic and has a strong sexual desire; if the palm hill surrounded by the life line has a small area, the person is weak and easily tired. People with chain-shaped lines at the beginning of their life lines (near the palm) are weak and sickly during childhood. If the end of the life line is like a tassel, you should be careful of old age diseases. If there is an island pattern on the life pattern, it means that you will be sick or hospitalized at a certain time. The size of the island pattern represents the severity of the illness and the duration.

5. The 5th of the five lines in palmistry - Career line

Career line - is a line that rises from the bottom of the palm. For some people, it can reach the base of the middle finger. It can also be called the destiny line. Some career lines are not one straight line, but several discontinuous lines, which means that the job is unstable or the work environment changes frequently. The career line stops when it rises to the brain line (intelligence line), indicating that you stop working because of your own intelligence. If it rises to the island pattern and stops, the watch has stopped working due to emotional problems. There are two career lines, which means you can work part-time or develop another side business.

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