How to measure health with nails
It is not ideal to measure a person's health by looking at his nails. A person must be well nourished before his nails can grow normally, otherwise there will be some abnormal phenomena, which doctors can often use to diagnose important diseases. Here are some abnormal phenomena of nails:
1. Rod-shaped enlargement: the nails are obviously arched upwards and bent around the fingers. Clubbed fingers may mean emphysema, tuberculosis, cardiovascular disease, ulcerative colitis or cirrhosis.
2. Blue crescent: If there is a layer of blue halo on the crescent-shaped white mark at the root of the nail, it means that you may have any of the following diseases: blocked blood circulation, heart disease, Raynaud's sign, vasospasm of fingers and toes, usually due to freezing. But sometimes it is also related to rheumatoid arthritis or autoimmune disease lupus erythematosus.
3. Spoon nails: the middle of the nails sinks, and the whole nails become flat or spoon-shaped. This kind of nail is related to iron deficiency anemia, syphilis, thyroid disease, rheumatic fever and so on.
4. Lindsay's nails: half of the nails near the tip are pink or brown, and half of the nails near the nail shape are white. This kind of nail is also called two nails, which may be a sign of chronic renal failure.
5. Bo's line: the horizontal groove on the nail indicates malnutrition or some serious disease that will temporarily affect the growth of the nail, such as measles, costalitis, heart disease, etc.
6. Terry's nails: Most of the skin under the nails turns white, and only a small part near the nail tip is still normal pink. This may indicate cirrhosis.
7. yellow nail comprehensive collection group: the growth rate of nails is slow, thicker and harder; It is yellow or green, and the causes include chronic respiratory diseases, thyroid diseases or lymphatic diseases.
8. Bleeding: If these vertical red lines appear on the nails, it means microvascular bleeding. If there are multiple such blood lines, it may indicate chronic hypertension, psoriasis or a fatal infection called subacute bacterial endocarditis.
9. Irregular pits: Many patients with psoriasis have this phenomenon.
10. Rows of pits: The nail surface becomes the bronze surface hammered out by the coppersmith, sometimes because of tufting baldness. This is an immune disease that is not well understood by the medical community, which will lead to partial or total hair loss.
1 1. Brown spots or dark spots: This kind of spots, especially those where nails extend to the surrounding finger tissues, may indicate melanoma. They may be a single big block or a bunch of small spots, and the most common places are the thumb and big toe.
There are usually two situations when there are vertical stripes on nails:
The nail crest deck is thin and brittle, with longitudinal ridges, and the distal end is often broken and diverted due to malnutrition. It can also be seen in patients with diseases such as lichen planus and alopecia areata.
The longitudinal sulcus of nail is generally the longitudinal ridge in the center of deck, and the ridge top is shallow, or it can be a significant sulcus without ridge. It is often caused by the damage of nail matrix and can also be seen in patients with lichen planus and other diseases, which is the expression of allergic reaction.
In order to find your disease in time, please observe your hand often, it may be warning you.
Nail and disease prediction
The analysis of nails began in ancient times. Doctors in his school advocate nail analysis, which has been used to this day, but most people don't know that small nails can truly reflect human health.
The back of the nail is high upward, and the periphery of the nail is bent downward. Nails of this shape may indicate emphysema, tuberculosis, cardiovascular diseases, ulcerative colitis and cirrhosis.
The crescent-shaped place at the base of the nail is blue, which indicates that it may suffer from one of the following diseases: blood circulation disorder, heart disease, Lei Nuode's syndrome-finger and toe arterial spasm, usually caused by extreme cold, and sometimes associated with rheumatoid arthritis or autoimmune disease lupus erythematosus.
Nails are sunken, flat or spoon-shaped. This is related to iron deficiency anemia, syphilis, thyroid diseases and rheumatic fever.
Lindsay manicure (also known as two-color manicure). The half near the nail tip is pink or brown, and the half near the protective film is white. This kind of nail may be a sign of chronic renal failure.
There are parallel deep grooves on the nails. This is caused by malnutrition or any serious disease that temporarily prevents nail growth, such as measles, epidemic costaitis, heart disease and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Most of the skin under the nails is white, and the normal pink area of the fingertips is reduced and banded. This kind of nail may indicate cirrhosis.
The production speed of nails slows down, and the nails become thick, hard, yellow or yellow-green. Etiology includes chronic respiratory system, thyroid or lymph gland diseases. This vertical blood bar indicates capillary bleeding. Many blood stains may be signs of chronic hypertension, psoriasis and subacute bacterial endocarditis that may be life-threatening.
Most patients with psoriasis have this kind of irregular and deep nails.
The deep depression of nails is very similar to brass products hammered out by a hammer, and its reason is tufted alopecia, an autoimmune disease that causes partial and total alopecia.
These two colors of nails, especially from nails to surrounding tissues, are brown or black, which may be related to malignant melanoma. They may be a big point or a small point. Thumb and big toe are the most likely symptoms.
Abnormal nails and major diseases
A normal person's fingernail is half of the third phalanx of a finger. It is not wide or narrow, elastic, not easy to break, and has a certain hardness. Its edge is parallel to the pulp, reddish and shiny, without spots and protrusions.
If the nail is less than half of the third phalanx, it is mostly weak and emaciated, and the digestive system is dysfunctional, but it has strong disease resistance. People with soft nails have poor energy, are prone to fatigue, like to sleep, have poor disease resistance and are often listless. People with hard and brittle nails often suffer from anemia and loss of appetite. There are white spots or mica nails, indicating that there are trace elements and parasites such as calcium and silicon deficiency. Such people are prone to nervousness, irritability and habitual constipation.
The light arc circle at the root of the nail is called the half-moon arc, commonly known as the healthy circle. Is the normal health circle about the area of nails? -1/5, no shadow. The width and size of the health circle vary from person to person and from race to race. Usually, men's health circle is about 3 mm, and women are slightly smaller. The widths of index finger, middle finger and ring finger decrease in turn, while the little finger is mostly absent. Old people are narrow-minded, and malnourished people often disappear. The change of health circle can best show the nutritional status of the body and is a lamp to indicate the nutritional status of the human body.
Nail health barometer
Nails are a barometer of human health. Normal nails are ruddy and delicate, tough and arc-shaped, smooth and shiny, and the nail roots are gray. If the shape and color of nails change, it means that the human body may have some kind of disease. Here are some common sense of observing nails:
From the shape of nails: nails are flat, concave, spoon-shaped, brittle and dull, which is a sign of liver water deficiency or iron deficiency anemia, hypochromic anemia and light-colored small cell anemia. Nails are parrot-shaped and fingertips are drumstick-shaped, which are more common in congenital heart disease cyanosis, rheumatic heart disease with chronic heart failure and lung abscess, emphysema, silicosis, chronic fibrocavitary tuberculosis and chronic ulcerative colitis. The appearance of horizontal stripes on nails is a precursor to nephropathy or myocardial infarction; The appearance of longitudinal stripes and lack of vitamin A are the precursors of liver disease. The appearance of pit lines is poor respiratory function.
From the color of nails: nails turn white, and hemorrhagic shock is an emergency; Chronic diseases can be seen in anemia, hookworm complicated with gastrointestinal bleeding, advanced tuberculosis, pulmonary heart disease and so on. As white as ground glass, it is a characteristic of cirrhosis; Whitening, thinning and softening of nails are common in chronic consumptive diseases, such as yellow nails and lack of vitamin E. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is mostly caused by damp-heat fumigation, which can be seen in hypothyroidism, carrot disease and nephrotic syndrome. When nails turn gray, they are suffering from onychomycosis. At first, it was itchy next to the nails, and then the nails were deformed, tarnished and grayish white. Blue nails with small red thorns are caused by lack of oxygen, indicating that the heart and lungs have glassy nails, half red and half white (commonly known as yin and yang nails), which is a bad renal function. White spots or flocculent white spots appear on nails, which may be zinc deficiency or gastrointestinal diseases or anemia; Black spots or green spots are signs of poisoning; Erythema appears around nails, which is more common in patients with lupus erythematosus and dermatomyositis. One and a half months is blue, but the peripheral circulation is poor; Obvious redness is a sign of heart failure; It is obvious for one and a half months, and the intestinal absorption is good; No or narrow, indigestion.
Nail is really a window to observe human health, so we should always pay attention to its changes, especially for long-term manicurists. Don't forget to take a vacation every once in a while to show its true colors. If you find multiple nail variations, you should see a doctor in time. If only one or two nails have changed, don't panic, it may be caused by trauma.
Nails are pink, shiny, moderate in thickness and hardness, not easy to break and smooth in surface. A healthy circle (half moon at the bottom of the nail) accounts for one-fifth of the length of the nail (preferably all five nails) is a sign of health. If the color is light yellow, cyan, black, dull, too thick or too thin, too soft or too hard, easy to break, rough and dull surface with concave grooves, vertical stripes, white spots and abnormal proportion of healthy circles, it is a sign of poor physical fitness.
Pale fingers indicate deficiency of both qi and blood, and purple indicates blood stasis. Fingers are prone to lithiasis. Spoon refers to the constitution of yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, which is prone to stroke, chest obstruction, thirst and other diseases. When some hypertensive patients reach out their fingers, their fingers tilt to the thumb side.
Nails should be healthy, mallet nails are incompetent, white nails are deficient in both qi and blood, black nails are serious, and yellow nails are fumigated with damp heat. According to the basic color, it is blood stasis and hands are relaxed, but its color will not accumulate into blood deficiency and qi stagnation for a long time. Patients with leukoplakia often have parasites, fatigue or long-term constipation. Most people with large health circle are hyperactivity of liver yang and stroke; Too young are mostly gout, cough and asthma, gastroenteritis, digestive tract ulcer and encephalomalacia (which can become obscure after stroke); Those who have no healthy circle are mostly deficient in both qi and blood; There are many scars and grooves on the nail surface, which are parasites, spleen deficiency, and if it happens in the thumb, it is exhausted; Skin diseases that occur on the index finger are prone to occur; Most of what happens in the middle finger is flaccid; Those that happen on the ring finger are prone to cough and eye diseases; Those who happen in the little finger are prone to throat diseases, wind arthralgia, damp-heat yellowing.
Too weak nails are yin deficiency and fire flourishing; Thin and soft is liver blood deficiency; Atrophy is mostly due to deficiency of both heart and spleen; The longitudinal stripes are weak; Easy-to-break people are depressed; A flat nail is weak and sickly, and a warped nail is deficient in both qi and blood; Triceratops is prone to stroke; Eagle claw or uneven people are mostly qi stagnation and blood stasis, chest obstruction, wind obstruction and tendon twin; Cylindrical people often have carbuncle and furuncle, which is prone to some kind of tumor; Long claw nails are weak; Nail pits are mostly kidney deficiency. Fan-shaped embedded Donphan is prone to stroke because of liver transverse deficiency, yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity; If the side of the nail drops sharply, it is easy to have heart blood stasis; There is a deep ditch on the nail body, which indicates that he was seriously ill or suffered a mental shock not long ago; Most people who eat nails have a weak temper; Nails are obviously narrow and easy to get dirty and dry; People with long and narrow nails are prone to rheumatism; Most patients with sharp, broad and bluish colors are qi deficiency and blood stasis; People with dull nails and obvious longitudinal stripes mostly cough and gasp; Shortness of nails is mostly due to guilty conscience and chest pain (especially without a healthy circle); Most of them are gynecological diseases and joint pain (if they lack luster, they are mostly infertility); Very short people cough and wheeze easily.