The article on fingertip

Wen Changlu

Source: Beijing business today

        Cloud folk have a saying: "guests, safflower, red dye nails back." The red flower is here refers to the cluster of flowers bloom in June - August. Dye nails with it not only for the nail put on color clothes, TCM believes that it also has to prevent disease the role of the nails.

        According to measurement, human fingernails dirt has 30 many kinds of bacteria and viruses, henna has inhibition and killing effect on them. "Crime" of fungi on the deck directly, more can't escape it "punishment". This common disease, made the deck uneven, thin crisp texture, color, opacity, frontier is incomplete, with fresh henna pound packages disease treatment, or cook wash blisters, usually have better effect.

        Through the nails can be viewed human body health, has been regarded as important content of the inspection of traditional Chinese medicine. The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, it is "jin", closely associated with liver and kidney. Liver storing blood, kidney essence, two dirty blood enough, nail toughness; Two dirty JingXie, nails, color dough is not glorious, even deformation or brittle. The normal nail color is white inside deeply red, the full guanghua, a reflection of its changes is more lesions. Nail pale: for the syndrome of qi and blood is not glorious, is clinically common in cold syndrome, blood deficiency syndrome and blood; The yellow nails: waiting for pixu (spleen deficient), clinical go up common long-term indigestion and chronic wasting disease; Nails, deep red, is the sign of hotness, latosolic red is hot, red for heat; Nails, dark purple, for qi and blood stasis symptom of, or arising from passive congestion, or present concern.charlotte; Nails grey black, is a sign of kidney empty, see more at the critical stage of the disease.

        Chinese concept of nail curing light, many people think that nail curing is the camber of repaired, and the lack of important concepts of sanitation and disinfection. Actually, nails should not be too long to stay, to correctly pruning, refers to the edge of the take the harder, refers to the edge of the die to deal with more and more meat. More female friends like painting drawing on nails, the nails maintenance not only useless to talk about, is also a cause of other diseases, would be tantamount to a crocodile. Completes the nail health, often need to clean them around the dirt, had better use soap water, warm water to clean every night. When leisure often to massage nails, promotion refers to the circulation of blood. Daily used olive oil, butter, vitamin E, of fresh lemon juice, such as vaseline TuJia care.

(the author is the traditional Chinese medicine, chief physician, professor, writer, academic advisor and chief health science experts of China association of Chinese medicine)

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