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Maybe you already know the health inspection based on blood, urine, or feces. But you know, the fingernails is one of the many concerns of women with a manicure and pedicure can be a guide if you are healthy or not.

Forming materials from the human nail is keratin protein that contains sulfur. Nails are also the hardest part of the body because the water content is very small. The main function is to protect the nail tip of the soft finger tip where the nerves are. While at the base of the cuticle serves to protect your nails from dirt.

If your nails reddish color, it is because the skin under the nail there are many capillaries are rich in blood supply. However, various circumstances may cause changes in color and texture of nails, including:

1. Injuries due to fall of the hard things about your fingernails. This can cause clotted blood under the nails so the nail looks blackish color.
2. Injury that form spots or white lines on the nails.
3. Excessive soap usage. Several types of chemicals or drugs can cause the nail to be shadowed in black, gray, yellow or brown.
4. Nail discoloration can also worn from fungal infection

Disease Detection Through Nail Color

Diagnosis of disease through the nails had actually done a lot of people since the time of Hippocrates. Here are some nail color changes as a sign of a disease:

1. Base of the nail was blue: indicates less blood circulation and is a symptom of heart disease.
2. Half of the nail tip pink or brown color while the white husk: indicate kidney disease.
3. Nail looks dull and there is a horizontal wrinkles: indicate malnutrition, the symptoms of measles, chicken pox, mumps, heart and Reynaud’s syndrome (finger tendon strain on the hands / feet due to very cold).
4. Longitudinal red coating on the nails: indicate bleeding in the capillaries, if there is a double line of the symptoms of high blood (hypertension).
5. Nails yellowish bewarna: indicate respiratory disease such as bronchitis or chronic swelling of the hands (lymphedema).
6. Nails yellowish bewarna accompanied by slow growth, thick and hardened: signal interference nodes or chronic digestive diseases.
7. Blackish-colored nails: may indicate skin cancer, because it must always be examined to determine whether it is a melanoma (skin cancer).
8. Circle crescent on the thumb nail, pink: pancreatic circulation indicates less good when pancreatic function decline can cause a person easily depressed, can develop into diabetes. Circle crescent on the index finger nails, pink: signifies weak intestines and stomach.
9. Circle crescent in the middle fingernail pink: indicates a person prone to anxiety, susceptible to interference in the internal organs, can not sleep soundly, often dizzy and difficult.
10. Circle crescent on the nail pink jarimanis: indicates abnormal menstruation comes too hot or too cold to interfere with blood circulation.
11. Circle crescent on the little finger nails, pink: indicates a weak heart condition.
12. Nails red or black spots: indicates brain circulation is poor.

To determine the overall health of your body, you try to massage every your fingernails. If the nail becomes red when pressed, it means you have blood circulation and a good organ. However, if the nail is not flush immediately after the press, it means that your blood circulation is not smooth and there is a lack of organs healthy.