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The Role of Fingernail and Tongue Analysis The Role of Fingernail LUNULA and Tongue Analysis and Herbal Practice PREVENTIVE METHODS DEVELOPED FROM OVER 10,000 PATIENTS‟ RECORDS November 18, 2012 – Mt. Pleasant, MI • 2010 Hardcover edition 2008 Edition Tsu-Tsair Chi, PhD TEETH MARKS • Over 120 color pictures Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Tongue Color 1. Pink tongue Pink Tongue: Normal COLOR SHAPE 2. Pale tongue VITALITY COATING 3. Red tongue Light coating 4. Dark red/Purple on root of the MOISTURE tongue Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Pale Tongue: Red Tongue: Anemia Fever, Heart, Dark Red or Infection Purple Tongue: Blood stasis, Shiny areas on tongue: Anemia Spiky tongue: Serious Real fever Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. 1 TONGUE DIAGNOSIS KIDNEY STOMACH LIVER HEART ULCER LIVER GALLBLADDER SPLEEN STOMACH Elongated Cracks on (GI) LUNG Tongue tongue LUNG HEART Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Purple Dots: Blood Stasis SPIKY TONGUE Hypoglycemia Teeth Marks • Tip – Heart/Lung • Side – Liver/Gallbladder Lung • Center – Stomach/Intestine White Coating Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Roadmap-like Tongue Younger People: Inflammation Tongue Ulcer Deficiency of Blood, FEVER Hormone and Chi Older People: Digestion, Lack of Spikes stomach acid Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. 2 Tongue Movement vs. Diseases • Stiff tongue and movement not easy Whiplash – Stroke or cognition • Deviated tongue Heavy Metals – Whiplash, heavy metals, and stroke Stroke • Tongue shrinks and is difficult to stick out – Very serious condition Deviated • Unable to control tongue, slow movements Tongue and/or tongue hangs out: – Low IQ (since childhood) or stroke Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Tongue Coating Distribution of Coating FEVER or • Root / No Root LOCAL • Light white: Normal INFLAMMATION: • Wet / Dry • White: Lung Stomach • Greasy / Not Greasy • Yellow: Stomach • Grow / Reduce Yellowish/White • Black: Digestion, Kidney, etc. Coating • Thick / Thin Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Black Coating DIGESTION LIVER • High fever KIDNEY • Dehydrated • Chronic infection Black, Dry, Spiky Coating • Black/brown keratosis cell Black Coating • Digestion and Kidney Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. 3 Mirror-Like Tongue • No coating GALLBLADDER KIDNEYS • Red color (thirsty, heavy chest, nauseous) – stomach and gallbladder condition STOMACH • Serum albumin low Green/Grey • Tongue cell metabolism retarded Red, dry, Coating – Digestion stopped • Electrolyte imbalance cracking tongue • Serious health condition Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Mirror-Like Tongue (Slippery) Coating Location SNOW-LIKE • Whole tongue: Stomach and Liver. COATING • Tip (outside): Stomach initiative. Low serum • Roots (inside): Stomach and Intestine albumin Autoimmune accumulation Disease, etc. • Left side: Inner Organs (difficult to treat) • Right side: Outside Organs (muscles) • No root: Stomach, kidney, spleen (serious) Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Coating with Peeling Coating in No Root Coating Center Serious Illness becomes Inner organs serious Condition problem Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. 4 NAIL CLUBBING Sign of: Coating on • Heart problem Left Side SHAPE OR • Lung disease Dangerous • Cancer condition GROWTH • Parasites • Digestive CHANGE Caused by low oxygen levels in problem the blood Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. KOILONYCHIA (spoon nails) BEAU’S LINES Horizontal indentations across the nails PITTING • Psoriasis • Chronic Dermatitis Nail growth is • Alopecia interrupted by areata severe illness (hair loss) Anemia (heart attack) or Small malnutrition depressions Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. ONYCHOLYSIS TERRY’S NAILS (White nails) Opaque nails with a dark band on tip Nail separates from nail bed Psoriasis Injury Cancer Thyroid Congestive Heart failure disease COLOR Diabetes Fungal Liver disease disease CHANGE (cirrhosis) Drug Auto-immune reactions disease Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. 5 MUEHRCKE’S LINES HALF and HALF NAILS Dark longitudinal streak(s) • Melanoma • Benign Kidney nevus Disease Renal Failure Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. RED AZURE LUNULA Cardiovascular Markers LUNULA Heart Disease Systemic Lupus Erymathosus (SLE) Rheumatoid Silver poisoning, Wilson‟s disease, Nail Clubbing Ear Crease Arthritis quinachrine therapy Lung/Heart (> 50-60%) Heart (89%) Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Cardiovascular Symptoms Red dots on tip of tongue Earlobe crease and cardiovascular risk Tip of tongue is red, ear crease, nail Heart Disease clubbing, lunulae on pinky Chronic circulatory problems allow the vascular Lack of lunulae, cold hands & feet, Poor Circulation numbness of the limbs (If the condition bed in the earlobe to collapse, causing the crease. improves, the lunulae should reappear) 1982 study: An earlobe crease plus chest pain, Atherosclerosis Vertical ridges etc. predicts a heart attack 89% of the time. Peripheral Artery Central nail canal (“fir tree” abnormality) Cardiac symptoms without an earlobe crease only Disease predicts 10% of heart attack cases. Stroke/Aneurysm Cherry angiomas on forehead 1991 study: patients with diagonal earlobe Protruding blue veins and/or red/black spots Heavy Metals underneath the tongue. Sometimes there is a creases had higher cardiac mortality rate and metallic taste. higher number of cardiac events. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. 6 Nail Clubbing – Lung/Heart Nail Clubbing and Heart Disease Horizontal Ridges: Heart Condition Hemiplegia • Paralysis of half of body • Of 87 patients, 13.8% had clubbing on the affected side Infective Endocarditis • Inflammation of heart lining Lunula on the pinky Heart Condition • Of 60 patients, 50% had bilateral clubbing Horizontal ridges Source: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 2005; 52(6): 1020-28 Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Peripheral Artery Disease Stroke/Aneurysm Salvia, Carthamus, Paeonia and Central Nail Canal Cherry Angiomas on Forehead Ligusticum Extracts on Cardiovascular Symptoms of 300 Patients • Cherry angiomas on forehead, Symptom 2 weeks 4 weeks 6 weeks 8 weeks • Family history of Headache 38.5 69.2 72.7 91.7 stroke/aneurysm, and Dizziness 40.0 65.0 --- 66.7 • Hypertension Cardiac Flutter 57.1 71.4 75.2 80.0 Cold Hands/Feet 12.5 37.5 --- 53.3 Risk is 23 = 8x higher Numb Hands/Feet 11.1 50.0 --- 55.5 than average people “Fir Tree” abnormality 1991. Japan Health Department. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Salvia, Carthamus, Paeonia, and Ligusticum Aging cells may lead to arterial damage Hippophae and Rhodiola Extracts Extracts on Cardiovascular Patients (30days) and plaque for Heart, Lungs, Energy 40 38.1 36.8 38.1 130 patients • Study from Washington University in St. Louis, MO 35 • Mitochondrial efficacy to 28.9 • Mitochondrial function decreases in aging cells, utilize oxygen and glucose 30 26.6 allowing a reactive form of oxygen to leak for the production of energy 25 • Reactive oxygen causes damage to blood vessel walls (ATP) 20 • The body mounts an immune response to repair this • Repairs/Protects vascular 15 damage endothelial cells from free thromblastrogram radical damage (vascular cell 10 • Immune cells attract a form of cholesterol that sticks to arterial walls, causing plaque and eventually damage contributes to 5 atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease) LD50 > 40 ml/kg Fibrrinogen Microcirculation Index of Index Red blood cell aggregation cellblood Red Blood viscosity Blood 0 Source: Nature. June 2005, Vol. 435 Reference: Townsend Letter. May 2011; 334. Journal of West China University of Medical Sciences. 1999;30:64. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. Copyright. Chi‟s Enterprise, Inc. 7 Hippophae and Rhodiola Extracts Hippophae and Rhodiola Extracts vs. CoQ10 ASPARAGUS EXTRACT CONTAINS: on Heart, Lung and Energy function Action Extracts CoQ10 Action Extracts CoQ10 • ORGANIC FOLATE Increases energy within Improves mitochondrial (9 capsules or 3 bags contains > 400 g of organic folic acid) +++ +++ +++ 30 minutes efficiency Protects vascular Reduces lactic acid +++ +++ • ASPARAGINASE endothelial cells from +++ + Lowers lactate Trilinolein damage +++ +++ dehydrogenase (LDH) • ASPARAGOSIDE Active constituent of Hippophae Repairs and protect +++ Reduces malondialdehyde and Rhodiola Extracts
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