Hands can reveal your health. Doctors can tell a lot about your suffering and your health state. From fingernails, skin rashes, and shakiness of your hands, your mental and physical health can be observed. A shake hand reveals your personality, whether you are confident, assertive or timid. The upkeep of your hands will reveal whether your are a neat and tidy person. Also the lines on your palm can reveal your future.

Doctors often study your hands. They observe how you place them, whether they are pale and also in what shape your nails are. Healthy nails means that your general health is good. Unhealthy nails indicate some underlying health problems. A nervous disposition, reflecting anxiety is also revealed if you shake and move your hands very frequently. Sweating of palms is indication of worry and tension, or at times an overactive thyroid problem. Much is known through hands. (source) Let us observe this phenomenon further:

How Hands Reveal Our Health?

• A sweaty palm can indicate an overactive thyroid. It can also tell how anxious your are
• The shape of your fingers as well as your hands can reveal you personality and also your health
• Hands can also reveal your endocrine system
• Bony deformities can also reveal your health condition. Those suffering from osteoarthritis have hard bony lumps around the joints of their fingers, more so near the joints of the fingertips. They are known as Heberden nodes
• Tremors in the hands indicate Parkinson’s disease. It could also be due to alcoholism or an inherited health problem
• The state of your liver also can be observed through your hands. The reddening of the skin on the palms is indicative of this. It is known as palmar erythema. Another liver disease known as spider naevus can be observed by looking at the hands

How Fingers Indicate Health?

• Thickening of tissues bends the fingers into the palm. This occurs more in patients suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, Diabetes, epilepsy, and alcohol dependence
• Fingers with clubbed ends indicate serious lung disease, inflammatory bowel problem, cirrhosis of the liver apart from a whole lot of other health problems
• Pink nails indicate plenty of oxygen in your bloodstream and pale nails indicate low oxygen levels
• Spoon shaped nails indicate deficiency in iron
• Depression in the nail plate indicates psoriasis
• Squared fingernails indicate hormonal disorders
• Flat thin fingernails can be a symptom of Vitamin B-12 deficiency
• Bluish fingernails can indicate heart trouble
• Brownish fingernails can be symptom of kidney problem
• Yellow brown fingers indicate that you use tobacco

The condition of your hand or its movement will indicate how healthy you are. Doctors can find out an underlying health problem through the condition of the hand. Both mental and physical disposition is revealed through hands. Next time you shake your hand with your doctor, be prepared for a health diagnosis!