Your Ear Lobe And Your Health

In Chinese medicine every part of the body is used to connect to another part. For instance, in acupuncture the foot is used for massage to heal other parts of the body like the liver, kidney and heart, so also is the palm and the eyes.
In natural medicine, the eye is used to mirror the body. It is believed that the eyes reflect the condition of the internal organs.
When the eyes are pale, one is said to be anaemic or suffering from liver problem like hepatitis. A sparking eye ball can also indicate strong health and life.
As regards the ear lobe, that soft edge of your ear can indicate how healthy you are as well. Its is one of the body’s early warning signal of an impending stroke attack. This insight from Chinese medicine may sound  archaic or perhaps phony but has been proved right on many occasions.
Sometime in 1973 an American doctor called Dr. Sanders T. Frank confirmed this belief. Hence today, it’s called “Frank Sign” in medicine.
Dr. Sanders was of the view that the ear may indicate whether someone has heart problems. Naturally, the ear lobe is robust and fluffy when there is no problem in sight.
But when the feathers are about to start flying, the ear lobe begins to dry up and to curl inwards. That is because enough blood is not getting into the lobe, and perhaps, other parts of the body, including the brain.
Though some doctors have flayed” Frank Sign” on many occasions, studies have confirmed that 75 percent of stroke patients have creased lobes presented.
An Israeli study affirmed this claim as the examined 241 patients with acute stroke and discovered that 198 of them  had diagonal crease in their ear lobes.
Today many doctors have adopted the ear lobe “Frank Sign” diagnoses because it is a possible marker of other ailments in aging process.
Other tell tale signs of an impending stroke are sudden numbness or weakness in the face,hands or legs and to one part of the body. Sometimes vision may be lost abruptly. Energy may also drop.
Dr. Yaqoob Bhat, a clinical director for stroke medicine at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in South Wales, England lists aging process ailments associated with Franks Sign to include diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart diseases and peripheral heart disease.
Many people do not know that diabetes can lead to heart attack or stroke. Diabetes thickens the blood and slows flow. This causes scanty oxygen delivery to the cells and delayed evacuation of wastes in the body.
Diabetes may also cause clotting of the blood. Blood clots are known to obstruct blood flow to the heart, to the brain where increased pressure may cause blood vessel to burst. This burst would spill blood on the surrounding tissue of cells and may lead to stroke.
It’s therefore important for one to often pull his or her earlobes once in a while to rule out the occurrence of “Frank’s sign”. To be alert and alive is key to health.

By Kevin Nengia