Tell me what wrinkle you have and I’ll tell you what stress you suffer from

We try to hide them, prevent them, eliminate them, but have we ever wondered what wrinkles represent? Of course, skin aging, the passing of time, the decrease in collagen production … But probably not only that.

According to a survey carried out by the British chain Superdrug, about 33% of the women interviewed are afraid of getting old and the most feared signs are wrinkles: to avoid them, a woman passes well 73 hours a year to sprinkle the face with anti-aging creams.

But if there was a deeper meaning and if the wrinkles were a sort of litmus test of the soul and the indicator of psychophysical discomfort?

To think so is oriental medicine, according to which wrinkles emerge on the skin after an inner suffering. This medicine was the first to attribute meaning to facial wrinkles, tracing them back to life events or particular psychosomatic situations that in some way have marked or are marking us.

According to this theory, wrinkles they are therefore not just signs of advancing age but, especially if they appear prematurely, they can also be the result of some dysfunctions of the organism or sufferings of the psyche.

They are therefore considered a sort of indicator of our health. And based on the precise points on the face where they appear, wrinkles can indicate which ailments afflict us and, consequently, the treatments to be undertaken to return to having a healthy balance.

Always according to traditional Chinese medicine, each part of the face corresponds to an organ, therefore wrinkles are the result of an imbalance of the corresponding organ. That is why an emotional or physical stress, which in traditional Chinese medicine is one energetic disharmony, can cause this imperfection that afflicts us so much from an aesthetic point of view, but which perhaps should also worry us from a health point of view.

So let’s find out specifically the meaning of each wrinkle, to understand what psychophysical stress could be hidden.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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