THE NATION THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2013
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NATURAL HEALTH THE NATION
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What have the lines on your palms got to do with your health? A lot, says palmists, who note that every line has its importance. OYEYEMI GBENGA-MUSTAPHA reports.
‘Your health in your palm’
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OUR life and your health are in your hands. Your hands, the lines, shape, nails and colours all indicate various things that greatly influence you, especially health wise, in palmistry. According to a palmist, Dr Theopgilus Lambo, the science of palmistry has nothing to do with astrology, divination or necromancy or fortune telling. It is another branch of scientific Art which physicians have been using to diagnose health conditions in human body. He said palmistry is simply the science of the symbolic markings in the hand. “You will see signs like triangles, circles, islands, stars, and cross, moles, squares and rectangles on the palm. These are of further importance. If the date, time or place of birth of a person is not known accurately, palmistry is an excellent method to answer his questions. “Before the discovery of Stethoscope and thermometer, physicians rely on the physical examinations of the eyes, the tongue, the nails and throat of their clients and pulse to arrive at a reasonable diagnosis while some could read these health conditions on the palms of their clients.” Dr Lambo said: “It is known that in 3000 BC, the Emperor of China used his thumb print when sealing documents. Today, in our much civilised society, we still often find many reputable and respected establishments, such as finance houses, the judiciary, government agencies and embassies requesting people to thumb print, especially where legal documents involving attestation of signatures are required. Those who could not read or write could use their finger prints even to open Bank accounts and today, every country require individual’s thumb prints in-order to obtain International passports.” He went on: “The Art of Palmistry has been in existence since the beginning of human civilisation as evidenced by the discoveries of archeological relics of human palms, carved from stones, wood, ivory and some carved out on the walls and rocks of caves of the Stone Age people. Information on the laws and practice of hand reading has been found in Vedic scripts, in early Semitic writings and its mention in the Bible, especially the Book of Job 37:7 has been a subject of great debate and controversy among intellectuals and theologians.” The son of the late foremost psychiatrist, Prof Adeoye Lambo, said: “Man has always yearned to know in advance what his future will be like. He is eager to know his longevity, family life, career, and health in advance. A palmist is able to tell with good accuracy the incidences of a person’s past life, and those that will occur there from. Forewarned is forearmed, goes a saying. So if one can get an idea of the dangers, and opportunities beforehand, why must one not take the benefit from it? This thinking has inspired the further investigation into the intricacies of palmistry.” He said further: “There are seven kinds of hands in the study of palmistry, such as elementary hand, square hand, conic hand and philosophic hand etc. the line of head will give different result in a conical shape of hand than an elementary hand. The good headline in a conic hand indicates good brain power and photographic memory. While a head line in a square hand indicates a practical approach of character and the head line in an elementary hand makes one emotionless and less fertility of brain even in some cases they know only manual work and no imagination. So to speak the people with elementary hand are only for food and sleeping. They are not worthy in the society. The esoteric study of palm reading is so fascinating those if one goes through this science cannot but research it further. If the head line bifurcates at its end the person will have a capacity to playing and toying with the human being. “The life line on the palm indicates the health, force and longevity of life. The heart line can
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long way and in-order for any country to develop scientifically and utilize all the good things and knowledge which nature has provided we will continue to inhibit our evolutionary development through our dogmatic approach to doctrines and beliefs.”
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