- Introduction
- Hand Diagnosis based on Luster, Color & Morphologic Changes of Hand
- Diagnostics based upon observation of Palmer Lines
- Psychodiagnostic Chirology (PDC)
Introduction To Hand Diagnosis and Hand Therapy
Hand diagnosis is a diagnostic method one adopts to observe and interpret the signs of diseases on hands, and then to analyze the achieved data in order to know the health of a patient.
Hand treatment is a special therapy which involves stimulating the areas of the hands corresponding to areas of diseases with proper physical methods to regulate the health of the human body.
Eighty percent of the knowledge of the human body is achieved by vision. Observation is listed as the first of the diagnostic methods in both Western medicine (inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation)and Chinese Medicine (observing, smelling and listening, inquiring and palpating). Hand diagnosis, without exception, also takes observation as its main method. It is a diagnostic method of disease by means of observing the hand.
Once you learn and practice hand diagnosis skillfully, your hand will become a mirror of your health. You can observe your hand as frequently as you wish, understand your health condition, find ways to maintain good health or treat diseases at early stages, and thus enjoy happy and
healthy long lives.
Hand Diagnosis based on Luster, Color & Morphologic Changes of Hand
When diagnosing one’s health condition through observation of the male’s left hand and the female’s right hand, two major elements are to be focused.
1. Designated Areas – These are the reflection areas of the anatomical organs on the hand.
2. Luster & Color (Appearances)
Luster (Qi) is a comprehensive manifestation of the functional activities of the human body, or a reflection of the immune function.
Color is the five colors appearing in the areas of hand – white, red, blue, brown and black, each indicating various conditions of one’s health.
Dolores w/ Liu Jianfeng, founder of Hand Diagnosis based on Luster, Color, and Morphology of the Hand
Characteristics & Advantages of Learning Hand Diagnosis:
A. Simple, Direct, Convenient & Comprehensive
B. Non-traumatic
C. Economic & Practical
D. Enable early detection of diseases
E. Easy to learn and to apply
F. Applicable to both Western and Eastern Medicine
G. Achieve unity of diagnosis and treatment
Diagnostics Based Upon Observation of Palmar Lines
Dolores w/ Wang Chenxia, founder of Diagnostics based upon Observation of Palmar Lines
From the Founder – Wang Chenxia
The Hand, one of the masterpieces of the Maker, is not only superb and exquisite in its structure and agreeably co-coordinate in man’s work, but also capable of making tools. Besides, it is one of the most sensitive parts of the human body. Labor has created man, but first and foremost, it has created man’s hands and brain. Do we not have enough reasons to believe that the massive lines on the palm have resulted from the simultaneous evolution with the brain? If it were not so, then, why do all other primates except for the ape have no palmar lines at all?
Furthermore, why can the two thick and distinct palmar lines of the ape in no way be compared with those of the human being? Therefore, cannot we further deduce and believe that the complicated formation of the palmar lines of the human being is no other than a kind of mystic information of the mechanisms and pathologic changes of the human body? Findings obtained in the study of man’s palmar lines that tell us the innate relationships between the palmar lines and various diseases are beyond any doubt.
Naturally, the identification of palmar lines and diagnosis by observing them are not so easy and simple as imagined. If the external expressions of things are completely identical with their essence, then all sciences would become unnecessary. The palmar lines and their subtle and delicate changes of the human body but are contributed to by such factors as hereditary codes, normal biological activities, different personality features, emotional changes and different states of mind caused by living environments, different modes of thinking, etc., thus bringing forth the complexity and difficulty in the medical study of palmar lines. Only when one is guided with a scientific and dialectical mode of thinking and has come into possession of a great amount of first-hand data accumulated in one’s practice for the study and analysis, can one make desirable achievements in this field.
“A small sign can indicate a great trend.” The human body is a grand and complicated system, and all its branch systems are correlative and interactive. Once we have obtained a clear knowledge of the relationship between the changes of the palmar lines and the occurrence, development and change of diseases, then, measured with the standards set up by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for advanced modern diagnostics (i.e. painless, woundless and easy to apply), will the method of diagnosing through observing palmar lines be possible to become the most scientific and advanced method which is economical and easy to apply and popularize.
Wang Chexia July 1993, in Lanzhou, China
Source: Diagnostics Based Upon Observation of Palmar Lines – Chinese Palmistry in Medical Application. 1996：Shandong Friendship Publishing House. Jinan, China.
Psychodiagnostic Chirology (PDC)
“Psychodiagnostic Chirology (PDC) is a comprehensive diagnostic discipline applied by professional behavioral specialists in their clinical work. We may visualize it as a form of handreading in psychological diagnosis…handreading which has its origins in the medical-genetic science of Dermatoglyphics. The latter discipline identifies in the dermal patterns of the palmar surface of the human hand (and foot) genetic constructions which have a bearing on a wide range of organic and largely inherited disorders. Wholly unrelated to palmistry or any similarly esoteric mode of prediction, Dermatoglyphics, for more than half a century now, has been accepted and applied in cyto-genetic laboratories in almost every major hospital around the world as standard diagnostic procedure.”
The Founder
Dr. Arnold Holtzman & Dolores Chung
Arnold Holtzman of Israel is the founder and director of The Holtzman Institute for Psychodiagnostic Chirology which offers courses and workshops for professional behavioral specialists and which provides a program of supervision for those who
incorporate this discipline in their clinical work.
His ambition, since 1968, to devise a diagnostic tool which could free the patient/client from the necessity of having to represent himself or herself ,led to what for many years was spoken of as the Holtzman System. Today there is a thriving association of psychologists and social workers (in the main) in Israel who incorporate this discipline in their clinical work.
He is the author of the text Applied Handreading (1983), and his doctoral dissertation was “The Morphology, Dermatoglyphics and General Constitution of the Human Hand as a Comprehensive Reference to Structures in Personality and Behavioral Dynamics.”
Anat Levy, PDC Instructor & Dolores Chung
To distinguish this discipline from the medical/genetic science of Dermatoglyphics, the term Psychodiagnostic Chirology was created and formally adopted by the Association. The name “Psychodiagnostic Chirology”, or “PDC”, identifies the Holtzman System and is synonymous with it. It represents the diagnostic program devised by Dr. Holtzman. The clinicians who represent themselves as expert in Psychodiagnostic Chirology would have a document issued by the Israel Association for Psychodiagnostic Chirology attesting to at least 3 years of study including participation in workshops and the undergoing of supervision.
Source: Holtzman, Arnold. The Illustrated Textbook of Psychodiagnostic Chirology in Analysis and Therapy. 2004: Greenwood-Chase Press, Toronto, Canada.
A personal word from Dr. Arnold Holtzman:
“Psychodiagnostic Chirology had originated in Israel around 1970. Actually it had its roots in experiences I had had in 1968 when I learned of people who had been incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals for a number of years only to be “discovered” later to have been, from the start, entirely free of serious pathology. The fault had been with the
interpretation of the tests which these people had originally been administered. My feeling was that for test results to be free of all the distortions which fears, anxieties and a host of defense mechanisms effect the subjects would have to be released of the necessity of representing themselves. Herein was the promise of PDC.
Psychodiagnostic Chirology as a comprehensive diagnostic discipline has expanded enormously these 25 and some years. Indeed, it has carried well beyond every expectation and is presently an entirely familiar quantity both in private and public clinics around the country.
We are on the web to bring an awareness of this very powerful and dramatic diagnostic tool to those outside of Israel who may feel that they too could use it to advantage.”
