What Your Wrinkles Reveal About Your Health

by Shamsul
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Wrinkles are creases or folds in the skin that commonly develop as a natural part of aging. They occur due to factors like reduced skin elasticity, loss of collagen, sun exposure, smoking, and repetitive facial movements. 

Causes of Wrinkles

  • Aging: As we age, the skin naturally loses elasticity and becomes thinner. The production of collagen and elastin, which are essential for maintaining skin firmness, decreases, leading to the formation of wrinkles.
  • UV Exposure: Ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun can damage the skin’s collagen and elastin fibers, accelerating the aging process and causing wrinkles. This damage is often cumulative over time.
  • Facial Expressions: Repeated facial movements, such as smiling, frowning, or squinting, can lead to dynamic types. These are visible when making expressions and become more pronounced with age.
  • Dry Skin: Insufficient moisture can make the skin more prone to wrinkles. Dry skin loses its protective barrier, making it susceptible to damage and visible aging.
  • Lifestyle Factors: Smoking and exposure to pollutants can reduce collagen production and contribute to premature types. Additionally, poor diet and lack of hydration can negatively impact skin health.

Types of Wrinkles

  • Dynamic: Formed due to repeated facial movements, these include crow’s feet and forehead lines.
  • Static: Present even when the face is at rest, these result from loss of elasticity and gravity’s effects, such as marionette lines and nasolabial folds.
  • Compression: Occur from prolonged pressure on the skin, such as sleeping on one’s side.
  • Permanent Elastic Creases: Result from environmental factors like sun exposure and smoking, leading to deep-set lines.

Prevention and Care

  • Moisturize: Regularly using a good moisturizer helps keep the skin hydrated and plump, reducing the appearance of fine lines.
  • Sun Protection: Wearing sunscreen daily protects against UV damage, which is a significant contributor to premature aging.
  • Healthy Lifestyle: Maintaining a balanced diet rich in antioxidants, staying hydrated, and avoiding smoking can support skin health.
  • Facial Care Routine: Incorporating anti-aging products, such as retinoids and peptides, can help improve skin texture and reduce them.
  • Mindful Expressions: Being aware of habitual facial expressions can help minimize the formation of dynamic wrinkles over time.

If in Western medicine, they have link to skin aging or repeated contraction of facial muscles. In TCM, they are sometimes considered the evidence of an organic imbalance.

Discover in this blog article what your wrinkles say about your health.

What Is A Wrinkle?

A wrinkle is a more or less deep fold or groove (more than 1 millimeter) that appears from a certain age on the face and marks it.

There are two main types of wrinkles corresponding to two processes of appearance: expression lines and aging lines.

Expression Wrinkles

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They are dynamic wrinkles. These are caused by repeated contractions of facial muscles such as frowning, widening eyes, frowning, jaw clenching or smiling. They generally appear on the upper part of the face. Among them, we find.

Transverse Forehead Wrinkles: They refer to worry, fear, astonishment or procrastination.

Frown Lines (between the eyebrows): They are associated with stress, frustration, worry or excess thought, reflection or concentration.

Crow’s Feet Wrinkles (at the ends of the eyes): They can reflect frustration, anger, jealousy or fear.

Aging Wrinkles

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Aging or static wrinkles are, as their name suggests linked to aging skin. They are the result of a natural decrease in the level of collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid, thus leading to a loss of firmness and elasticity. These are generally located:

Around the Lips:

These are the wrinkles at the corner of the mouth. They are associated with sadness, suffering, depression or frustration.

Under the Cheeks from the Nose to the Mouth:

They are the smile lines, also called nasolabial fold wrinkles. They express a lack or excess of letting go.

On the neck (in the form of horizontal folds): These are the neck wrinkles. They are linked to anxiety, annoyance, difficulty communicating or pride.

Wrinkles And Their Meanings in TCM

In TCM, each part of our face is connected to an organ of the body. If an organ encounters a problem, the face will signal it by manifestations at the level of the skin on a specific part. Thus, wrinkles are considered as the manifestation of an organic imbalance and say a lot about the health of our organs.

Wrinkles Around the Eyes

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According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the eyes, mirrors of the soul, are directly linked to the energy of the Liver.

You will find 3 types of wrinkles around the eyes named Crow’s feet, lion’s and Eyelid wrinkles (lower and upper).

Crow’s Feet Wrinkles

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Crow’s feet are wrinkles that take the shape of a small triangle located at the outer corner of each eye. They give a certain charm, maturity, joy of life or a certain good mood. They gradually deepen with age but often appear quite quickly, around 25-30 years old.

In Traditional Chinese medicine, they can be linked to a weakness of the Stomach, Kidneys or Liver.

Lion’s Wrinkles

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There are two vertical wrinkles located between the eyebrows. Generally, they are the first to appear on our faces around the age of 25.

In TCM, the right wrinkle is more related to the Liver and the left one to the Spleen. They can indicate a stagnation of the Qi of the Liver and the Gallbladder but also a weakness in the Spleen.

Eyelid Wrinkles

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These fine lines form horizontally on the upper and/or lower eyelid. They often give the impression of a sad and tired look. They can appear at any age.

In TCM, the eyes are mainly nourished by the Liver, the Kidneys and the Heart, these wrinkles can therefore indicate an imbalance in one or more of these organs.

Around the Mouth

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the mouth serves as an access to the Lungs and Stomach and is linked to the Spleen.

There are mainly 3 types around the mouth: wrinkles at the corner of the mouth, in the nasolabial fold and cheek.

At the Corner of The Mouth

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These are vertical that appear on the side of the mouth and stretch from the corner of the mouth to the chin, pulling the corners downward. They give a sad look, they are sometimes name them “reverse smile wrinkles”.

In TCM, these invite us to reflect on intestinal health and more particularly that of the Large Intestine. They can also indicate a weakness of the Liver. The more marked and deep the wrinkle, the more it will be associated with digestion. If it is not very marked, it will be associated with Liver problems.

If the most pronounced wrinkle is the one on the right, we will look for a link with the Gallbladder and if it is the one on the left, with the Liver.

Smile Lines

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Also called “nasolabial fold” (because they follow the “nasolabial fold”), these take the form of two vertical folds that go from the nostrils to the corner of our lips. They give a sad and severe look to the face and generally appear around the age of thirty. However, they form before.

In Traditional Chinese medicine, these wrinkles are due to a disturbance of the Large Intestine and the Stomach. They can also indicate digestive weakness or an abuse of unsuitable foods.

Jugal Wrinkles

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These are vertically hollow out the cheeks. They can be reminiscent of scars and thus give a rebellious look. They are two types. The first starts from the eye to cross the cheek vertically while the second is further back from the cheek.

In Traditional Chinese medicine, the cheeks provide an accurate picture of the state of the respiratory and circulatory systems. However, they have an association to the Lungs. The right cheek corresponds to the right lung, and respectively, the left cheek, to the left lung. Thus, wrinkles on the cheeks can mean a progressive dryness at the level of the Lungs. They can also reflect a disturbance at the intestinal level and more precisely at the level of the Small Intestine and the Large Intestine.

Whether it is crow’s feet, smile lines wrinkles around the mouth or on the forehead, your wrinkles make you unique and tell your story. Thus, in traditional Chinese medicine, since these can sometimes be linked to an organic imbalance, it is important to take care of the health of your organs with the help of plants from the Chinese pharmacopeia.

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