Line
Health line
Everything here reports what named old books claimed about hands. None of it is a statement about you or about anything to come.
In an older source
It is an excellent sign to be without this line.
Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
About this entry
Cheiro 1897 lists the health line among his seven important lines. It runs from the Mount of Mercury down the hand, and he calls it the hepatica. The old books made many medical claims about it, and this page does not repeat them.
Cheiro treats the absence of the line as the better sign, and a line lying straight down the hand as better than one crossing it, and Cheiro 1916 repeats both points. He frames both as statements about the body, and this page goes no further than that.
He tells students to confirm anything they find against other lines and against the nails. A line on a palm is no basis for a medical judgment, and anyone with a health concern should see a doctor.
Features the books describe
No line at all
Cheiro 1897 calls the absence of this line an excellent sign.
Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
Straight, lying down the hand
Cheiro 1897 ranks a straight line along the hand above one that crosses it.
Source: Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
Where this text comes from
Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned or typed text named here, and those writers often disagree. Modern practice is labeled as modern.
- Cheiro, The Language of the Hand (1897)
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- Cheiro, Palmistry for All (1916)
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