How Rubbing Nails Together (Reflexology) Can Increase Hair Growth

Contents

How to do reflexology to grow your hair
Testimonials
Best practices

Let’s talk about reflexology? If I told you that you could exhilarate your hair growth by rubbing your finger nails together? You would probably think I am crazy and that’s ok, as long as you keep reading.

The art of Reflexology is simply stimulating parts of the body to actively heal other specific areas of the body. With hair growth or the reduction of hair loss the fingertips are used to stimulate the top of the head and brain. When you rub them together you are able to stimulate the scalp and cause growth.

When you massage your scalp the concept is the same because you are stimulating a part of your body causing a specific response within your body.

In this post, we are going to refer to a lovely blog we follow called Bella Mocha! I must admit I did not know about the concept of reflexology before reading this post.

On the other hand, as I learned more about it, I was reminded about the acupuncture sessions my dad was taking for pains he was having in his lower back and legs. Again the concept is pretty similar and the idea that you can heal or get results in various areas of your body by stimulating other areas is pretty interesting. By now you are probably wondering how you do it, so let’s dive right into that.

How to do reflexology to grow your hair

In her post-Nadege refers to Dr Joe Shelby Riley who advised that for this to work you have to rub your fingernails together two to three times a day for five minutes at a time.

He also recommended that you visualize the scalp as you rub your nails together to enhance the experience. If you need a visual, and a scientific explenation of why this works check this video out:

Testimonials

If you are still on the fence, testimonials can help but we welcome the skepticism because that only means you can try it for yourself and let us know how it works for you.

Below are three testimonials that were sent directly to Nadege of Bella Mocha:

Anonymous said…
Hi, I have been rubbing my nails for the past 3 months and I have noticed I don’t lose as much hair as I used to. I am 27 years old and my hair started thinning after using hair dyes and perming my hair twice when I was younger. But this technique has helped me in just 3 months my hair has stopped falling a lot and my hair looks healthy/shiny compared to before when it was dry and weak.

I had lost some of my baby hairs but even that has come back. I realized this after my mother noticed that my hair doesn’t look as thin as it did 3 months ago. I have also changed my diet, which means a lot of fruits and veg is involved, I make sure I drink 2 liters of water daily, massage my scalp for 5 minutes with my fingertips every day and I do yoga everyday.

All this is helping internally, therefore, I feel it’s showing on the outside. Do try keep it up as I stopped a few years ago and the hair thinning started showing it’s ugly face. It’s only after I realized how much I want my thick hair back I have kept it up. Even I wanted quick results, but you have to be patient and keep it up.

And there was this one:

Hello there,

I’ve done this for quite a while, but I’ve always had great hair even when not doing it. I’m 28 and male, from Ireland. My hair was already Jet-black (always has been) but I am starting to see a blue’ish tint to it which I had when I was younger (around 20ish).

When I was younger I needed my hair cut every two weeks and my nails cut every other day because it grew so fast, it’s slowed down as I’ve gotten older but since I’ve started doing this again (around 3 months ago) the exact same thing is happening, I’m needing to cut my hair at least once a month and my nails twice weekly.

I can’t exactly tell you HOW this works, all I can see is that you will NOTICE considerable improvements. Trust me on this.

I rub my nails when I’m on the bus going into work (10-15 minutes) then at night before nodding off to sleep (around 20-25 minutes). I also rub my nails when I am stationary and not using my hands (I’ve done this since I was a kid)

Would love to hear about a blonde person doing this, and see’ing if their hair gets darker

Marty

And finally this one:

“I was reading about the posting you had about rubbing your fingernails together. I tried it and it really works. My hairstylist who is Cuban told me about it from a stylist from India that works with her. And I still do it it’s like a habit now lol.

She told me that the women from India would rub their finger tips together to make their hair grow. She also showed me how it was done. From then on I would do it constantly while sitting in the chair getting my hair done at the shampoo bowl, or sitting under the dryer etc. I would massage my scalp afterward. It just became a habit.

I would feel tingling in my finger then going through my arms then my scalp would get tingly then itchy but I would keep doing it ’til I was tired.”

Best practices

If reflexology for hair growth is something you would like to try for yourself we have three best practices you should consider.

Do your own research

Consider this post as your introduction to the art of reflexology and from this moment on you have to do your research to see if this is even something you would want to try. At the end of the day hair growth is based on a complicated cohesive set of habits including diet, exercise, water intake and of course genetics.

It is easy to dismiss the concept as something that does not work but giving it a real shot is way more fun!

Keep your hair healthy

Hair growth is one thing but retaining length is a whole other ball game and just as important. It makes no sense to have great growth and lose the length due to lack of care. If you plan to try this technique also ensure that you keep your hair care regimen on point, incorporating protective styles as much as possible.

Be patient

As with everything, this will not be an overnight process and according to our research, it will take weeks before seeing noticeable results.

If you make the decision to try reflexology definitely remain patient and consistent about it to ensure that you can really determine if it worked for you.

If you plan to try nail rubbing, let us know in the comments below.