Here Are Some Amazing Facts You Need To Know About Applying Mehandi On Hands

Women in India have been applying Mehandi on their hands from generations. It’s hard to trace when this tradition of adorning hands with the paste of henna leaves began. The significance of this tradition is such that it is compulsory for a bride to apply Mehandi on her hands. In fact, people a few states in India also apply this beneficial paste on the hands of grooms. We spoke to Dr Manmohan Lohra, a Dermatologist at Columbia Asia Hospital, Gurgaon regarding the same. He told HZ, “Mehandi is not just a mere mixture to beautify hands, but it also has several health benefits.” Some of them are:

Improve Nails

While we apply Mehandi on hands we also apply it on nails and here is happy news for you that it strengthens your nails. It happens because henna contains a resinous substance that adheres to the surface of the nails, therefore it provides protection from splits, chips, and tears.

Relieve Headache

Mehandi is not just used to enhance the beauty of hands by applying several eye-catching patterns, but many also use this beneficial mixture to colour their hair. Besides giving a natural tone to the hair, the henna mixture also reduces inflammations and relieves headaches. Dr Manmohan Lohra also said that “henna directly affects the scalp, assisting in improving follicle health.”

Protect The Skin

Hands get exposed to many infections. Henna protects the skin against all those and eliminates inflammation. In fact, in older times, the henna mixture was used to heal burns, wounds, and scrapes as it tends to provide a protective layer against foreign pathogens and substances. Other than this, the organic solution also has natural cooling abilities that suck the heat from the skin. if next time you find difficulty finding aloe vera to heal sunburns, try henna solution instead.

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Anti-Inflammatory Properties

While most people use henna oil to treat arthritic and rheumatic pains, applying henna on the hands can also help to an extent. not only joints but hennaare likely to heal the pain in different parts of the body too. Body pain occurs mostly in the elder generation, so the key is to not ditch is multi-purpose plant's mixture, but to adorn your hands and also let the natural mixture do its wonder.

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However, the important thing to mind here is, "some henna may contain para-phenylenediamine or PPD which makes the colour darker but may cause allergic reactions. Naural henna will never give any other colour than natural orange-red. Organic Mehndi can never have dark brown to black colour, until and unless an artificial color is added to it. The allergic reaction usually appears in the pattern of the tattoo 7–14 days after first exposure," said Dr Manmohan Lohra, a Dermatologist at Columbia Asia Hospital.