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what stomach and bowel issues may say about what you cannot digest, control and letting go.","\u002Fareas\u002Fdigestive-system","i-lucide-utensils","\u002Fdigestive-system",{"title":42,"description":43,"path":44,"icon":45,"order":46,"comingSoon":10,"to":47,"conditionCount":20},"Back","The emotional and spiritual meaning of back problems: what back and neck pain may reveal about support, burdens, flexibility and what you hide behind you.","\u002Fareas\u002Fback","i-lucide-person-standing",6,"\u002Fback",{"title":49,"description":50,"path":51,"icon":52,"order":27,"comingSoon":10,"to":53,"conditionCount":20},"Skin","The emotional and spiritual meaning of skin problems: how your skin may reflect boundaries, contact, self-image and the emotions you hold inside.","\u002Fareas\u002Fskin","i-lucide-fingerprint","\u002Fskin",{"title":55,"description":56,"path":57,"icon":58,"order":59,"comingSoon":10,"to":60,"conditionCount":20},"Joints and bones","The emotional and spiritual meaning of joint and bone problems: what they may reveal about flexibility, rigid thinking, authority and your inner structure.","\u002Fareas\u002Fjoints-and-bones","i-lucide-bone",8,"\u002Fjoints-and-bones",{"title":62,"description":63,"path":64,"icon":65,"order":66,"comingSoon":10,"to":67,"conditionCount":12},"Reproductive system","The emotional and spiritual meaning of reproductive problems: what they may reveal about creativity, femininity, masculinity and your body.","\u002Fareas\u002Freproductive-system","i-lucide-venus-and-mars",9,"\u002Freproductive-system",{"title":69,"description":70,"path":71,"icon":72,"order":73,"comingSoon":10,"to":74,"conditionCount":20},"Kidneys and urinary system","The emotional and spiritual meaning of kidney and urinary problems: what they may say about fear, old emotions that have not been let go, and the balance between what comes in and what 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may say about anger, criticism, bitterness, and the faith you have in your own possibilities.","\u002Fareas\u002Fliver-and-gallbladder","i-lucide-filter",13,"\u002Fliver-and-gallbladder",{"title":97,"description":98,"path":99,"icon":100,"order":101,"comingSoon":10,"to":102,"conditionCount":18},"Pancreas","The emotional and spiritual meaning of the pancreas: what it may say about digesting feelings, freedom, and the sugar of joy.","\u002Fareas\u002Fpancreas","i-lucide-sun",14,"\u002Fpancreas",{"title":104,"description":105,"path":106,"icon":107,"order":108,"comingSoon":10,"to":109,"conditionCount":18},"Spleen","The emotional and spiritual meaning of the spleen: what it may say about unfinished things, nostalgia, regret, and the fear of having missed your life.","\u002Fareas\u002Fspleen","i-lucide-shield",15,"\u002Fspleen",{"title":111,"description":112,"path":113,"icon":114,"order":115,"comingSoon":10,"to":116,"conditionCount":20},"Muscles and tendons","The emotional and spiritual meaning of muscles and tendons: what they may say about the strength to act, and the conflict between what you think you should do and what you actually want.","\u002Fareas\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons","i-lucide-dumbbell",16,"\u002Fmuscles-and-tendons",{"title":118,"description":119,"path":120,"icon":121,"order":122,"comingSoon":10,"to":123,"conditionCount":18},"Arms and hands","The emotional and spiritual meaning of the arms and the hands: what they may say about embracing life, carrying a load, and the work of giving and receiving.","\u002Fareas\u002Farms-and-hands","i-lucide-hand",17,"\u002Farms-and-hands",{"title":125,"description":126,"path":127,"icon":128,"order":129,"comingSoon":10,"to":130,"conditionCount":18},"Legs and feet","The emotional and spiritual meaning of the legs and the feet: what they may say about moving forward, standing your ground, and the contact you keep with the earth.","\u002Fareas\u002Flegs-and-feet","i-lucide-footprints",18,"\u002Flegs-and-feet",{"title":132,"description":133,"path":134,"icon":135,"order":136,"comingSoon":10,"to":137,"conditionCount":18},"Hair and nails","The emotional and spiritual meaning of hair and nails: what they may say about vitality, protection, and the strength you use to face change.","\u002Fareas\u002Fhair-and-nails","i-lucide-scissors",19,"\u002Fhair-and-nails",{"title":139,"description":140,"path":141,"icon":142,"order":143,"comingSoon":10,"to":144,"conditionCount":18},"Breasts","The emotional and spiritual meaning of the breasts: what they may say about giving and receiving, mothering, and the balance between the feeling side and the practical side of a life.","\u002Fareas\u002Fbreasts","i-lucide-flower-2",20,"\u002Fbreasts",{"title":146,"description":147,"path":148,"icon":149,"order":150,"comingSoon":10,"to":151,"conditionCount":18},"Thyroid","The emotional and spiritual meaning of the thyroid: what it may 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protects the skin of the head. Nails are hard plates on the fingers and toes. Body hair warms and covers the skin. Sudden hair loss, a nail infection and a new, heavy growth of hair can have medical causes, including hormones, illness and medicines. They deserve a doctor, not only a story.",[264,268,269],{},"In the emotional reading, hair stands for strength, vitality, freedom and the image you have of yourself. Nails stand for a deep inner strength and for protection. Body hair stands for warmth, and for the wish to act.",[271,272,273],"note",{},[264,274,275],{},"This page offers a symbolic and emotional perspective. It is meant to complement medical care, never to replace it. Sudden hair loss, a dark mark in a nail, or a change in hair growth with other body changes needs a doctor.",[277,278,280],"h2",{"id":279},"what-the-hair-represents","What the hair represents",[264,282,283],{},"The source takes hair as strength and power, and remembers Samson. For a woman it is read as the power of attraction. For a man, as virility. It is tied to the dignity of the person, to the essence of power, and to self-image. It also represents your relation to the father, or to whoever stood in a father's place.",[264,285,286,287,291],{},"Hair grows near the crown, and the book calls it an antenna, linking the physical to the spiritual. Describing the state of your hair is, in this reading, describing how your spiritual side gets on with your rational, physical side. Hair is in constant growth, so it reminds you that you too are responsible for your own growth, and that you can change old ways of thinking that slow you down. The ",[288,289,290],"a",{"href":11},"head"," is the place it grows from.",[264,293,294],{},"Men who grow their hair are often read here as artists in the soul, or as young men in reaction against an outside authority, wanting to take back a power whose seat the source places in the heart and its inner voice. That is the book's picture of a style. It is not a rule about any particular person.",[277,296,298],{"id":297},"nails-and-body-hair","Nails and body hair",[264,300,301],{},"The nails represent hard tissue and your deepest, most spiritual energy, the inner strength you can use to shape a life. They ask you to take time and not to force the current. They show how flexible you are able to be. They can be affected when your activity, your dexterity or your direction is changing and you struggle to face the change. The details of the day can become the whole of your attention.",[264,303,304],{},"A problem with the nails, an inflammation for example, means you are clinging and finding it hard to let go. You feel vulnerable. Nails that grow extremely thick are read as a wish to protect yourself the way a tortoise does, with a thick shell. You want to arm yourself against outside dangers, and you live in a prison. You want to put your claws out. The source asks a sharp question: are you really protecting yourself from other people, or from your own feelings of aggressiveness and self-destruction? Excessive care of the nails raises the question of the image you are defending.",[264,306,307],{},"Body hair protects and warms. A masculine pattern of hair in a woman is a hormonal matter, often met at adolescence or around the menopause, and it needs a medical look. The emotional reading tied to that disorder is that you are not taking your place enough. You want to pass into action and you cannot do it as you wish, so you become authoritarian. You protect your skin with extra hair, which is to say you protect yourself. Are you at ease in your skin as a woman? Which emotions, and which feeling side, are you setting aside because you want to control and rationalise everything?",[264,309,310,311,314],{},"Abundant hair, in a man or a woman, is read as an immense need for contact, and as primitive forces that can be positive when they are used consciously. When those forces run the life without measure, the source speaks of compulsive and aggressive behaviour, an excessive authority, and selfishness. A fall of hair after an illness or a shock is the feeling of being destitute and alone. The vital energy is losing speed. What do you have the impression of losing? Loss of the eyelashes touches the eyes and the gaze. You are afraid to look at what is happening to you. You live in ",[288,312,313],{"href":181},"anxiety"," because you know you cannot go back, as when a child leaves home and a point has been passed.",[277,316,318],{"id":317},"caring-for-hair-and-nails-from-the-inside","Caring for hair and nails from the inside",[264,320,321,322],{},"Hormones, fungal infection, iron deficiency, thyroid disease and skin disease are common medical reasons hair and nails change. The emotional perspective adds a question: ",[323,324,325],"em",{},"what am I protecting, and what change am I unwilling to face?",[327,328,329,337,343,349,355,361],"ul",{},[330,331,332,336],"li",{},[333,334,335],"strong",{},"Ask about the father, or that place."," Hair is the relation the source names there.",[330,338,339,342],{},[333,340,341],{},"Let one old idea grow out."," Growth is the reminder the hair is given.",[330,344,345,348],{},[333,346,347],{},"Notice the shell."," A thick nail is read as armour, and the question is who it is really against.",[330,350,351,354],{},[333,352,353],{},"Treat a new pattern of hair as medical first."," The story comes after the hormones have been looked at.",[330,356,357,360],{},[333,358,359],{},"Name what you are afraid to look at."," Eyelashes, in this reading, are the gaze you are turning away.",[330,362,363,366],{},[333,364,365],{},"See a dark streak in a nail."," Meaning never replaces that appointment.",{"title":368,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":369},"",[370,371,372],{"id":279,"depth":18,"text":280},{"id":297,"depth":18,"text":298},{"id":317,"depth":18,"text":318},"2026-10-04","md",[376,380],{"id":377,"title":378,"description":379},"hair","Hair","Hair as vitality, dignity and the contact between the thinking life and something larger.",{"id":381,"title":298,"description":382},"nails","Nails as inner strength and protection, and body hair as warmth, action and the need for contact.",{},true,[386,387,388,389,390,391],"What old way of thinking am I ready to let grow out?","How is my relation with my father, or with whoever stood in that place?","Where am I building a shell because I feel vulnerable?","Am I protecting myself from other people, or from my own aggression?","Do I feel at home in my own skin, as the person I am?","What am I afraid of looking at, knowing I cannot go back?",{"title":132,"description":133},[394],{"author":395,"work":396,"entries":397,"pages":401},"Jacques Martel","Le Grand Dictionnaire des Malaises et des Maladies",[398,399,400],"Cheveux (en général)","Ongles (en général)","Poils","107–108, 303, 350–351","areas\u002Fhair-and-nails",[404,405,406,407,408,409],"Vitality","Protection","Image of yourself","Intuition","Change","The father",[411,412,413,414,415,416],"Sudden or patchy hair loss, or hair coming out in clumps.","A scalp that is painful, scaly, or has sores.","A nail that is lifting, discoloured or painful. This can be an infection.","A dark streak in a nail. Ask a doctor to see it.","Hair growth that is new and heavy, especially with other changes in periods, weight or voice.","A nail injury that will not stop bleeding, or a nail torn off.","s1bcuWxwO2jhlDlXvZM1Dy6MggsVM0nhvW5pCh4EWww",[419,545],{"id":420,"title":421,"affirmation":422,"aka":423,"area":427,"body":428,"dateModified":373,"datePublished":373,"description":510,"extension":374,"group":381,"meta":511,"navigation":384,"path":512,"reflectionQuestions":513,"related":520,"sameAs":521,"seo":524,"sources":525,"stem":530,"summary":531,"supportIntro":532,"themes":533,"whenToSeeADoctor":537,"__hash__":544},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Fhair-and-nails\u002Fbrittle-nails.md","Brittle nails","I take myself in hand. I discover the strength that lives in me, and I go forward sure of what I can do.",[424,425,426],"Soft nails","Splitting nails","Fragile nails","hair-and-nails",{"type":261,"value":429,"toc":505},[430,434,437,450,454,457,460,464,467],[277,431,433],{"id":432},"what-brittle-nails-are","What brittle nails are",[264,435,436],{},"Nails stand, physically, as a small record of growth. Brittle nails split, peel and break. Soft nails bend. Water, solvents, repeated manicures, a dry season and simple ageing explain a great many of them. Iron deficiency, thyroid disease, psoriasis and fungus explain others. Creams, gloves, and a pause from harsh products help the common kind. A reading about weariness does not harden a nail plate, and it should not delay a check when the change is new or comes with illness.",[264,438,439,440,444,445,449],{},"The emotional reading below takes the nail as vitality, and as the state of your vital energy. ",[288,441,443],{"href":442},"\u002Fhair-and-nails\u002Fhair-loss","Hair loss"," is the other sign this area carries. ",[288,446,448],{"href":447},"\u002Flegs-and-feet\u002Fathletes-foot","Athlete's foot"," is a different infection that can reach a toenail.",[277,451,453],{"id":452},"the-emotional-meaning-of-brittle-and-soft-nails","The emotional meaning of brittle and soft nails",[264,455,456],{},"Brittle nails express an imbalance in the level of your energy and in the use you make of it. Soft nails express the weariness you are living, and the indifference that inhabits you. Your life is as dull as your nails. It is up to you to put some spice back, and to see that the energy is well used.",[264,458,459],{},"You become aware that you are living in a \"soft\" way, letting other people decide for you. You live in the shadow, refusing the strengths that inhabit you. You feel powerless, fragile like your nails. You find it hard to face all the emotions that live in you.",[277,461,463],{"id":462},"a-gentler-way-to-hold-it","A gentler way to hold it",[264,465,466],{},"You take yourself in hand. You discover the strength that inhabits you, that you are capable of large things. It depends on you to be sure of your capacities and to go forward. That is an invitation to stop disappearing. It is not an accusation, and it is not a treatment for a thyroid or an iron lack. Those still need a blood test if the rest of the picture suggests them.",[327,468,469,475,481,487,493,499],{},[330,470,471,474],{},[333,472,473],{},"Protect the nail from water and solvents."," That is the common physical cause.",[330,476,477,480],{},[333,478,479],{},"Ask where energy is being spent badly."," Brittle is the imbalance. Soft is the weariness.",[330,482,483,486],{},[333,484,485],{},"Notice indifference."," A dull life is the image of a soft nail.",[330,488,489,492],{},[333,490,491],{},"See who is deciding for you."," Living in the shadow is the posture.",[330,494,495,498],{},[333,496,497],{},"Name one feeling you have been unwilling to face."," Fragility here is about that, as much as about keratin.",[330,500,501,504],{},[333,502,503],{},"Have a new change checked if you are also tired or losing hair."," The nail can be a messenger of the thyroid or of iron, which is medicine, not morale.",{"title":368,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":506},[507,508,509],{"id":432,"depth":18,"text":433},{"id":452,"depth":18,"text":453},{"id":462,"depth":18,"text":463},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of brittle and soft nails: how they may relate to energy poorly used, weariness, and a life you are letting other people decide.",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fhair-and-nails\u002Fbrittle-nails",[514,515,516,517,518,519],"How am I using my energy, and where is it out of balance?","Where has my life gone as dull as a soft nail?","Who is deciding for me, while I stay in the shadow?","Which strength that lives in me am I refusing?","Which feelings am I finding it hard to face?","What would \"taking myself in hand\" look like this week, in one concrete way?",[442,447],[522,523],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FOnychorrhexis","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ7095163",{"title":421,"description":510},[526],{"author":395,"work":396,"entries":527,"pages":529},[528],"Ongles mous et cassants","304–305","conditions\u002Fhair-and-nails\u002Fbrittle-nails","Brittle nails speak of vitality and of how energy is being used. Soft nails speak of weariness and indifference. Both are read as a life lived limply, in the shadow, with other people deciding for you.","If this reading resonates with you, asking where you have gone limp and handed the decisions over can be a good next step, alongside a check for the ordinary physical causes.",[404,534,249,535,536],"Energy poorly used","Indifference","Letting others decide",[538,539,540,541,542,543],"Nails that split, peel or stay soft for months. Frequent water, detergents, gel manicures and trauma are common causes. A clinician can also check iron, thyroid and skin disease.","A nail that is thickening, lifting, discoloured or crumbling. Fungus and psoriasis need their own treatment.","A dark streak in a nail, or a nail that is destroyed. Have it seen promptly.","Nail changes with fatigue, hair loss, cold intolerance or weight change.","Pus, redness and pain around a nail. That is an infection.","Brittle nails are rarely an emergency. They are often a local irritation. They are not a verdict on your character.","9xokdXp_oa5O6LTtChgBJPYBP_gPeUt-qy14_6Bj_eY",{"id":546,"title":443,"affirmation":547,"aka":548,"area":427,"body":552,"dateModified":373,"datePublished":373,"description":645,"extension":374,"group":377,"meta":646,"navigation":384,"path":647,"reflectionQuestions":648,"related":655,"sameAs":656,"seo":659,"sources":660,"stem":665,"summary":666,"supportIntro":667,"themes":668,"whenToSeeADoctor":674,"__hash__":681},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Fhair-and-nails\u002Fhair-loss.md","I look for strength inside rather than in what shows. I trust that a next step exists, and I let a load I no longer need be set down.",[549,550,551],"Baldness","Alopecia","Thinning hair",{"type":261,"value":553,"toc":639},[554,558,561,572,576,579,586,590,593,596,598,601],[277,555,557],{"id":556},"what-hair-loss-is","What hair loss is",[264,559,560],{},"Baldness is a partial or total loss of hair. It is more often associated with men, and more and more women are affected too. The common pattern, androgenetic alopecia, is largely hereditary. Other patterns have other causes: thyroid disease, iron deficiency, childbirth, severe illness, some medicines, alopecia areata, and traction from hairstyles. A dermatologist can often tell them apart. Treatment depends on the type. No change of attitude makes a hereditary pattern reverse on demand, and this page does not claim that hair returns if you let an idea go.",[264,562,563,564,567,568,571],{},"The emotional reading below treats hair as a mirror of inner strength and of roots. The ",[288,565,566],{"href":137},"hair and nails"," page holds the wider picture. ",[288,569,421],{"href":570},"\u002Fhair-and-nails\u002Fbrittle-nails"," are the neighbouring sign.",[277,573,575],{"id":574},"the-emotional-meaning-of-hair-loss","The emotional meaning of hair loss",[264,577,578],{},"Hair is the mirror of a certain inner strength, and of your roots. The story of Samson is the one this reading remembers: cut the hair, and the strength goes. Hair represents the link between the physical and the spiritual, what connects you to a larger energy. It is often compared to an antenna. Heredity is said plainly to be the principal factor, more frequent in men. Among the patterns, one is associated with a person who uses the intellectual faculties more than the emotional ones.",[264,580,581,582,585],{},"Loss of hair, also called alopecia, is read as having moved away from what is divine in you. You are a person oriented to the material plane rather than the spiritual. You may have a great deal of intuition, and prefer to stick to what is more material, more rational. Often, if you lose your hair, you are living one or several situations where the tension is so great that you \"tear your hair\". Several stressful or even traumatic experiences can accelerate the process. A birth that is a source of ",[288,583,584],{"href":211},"fear"," or worry, a serious emotional shock, a separation, a great deal of tension at work or at home, the taste for surpassing yourself on the material plane, or a loss of value on the intellectual plane. When you live a crowd of worries and great fears, you lose contact with your inner power.",[277,587,589],{"id":588},"what-you-are-afraid-of-losing","What you are afraid of losing",[264,591,592],{},"Since the hair is going, what have you had the impression of losing in your life, or what are you afraid of losing in the future? It can be something or someone. You can revolt. You want to free yourself from this pressure that is smothering you. You want to be yourself and stop living according to outside obligations. In losing your hair, you deliver yourself from what imprisons you. You probably received little softness, notably from your father, and you tend to revolt against authority. You are rather materialistic, and spirituality is a very small part of your life. You try as much as possible to control everything, because you are afraid of opening and of losing control. You imprison yourself in rigid structures, obligations that have no reason to be. You are scattered. Your thoughts are tangled. You are so exasperated by a situation that you tear the hair from your head. You live an inner tearing, like an ordeal.",[264,594,595],{},"You do not want to fail your children and, by that, lose their love. You tend to devalue yourself intellectually, and you live injustice. If you had a facility or a gift for an activity you excelled at, and that performance starts to change and decline, the hair is read as falling too. You refuse the basic functioning of life, claiming you can do better than it. Any inner fear brings an inability to act, despair, and tensions that catch you unprepared. It is an illusion to believe you can do better than life itself. You do not have to fight life. It is with you to support you, if you listen and if you stay open.",[277,597,463],{"id":462},[264,599,600],{},"The inner direction is to make the changes that free you from an extra load you agreed to carry and no longer need. You trust that things can turn out well. Instead of going to fetch your power outside yourself, which the hair is said to symbolise, you go to the bottom of yourself and draw the strength and the courage that are there, so you can go forward and pass to a new stage. You learn to include the laws of a life in a harmonious way, knowing they exist for your good, personal and collective. You ask quietly. You trust your inner being, and you look for solutions, because they exist. The world is there to help. That is a way of standing inside a change of appearance. It is not a prescription for regrowth.",[327,602,603,609,615,621,627,633],{},[330,604,605,608],{},[333,606,607],{},"Have a sudden or patchy loss examined."," The pattern matters more than the story.",[330,610,611,614],{},[333,612,613],{},"Ask what you fear losing."," A person, a place, a capacity.",[330,616,617,620],{},[333,618,619],{},"Name the tension that makes you tear your hair."," Work, home, a shock, a separation.",[330,622,623,626],{},[333,624,625],{},"Look at softness that was missing, especially from a father."," Revolt against authority sits beside it.",[330,628,629,632],{},[333,630,631],{},"Notice control."," Rigid obligations are the prison this reading describes.",[330,634,635,638],{},[333,636,637],{},"Keep hereditary thinning in proportion."," It is common, it is medical, and a decline in performance is not a moral fall.",{"title":368,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":640},[641,642,643,644],{"id":556,"depth":18,"text":557},{"id":574,"depth":18,"text":575},{"id":588,"depth":18,"text":589},{"id":462,"depth":18,"text":463},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of hair loss: how it may relate to tension, a loss of inner power, and the question of what you are afraid of losing next.",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fhair-and-nails\u002Fhair-loss",[649,650,651,652,653,654],"What do I have the impression of having lost, or what am I afraid of losing?","Where is the tension so great that I could tear my hair?","Am I living more in the material and the rational than in what I actually feel?","Where did softness, especially from a father or that place, go missing?","Which obligation am I done living by?","If a gift or a performance of mine is declining, what am I making that mean?",[570],[657,658],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FHair_loss","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ181391",{"title":443,"description":645},[661],{"author":395,"work":396,"entries":662,"pages":664},[663],"Cheveux — Calvitie","108–109","conditions\u002Fhair-and-nails\u002Fhair-loss","Hair loss has many medical causes, and heredity is the common one. It is read as a mirror of inner strength and roots, as tension great enough to tear your hair, and as the question of what you fear you have lost or will lose.","If this reading resonates with you, asking what the falling hair seems to be mourning can be a good next step, after a clinician has looked for a treatable cause.",[669,670,671,672,673],"Inner strength","Roots","Tension","Fear of loss","Control",[675,676,677,678,679,680],"Sudden or patchy hair loss, hair coming out in handfuls, or loss of eyebrows and lashes. These patterns need a doctor. They differ from ordinary hereditary thinning.","Hair loss with fatigue, weight change, a changed menstrual cycle, or other signs of a hormone or thyroid problem.","Bald patches with broken hairs, scarring, or a scalp that is red, scaly or sore.","Hair loss after childbirth, a severe illness, an operation or a new medicine. Tell the clinician. Some of these settle, and some need treatment.","You are distressed by thinning. Effective options exist for several kinds of hair loss. A reading is not one of them, and it does not promise regrowth.","Heredity is the main factor in common baldness. Stress can speed shedding. It does not replace a diagnosis.","V3LLiS2VA7n7STtggubz19p4B24PtcQej0B4G2s6LRM",[],[],1791107649727]