According to the old Chinese doctor, doing one thing before scraping can double the effect!

Gua Sha can effectively relieve colds, fatigue and body aches, but to double the effect, Jiang Ke, deputy chief physician of the Acupuncture Department of Xiyuan Hospital, introduced that you may want to take a bath, or apply hot compresses or steam in a sauna before scraping to raise your body temperature, accelerate blood circulation, and relax your nerves. Scraping after that can better dredge the meridians, remove evil spirits, and enhance the body's immunity. It is especially effective for chronic neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, indigestion and other diseases.

Do one thing before scraping to double the effect - take a bath

Compared with hot compresses and saunas, bathing heats the body more evenly and gently, thus having a better effect in promoting circulation. Depending on your personal constitution, the bathing time is generally 15 to 30 minutes, with the water temperature around 42 degrees Celsius. If you have a weak constitution or it is inconvenient for you to take a bath, you can also drink some ginger soup before scraping to make your body sweat slightly, and then scrape the body, which will also help to expel evil spirits.

When scraping, avoid wind and keep warm. After scraping, drink a cup of warm water or light sugar and salt water, and rest for 15 to 20 minutes to promote the body's recovery. It should be noted that scraping will expand the pores, and it is not advisable to take a bath or apply hot compress within 4 hours. After scraping, you should keep calm, avoid getting angry, irritable or anxious, and avoid eating raw, cold, greasy food. The next scraping should be done 3 to 6 days apart, until the sha on the skin disappears.

Jiang Ke reminds that scraping is not suitable for people with wounds or infections on the skin, when hungry, overfed, after strenuous exercise or drunkenness, people with anemia, hemophilia or bleeding tendency, people with hypertension, heart disease, and people with liver and kidney dysfunction. In addition, you should not scrape immediately when you are tired, and you should rest for a while first. For scraping therapy, you must choose a regular medical institution and only have the therapy performed after evaluation by a doctor. If you scrape blindly or treat the wrong area, it may aggravate the condition. At this time, you must seek medical attention immediately and do not delay.

Precautions after scraping

1. Avoid wind and keep warm when performing scraping treatment. Avoid wind and keep warm when performing scraping treatment. When the room temperature is low, you should try to reduce the exposure of the body parts. When the temperature is high in summer, you should not do scraping near an electric fan or in places with convection wind. Because the skin's sweat pores are opened during scraping, if there is wind and cold, the evil qi can enter the body directly through the opened pores, which will not only affect the efficacy of scraping, but also cause new diseases due to the exposure to wind and cold.

2. Treat only one disease each time. The scraping time should not be too long each time. Strictly adhere to the principle of treating only one disease each time. Do not perform sha treatment continuously on a large area in order to protect the vital energy.

3. Drink a cup of hot water after scraping treatment. Scraping treatment can open sweat pores and expel evil spirits, which will consume some body fluids. Drinking a cup of hot water after scraping can not only replenish the consumed water, but also promote metabolism and accelerate the excretion of metabolic products.

4. Bathing time. After scraping treatment, in order to avoid the invasion of wind and cold, you must wait until the skin pores close and return to their original state before taking a bath, which usually takes about 3 hours. However, during bathing, scraping can be done before the water stains have dried. Because the pores are slightly open during bathing, scraping takes less time and has a significant effect, but you should pay attention to keeping warm.

5. It is not necessary to cause sha to appear after scraping. Sha appearance is an external manifestation of toxins in the body. If you are in good health, you will not see sha even if you scrape vigorously. On the contrary, even if the technique is not heavy, sha appearance will be obvious.

What are the techniques of scraping therapy?

As a suitable technique in traditional Chinese medicine, scraping also requires certain skills. The scraping board can be made of buffalo horn or wooden fish stone, and the board surface should be clean and the edges and corners should be smooth. The scraping medium is mostly liquid paraffin, sesame oil, safflower oil or blood-activating agents specially used for scraping. When scraping, the wrist is required to apply force evenly and the scraping force should be adjusted according to the patient's condition and reaction. Generally, you can gently scrape downwards, or scrape repeatedly from the inside to the outside, gradually increasing the intensity to the degree that the patient can tolerate. When scraping, you should scrape in the same direction, with even force and use wrist strength. Generally, scrape 10 to 20 times, about 20 minutes, until sha appears. Scrape once every three to five days. If used for health care, you can shave once a day.