What is the use of scraping and what are the benefits of scraping?

Gua Sha therapy has been widely spread among the people since ancient times because of its easy operation and remarkable effect. In folk scraping, basically the process of scraping is to scrape wherever it hurts. The ancients often used daily necessities with smooth edges, such as silver coins, soup spoons, and tender bamboo boards, dipped them in water, wine, or sesame oil, and scraped the skin surface. So what are the benefits of scraping?

Benefits of Gua Sha

1. Scraping can effectively promote human metabolism and expel toxins from the body.

Our human body is constantly metabolizing every day, and many toxins are deposited in the pores under our skin. Gua Sha can allow the waste left in the body during these metabolisms to be excreted, make the blood flow more smoothly, and restore natural metabolic vitality.

2. Scraping can also dredge the tendons

Nowadays, more and more people are suffering from cervical spondylosis, periarthritis of the shoulder, and low back pain, because these muscles are often in a state of tension and contraction. Gua Sha can relax the muscles and eliminate the painful lesions; it can relieve muscle tension, significantly reduce the pain symptoms, and also help the recovery of the lesions.

3. Gua Sha can effectively adjust and balance the yin and yang of the human body

“When Yin and Yang are balanced, the spirit will be healthy.” Traditional Chinese Medicine places great emphasis on the balance of Yin and Yang in the body. Gua Sha has a two-way regulating effect on human body functions. It can improve and adjust the functions of internal organs and restore their balance.

Can anyone do scraping?

Gua Sha health therapy is suitable for most people. However, scraping is not suitable in the following situations:

1. Pregnant women’s abdomen, lumbar sacral area, and women’s nipples are prohibited from being scraped;

2. Patients with bleeding tendency such as leukemia, thrombocytopenia, etc. should be treated with caution;

3. People with highly allergic skin or skin diseases are prohibited from scraping;

4. People who are chronically ill, elderly, extremely weak, or thin should be shaved with caution;

5. People who are drunk, too hungry, too full, too thirsty, or too tired are prohibited from scraping.

Indications for Gua Sha Therapy

Internal medicine diseases: colds, fevers, headaches, coughs, vomiting, diarrhea, and heat stroke caused by exogenous pathogens, acute and chronic bronchitis, lung infections, asthma, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, sequelae of stroke, urinary tract infections, enuresis, acute and chronic gastritis, enteritis, constipation, diarrhea, hypertension, dizziness, diabetes, cholecystitis, hepatitis, edema, various neuralgia, spasmodic pain in internal organs, such as: neuralgia, vascular headache, trigeminal neuralgia, biliary colic, gastrointestinal spasm, insomnia, nightmares, neurosis and other diseases. Except for the indications for caution and contraindications, various diseases, including some difficult and complicated diseases, can be treated with holographic meridian scraping therapy.

Surgical diseases: various surgical diseases with pain as the main symptom, such as acute sprain, various soft tissue pains caused by wind, cold and dampness, various bone and joint diseases, sciatica, periarthritis of the shoulder, stiff neck, chronic low back pain, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, bone hyperplasia of the cervical, lumbar and knee joints, femoral head necrosis, surgical diseases such as hemorrhoids, skin itching, urticaria, acne, eczema, hair loss, etc.

Pediatric diseases: malnutrition, loss of appetite, growth retardation, cold and fever in children, diarrhea, enuresis and other diseases. ENT diseases: toothache, rhinitis, sinusitis, sore throat, decreased vision, amblyopia, juvenile pseudomyopia, acute conjunctivitis, deafness, tinnitus and other diseases. Gynecological diseases: dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, irregular menstruation, breast hyperplasia, postpartum diseases, etc.

Health care: disease prevention, recovery after illness, physical fitness, weight loss, beauty, etc.

Disadvantages of scraping:

Apart from the precautions mentioned above, no adverse effects of scraping have been found so far.

People with severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, liver and kidney dysfunction, and general edema are prohibited from scraping. Because scraping will cause subcutaneous congestion and promote blood circulation, it will increase the burden on the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys and aggravate the condition. In addition, scraping therapy should not be performed during pregnancy or menstruation.

Gua Sha is prohibited on any area with boils, ulcers, sores, rashes and lumps of unknown cause on the body surface, otherwise it will cause wound infection and spread. Gua Sha is prohibited on the painful areas of acute sprains, trauma or fractures, as it will aggravate the bleeding at the wound.