What should you pay attention to after scraping?

The so-called scraping therapy refers to the use of hard tools with smooth edges or fingers, ramie, etc., dipped in cooking oil, vaseline, white wine or water, to repeatedly scrape, squeeze, pull, pinch and other physical stimulations on the skin of the diseased part of the human body. So what should we pay attention to after scraping?

1. Avoid wind and keep warm during scraping treatment

When performing scraping treatment, you should avoid wind and keep warm. 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 sweat pores of the skin are opened during scraping, if wind and cold are encountered, the evil qi can directly enter the body through the opened pores, which will not only affect the therapeutic effect of scraping, but also cause new diseases due to exposure to wind and cold.

2. Drink a cup of hot water after scraping treatment

Gua Sha treatment can make the pores sweat and expel evil spirits, which will consume part of the body's energy. Drinking a cup of hot water after scraping can not only replenish the consumed part, but also promote metabolism and accelerate the excretion of metabolic products.

3. Bathing time after scraping

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.

4. Scraping methods for different types of skin diseases

For patients with skin diseases, those with dry areas without inflammation, exudation, and ulceration (such as eczema, vitiligo, etc.), you can scrape directly on the areas. The skin and subcutaneous painless benign nodules can also be scraped directly. If there is purulent inflammation, exudation and ulceration, as well as redness, swelling, heat and pain (such as eczema, herpes, furuncle, boil, carbuncle, sore, etc.), do not scrape the skin lesions or the inflamed area directly, but scrape around the skin lesions.

5. Scraping Methods for Diabetes Patients

The skin resistance of diabetic patients is reduced and the fragility of blood vessels increases, so scraping is not suitable. For those with localized or lower limb edema, it is advisable to use the scraping method or flat scraping method from the end of the limb to the proximal end to promote blood circulation.

6. Prevention and treatment of dizziness

Gua Sha dizziness refers to the fainting phenomenon that occurs during the scraping treatment process. Although meridian holographic scraping therapy is safe and has no side effects, some patients may experience dizziness due to not being able to undergo scraping therapy at a certain moment, or because the operator uses improper scraping techniques or scrapes for too long.