Is Gua Sha suitable for everyone? Nine types of people who need scraping

Gua Sha is mainly suitable for colds, fever, heatstroke, headaches, gastrointestinal diseases, stiff necks, periarthritis of the shoulder, lumbar muscle strain, muscle spasms, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases. Gua Sha is not suitable for people who are too thin, have a bleeding tendency, pregnant women's abdomen and lumbar sacral area, or skin lesions. Gua Sha is also prohibited when the patient is too hungry, too full, or too nervous. The following nine situations are not suitable for scraping, such as:

1. People with severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, liver and kidney dysfunction, and general edema. Because scraping will cause subcutaneous congestion and promote blood circulation, it will increase the burden on the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, aggravate the patient's condition and even endanger his life.

2. Pregnant women are prohibited from scraping their abdomen and lumbar area, otherwise it will cause miscarriage.

3. Do not perform scraping on any area with boils, ulcers, sores, rashes or lumps of unknown cause on the body surface, otherwise it may lead to wound infection.

4. Do not scrape the painful area of ​​acute sprain, trauma or fracture, otherwise it will aggravate the bleeding of the wound.

5. People infected with contact skin diseases should avoid scraping to avoid infection.

6. People with bleeding tendency, such as patients with advanced diabetes, severe anemia, leukemia, aplastic anemia and thrombocytopenia, should not perform scraping, because the subcutaneous bleeding produced by scraping in these patients is not easily absorbed.

7. People who are too hungry, too tired or drunk should not be subjected to gravity or large-area scraping, otherwise they will suffer from collapse.

8. Gua Sha is prohibited on the eyes, lips, tongue, ear holes, nostrils, nipples, navels and other parts to avoid congestion of these mucous membranes.

9. Gua Sha therapy is prohibited for patients with mental illness, otherwise it will stimulate the patient to become ill.