If you don’t have professional Gua Sha tools, you can use smooth hard objects utensils and fingers instead.
If there is no professional Gua Sha tools, you can use smooth hard objects utensils and fingers instead, hard objects such as porcelain, wood, metal and biological material utensils. Among them, porcelain utensils include porcelain bowl, porcelain spoon. Wooden utensils include wooden combs, sandalwood scrapers and so on. Metal utensils mainly refer to coins and metal plates. Biological utensils include cotton and linen woolen balls, mussel shells and so on.
Before scraping, patients need to make sure that the edges of the scraping tools used are smooth and not chipped, and patients should first scrape slowly and gently to prevent any sharp bumps from scratching the skin. In addition, gua sha tools should be sterilized with alcohol before and after use.
Diseases with bleeding tendency, infectious diseases, acute sprains and contusions, skin breakouts and other people prohibit scraping.
If you feel unwell, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time for treatment, do not self-medication, so as not to delay the condition or cause adverse reactions.