Gua Sha is not suitable for scraping when you are too hungry or too full, extremely weak, during pregnancy, when your skin is edematous or bleeding or you have a skin disease, low blood sugar, low blood pressure and so on.
In Chinese medicine, Gua Sha is one of the common treatment methods. Scraping has the effect of regulating qi and blood, relaxing tendons and collaterals, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and removing dampness and toxins. Generally choose cow horn, jade texture scraper with safflower oil or essential oil and other grease, according to the direction of the meridian circulation scraping, until the gua sha can be.
Generally speaking, there is no specific time for Gua Sha, as long as the body state allows can carry out Gua Sha. But there are several situations or several types of people can not carry out gua sha: too hungry or too full; extremely weak, low blood pressure, low blood sugar; skin bleeding, edema or skin disease; pregnant women’s abdomen, lumbosacral area; heart disease and other serious diseases; bleeding tendency.
In addition to the above, as long as the body is in a state suitable for gua sha generally can scrape, regardless of time. After scraping Gua Sha should pay attention to keep warm, avoid spicy diet, improve lifestyle, pay attention to rest. Scraping should be operated by professional physicians, not by themselves, in order to prevent the adverse consequences.