Generally speaking, scraping Gua Sha needs to be repeated one-way scraping from the top down or from the inside out, but for those who have varicose veins of the lower limbs or those whose lower limbs are prone to swelling, it is appropriate to use the inverse scraping method, i.e., scraping from the bottom up.
Gua Sha is in Chinese medicine meridian acupuncture point theory guidance, with the edge of the blunt slippery apparatus (such as buffalo horn, sandalwood board, etc.) dipped in gua sha oil or massage oil, in a part of the human body skin scraping, so that the local skin gua sha spot or gua sha mark of a kind of external treatment method.
Gua Sha scraping parts including the head, neck, chest (but breasts forbidden to scrape), back and limbs, etc., generally speaking, in the treatment of parts of the Gua Sha scraping should be from the top to the bottom or from the inside to the outside of the repeated one-way scraping, until the skin shows crimson stripes or subcutaneous ecchymosis until, but for some of the Gua Sha or Gua Sha less patients, can not be forced out of the Gua Sha.
In addition, it should be noted that, scraping gua sha should be even, the technique from light to heavy, the previous scraping gua sha parts of the gua sha spot before, should not be carried out in the original place again scraping gua sha, and for serious heart disease, kidney disease edema and bleeding tendency of disease patients should be disabled.
Scraping Gua Sha need to be operated by a professional doctor, not without authorization, so as to avoid the risk.