Heatstroke in Chinese medicine can be categorized as the category of summer vacation evidence, heatstroke mild cases can be scraped with coins, but it is generally recommended to use tools such as gua sha boards, easy to operate. Scraping method for the use of scraping utensils smooth edge dipped in oil, in the back and spine sides, neck, chest and ribs (chest and rib parts of the collective term) gap, shoulder and arm, etc. scraping.
Heatstroke is mostly due to the summer summer when the climate is hot, tiredness injuries, the summer heat of the evil invasion and the onset of disease. Scraping can expand capillaries, increase sweat gland secretion, promote blood circulation, for hypertension, heat stroke, wind-cold paralysis have effect. Often scraping Gua Sha, can play the role of adjusting the meridian qi, relieve fatigue, enhance the role of immune function.
But gua sha therapy only applies to heatstroke mild, specific operation for the use of smooth flat gua sha tool dipped in oil scraping back spine sides, neck, thoracic and hypochondriac gap, shoulder arm, elbow and popliteal fossa and so on, scraping to the skin appeared purplish-red to the degree.
Also should be promptly moved to the heatstroke people ventilated cool place, and under the guidance of a professional doctor to use professional techniques for gua sha, can not be operated at will. If the heatstroke symptoms are serious, then you need to consult a doctor, by the doctor’s guidance for targeted treatment.