Gua Sha, massage, cupping these are the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods, to promote blood circulation, dredge meridians have special effects. Many people have cupping, Gua Sha board at home, but will not use, had to be put on the shelf, and now we take down, wipe, ready to be put to use. When to scrape, when to cupping, from where to scrape, how long to pull, etc., often troubled everyone. Massage after gua sha, gua sha is not enough, cupping to save, they complement each other, cross-circulation. Combined use, there will be unexpected effects. Massage Some people say, massage techniques so much, two sentences can say clear? In fact, from the point of view of the cure, massage in 80% of the techniques are flowery, what is complementary to what is diarrhea, in fact, you do not have to waste time researching these, to be able to make a move to control the enemy, why not set out 100 kinds of flowers first frame it? Massage must find the meridians, acupuncture points can not be found slowly, away from the point not away from the meridian on the line. If the stomach pressure on the pain, you have to look at the pain point pressure in what meridian, and then massage the legs of the corresponding meridian points on the line. Stomach meridian pain on the leg on the foot Sanli, spleen meridian pain on the press Yinlingquan …… This is just an example, the clinical condition there are more appropriate points to choose from. Regarding the method of massage, the pain is not obvious meridians and points massage effect is poor, like a kite line broken or halfway knot, to massage more sensitive points. Also, tapping and massage are similar and can be used interchangeably (e.g., tapping the gallbladder meridian and stomach meridian). Gua Sha Misconceptions about Gua Sha Some people are afraid of Gua Sha, thinking that it is a therapy that damages the skin. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, the original cause of misunderstanding is that you have not personally felt, just by visual experience, just like the Western medicine to Chinese medicine misunderstanding, refused to actually experience, only based on perceptual stereotypes. But when you really scraped once, and must find a person who understands the technique of gua sha to operate, you will then accept this method, and even whistled pain. Take cervical spondylosis as a very common but hard to cure disease, with gua sha method is really hand to the disease. Of course there are many diseases, such as cardiovascular disease prevention and early treatment, if you can skillfully use gua sha method, how many people will escape the heart bypass torment ah! Gua Sha is good at replenishing the deficiency and dispelling cold Gua Sha is the best tool to use is the Gua Sha board, and then with a bottle of Gua Sha oil, it’s all over. Some people feel that gua sha is only suitable for heat, real disease, this is really “a thousand years of strange injustice”. In fact, scraping Gua Sha to make up for the effect of cold is even better. A person with a cold fever, then someone said, scraping Gua Sha, to go to the fire, so in the back of the bladder meridian scraping Gua Sha, Gua Sha out, the fire on the scattered, we think it is a diarrhea fire; in fact, is the body’s heat to the back of the wind and cold to drive away, so it should be said that is to dispel the cold. It is also right to say that the fire, but not the kind of fire that you understand that light heat without cold. Gua Sha is the most good at replenishing the deficiency, but not the deficiency of qi and blood, but the deficiency due to stasis. The body is weak, need to first cultivate and replenish qi and blood If your body is too weak, still need to cultivate and replenish qi and blood before scraping, otherwise it is not out of gua sha. It must be clear that Gua Sha is not something you scrape out with a scraper, but rather it is something that comes out of the body’s qi and blood. So when we scrape hard not Gua Sha, that is the body of the qi and blood did not top there, don’t bother. The essence of scraping Gua Sha Some people say that Gua Sha is artificially caused by the damage of blood vessels, is the rupture of capillaries. In fact, gua sha is to remove the blood stasis adhering to the blood vessel wall to the outside of the blood vessel, and then reabsorbed into the blood vessel by the blood, through the whole body’s circulation, will scrape out the waste from the urine discharge. It is worth mentioning that it is also the dream of Western medicine to remove stasis from the walls of the blood vessels in order to maintain their elasticity and space from becoming smaller, but Western medicine is unable to do so, or is unable to do so, and can only use vasodilating drugs or anticoagulants to keep the pipes open, so as to safeguard the blood supply. Anticoagulation of the entire blood vessel for the sake of an indeterminate stasis is destined to alter the normal composition of the blood and artificially create symptoms of susceptibility to bleeding, or even cause the walls of the vessel to lose their elasticity and harden. This is like a black spot on the white wall of our house, we just need to wipe it off with a wet cloth, but we get a high-pressure water gun and flush the whole room, resulting in peeling off the wallpaper and damaging the house, which is really more than worth it! Our small scraping board but can easily solve the blood vessels of the stasis, which is a world medical problem, don’t you think it’s marvelous? To eliminate flies, a fly swatter is enough, those foreign guns and cannons are not useful. Would you be willing to level your house with artillery just to get rid of a fly in your house? But we often play out this scene in hospitals without realizing it or being able to do anything about it. When should you shave? Having said that, then when should you scrape Gua Sha? Gua Sha because it is good at replenishing the deficiency and dispelling cold, so when there is cold in the body and blood stagnation, it is best to use Gua Sha to solve the problem. How to scrape Gua Sha? Scraping Gua Sha should follow the meridian scraping, preferably from top to bottom, so that it is more smooth; scraper and skin to maintain an acute angle of 45 degrees or less, relatively painless. It is best to use the waist strength when scraping Gua Sha, so it will be very labor-saving. In fact, their own to experience, the technique is the easiest to master. There will still be some people who have concerns: scraping Gua Sha will not have any side effects ah? This careful is right, the following crowd is not suitable for scraping. 1, the heart function is weak people are very easy to faint, especially when sitting scraping is more likely to appear this problem, generally will have panic, dizziness, nausea symptoms. 2, qi and blood is very weak serious illness do not scrape, will waste his qi and blood, such people scrape out of the stasis will not be taken away, out of the gua sha a long time can not go down. 3, have skin disease people also don’t scrape, because I don’t know the ins and outs of skin disease, sometimes will lead out the internal poison but not excreted. 4, pregnant women do not scrape, safety first. 5, cancer patients are not recommended to scrape, there will be many unpredictable problems. 6, for people with bleeding tendency, gua sha is a double-edged sword, special effects and danger coexist, do not figure out the cause of the case also do not scrape. 7, children under 6 years old do not scrape, available pinch crest alternative. 8, blood pressure is very high people also do not scrape. Although gua sha for high blood pressure has special effects, but the special effects of things are not safe medicine, if you can not ensure safety, or first avoid the risk of it! In short, scraping will accelerate blood circulation, the heart is a good exercise, as a disease prevention to use, safe and effective. Cupping Usually our shoulder is very painful, with gua sha method, as long as a gua sha symptoms immediately reduce; but sometimes scrape half a day is not gua sha, shoulder pain remains, why is this? There are two main reasons: one is the lesion point is very deep, gua sha method can not reach; two is not enough qi and blood, the body’s qi and blood did not top over, stasis is difficult to come out. Scraping ineffective, cupping remedy This time with the cupping method can be immediately effective. The lesion point deep, if a pluck soon appeared black and purple marks, that the deep blood stasis was pulled out; if still cans under no trace, then we must be patient in this plucking a few days, 10 minutes a day, until the appearance of black marks. Cupping can be complementary and can be drained. If you want to tonify the kidneys, just cupping in the kidney point; stomach it, in the epigastric and foot cupping. If you pull too many places but will be scattered qi and blood, can not achieve the effect of complementary, will be in vain diarrhea depletion of qi and blood. Cupping has the function of drawing blood The best function of cupping is its function of drawing blood. There was a diabetic patient who had a two-inch diameter ulcer near the foot under the knee that did not heal for a long time, and used various anti-inflammatory medicines, and also applied Chinese herbal medicine such as myosan, all to no avail. Later, the doctor let the patient every day in the abdomen in the epigastric point plucking a can, at the same time in the affected side of the thigh gastric meridian from the thighs off → Fuhui → yinshi → Liangqiu → calf’s nose, all the way down, 5 cans at the same time on the plucking, plucking for 4 days, 5 minutes a day, and then use the muscle san, and healed a paste. Why? By cupping the good blood down, the damage is naturally repaired. Cupping method of operation is nothing strict, buy a gun-type vacuum canister, save the fire to go again. Before cupping, you can put some lubricant on the skin, so that the skin will not hurt. Cupping time to feel comfortable shall prevail, weak qi and blood will be less plucked for a while. However, people with heavy dampness are prone to blistering (although blistering is more effective), which affects the beauty of the bath and the skin, so don’t pull it for too long, and don’t pull it too tightly. In short, the combination of these methods of treatment is fast and effective, and is a generally recognized method of treating multiple diseases. But they are also slightly different, such as colds, sunstroke, pillow, muscle spasms applicable Gua Sha treatment; neck and shoulder pain, back pain, rheumatism can be cured by using cupping; insomnia, neck and shoulder pain, gastrointestinal discomfort can be relieved by massage.