Hyperthyroidism patients can scrape under the guidance of the doctor, but scraping is not suitable for the treatment of hyperthyroidism.
Gua Sha is a physical way to make capillary expansion, promote blood circulation, and metabolism, can improve muscle aches and pains, relieve fatigue. However, hyperthyroidism is an autoimmune disease caused by increased secretion of thyroxine for a variety of reasons. Hyperthyroidism patient itself metabolism increase fast, and is not suitable for gua sha treatment, gua sha for the treatment of hyperthyroidism is not effective.
The treatment of hyperthyroidism includes anti-thyroid medication and isotope iodine therapy, and a small number of patients in the above treatment effect is not good, need surgery. Patients with hyperthyroidism can do gua sha cupping and other physical therapy, but gua sha site try to avoid in the location of the thyroid gland, to avoid artificial stimulation of the thyroid gland and aggravate the progress of the disease.