Scraping belongs to a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, with blood circulation and stasis (promote blood operation, eliminate blood stasis in the body), through the meridians and activate the collaterals (dredge the meridians and collaterals, make the meridians and collaterals smooth, qi and blood regulate the role of), so during menstruation is not generally recommended to scrape the gua sha.
Gua Sha mainly refers to repeated scraping on the body surface, resulting in skin flushing, purplish red and other color changes, or pimple-like spots, striated plaques and other morphological changes.
Gua Sha has the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, activating meridians and channels, and dredging and regulating qi and blood. The use of gua sha therapy during menstruation, easy to make the blood flow accelerated, so as to appear irregular menstruation, menstruation, menstruation prolongation and other adverse reactions, so usually during menstruation is not recommended to scrape gua sha.
It should be noted that some skin disease, blood disease and other patients, not suitable for gua sha. If necessary, please by professional doctor operation, do not blindly try on their own.