Gua sha first section gua sha basics, 1, gua sha overview gua sha is based on the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine as a guide, the use of gua sha utensils applied to a certain part of the body surface, the formation of gua sha traces, to achieve the effect of health care and prevention of diseases of a method. The basic principle of gua sha therapy originates from the meridian theory, through the twelve skin part of the benign stimulation in order to achieve dredge meridian, line blood, adjust the function of internal organs. 2, gua sha’s adaptive range (1) in “sub-healthy state” of the crowd. (2) focus on the quality of life, beauty, slimming and other requirements. (3) long-term health care program, can receive regular health care Gua Sha crowd. (3) Gua Sha contraindications (1) extreme fatigue, drunkenness, after strenuous exercise, too full, empty stomach should not scrape. (2) pregnant women, menstruating women forbidden to scrape the lower abdomen and the three yinjiao points, Hegu points, foot Sanli points and other points, and scraping techniques should be light. (3) old and frail people scraping Gua Sha should be light. 4, scraping Gua Sha’s position Commonly used position is supine position, prone position, side lying position, sitting position. 5, gua sha precautions (1) gua sha should pay attention to indoor warmth, winter should avoid cold place and wind, summer should avoid fan blowing directly scraping parts. (2) the general principle is first scrape head and neck, back waist, then scrape chest and abdomen, and finally scrape limbs and joints, first scrape the left side of the body, then scrape the right side of the body. (3) along a direction scraping test, not back and forth scraping, in principle, from top to bottom, from inside to outside. (4) cold weather, scraping time should be long, hot and humid weather scraping time easy to shorten. (5) muscle fullness place (such as back, chest, abdomen, limbs) appropriate with scraping board horizontal surface scraping test, joints, fingers and toes, head and face and other muscle less, bump more place appropriate with scraping board angle point press. (6) obese people and muscle fuller is not easy to gua sha; yin meridian is not easy to yang meridian gua sha; room temperature is not easy to room temperature is not easy to room temperature is not easy to room temperature is not easy to gua sha. (7) after scraping gua sha, should drink a cup of water, rest 10-20 minutes. Section 2 gua sha equipment and medium 1, gua sha utensils gua sha utensils many, have gua sha board, porcelain spoon, ancient money, jade slice, metal needles and other smooth hard objects. Commonly used for gua sha board, generally with buffalo horn or wood fish stone production and become, requirements board surface clean, smooth corners. 2, scraping medium more choice has lubrication or both pharmacological effect of water, sesame oil, paraffin oil or safflower oil, scraping Gua Sha special blood agent and so on. Section 3 scraping gua sha operation techniques commonly used flat scraping, vertical scraping, oblique scraping, angle scraping 4 kinds. Scraping requires even force, generally use wrist force, at the same time according to the customer’s body condition change and reaction adjustment scraping force. 1, flat scraping refers to the flat side of the scraper, focusing on the application site, according to a certain horizontal left and right for a large area of horizontal scraping. 2. Vertical scraping refers to the use of the flat side of the scraper, focusing on the application site, the direction of the vertical up and down, suitable for a large area of vertical scraping. 3, oblique scraping refers to the use of the flat side of the scraper, focusing on the application of the site, for oblique scraping. Applicable to some parts of the human body can not be flat, vertical scraping of the situation used by the operation of the technique. 4, angle scraping refers to the scraper’s angles and corners, focusing on the application site, for smaller area or groove, nest, depression place scraping, such as the nasal groove, wind pool, ear screen, Shen Que, listen to the palace, listen to the elbow, armpit, joints and so on. Section 4 gua sha operation procedure 1, preparation: judge gua sha object is suitable for gua sha; there is no contraindication situation, check gua sha part is correct; check whether the apparatus is complete; check whether the scraper is smooth, there is no residual angle broken mouth; to scrape gua sha object to scrape the gua sha process, release its fear. 2, choose position: according to the selected gua sha part choose the correct position. 3, scrub disinfection: in the selected gua sha parts, first towel soaked in boiling water wash gua sha parts, in order to dry gauze dry, advocate one person a scraper, each time before using to disinfect in a timely manner. 4, start scraping: will choose a good scraping parts revealed, the operator thumb and four fingers apart, fingers were bent state, were placed on both sides of the scraping board, hold scraping board, will be placed in the palm of the board, gently scraping board 1/3 place, 45 oblique angle, plane downward scraping. When the thumb down, four fingers press hard, four fingers toward down, thumb hard. 5, ask: scraping after the beginning of gua sha, to often ask scraping object feeling. If gua sha object feel pain, reduce the angle can reduce the pain. 6, scraping time: gua sha operation time in principle control in 45 minutes, to achieve the gua sha until. In addition, should according to scraping the object of age, physique and scraping parts of flexible grasp scraping time. 7, scraping gua sha: after scraping gua sha, it is appropriate to drink a cup of water, rest 10-20 minutes, need to wait for the skin pores closed to restore the original state, before you can take a bath, generally about 3 hours later. Section 5 scraping common parts and techniques 1, head: head covered with hair, in order to enhance the scraping effect can use scraper thin surface edge or scraper corner scraping, each part of the scrape 30 times or so, scrape to the scalp has a feeling of heat is appropriate. Both sides of the head: scraper vertical on the head Wei points to the lower sideburns, along the ears of the hairline to the back of the lower scraping to the back of the hairline. The top of the head: the top of the head is bounded by the Hundred Meetings Point, and scraped towards the forehead hairline or from the forehead hairline to the Hundred Meetings Point, in order from left to right. The back of the head: the back of the head from the Hundred Meetings point down to the hairline of the back of the neck, scraping from left to right. Fengchi point can be used to scrape the corner of the scraper to scrape. 2, face: face from inside to outside according to the muscle direction scraping. Facial stasis affects the aesthetic appearance, so the technique must be gentle, avoid using gravity to scrape a large area. Eye, mouth, ear, nose scraping must be agreed by the person, only can scrape gua sha. Scrape by force, direction, angle, the number of times are to scrape convenient and can tolerate as a guideline. 3, back waist: back from top to bottom scraping. Generally first scrape the back of the center line of the ducal meridian, and then scrape both sides of the bladder meridian and clip spine points. Shoulders should be scraped from the neck to the shoulder peaks on both sides respectively. 4, chest: chest center line Ren Chakra Tiantu point to danzhong point, scraping with the scraper corner from top to bottom. Both sides of the chest to the body before the center line Ren vein as the boundary, respectively, to the left and right (first left after the right) with the whole edge of the scraper from the inside to the outside along the ribs towards the scraping, pay attention to across the nipple area. 5, limbs: limbs from proximal to distal scraping, joints bones raised parts should follow the trend to reduce the intensity, lower extremity varicose veins and lower extremity swelling, should be from the limbs not end to proximal scraping. Reflection questions 1, scraping Gua Sha four basic techniques are? 2.What is the scope of application of Gua Sha? What are the main contraindications? 3.What are the basic procedures of Gua Sha?