Gua Sha has the effect of relaxing the tendons and collaterals, promoting the operation of qi and blood in the body, harmonizing yin and yang as well as discharging dampness in the body, generally 5~7 days to scrape once.
Gua Sha is mainly based on the patient’s physique and condition to choose the right scraping board and dipped in vegetable oil or warm water to scrape the patient’s neck, shoulder blades, back or intercostal, etc., from the top to the bottom, from the inside to the outside of the repeated several times, scraping to the skin appeared purple-red until.
Through scraping can treat many common diseases in daily life as well as improve sub-healthy body, such as neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, excessive dampness and other conditions. For some pain type of disease, in the treatment of the technique can be appropriately strengthened, for some sub-healthy body conditioning, the technique should be gentle.
Scraping interval time to 5 ~ 7 days is appropriate, should not be too frequent, because frequent scraping may lead to the patient’s skin breakage. If you need to scrape, should be under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, do not blindly operate on your own, so as not to cause adverse consequences.