It is not recommended to eat immediately after scraping Gua Sha, can be in 15 to 20 minutes into a light diet.
Gua Sha belongs to the traditional Chinese medicine therapy, refers to the use of gua sha board dipped in medium such as gua sha oil, etc. in the application site repeatedly scraping, friction patients somewhere skin, so that the local skin red congestion, in order to achieve the elimination of evil spirits detoxification, clearing up the heat to solve the table, wake up the spirit to save the syncope, line qi pain (through the regulation of the human body’s qi to alleviate the pain) and other efficacy.
Gua Sha mainly solve functional problems, the effect of organic problems is limited, clinical commonly used in the treatment of colds, fever, sunstroke, headache, stomach pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, muscle spasms, joint pain with activities unfavorable and so on.
It is not recommended to eat immediately after scraping, it is best to drink a cup of warm water, and rest 15 to 20 minutes before eating, diet should be light, avoid eating cold, spicy, greasy things. In addition to scraping local should pay attention to avoid the wind cold, the previous scraping parts of the gua sha spot has not subsided before, should not be in the place again for scraping.
Attention, pregnant women’s abdomen, lumbar-sacral area, bleeding tendency, cardiovascular disease patients, especially weak body should not scrape, varicose veins of the lower limbs, diabetes patients should be cautious scraping. Scraping Gua Sha is recommended to operate under the guidance of a physician, do not operate blindly on your own.