Gua Sha therapy is one of the essences of folk therapy, its method is unique, easy to learn, convenient to take materials, simple to operate, safe and no side effects, and the effect is remarkable. In today's situation where health care is receiving more and more attention, more and more families are beginning to adopt this method for self-care and wellness.
1. What is Gua Sha?
Gua Sha is to use the fingers or various tools with smooth edges, dipped in a gua sha medium with a certain therapeutic effect, and repeatedly scrape on specific parts of the human surface, so that the surface of the skin appears petechiae, bruising spots or punctate bleeding, which is the so-called "sha". It can achieve the purpose of relieving muscles and activating the network, driving away wind and cold, clearing heat and dehumidification, activating blood and dissolving stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain, enhancing disease resistance and immune function through benign stimulation.
Gua Sha
Second, preparation before gua sha
Gua Sha utensils are in
In ancient times, copper coins, soup spoons, and tender bamboo boards were all used as gua sha tools, and now they generally use scraping boards to scrape sha, and common gua sha boards have two types: horn scraping boards and jade gua sha boards.
Gua Sha utensils
Auxiliary materials
Lubricant needs to be prepared to increase lubrication and reduce gua sha resistance. The following media can usually be used as lubricants, including sesame oil, edible oil, liquor, pig fat, medicinal juice, holly paste, egg white, gua sha blood activator, thin water, futalin latex agent, gua sha oil and painkiller.
Gua Sha position
Commonly used asanas
Different positions should also be adopted when scraping different parts of the patient, and the general positions include: supine position, prone position, lateral position, orthopedic position, reclining position, prone position and standing position.
Gua Sha precautions
Third, gua sha therapy is not suitable for people and sites
1. People who have been sick for a long time, children who have not closed their fontanelles;
2. Extremely weak people, extremely emaciated people, people with extreme fear or allergy to Gua Sha;
3. There are broken ulcers, sores, unhealed wounds on the skin, ligaments and tendons with acute injury sites;
4. Pregnant women's abdomen and sacral parts, women's R head, pregnant women and menstruating women's three yin intercourse, Hegu, foot three mile and other acupuncture points;
5. Eyes, ear holes, nostrils, tongue, lips, anterior and posterior vulva, navel and abdomen of cirrhosis ascites.