Gua sha stone is no stranger to people. Now many bathing centers, beauty salons, and leisure health centers have health gua sha services. It is believed that gua sha and guasha occasionally can cure diseases and strengthen the body. There are currently only 50,000 professional gua sha in China, and most of the scrapers in beauty salons and bathing centers have not received professional training.
Professor Yang Jinsheng of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine said that the direction, technique, intensity, time, and indications of scraping are very particular.
Professor Yang introduced that ancient scraping was mostly used to treat diseases in summer and autumn, such as heat stroke, exogenous infection, and gastrointestinal diseases. Most scholars believe that Gua Sha is a variation of massage, acupuncture, cupping, bloodletting and other therapies. Today, the function of scraping is mostly used for disease prevention and health care.
The health-care gua sha technique is simpler and safer to operate. It is mainly aimed at early disease prevention, post-illness rehabilitation, functional diseases and sub-health symptoms, weight loss and beauty, fatigue elimination, and functional improvement. The main application scope of health scraping is headache, neck pain, shoulder pain, back pain, leg pain, cold, toothache, constipation, diarrhea, loss of appetite, dysmenorrhea, fatigue, insomnia, beauty and beauty, etc.
However, Professor Yang especially reminded that gua sha should be chosen carefully, because gua sha direction, order, technique, intensity, time, and precautions before and after the operation are all very particular. The purpose of this is to ensure the health and safety of customers. If the gua sha does not operate properly, the patient’s condition may worsen or even die. According to him, the following nine groups of people are prohibited from scraping.
Not Suitable for Gua Sha Stone
- Patients with severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, liver and kidney insufficiency, and systemic edema. Because guasha can causes subcutaneous congestion and promotes blood circulation, which will increase the burden on the heart, lung, liver and kidney, aggravate the patient’s condition, and even endanger life.
- It is forbidden to gua sha the abdomen and lumbosacral region of pregnant women, otherwise, it will cause miscarriage.
- Gua sha is prohibited where there are boils, ulcers, sores and carbuncles, rashes and unexplained masses on the body surface, otherwise, it will lead to infection and spread of the wound.
- It is forbidden to gua sha on the painful part of acute sprain, trauma or fracture because scraping will aggravate the bleeding at the wound.
- People with contact skin diseases should not use scraping, because it will spread the disease to others.
- People with bleeding tendency, such as patients with advanced diabetes, severe anemia, leukemia, aplastic anemia and thrombocytopenia, should not scrape, because the subcutaneous bleeding produced by such patients during scraping is not easy to be absorbed.
- Excessive hunger and satiety, excessive fatigue, and intoxicated people can not accept gravity and scrape a large area, otherwise, it will cause hypothermia
- It is forbidden to gua sha the eyes, lips, tongue, ear holes, nostrils, nipples, navel, and other parts, because scraping will make these mucous membranes hyperemia, and it is difficult to recover.
- The gua sha method is forbidden for mentally ill patients because gua sha will stimulate the disease in such patients.
