You Should Pay Attention to Something at Gua Sha Before and After!
Gua sha before:
You can’t gua sha, when happening these cases.
- People who are eating without restraint, overwork fatigue, addicted to alcohol can’t gua sha. When eating without restraint, the blood of body is all gathered to the stomach for digestion, so other parts of the body must lack of blood. Therefore,once your body is subjected to gravity at this time, your body will get weak. The body is in a bad condition when overwork fatigue. At this time gua sha will cause body worse. The same goes for drunkenness.
- Psychiatric patients are forbidden to gua sha. Psychiatric patients have already been in a very sensitive mental state. Gua sha causes more irritation and aggravates the condition.
- Those with a tendency to bleed shouldn’t scrape. Because gua sha is a way to get the eczema out of the body and we usually see a purple color on the skin. Gua sha would have destroyed the capillaries of the skin, so patients who are themselves inclined to bleed shouldn’t be scraped. Such as patients with advanced diabetes, severe anemia, leukemia, aplastic anemia and thrombocytopenia are not suitable for gua sha.
- Where there are boils, ulcers, carbuncles, spots and unexplained masses on the surface of the skin, it is forbidden to scrape. This is because these lesions on the surface of the skin can easily lead to infection and spread of the wound after passing through the gua sha board.
- Acute sprains prohibit scraping. Because most sprains are accompanied by localized bruising and bleeding, if you scrape at this time it will worsen the bleeding.
- Scraping the abdominal and pelvic areas of pregnant women is prohibited. Scraping these areas may lead to abortion.
- People with severe caradiovascular diseases can’t scrape. Because gua sha will promote increased blood circulation. Thus it will increase the burden on the heart, which can lead to caradiovascular accidents, so you can’t perform gua sha on such patients.
Gua sha after:
You must be careful after scraping.
- The important thing to perform after gua sha is to drink two cups of warm water to replenish your body’s water, promote metabolism, and speed up metabolite elimination. Rest for an hour or more.
- Avoid cold and wind.
- Pores opening after gua sha, don’t take a cold shower for half an hour. Try to take a shower after 12 hours.
- Gua sha at 5-7 day intervals.
