8 Various Gua Sha Therapies

I had only told a gua sha therapy before. I’ve been thinking that there can’t be just one way to gua sha. So today, i have collected and summarized 8 different gua sha therapies to tell you to choose your favorite gua sha technique for your convenience.

8 Various Gua Sha Therapies

1. Light Gua Sha Technique

Light gua sha technique is suitable for gua sha beginner to learn. When gua sha, you need to keep that gua sha plates are in contact with the large area of skin. The speed and pressure of gua sha are slow and small. Usually recipients don’t have painful or bad feeling, applied to children, women and the elderly, and facial care.

2. Heavy Gua Sha Technique

Heavy gua sha technique is a technique used for painful soft tissue of the bone and joints. When gua sha, gua sha boards are in contact with the large area of skin. The speed and pressure of gua sha are fast and heavy according to personal afford. This gua sha technique is suitable for the younger and people who are physical fitness.

3. Fast Gua Sha Technique

The fast guasha technique means scraping more than 30 times per minute with different strength. People who are better physical fitness are scraped with rapid and heavy pressure, mainly used to gua sha back, legs and other painful parts. Light and fast gua sha is used for person who is faint and cares whole body, applied to scraping back, chest, abdominal and legs.

4. Slow Gua Sha Technique

Slow scrape technique means scraping within 30 times per minute with different strength. Heavy and slow gua sha is suitable for patients who are good physical fitness, used to abdominal, bone and joints and painful parts. The faint people is applied to heavy and slow guasha technique, used to scraping waist, chest, extremities and face.

5. Straight Line’s Gua Sha Technique

This method is a common technique that involves using the top and bottom edges of gua sha boards to gua sha in a straight line on the body surface. Gua sha practitioners often hold gua sha board with right hand. Thumb is on one side of the gu sha board, and index and middle fingers on other side at a 45 angle to the body surface. The thin side of gua sha board keeps 1/3or 1/2 in contact with skin, using their waist to press down and scrape in a straight line in the same direction. This technique is suitable for scraping the meridians and acupuncture points on the flatter parts of the body, such as back, abdomen, chest and limbs.

6. Arc Gua Sha Technique

Gua sha direction is arc-shaped and the body’s part appears arc-shaped ‘sha’. this gua sha technique is used according to human body’s bone and joints, usually applied to ribs between chest, one side of the neck, the front and back of the shoulder joint and around the knee joint.

7. Reverse Gua Sha Technique

This technique means that its direction is opposite to the regular gua sha direction, from inside to outside and from bottom to top. Reverse guasha technique mainly uses to treat varicose veins, swollen lower extremities, or areas where gua sha in the usual direction is not effective.

8.  Frictional Gua Sha Technique

Frictional gua sha technique is a method that using gua sha board’s edge, corner or face and skin directly close to carry on regular rotation move or straight line back and forth move, make skin produce heat and skin tissue penetration, its left and right move power is greater than vertical downward press force. This method of gua sha should be gentle and move evenly. The next part of the body to be scraped is the next. Frictional guasha technique is mainly applied to numbness, cold or aching areas, such as medial shoulder blade, waist and abdomen. Additionally, the method can be used to warm the skin before each area is scraped or continuing with other manipulation techniques.